About Colonialism

2. Rhetoric & Reality

3. Colonialism is the ,
maintenance, acquisition,
and expansion of colony in
one territory by a political
power from another
territory.

4.  North America
 The Caribbean
 Sub-Saharan
Africa
 South East Asia
 South West
Asia and North
Africa
 South Asia
 Australia and
Oceania

5.  Latin America
 The Caribbean
 Sub-Saharan
Africa
 South West Asia
and North Africa
 South East Asia

6. Latin
America
Sub-
Saharan
Africa
South West
Asia and
North Africa
South East
Asia

7. The Caribbean
South East Asia

8. The
Caribbean
South West
Asia and
North Africa
Sub-Saharan
Africa
South East
Asia

9. Sub-Saharan Africa
Burundi
Democratic Republic of the
Congo
Rwanda

10. South West Asia and
North Africa
Libya

11. Europe
The Russian Domain
Central Asia

12.  Sub-Saharan
Africa
Ethiopia
 Central Asia
Afghanistan
 East Asia
China, Japan
 South East Asia
Thailand

16.  The Industrial
Revolution began
in Great Britain in
the mid-18th
century
 Britain’s
advantages
 The spread of
industrialization

17. Industrialized
nations sought:
 Raw materials
 Natural
resources
 A cheap labor
supply
 New
marketplaces for
manufactured
goods

19.  The steam engine
 Better transportation
 Increased exploration
 Improvements in
communication
The steamboat Herald
(with mounted machine guns)
on the Zambezi river in Africa
One of the first steam engines

21.  David Livingstone
 Mapping the “Dark
Continent”

22. • A desire to “civilize” non-
Europeans also spurred the
development of imperialism
• Social Darwinism
Darwin’s handwritten cover
page for The Origin of Species
Herbert Spencer

23. Take up the White Man’s
burden—
Send forth the best ye
breed—
Go, bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives’ need;
To wait, in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild—
Your new-caught sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child.
Take up the White Man's
burden—
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of
pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made
plain,
To seek another's profit
And work another's gain.
By Rudyard Kipling

24. The “White Man’s
Burden” appeared in
children’s books and
even in
advertisements
of the time period.

26.  The Dutch first
arrived on the
Cape of Good
Hope in the late
17th century.
 Europeans soon
began to settle on
the Cape, taking
land and forcing
the natives out.

27. In 1867,
diamonds
were
discovered
in South
Africa; in
1886, gold
was
discovered.
Diamond mining in South Africa

29. • Dutch and British
troops fought for
control of the Cape
• The British prevailed
British troops landing on the
Cape

31. King
Leopold II
of
Belgium

32. Established a
set of agreed-
upon rules
regarding the
competition
among the
great powers
for colonies in
Africa

37. Steamboat Stanley on the Congo River

38. By 1914, only
two African
nations
remained
independent

39.  British imperialist
who made huge
profits from
Africa’s natural
resources
 Founder of the
state of Rhodesia
in Africa

40. This
cartoon
depicts
British
imperial
ambitions
to control
the entire
African
continent.

41.  European quest to
control natural
resources
 Doing so led to
drastic changes in
the infrastructure of
the continent

42. Improvements in
Transportation and Communication

65.  Contrast appearance
 Disgrace of man’s treatment towards his
fellow man
 Everywhere starving & dying blacks lean for
rest, crawl for water & crouch for shade
 Abandoned village
 Ruins of grass walls
 Sole purpose revolved around destroying
the land to obtain money & wealth

66. Natives as
 “the less valuable
animals”
 “Dusty nigger”
 “sulky niggers”
 “cannibals”
 Savages”
 “fool-nigger”
Colonizers as
 “deity”
 “universal genius”
 “beacon house of
civilization”
 “supernatural
being”
 “adored man”