What is going on in this
cartoon?
Imperialism
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A type of empire building that began in the 19th
century with European nations, the U.S., and
Japan
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Could include social, political, economic, and/or
environmental takeover of a country or territory
See Wood (pg. 430) for specific definitions of the
four types of imperialism
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Colonial
Political
Economic
Social-cultural
What kind(s) of imperialism?
What kind(s) of imperialism?
What kind(s) of imperialism?
What kind(s) of imperialism?
The White Man’s Burden by
Rudyard Kipling
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Written in 1899 in
response to the
American take over of
the Phillipines after the
Spanish American War
Whose perspective?
Pro or anti-Imperialist?
Evidence from the text
that supports your
answer?
Compare to Poor Man’s
Burden
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Answer same questions
Chapter 19 (429-450)
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and complete terms by 2/23
 Terms:
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Company Men
Sepoy Rebellion
Berlin Conference and the “scramble for
Africa”
Shaka
Scientific racism
AP World History
 What
do you
notice about
Africa’s resources?
 What areas would
be of greatest
interest to
imperialist nations
then? Now?
Africa opens to imperialism
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Industrial revolution allows
for advancements to the
interior of the continent
“Scramble for Africa”European nations
competing for space and
resources
Suez Canal-opened more
markets and reduced time
to move goods and
people
Other areas in interior
(especially the south)
become targets for
expansion
According to Lupe, what is Cecil
Rhodes connection to imperialism?
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Cecil Rhodes sold war and genocide
To the countryside just to get his shine on!
I fear what De Beers and his peers use to do, before the world really knew, just
to get their "mine" on!
Making paper with slave labor and hittin little kids with life time bids making
em cut and shine stones.
Inflating the price and making em look nice and i wasnt thinking twice when i
was putting mine on.
About a young shorty in Sierra Leone or other conflict countries that people
call home.
I figured i would never go to Angola so it never did affect me that maybe
indirectly.
That my necklace was funding a rebellion or a military coup,
Started by militias that dont believe in following none of Geneva's rules.
I was brushing off the haters, trying to be cool.
Didnt have a clue that the rapper was helping the rapers, raiders of the
villagers, pillagers of the schools.
Shooters of the innocent, torturers of the witnesses, burners of the businesses
And my bracelet was the fuel.
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Who was Cecil Rhodes?
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Read and compare the
three biographies of
Cecil Rhodes
Highlight when the
biographer speaks
about him in positive
terms (see class
example)
Underline when the
biographer speaks
about him in
negative/unflattering
terms (see class
example)
What are his thoughts on
imperialism?
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"Why should we not form
a secret society with but
one object, the
furtherance of the British
Empire and the bringing
of the whole world
under British rule, for the
recovery of the United
States, for making the
Anglo Saxon race but
one Empire? What a
dream, but yet it is
probable, it is possible.“
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Cecil Rhodes (age 23)
What are his thoughts on
imperialism?
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Great Britain is a very small
island. Great Britain’s position
depends on her trade, and if
we do not open up the
dependencies of the world
which are at present devoted
to barbarism, we shall shut out
the world’s trade. It must be
brought home to you that your
trade is the world, and your life
is the world, not England. That
is why you must deal with these
questions of expansion and
retention of the world.”
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“I would annex the planets if I
could.” (1895)
Positive/negative portrayal of
Rhodes?
Allusion to Colossus of Rhodes (right)
Africa during Rhodes time
An obituary for Mr. Rhodes
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How should Mr. Rhodes be
remembered?
Write an obituary for him that
includes the following info:
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Dates of birth and death
The three most important
biographical pieces of his life
(beginning, middle, end)
His greatest accomplishment(s)
Personality traits (inferences from
readings)
Impact on Africa
Impact on imperialism
Whether or not the world should
remember him fondly (along
with the rationale for this)
Matobo Hills National
Park, Zimbabwe
Sample obituary
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, the boxer whose wrongful murder conviction
became an international symbol of racial injustice, died Sunday. He was 76.
He had been stricken with prostate cancer in Toronto, the New Jersey
native's adopted home. John Artis,a longtime friend and caregiver, said Carter died
in his sleep.
Carter spent 19 years in prison for three murders at a tavern in Paterson,
N.J., in 1966. He was convicted alongside Artis in 1967 and again in a new trial in
1976.
Carter was freed in November 1985 when his convictions were set aside
after years of appeals and public advocacy. His ordeal and the alleged racial
motivations behind it were publicized in Bob Dylan's 1975 song "Hurricane," several
books and a 1999 film starring Denzel Washington, who received an Academy
Award nomination for playing the boxer turned prisoner.
Carter eventually wrote and spoke eloquently about his plight, publishing his
autobiography, "The Sixteenth Round," in 1974. Benefit concerts were held for his
legal defense.
After his release, Carter moved to Toronto, where he served as the
executive director of the Association in Defense of the Wrongly Convicted from 1993
to 2005. He received two honorary doctorates for his work.
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