CHAPTER 17
The Age of Imperialism
Section 1:
The Roots of Western
Imperialism
Section 2: European Claims in
North Africa
Section 3:
European Claims in Sub-Saharan Africa
Section 4:
Expansion in Asia
Section 5:
Imperialism in Latin America
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Africa
Bell Ringer 17.2:
What are some characteristics of the regions
taken over by France?
Tunis
Algiers
Morocco
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“France . . . cannot be merely a free country . . . she ought to
propagate [spread] [her] influence throughout the world and
carry everywhere that she can her language, her customs,
her flag, and her genius.”
France’s Minister of Foreign Affairs
1883
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Africa
In 1830 France began to expand its Second Empire looking toward
North Africa -
Algiers – a Muslim state of the Ottoman Empire
40 years of almost
continuous rebellions
Many French and
Europeans would settle in
Algiers and French officials
took over.
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Tunisia
1881 ~ unlike Algiers, Tunisia became
a French protectorate
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Africa
Morocco
Very important because of the Strait
of Gibraltar
Made a protectorate of France 1912
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The British in North Africa
1854 ~ French began Suez
Canal
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1882
REBELLION!
British navy attacks Alexandria ~ troops are sent to the Suez Canal.
British protectorate until 1922.
GB will occupy the Suez
until 1954.
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Fashoda Crisis
Between 1881and 1885,
Muhammad Ahmed al-Mahdi
led a successful revolt against
Egypt in the Sudan. The British
defeated the rebels in 1898 and
set up a protectorate over the
Sudan.
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Africa
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Quiz Time!
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Algiers
French forces
appropriated land
fought against local
rebellions
inhabitants
worked against
French rule
Tunis
Barbary States
gave French
an excuse for
intervention
protectorate
Morocco
CHAPTER 26
Chapter Wrap-Up
1. What evidence is there that an
industrialized country can control a
country that is not industrialized?
2. What evidence is there to show that
areas were colonized because they met
the transportation needs of other, more
powerful countries?
3. What evidence is there to show that
areas were colonized for natural
resources?