“The Quest for Empire”Analyzing Imperial Motives

Pair-Share

• What would be some reasons why a country would want to imperialize (take-over) another?

Standard 10.4.1

• Describe the rise of industrial economies and their link to imperialism and colonial-ism (e.g., the role played by national security and strategic advantage; moral issues raised by the search for national hegemony, Social Darwinism, and the missionary impulse; material issues such as land, resources, and technology).

Objective

• Students will be able to describe the imperial motives by analyzing placards.

Instructions• Get with your Big Ben appointment, desks

side-by-side, two feet apart from other partners.

• On your worksheet: Analyzing Imperial Motives and draw a simple symbol to represent each motive.

• Pick up ONE placard and complete the worksheet.

• Let’s do one together…

Placard A: Open shaft mining at Kimberley, South Africa, in 1872

Placard B: A Methodist Sunday School at Guiongua, Angola, in 1925

Placard C: Germans taking possession of Cameroon in 1881

Placard D: Quote from explorer Henry Stanley in 1882

Placard E: Africans bringing ivory to the wagons in Southe Africa 1860

Placard F: Sketch map of Central Africa, showing Dr. Livingston’s exploration

Placard G: An advertisement for Pear’s Soap from the 1890’s, and one stanza of the British poet Rudyard Kipling’s poem, The White Man’s Burden in 1899.

Placard H: Mrs. Maria C. Douglas, doctor and missionary, and the first class of pupil nurses in Burma, in 1888

Placard I: British cartoon showing the Chinese being savaged by European powers, and the poem The Partition of China, 1897

Placard J: Bagged groundnuts in pyramid stacks in West Africa

Placard K: French capture of the citadel of Saigon, Vietnam

Placard L: British Lipton Tea advertisement in the 1890’s.

Placard M: British cartoon “The Rhodes Colossus,” showing Cecil Rhodes’ vision of making Africa “all British from Cape to Cairo,” 1892

Placard N: Epitaph and quote from missionary and explorer David Livingston

Placard O: An imperial yacht passing through the Suez Canal in Egypt at the opening of the canal in 1870.

Wrap-Up

Locations of Imperialism

Using the map, answer the following Questions:

1.Which European countries appear to Control the largest empires?

2. Which countries controlled the least?

3. What might be the result of unequalpossession of colonies?

4. How was the non-European world affected by imperialism?