Imperialism in

Africa

Causes/EffectsGrab a Textbook

In your notebooks Answer: What is Imperialism?

• When a weaker country is taken over by a stronger country.

• Stronger doesn’t mean bigger.

• Examples:

Weaker Stronger

America Britain

India Britain

Uganda Britain

South Africa Denmark/ Britain

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Causes of Imperialism in Africa

• Look in your textbook p. 97 and fill in the “outline” below:

Causes of Imperialism in Africa• Economic – …– …– …

• Political– …

• Religious– …

Scramble for the Colonies• Europeans entered further and further into

africa– Medical innovations

– Maxim gun (early machine gun)

• What do you think happened as these countries moved further and further?

• Berlin Conference 1884

Effects of Imperialism

• How’d they get from point A to point B?