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Chpt.36 Sect.2 Flashcards

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Before 1870

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Europe few holdings in Africa
Mostly seaports + trading stations along coast
Exceptions: British Cape Colony + Algeria

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Why Europeans stayed along coast at first

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Safer from tropical diseases + other dangers

Little known about interior

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1840/David Livingstone

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Scottish medical missionary
Converted ppl to Christianity in Africa
Worked to end Arab trade if enslaved Africans
Explored interior
Wrote about journeys in letters broadcasted in GB and US
Stooped suddenly

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Henry Stanley

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Sent to investigate by NY newspaper
2 yrs later found in Arab village on shores of Lake Tanganyika
Became explorer

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1874-1889/Stanley

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Explored Congo

Wrote about it

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1879/King Leopoldo II of Belgium/Stanley

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Hired to obtain land
Signed many treaties w/ chiefs
Worked cause could not understand English

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Leopold

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Greedy
Violent
Ppl shot if resisting
Missionaries and Europeans protested so turned Congo over to gov 
Gov abolished forced labour
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1869/Suez Canal

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Northern Africa
Built by Egyptians
Payed for w/ French funds
Connected Mediterranean to Red seas
Shorter all-water route to India and Far East
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1875/Suez Canal

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Egyptian ruler sold shares to GB
GB and France took over Egypt’s finances
Egyptians angry

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18882/Egyptians/British

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Egyptians rebelled
British troops moved in
Egypt become British protectorate

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Country under control and protection of large, stronger nation

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Protectorate

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Dutch farmers in South Africa

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Boers

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Boers/1836/Cape Colony

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Disliked British rule
Didn’t want to speak English
Mad about abolishment of enslavement

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Transvaal + Orange Free State

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Independent states set up by Boers in grasslands of interior

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Late 1800s/Boer states

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Gold and diamonds discovered
Ppl came until Boers eventually outnumbered
Didn’t allow newcomers (British) to vote even though latent heavy taxes

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Cecil Rhodes

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Prime minister of Cape colony
Dreamed of English-speaking empire from Cape to Cairo
Built railway connecting land south and west of Boer states
British settlers moved to Rhodesia

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Capital of Egypt

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Cairo

18
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White majority dominated gov in South Africa

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Afrikaners

19
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South Africa/Afrikaners

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Labour of blacks made area rich
Afrikaners dominated
1994 South Sfrica held first all-race election
Nelson Mandela made president

20
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Boer War cause

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Hate for British
German Jealousy
German provision of best artillery to Boers

21
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Boer War

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Boers winning at first
British captured Boer capital
Refused to surrender but after 2 yrs of guerrilla warfare

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What were British doing to Boers

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Destroyed farms

Women, children imprisoned

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1910/Boers/British

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Transvaal and Orange Free State joined w/ Cape colony + other British colony to form Union of South Africa

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British gained what form 1910

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Egypt
Sudan
Rhodesia
Union of South Africa

25
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1890-1914

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Zanzibar 
Uganda
British East Africa
Nigeria 
All under Brit control
26
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Founded in 1649 by Portuguese and oldest colony in Africa

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Angola

27
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1885/Portugal

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Portuguese East Africa/Mozambique made protectorate

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Established largest European empire in Africa

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French

29
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French lands included

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Tunisia
Morocco
French Wets Africa
French Equatorial Africa
Madagascar
30
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Eritrea (East coast) and part of Somaliland

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Italians

31
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1896/Italy/Ethiopia

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Defeated by troops of King Menelik II

32
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1911/Italians

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Acquired 2 Turkish provinces

Combined them and renamed into Libya

33
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Protectorates in Togoland and Cameroon’s by what country/1884
Later added … Southwest Africa and … Eats Africa

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Germany

34
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1914/ only independent areas

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Ethiopia

Liberia

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