Lesson Two - Imperialism in North Africa
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CHAPTER 17 Section 2: European Claims in North Africa Objectives: Explain European nations’ motives for establishing colonies or spheres of influence in North Africa. Describe the type of control that France exercised over Algiers and Tunis. Describe Britain’s interests in Egypt and the Sudan. The Age of Imperialism
Transcript of Lesson Two - Imperialism in North Africa
CHAPTER 17
Section 2: European Claims in North Africa
Objectives:
Explain European nations’ motives for establishing colonies or spheres of influence in North Africa.
Describe the type of control that France exercised over Algiers and Tunis.
Describe Britain’s interests in Egypt and the Sudan.
The Age of Imperialism
SECTION 2European Claims in North Africa
“France . . . cannot be merely a free country . . . she ought topropagate [spread] [her] influence throughout the world andcarry everywhere that she can her language, her customs,her flag, and her genius.”
Jules FerryFrance’s Minister of Foreign Affairs
1883
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In 1830 France began to expand its Second Empire looking towardNorth Africa (the Barbary Coast) -
Algiers – a Muslim state of the Ottoman Empire
Algiers had vast areas of fertile cropland, as well as immense reserves of petroleum products (which were becoming more and more important). France wanted BOTH!
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Algiers experienced 40 years of almostcontinuous rebellions
Many Europeans, especially the French, would settle in Algiers. French officials took over the government in 1830.
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Tunisia
1881 ~ unlike Algiers, Tunisia became a French protectorate
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MoroccoVery important because of the Straitof Gibraltar
Made a protectorate of France 1912
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The British in North Africa
1854 ~ French began SuezCanal
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=75163
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1882 REBELLION IN EGYPT!
British navy attacks Alexandria ~ troops are sent to the Suez Canal.
British protectorate until 1922.Great Britain will occupy the Suez until 1954.
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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. The French in the area did NOT like the British in control of Sudan, but backed down rather than risk war with England.
Fashoda Crisis
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Chapter Wrap-Up
CHAPTER 26
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?
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?
