History essay 1000 words, due within 35 hours

Imperialism Part Three: Africa & Internal Imperialism

Africa

The “Scramble for Africa”

Berlin Conference 1884-85

Britain

Egypt (Br. Established control 1860’s-80’s)

The Sudan

Muhammad Ahmad (“The Mahdi”) 1844-85

1895 – Britain seizes Sudan: “Anglo-Egyptian Sudan” est. 1899

Kenya (1880’s)

Cape Colony

“The Great Trek” 1835-43

Boer War 1899-1902 (Transvaal & Orange Free State)

Nigeria (1850’s-80’s)

Gold Coast (Ghana) (1870’S)

France

Assimilation

Algeria (1820’s-30’s)

Tunisia (1880’s)

Morocco (1912, formally)

French West Africa (1895)

French Equatorial Africa (1910)

Portugal

Angola & Mozambique (15th century)

Belgium

King Leopold ll (R: 1865-1909)

Congo Free State (1885-1908)

THEN:

Belgian Congo (now DRC)

Germany

Tanganyika (1880’s)

Rwanda (1880’s)

Cameroon (1880’s)

Namibia (1880’s)

Italy

Ethiopia

First Italo-Ethiopian War (1896)

Emperor Menelek (R: 1889-1913)

“Internal Imperialism”

Mining, industrial agriculture, barbed wire (1870’s), repeating rifles…

USA & Canada:

USA- Transcontinental Railroad – 1860’s

Homestead Act

Canadian Pacific Railroad - 1885

Australia:

Gold Rush – 1850’s

Sheep ranching

Russia

Emancipation – 1861

Trans-Siberian Railway – 1890’s

Japan

Hokkaido (1870’s-90’s)