Imperialism involves extending a country's power and influence through military or diplomatic means. Social Darwinism and the "White Man's Burden" ideology justified European imperialism and colonialism in Africa in the late 19th century by portraying white Europeans as superior to Africans. The Scramble for Africa from 1881 to 1914 saw European powers divide up the entire continent among themselves at the Berlin Conference due to Africa's valuable raw materials.

1. IMPERIALISM
By: Keenan Reardon

2. Imperialism Defined
✦ Imperialism:A policy of
extending a country's power and
influence through diplomacy or
military force.
✦ Colonialism:The policy or
practice of acquiring full or
partial political control over
another country, occupying it
with settlers.
✦ Annexation:Incorporation by
joining or uniting.

3. Social Darwinism
✦ Social Darwinism is easily
described as survival of the
fittest, where everyone is
looking out for themselves and
only themselves.
✦ Its justifies taking over another
country because one may think
that they are doing the other a
favor by taking over.

4. "White Man's Burden"
✦ The white man’s burden is an old belief
that there were two kinds of people;
ones capable of ruling and those who
were only subject people Africans were
usually considered as subject people.
✦ The burden was that the subject
peoples land didn’t provide much
financial support, it caused many
deaths to the colonist, about 1 in every
3 french and british solider sent to
West Africa would die of disease.
✦ The British and German empires are
both examples of the concept.

5. Racism and the Missionary Impulse
✦ Racism:Prejudice or
discrimination directed
against someone of a
different race based on such
a belief.
✦ Missionaries actions can be
paternalistic because they
weren’t welcome to the land,
they just overturned the
country and converted as
many Africans as possible.

6. The Scramble for Africa
✦ It began at 1881 to 1914.
✦ It was caused because Africa flourished with
many raw materials.
✦ The Berlin Conference was a meeting between
all of the European countries that had any
control over africa. At the meeting they
divided the continent accordingly.

7. Nationalism
✦ It is the feeling
of superiority
over all other
countries.

8. Colonized vs. the Colonizers
✦ For more natural materials.
✦ Not very good, I wouldn’t like it if America
was taken over by some other country. I
would have to change my whole lifestyle.