CHAPTER 17

Section 1: The Roots of Western Imperialism

Section 2: European Claims in North Africa

Section 3: European Claims in Sub-Saharan Africa

Section 4: Expansion in Asia

Section 5: Imperialism in Latin America

The Age of Imperialism

SECTION 2European Claims in North Africa

Algiers Tunis

Morocco

Bell Ringer 17.2:What are some characteristics of the regions taken over by France?

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“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.”

France’s Minister of Foreign Affairs1883

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In 1830 France began to expand its Second Empire looking towardNorth Africa -

Algiers – a Muslim state of the Ottoman Empire

40 years of almostcontinuous rebellions

Many French andEuropeans would settle inAlgiers and French officialstook over.

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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

Visual SourceEuropean Claims in North Africa

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1882 REBELLION!

British navy attacks Alexandria ~ troops are sent to the Suez Canal.

British protectorate until 1922.GB 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.

Fashoda Crisis

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Algiers Tunis

Morocco

French forces appropriated land

fought against local rebellions

inhabitants worked against

French rule

Barbary States gave French an excuse for intervention

protectorate

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?