Since the Congo was relatively unknown to most Europeans, Leopold II turned to Henry Morton Stanley, the man responsible for opening up Africa for colonization when he successfully crossed Africa from east to west. With Stanley’s help, it was possible for Belgium to colonize the central African country. Leopold II believed that a colony had to make money for the mother country. Unlike the other colonizing countries, he did not believe in investing in colonies to maintain them. For Leopold II, the end always justified the means, and the end was always money.
These inventions (refer to Document C for examples) caused great economic expansion across Europe. Yet at the same time, these exact inventions caused for a need of more raw materials. This is where Imperialism began to take shape, because before Imperialism in Africa had begun, there were still many examples of Europeans who’d enslaved africans on their own land. Which meant that once raw materials for machines that needed simple labor in a factory rather than the fields were needed to maintain their great economic boost; whichever European country had the most property in Africa, got to conquer the most land in its entirety (Scramble for Africa). Meaning these now obsolete slaves were being subject to have to watch European countries take over their lands and began industrializing on african soil because of how rich in materials the African land is.
Known as the “scramble for Africa”, Great Britain, Spain, Belgium, Holland, France, Portugal, Germany and Italy carved the continent up between themselves, giving very little to no regard to existing populations. Inevitably, such rapid colonization and very little forward planning lead to the odd flare up of tensions between rival powers, and between existing kingdoms. Only Ethiopia and Liberia remained independent throughout this colonization period up until 1914. Africa both in the First and Second World Wars became a battleground between the warring European nations and while much of fighting took place between European soldiers, local populations were also
Imperialism in Africa In 1884, European imperialist nations met at the Berlin Conference and carved Africa up like a cake. Great Britain took Rhodesia, Egypt, Nigeria, and South Africa, while Portugal took Angola and Mozambique, and Belgium took the Congo. France set up colonies in Morocco, West Africa, Algeria, and Madagascar, while Italy took Libya and Eritrea, and Spain took Rio de Oro. At the Conference, (which did not include African representatives), Europe based new colonial boundaries on natural resources and disregarded the tribal and ethnic boundaries that had existed for centuries. Enemy tribes were often forced to live together, which resulted in civil wars over the years.
The Rise of Colonialism in Africa Between 1870 and 1900, Europe set out to colonize Africa for their raw materials. Africa was up against invasions of Europe's military and diplomatic pressures. This did not happen without a fight, and Africans were not happy about this attempt to be colonized. With the exception of Ethiopia and Liveria, Africa had been colonized by Europe by the early twentieth century. Europe wanted to set up and colonize in Africa, mainly because of Africa's raw materials it was purely economic.
To what extend was the colonisation and decolonisation of Britain’s Africa driven by individuals within Africa? Before the 1870’s Africa was largely unknown to the outside world but, in the 1880’s the scramble of Africa began, where European counties, especially Britain all wanted to colonise Africa. Was the whole reason for British colonising Africa economically or strategically driven or was it led by individuals in Africa (men on the spot) or was it more of a top down process led by the government in Britain? And even though Britain fought so hard to control large parts of Africa it is clear that after World II Britain’s empire was declining especially after India gain independence in 1947. However, the British did try to revive their African empire in the late 40’s and early 50’s but their sudden fall into a steep imperial decline with the Suez crises saw individuals like Macmillan to acknowledge that decolonisation was the only way forward, as it would be more beneficial for Britain to decolonise than to resist the rise of nationalism.
The others were Senegambia, West Central Africa, Southeast Africa, and other regions of Africa in that order. The Gold Coast remained the most popular region throughout the entire period, which was 1800-1807. Slave purchases from Southeast Africa and Senegambia occurred strictly in 1805 only. All of the other principal regions of slave purchase were either spread out or only visited once except for Sierra Leone, which was only strictly visited during 1806-1807. Keep in mind that we are only looking at the voyages that brought back slaves to Mainland North America during the last portion of the legal international trade.
Imperialism: The Scramble for Africa (1880-1900) was a period of rapid colonization of the African continent by European powers. But it wouldn't have happened except for the particular economic, social, and military evolution Europe was going through. In the end Britain and France had the most colonies and Germany lost out so it was also a major contributor to tension in Europe. Nationalism: Triple Entente, an informal alliance among Great Britain, France, and Russia in the period before World War I. It opposed the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.
* -the russians called it "economic imperialism", the marshell plan the truman doctrine, just pumping money into any country that had any fear of a communist take over to stop the domino effect, they did this all over the world, but you can see it mainly in europe, although these friendly loans really set africa progress back quite alot and crippled many a country. * -The USA used stopping Soviet expansion as an excuse for what they did across the world. But as soon as the USSR fell, they continued to expand, even though there wasn't a USSR to "contain." The US military has around 700 military bases around the world. The USSR didn't even have 100 military bases.
Although the idea of every citizen in the United States belonging to one ethnicity is certainly debatable, since the country has citizens who originally came from all over the world, the feeling of national pride can stand in for a pure ethnicity in this case. European Imperialism Imperialism, the practice of taking over other lands, was heavily practiced by Europe starting in the sixteenth century. As most individuals know, the colonies in the United States were one of the regions that the Europeans tried to control from overseas. They also overtook lands in Africa. They believed both Africa and the Americas to be primitive societies based on hunting and farming, and felt that they needed to take over these