8.7 - ​Motivations for Imperialism

​Motivations for Imperialism

On This Day in History! (2/13)

On this day in 1960, France became the fourth nation with nuclear bomb capabilities.

​1960 - France becomes Nuclear

On this day in 1996, Tupac Shakur released his final album "All Eyez on Me".

​1996 - Tupac's last album

​Today!

• Today we will:

• identify motivations for imperialism in the Age of Imperialism

• differentiate between spheres of influence, protectorates, and colonies

• analyze how a political cartoon shows motivations for imperialism

• Riddle! - What has 13 hearts but no other organs?

​A deck of cards!

​Vocabulary

• Age of Imperialism - industrial countries sought to gain control and influence over non-industrial countries

• colony - places formally controlled by a foreign country

• imperialism - the practice of a country taking political or military control of another country

• protectorate - places where local rulers remained in place, but foreign states had a large amount of control

• specialization - occurs when a person, business, or country focuses on producing one product or a few specific products or resources

• spheres of influence - places where a foreign country claimed power but did not have formal political leadership

​Imperialism & Nationalism

• Unit 8 is about both Imperialism and Nationalism

• Everything that was on the quiz yesterday entails the Nationalism part of Unit 8

• Today we begin the Imperialism part of unit 8.

​Imperialism

• Economic motivations caused industrializing countries to look abroad for their own gain:
  ◦ Other countries could provide markets to sell mass-produced goods.
  ◦ Other parts of the world had valuable natural resources and raw materials that were useful in the production of goods.

• A desire for resources was a major part of the growth of imperialism.

• The Age of Imperialism had begun.

​Specialization

• Specialization occurs when a person, business, or country focuses on producing one product or a few specific products or resources.

• Specialization caused countries’ economies to become more intertwined. Industrial countries often depended on other countries for raw materials.

• Some non-industrial countries had plentiful raw materials, and their economies became dependent on selling those materials to industrial countries.

• As industrial countries relied more on other countries, they sometimes turned to imperialism to meet their wants. By controlling other countries, they would gain greater control of economic activity and could ensure they would receive the resources they desired.

​Methods of Control

• Methods imperial countries used to control other places:

  • Spheres of influence were places where a foreign country claimed power but did not have formal political leadership. You learned about spheres of influence when you studied the Contact Period; in the 1500s and 1600s, European countries controlled trade in parts of Southeast Asia, though local rulers remained in charge.

  • Protectorates were places where local rulers remained in place, but foreign states had a large amount of control. The stronger, foreign states agreed to protect the weaker states from other foreign powers. In the 1800s, Britain and France established protectorates in African states, such as Tunisia, as a step toward colonizing them.

  • Colonies were places formally controlled by a foreign country. For example, from the Contact Period until the Age of Revolutions, Spain and Portugal controlled parts of Latin America. Out of these three methods of imperial influence, colonies gave imperialist countries the highest level of control.

​Nationalism & Imperialism

• Nationalism caused some people to want their nation to become more powerful and carry higher status in the world.

• They thought imperial expansion would help their nation increase its power by growing in size and controlling more resources.

• A nationalist only cares about their country's success, and did not care how imperialist expansion harmed other groups.

​Spreading the West

• Many Europeans and Americans of European descent believed their ways of living were better than the customs of other places, such as Africa and Asia.

• They believed it was their responsibility to spread Western customs to these places. Missionaries often traveled to colonized places to spread Christianity.

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​Imperialism Cartoon

​Tuesday!

• Tuesday we will learn about European Imperialism in African and Southwest Asia

• If you have any questions please ask!

• Have a great 3-day weekend!