The Partition of Africa

1. The Partition of Africa T.J. Baker 3-2-11 2nd hour

2. Africa is a huge continent, four times the size of Europe. • There are many different languages and cultures. • Africa is mostly dominated by the Muslim religion. Africa

3. Medical breakthroughs and river steamships allowed for foreigners to reach middle Africa. • In the 1800s European nations slowly outlawed the slave trade. • Many explorers explored the interior of Africa and started to map out Africa. • Missionaries accompanied the explorers and sought to win souls to Christianity. • The greatest known explorer-missionary was Dr. David Livingstone. For 30 years, he crisscrossed the African continent. Europeans Reach Middle Africa

4. Many different European nations scrambled to claim Africa. • To avoid bloodshed, all the nations involved met at an international conference in 1884, in Berlin, Germany. • 20 years later, the European powers partitioned almost the entire continent. Only Ethiopia and Liberia remained independent. The Berlin Conference

5. Britain acquired the Cape Colony in southern Africa from the Dutch in 1806. The Boers were Dutch farmers • The Boers resented British rule. • In the late 1800s, the discovery of gold and diamonds in the Boer republics set off the Boer War. • The war lasted from 1899 to 1902, and involved bitter guerilla fighting. • The British came out victorious. • The British united the Cape Colony into the Union of South Africa. The Boer War

6. The Europeans met many armed resistances from the native Africans. • The Algerians battled the French, the British fought the Zulus, and the Germans fought the Yao. • A successful resistance was mounted by Ethiopia. Ethiopia was able to maintain its independence. Africans Fight Back