Enough dancing around the issue… Imperialism is literally the EXPANSION of STATES. You’ve seen the reasoning (both real and imagined) for the Industrial West’s expansion. Now, we focus on where they went. You’ll see outcomes, economics, and other effects of this expansion. But, for now: Treat this like 4.2 CAUSES and EVENTS of the MARITIME EMPIRES. Using your knowledge of the ‘rationales’, now see where they go with their Industrial might and how their empires progress. These expansions have HUGE repercussions for the rest of the course, so don’t just glance at the map and move on. Double down on this one: It’s important.

1. CONGO FREE STATE
2. COLONY OF THE GOLD COAST
3. FRENCH ALGERIA
4. COLONY OF NEW ZEALAND
5. END OF THE V.O.C.

1. OPEN LETTER TO QUEEN VICTORIA (1839), Lin Zexu
2. GOVERNMENT OF INDIA ACT of 1857 (1857), Queen Victoria
3. RECESSIONAL (1897), Rudyard Kipling
4. ROOSEVELT COROLLARY TO THE MONROE DOCTRINE (1904), President Theodore Roosevelt
5. KING LEOPOLD’s SOLILOQUY (1905), Mark Twain

1. NEMESIS DESTROYS CHINESE JUNKS, 1843, Edward Duncan

2. American Progress, 1872

3. The Rhodes Colossus Striding from Cape Town to Cairo, 1892

4. The Delhi durbar, 1903, held to commemorate the coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra as Emperor and Empress of India.

5. Foot and hand of child dismembered by soldiers, brought to missionaries by dazed father, (CONGO FREE STATE) 1905

1. Remember all of those rationales from 6.1… well, now they are going to follow through.
2. The West + Japan set out to take over Africa and Asia.
3. And, none of this Trading Post Empire junk from UNIT 4. I’m talking about total domination.
4. Africa was divvied up at the Berlin Conference and then the Scramble began
5. India goes from being occupied by the British East India Company to being ruled by the British Raj and China is slowly being chipped away in an Open Door maneuver.