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Mind Map by ethan vincent, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by ethan vincent
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Expansion and
Consolidation of
British Empire
in Africa
between 1857
and 1914
- Reasons
for
expansions
- Trade and Economy
- British
Merchants
- Been trading
in Africa
since 1500's
- By the time slavery
had been outlawed in
1807 Britain had
exported 3 million
slaves to its American
and Caribbean
Colonies
- Been trading
in Africa
since 1500's
- Trade
- Prospect of furth er
trade opened up
new routes in
Africa
- Coal, iron, and
timber
- Britain needed to
boost their imports
of raw materials
from Africa in order
to manurfacture
goods to then re-sell
back to Africa
- Prospect of furth er
trade opened up
new routes in
Africa
- British
Merchants
- Personal
Influence
- Merchant
imperialists
- Cecil
Rhodes
- Goldie
- Capitalised on new
commodities
- Cecil
Rhodes
- Explorers and missionaries
- Livingstone
- 1858
- 1858
- Captured the
imagination of
the public
- Livingstone
- Merchant
imperialists
- Strategic factors
- Coastal interest
in West Africa
demanded
protection
- Forts along Gold Coast
- Forts along Gold Coast
- Coastal
defences in
Sierra Leone
and Gambia
- Cape colony
gave a route to
India before
the building of
the Suez canal
- Coastal interest
in West Africa
demanded
protection
- Moral Factors
- Missionaries
- Saw it as their
duty to spread the
word of
Christianity
- Saw it as their
duty to spread the
word of
Christianity
- 'Convert
the
heathen'
- Missionaries
- Trade and Economy
- Extent of
British
expansion
in
Africa
1857-90
- Territory acquired
- 1890's
- wasn't until this time period that expansion really accelerated
- wasn't until this time period that expansion really accelerated
- Territory acquired
- Suez Canal and Egypt
- Britain and Egypt
- British traders
had been using
Egypt for
centuries
- British interests
within Egypt were
revived during the
American civil war
where the British
were starved of cotton
- Investment in Khedive Ismail
Pasha modernising programme
- Came to power 1863
- Railways and irrigation
- Suez Canal opened in 1869
- Cut 6,000 miles of route via Cape Colony
- Cut 6,000 miles of route via Cape Colony
- Came to power 1863
- British traders
had been using
Egypt for
centuries
- The Suez
- Opened 1869
- Ismail Pasha faced
increasing debts
- Sought a buyer
for his 44% share
in the canal
- Wanted £4 Million
- Sought a buyer
for his 44% share
in the canal
- Benjamin Disraeli
- British PM
- Bought the shares
- British PM
- Increased GB
interest
within Egypt
- Opened 1869
- Establishment
of British
Control in Egypt
- Ismail deposed in 1879
- Tewfiq became new Kedhive
- Britain became a economic
prop within Egypt
- £Egyptian army
was reduced by
2/3rds
- Arabi's Pasha led
a revolt due to
unemployment
- Bombardment
of Alexandria
- June 1882
- PM William Gladstone
intervened and used British
Naval Force were sent to
bombard Alexandria
- Arabi Pasha
declared war but
was defeated within
an hour
- June 1882
- Britain re-took
Egypt as a
puppet rule
- Veil Protectorate
- Veil Protectorate
- Evelyn Baring
was installed
as Consul
General
- Egypt was
under British
administrative
control
- Egypt was
under British
administrative
control
- Ismail deposed in 1879
- Britain and Egypt
- The Sudan
- Kharthoum
- Charles Gordon
- Gov. General of
Egyptian -
administered
Sudan
- Chinese Gordon
- Gov. General of
Egyptian -
administered
Sudan
- Muhammad Ahmad
- Proclaimed himself the Mahdi in June 1983
- Proclaimed himself the Mahdi in June 1983
- Jihadist movement overtook the area around Khartoum
- Gladstone ordered Gordon to
oversee the evacuation of both
British and Egyptian forces from
Khartoum in 1884
- Gordon was beheaded during the attack
- Gordon was beheaded during the attack
- Charles Gordon
- Gladstone didn't retaliate due to not wanting to have further loss of life
- Not until 1896 that another campaign was launched to assert GB's authority over the Mahdist and the Sudan
- Not until 1896 that another campaign was launched to assert GB's authority over the Mahdist and the Sudan
- Kharthoum
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