Barbary States

NA

-named for Muslim Berbers (sea traders)

Included:

-Morocco

-Algiers

-Tunis

-Tripoli

Finacial Problems/Loans

Ottoman Empire

NA

-Defeated by Italy, and lost Tripoli in 1911

-dying empire

Suez Canal

-North African

-acted as a shortcut to Asia, connecting Red and Med. Sea

-Designed by Lesseps

-French built, but could not fund so Britain bought stocks and eventually bought the canal itself.

-North African

-Both F and GB arrived at the same time. GB promised F Morroco if they left. They did leave and F got Morocco

-Sphere of Influence- Nile and Congo divided where GB and F had exclusive power

-NA

-French Colony

-1904- Morocco became protectorate of France, meaning they shared gov't powers

Tripoli

-NA, Italian colony

-1911- Tripoli taken from Ottoman Empire and renamed Libya

-last colony

-NA, British colony

-protectorate

-Had access to the Red and Med. Sea

-Suez Canal!

-At First was under Ottoman Empire rule, but British occupied and eventually took it.

Coastal Trading Ports in WA

-WA, British

-British wanted gold, and conquered here, creating the Gold Coast

-WA, French

-center of large French colony called French West Africa

-trade center of Sahara

-WA, Republic 

-1847: "Back to Africa Movement" allowed former slaves to return to africa.

-independent republic sponsored by the U.S

-nobody attacked in fear of bad publicity

-CA, Belgium Terr.

-Owned privatley, meaning he got all the money, by Leopold II.

-Leopold set up rubber tree plantations and forced natives to work on them

-Ivory trade was big

-1908- Gov't convinced Leopold to turn over to the state of Belgium

-CA, German

-German protectorate

-EA, independent

-Prepared for imperliasm and trades guns with Russia so that Italy could not attack them.

-Mousellini, who pressured Ethiopia, almost was captured, but escaped.

-EA, British

-mainly grassland

-British claimed as Anglo Egyptian Sudan

-gave GB access to all of the Nile

-SA

-descendants of Dutch settlers

-created in Cape Town

SA

-British came to conquer and clashed with Zulus, resulting in a war (they lost).

-European entrance had been allowed by leader, Shaka, which clearly did not end well.

-Transval, Orange Freestate, Cape Colon and Nalal

British Takeover after Napoleonic Wars

 SA

-developed Rhodesia

-focused on Transvaal

-Became Prime Minister/dictator of Cape Colony

-SA, 1899-1902

-Held alot of P.O.W.S

-Boers (supported by Germany) feared for Transvaal's independence

-1902- British won and got control over national gov't

-Afrikaners were local gov't

-tribes punished, leading to the roots of apartheid

Spanish American War

PA-Cuba begins rebelling against Spain

-American businesses had investments in Cuba, had sympathy for them

-Ship Maine sank and was used as propoganda

-PA

-Phillipine American War, U.S retained possesion

-PA

-Dutch owned, but was briefly interuppted when British occupied during the Napoleonic wars.

-LA

-said the western hemisphere could not be colonized anymore!

-Cuba had been taken by R.

-LA

-Spanish Sout American Wars- Became United states of Colombia

-Japan vs. China

-ended in Shimoneseki treaty. This treaty charged China an indemity of 150 million dollars (they did not have this)

-Orginally owned by Dutch, but Qing dynasty took it back

Opium Wars

-China made it illegal, which made British mad. They went to war, and of course the British won. They asked to be allowed to have access to their ports and trade routs (also got Hong Kong)