Britain In Africa 1800s

Lesson Snapshot:

• Britain’s administration of Egypt and the Cape Colony contributed to a preoccupation over securing the source of the Nile River.
• Egypt was overrun by British forces in 1882.
• Sudan, Nigeria, Kenya and Ugand were subjugated in the 1890s and early 20th century; and in the south, the Cape Colony provided a base for the subjugation of neighbouring
• African states and the Dutch Afrikaner settlers who had left the Cape to avoid the British and then founded their own republics.
• In 1877, Theophilus Shepstone annexed the South African Republic for the British.
• The UK consolidated its power over most of the colonies of South Africa in 1879 after the Anglo-Zulu War.
• The Boers protested and in December 1880 they revolted, leading to the First Boer War (1880–81).
• British Prime Minister William Gladstone signed a peace treaty on 23 March 1881, giving self-government to the Boers in the Transvaal.
• The Jameson Raid of 1895 was a failed attempt by the British South Africa Company and the Johannesburg Reform Committee to overthrow the Boer government in the Transvaal.
• The Second Boer War was about control of the gold and diamond industries and was fought between 1899 and 1902; the independent Boer republics of the Orange Free State and of the South African Republic (Transvaal) were this time defeated and absorbed into the British Empire.

Powerpoint Lesson Plan:

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• Complete lesson plan focused around Britain in Africa throughout the 1800s (Includes The Second Boer War information)