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British Imperialism over Africa

Between 1870 and 1900, British imperialism expanded so rapidly. There's no simply answer for this event, but only combination of the many factors. One of those factors was the economic motivation with desires to gain economic benefits by establishing company in Africa, for example, Goldie's United Africa company, Rhodes, and the British South Africa company. Also they wanted new markets in Africa for British goods and resources of cheap raw materials. Another fact is that this imperialism was aided by the Industrial Revolution. It provided them Gatling Gun, the railway, and the steamship. Industrial Revolution caused technological advantage and the serching for new markets, especially in the depression. These two are the main causes to colonize Africa for British. But there's another fact about the participation of British in the scramble for Africa. After British started to colonize Africa, many other European countries started notice the importance of colonizing Africa. By many countries joined to colonize Africa, it was getting competitive. So British had to increase colonial involvement and the official control and maintain order in profitable. There was no special plan for expanding in British. They just motivated by competition, economic benifits with raw materials, and technological advances.

MLA : Lara J. Barton. "Why did the British Empire expand so rapidly between 1870 and 1900. " Adams Grammar school, Newport, Shropshire, United Kingdom. April 5th 2002 <http://www.victorianweb.org/history/empire/ljb2.html>