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Mind Map by dottydiva96, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by dottydiva96
almost 11 years ago
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Britain in West
Africa 1868 - 1902
- Missionary
- The Gambia Lobby emerged in the 1860's
- The Gambia Lobby emerged in the 1860's
- Routes to India
- Had bases
where navy could
station
- Had bases
where navy could
station
- Economic
- The Guinea Coast was
one corner of the
'Triangular Trade'
- Trade grew to replace
the slave trade
- British base at Cape Coast
Castle on the Gold Coast where
they traded with the Fante people
- Gambia was a possible trade route
- Trading of Palm
Oil with local
tribes
- 1879: Goldie built a
huge business in
Nigeria
- In the 1880's, Britain
sold £750, 000 of good
to West Africa
- The Guinea Coast was
one corner of the
'Triangular Trade'
- Strategic
- 1874: the
Gold Coast
was made
into a colony
in order to
preserve
trade
- 1884 - 85: Berlin
West Africa
Conference started
the Scramble For
Africa
- Challenge from the rench
- Royal Niger
Company set up
after Britain
staked a formal
claim to the
Niger Delta
- Germany directly challenged
Britain to the Cameroon's
and made treaties with chiefs
- 1884: the powers of
Europe agreed to split
West Africa between
France and Britain
- 1874: the
Gold Coast
was made
into a colony
in order to
preserve
trade
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