French Colonization of Morocco

Reasons for Europe to Colonize

The main European industrialised nations were fiercely competing to extending their colonial empires and gain land and power. They also wanted to get material and resources for their production of goods.

France

The main reasons for France to colonize was to gain land, and raw material. The county also needed some new markets and trading posts.

Morocco Pre- Colonization

Morocco was an independent country ruled by the Sultans of the Alaouite dynasty. The administration, social and economic government was inefficient and the country was quite unstable.

How did France take over?

What resources did they have?

Who was

overthrown?

Morocco was a fairly small country, and the reason for colonization was largely based on land. Placed on two oceans, and infront of Algeria, which the French had already colonized, it had a greatly strategic placement. It protected Algeria from invasion. Also lastly, the more land an empire could get ahold of the more power they had.

In the 1900's France and Italy made a secret agreement that assigned Morocco to France and Libya to Italy. France sent ships and troops there to sign agreements and take over Morocco.

France sent tens of thousands of men to take over Morocco. It bordered Algeria and had strategic placement for the French.

Why Morocco?

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Morocco

Why did Morocco have no resistance?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History of Morocco

France wanted to protect the border of there Algerian territory. France also thought that it had strategic placement, being that it was on two oceans.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French protectorate in Morocco

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ french conquest of Morocco

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:French colonization in Africa

Because of their unstable government and inefficiency they could not fight against France.

http://nevinerk.weebly.com/french-colonization-ofmorocco.html

http://www.historyworl.net/wrlhis/plaintexthistories.asp?historyid=ac97

http://colonizationofmorroco.weebly.com/spanixh-and-french-protectorate.html

How did the industrial revoloution contribute to imperialism?

Expanding countries that were gaining power and resources wanted to continue to gain control. France would take over smaller countries for their resources and get even more power. They thought that the more land you had, the more power you possessed.

Warships

French Ironclad Redoutable

• Made of heavy iron, weighed thousands of tonnes.
• Speed of 14.5 knots
• Similar to the ironclads Devastation and Courbet
• Contains guns on deck

French Colonization of Morocco

By Shelby Warren