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French Colonization of Morocco
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Independence
Legacy of Colonization
"Then my mother told us, “The Nasara [Christians or French] have put your father in prison. Not because he did anything bad, but because he is a nationalist. ‘Nationalist’ means someone who wants the Nasara to get out of our country, and that’s honorable.”
(Autobiography, Leila Abouzeid, Women in World History : MODULE 9)
- Language
- differences in parts of Morocco
- Infrastructure and modes of economic power
- Education
- Forms of government
- Social Impacts
- Remaining issues (Morocco vs Mauritania in the western Sahara)
- Popular unrest
- Diplomacy by Mohammed V
- stark contrast to other independence movements
- Constitutional monarchy put in place
(City of Zerhoun)
(Modern Moroccan Mosque)
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French Protectorate (1912-1956)
European Influence and early Colonization
- Treaty of Fez
- Modes of colonial rule
- social (education reform)
- economic (expansion/exploitation of industry)
- political
- First Moroccan Crisis
- Imperial rivalries between the great powers with morocco caught in the middle
- Algeciras conference
- Agadir crisis
- Rebellion against sultan Abdelhafid
- Moroccan forces vs french flying column in city of Fez
- German gunboat "Panther" arrives at port in Agadir
- opposition
- Rif rebellion
- nationalist parties
- exile of sultan
Morocco Before "Colonization"
- Alaouite Dynasty rules with relative success
- weakness and growing foreign influence
- French negotiations with Britian and Spain
Timeline of Colonization
- Alaouite Dynasty rules (18th into late 19th Century)
- Diplomatic agreements made by the great powers about the fate of Morocco (end of 19th century - 1904)
- First Moroccan Crisis (1905-1906)
- Agadir Crisis (1911)
- French Protectorate (1912-1956)
- Independence (1956)
Bibliography
http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ac97
http://www.factmonster.com/country/morocco.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-14123260
http://colonialmorocco.weebly.com/pre-colonial-period.html
http://colonizationofmorocco.weebly.com/life-under-imperialist-power.html
http://colonizationofmorocco.weebly.com/morocco-today.html
http://www.everyculture.com/Ma-Ni/The-United-Kingdom-of-Morocco.html