6.1 Classwork SAQ

In your response, be sure to address all parts of the question. Use complete sentences; an outline or bulleted list alone is not acceptable.

“Gentlemen, we must speak more loudly and more honestly! We must say openly that indeed the higher races have a right over the lower races…

I repeat, that the superior races have a right because they have a duty. They have the duty to civilize the inferior races… In the history of earlier centuries these duties, gentlemen, have often been misunderstood; and certainly when the Spanish soldiers and explorers introduced slavery into Central America, they did not fulfill their duty as men of a higher race… But, in our time, I maintain that European nations acquit themselves with generosity, with grandeur, and with sincerity of this superior civilizing duty. I say that French colonial policy, the policy of colonial expansion, the policy that has taken us under the Empire [the Second Empire, of Napoleon III], to Saigon, to Indochina [French Southeast Asia], that has led us to Tunisia, to Madagascar–I say that this policy of colonial expansion was inspired by…the fact that a navy such as ours cannot do without safe harbors, defenses, supply centers on the high seas…Are you unaware of this? Look at a map of the world."

Identify and describe ONE motive Ferry offers for imperial expansion in the period 1750-1900 other than an economic motive.

Identify and explain ONE way in which Ferry’s argument is similar to other arguments of the period 1750-1900

Explain ONE way in which the French Revolution influenced French imperialism in the period 1750-1900.