There is no reason why European expansion into Africa during the 19th century occurred because each country had it’s own motives. However, European powers expanded into Africa, except for Liberia and Ethiopia, in both economic and political ways. There are various economic motives for European expansion into Africa. “The desire for wealth, trade, resources, and cheap labor did motivate European expansion into Africa and other parts of the Third World” (Khapoya, 106). First, was the demand for raw materials. Throughout the 19th century, the industrial revolution occurred in Europe. With industrial production come human resources, money resources, and natural resources. Europe had the labor and produced good earnings for the European traders, which was essential in order to fund the industrial revolution. On the downside, a large portion of Europe did not have abundant resources and therefore, European industries relied on raw materials from other countries. This is seen with the cotton industry because it completely relied on imported cotton because they lacked these resources. With industrialization increasing and multiplying throughout Europe, the struggle for raw materials amplified, causing some European industrialists to urge their governments to settle African countries as a way to assure raw materials. Along with the demand for raw material was the need for markets. At the end of the 19th century, more industrial goods were being made than what the Europeans could use. Thus, industrialists pursued markets for their goods from all over the world. As rivalry for markets among industries increased, industrialists urged their governments to colonize Africa as a way to keep the markets safe for their industrial goods. Lastly, trade, Christianity, and civilization were driving motives for the European expansion into Africa. One of the most significant economic reasons for colonization was the notion that some Europeans had, in w