Imperialism
Economic, Ideological, Military, Political/Nationalism.
What are the big four causes of Imperialism?
The country that controlled the Philippines.
What is the U.S.?
This European country controlled Algeria beginning in 1830 and later expanded its empire across much of West and North Africa.
Definition of racism.
What is the belief that race determines a person's traits or capabilities?
This European country colonized most of Latin America.
What is Spain?
A late 19th-century belief system that applies biological concepts of natural selection and "survival of the fittest" to human societies, economies, and politics.
What is social darwinism?
This European country controlled Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.
What is France?
This meeting established rules for European powers claiming territory in Africa and accelerated the Scramble for Africa.
What is the Berlin conference?
To incorporate into an existing political unit, such as a city or country.
What is annex?
This canal, completed in 1914, connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
A political and religious doctrine stating that a monarch receives the right to rule directly from God rather than from the people, the parliament, or the church
What is the divine right of kings?
This trading company took control of India.
What is the British East India Company?
This European nation controlled Southwest Africa, Cameroon, and Togo before World War I.
What is Germany?
An Indian soldier hired by the British East India Company to protect the company's interests in the region.
What are sepoys?
An American belief that the United States was divinely ordained to expand its borders westward across the North American continent.
What is manifest destiny?
European countries competed to take over land in this continent during the late 1800s.
What is Africa?
The causes of the great rebellion.
Mistrust, cultural differences, and western education.
This British canal, opened in 1869, made European access to Asia much faster and increased Britain's interest in controlling Egypt.
What is the Suez Canal?
Definition of the Monroe Doctrine.
What is a United States foreign policy statement that warned European nations against interfering or colonizing in the Western Hemisphere?
This U.S. president created an addition to the Monroe Doctrine that said the U.S. could intervene in Latin American countries.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Definition of Imperialism.
What is the policy of extending a country's power and influence over other countries or territories often through political, economic, or military control?
The type of rule the UK used in India.
What is indirect rule?
This European country controlled the Congo and was responsible for harsh treatment of Congolese workers under King Leopold II.
What is Belgium?
Tact that seeks to strengthen the power of a country or affect its purposes in foreign relations by the use of its financial resources.
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
This revolution began in 1910.
What is the Mexican Revolution?