Rationales
Ideology applying "survival of the fittest" to human societies.
What is Social Darwinism?
The 1884 meeting where Europeans divided Africa.
What is the Berlin Conference?
The 1857 uprising in India over greased cartridges.
What is the Sepoy Revolt of 1857?
Major export from Egypt and the US South for textiles.
What is cotton?
War started by Britain over the sale of illegal drugs in China.
What is the Opium War?
Neighborhoods where immigrants kept their culture.
What are ethnic enclaves?
Author of the poem "The White Man's Burden".
Who is Rudyard Kipling?
Brutal ruler of the Belgian Congo Free State.
Who is Leopold II?
Native ritual in the US West to drive out white settlers.
What is the ghost dance?
Excellent fertilizer made from bird/bat droppings.
What is guano?
The 1842 treaty that gave Hong Kong to Britain.
What is the Treaty of Nanking?
US law that banned immigration from China in 1882.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Pseudoscientific study of skull sizes to "prove" inferiority.
What is phrenology?
Medicine that protected Europeans from malaria.
What is quinine?
Leader of the last general Indian revolt in Peru.
Who is Tupac Amaru?
Technology that allowed for long-distance meat shipment.
What is refrigeration?
Term for nations where fruit companies held political power.
What are banana republics?
Group that migrated to the US due to a potato famine.
Who are the Irish?
Belief that it was a religious duty to spread this "truth".
What is Conversion/Christianity?
Conflict in South Africa between British and Afrikaners.
What are the Boer Wars?
South African movement involving the killing of livestock.
What is the Xhosa Cattle-Killing Movement?
Export product harvested from latex tree sap.
What is rubber?
Dutch system forcing natives to grow cash crops.
What is the Culture System?
Policy that restricted non-white immigration to Australia.
What is White Australia?
Two economic needs driving the growth of colonies.
What is raw materials/markets/industrial control/labor?
Continent first used by the British as a penal colony.
What is Australia?
Last African war led by a woman (Asante Empire).
What is the Yaa Asantewaa War?
Essential lubricant for machinery from West Africa.
What is palm oil?
Type of control through business, not political, influence.
What is economic imperialism?
Labor system where workers work for a set number of years.
What is contract labor?
Country that sought new colonies after losing Canada.
What is Britain?
US policy claiming dominion over the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Warrior group that resisted the British in South Africa.
Who are the Zulu?
Mining company that held 90% of the world’s diamonds.
What is the De Beers Diamond Co.?
Aggressive US policy expansion of the Monroe Doctrine.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Religious group that faced US discrimination.
Who are Catholics?
European power that controlled the cotton monopoly in India.
What is Britain?
Host of the Berlin Conference (German leader).
Who is Otto von Bismarck?
West African leader who fought French colonization.
Who is Samory Toure?
Resource that turned Australia into a "settler" colony.
What are precious minerals and metals?
Internal rebellion that weakened China's government.
What is the Taiping Rebellion?
Group whose migration to South Africa inspired Gandhi.
Who are Indians?
Asian nation that colonized Korea and Taiwan for prestige.
What is Japan?
Native group in New Zealand displaced by the British.
Who are the Maori?
Direct British rule in India starting after 1857.
What is the British Raj?
Colonies that focus on a single crop for export.
What are monocultures?
Specific crop Britain forced Sudan/Uganda to depend on.
What is cotton?
Term for a scattered population of common origin.
What is a diaspora?