Rationales for Imperialism
Rudyard Kipling's poem giving the American rationale for Imperialism.
What is the White Man's Burden?
Efforts of European colonization in Africa.
What is the Scramble for Africa?
Subsistence farming was replaced with this.
These moved from the Caribbean to Britain in order to sell finished products in India and China.
What are raw materials?
Result of European expansion overseas in the 1700-1800s.
What is the acquisition of colonies and domination of world trade?
The idea that survivial of the fittest applies to humans as believed by the Europeans during the Imperial Age.
During the Boer War, the British opened these to control the Afrikaners.
What are concentration camps?
Ethiopia's religion and technology helped them to do this.
What is resist British Imperialism?
This encouraged the Dutch to continue expanding in Indonesia.
What is the acquisition of raw materials?
Reason demand for spices decreased in the 19th century.
What is the increase in the demand for manufactured goods?
People were persuaded to give up traditional beliefs.
How did missionaries support imperialism?
Exemption of foreigners from laws in the country with which they live.
What is extraterritoriality?
Opium Trade
What is an example of Economic Imperialism in China?
One of the first results of European Industrialization in other parts of the world.
What is the increase in demand for commodities like palm oil and cotton?
These types of technical experts migrated to South Asia and Africa for career opportunities.
Who are geologists and engineers?
East India Company
What is an agent of British Imperialism?
This resource was rich in Congo, run by Belgium in the late 1800s.
What is rubber?
Leader of cotton production in the 1700s.
What is India?
Caused rise of population density in cities.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This was the goal of Japanese colonial societies.
What is export Japan's surplus population and commercial goods?
Imperialism for reason of markets to sell manufactured goods due to industrialization.
What is "New Imperialism"?
This territory of Ghana was acquired by the British in 1874.
What is the Gold Coast?
Most important cash crop of West Africa- previously so valuable it was used as currency here.
What is palm oil?
Reason for increased migration from rural areas to urban areas.
What is lack of jobs?
Those who moved from Italy to Argentina in the 19th century did so because of this.
What are better wages and pro-immigration policies?