Congo Free State
Clue: This European king personally controlled the Congo Free State.
Who was King Leopold II?
Clue: The desire to sell extra manufactured goods overseas.
What is the search for new markets?
Clue: Europeans classified colonial populations based mainly on this characteristic.
What is race?
Clue: The 1857 revolt against British rule in India.
What is the Indian Rebellion of 1857?
Clue: Colonial labor systems forced many men to work in these places.
What are mines and plantations?
Clue: Leopold claimed his colony existed to spread this religion and civilization.
What is Christianity?
Clue: The belief that stronger societies should dominate weaker ones.
What is Social Darwinism?
Clue: Type of crops grown specifically for export instead of local consumption.
What are cash crops?
Clue: This massive rebellion in China nearly overthrew the Qing dynasty.
What is the Taiping Rebellion?
Clue: Because men worked far away, women often became this within families.
What are heads of households?
Clue: This valuable product extracted from Congolese forests created enormous wealth for Leopold.
What is rubber?
Clue: The idea that European culture and religion should be spread to other societies.
What is the Civilizing Mission?
Clue: Western schools in colonies created this new educated social group.
What is the educated elite / Western-educated elite?
Clue: African kingdom that successfully defeated Italy in 1896.
What is Ethipoia
Clue: Movement of workers from colonies to other areas for jobs.
What is labor migration?
Clue: Soldiers in the Congo Free State often cut off this body part to prove bullets were not wasted.
What are hands?
Clue: Competition between European countries for land and power in Africa.
What is the Scramble for Africa?
Clue: Farmers growing export crops became vulnerable to this global economic problem.
What are price fluctuations / falling world prices?
Clue: Asian kingdom that remained independent through diplomacy and modernization.
What is Thailand (Siam)?
Clue: Western education later helped inspire this political movement.
What is nationalism?
Clue: Unlike other colonies, the Congo Free State was controlled as this type of possession.
What is personal property (the king’s private colony)?
Clue: The 1884–1885 meeting where Europeans divided Africa without African participation.
What is the Berlin Conference?
Clue: Colonial economies became tied into this worldwide trade system
What is the global capitalist economy / world market?
Clue: A form of resistance where colonized people refused work, migrated, or avoided taxes.
What is passive resistance?
Clue: Colonies often supplied these goods to European industries.
What are raw materials?