The Scramble for Africa
This concept, which comes from a Rudyard Kipling poem, illustrates many Europeans’ belief that they had a moral responsibility to "civilize" non-Western nations in Africa and Asia.
What is "White Man's Burden"?
This was the name given to Britain’s direct rule of India.
What is the Raj?
These powered the Second Industrial Revolution.
What are electricity and petroleum?
This Post-Impressionist painter believed that artists could paint what they feel.
Who is Vincent van Gogh?
This was the name of the alliance among Germany, Austria, and Italy.
What is the Triple Alliance?
These wars were fought between the British and the Dutch over control of South Africa.
What were the Boer Wars?
The spread of Western imperialism remarkably transformed this nation when it adopted Western military and industrial techniques and technologies which enabled it to become an imperial power itself.
What is Japan?
This man invented the first automobile.
Who is Karl Benz?
This was one way in which empire shaped European’s leisure time.
What was big game hunting, exotic goods in the home, natural history museums?
This was the largest political party in Germany by 1912.
What is the Social Democratic Party (SDP)?
This was Cecil Rhodes' ultimate goal.
For the British to control the entire continent of Africa.
In general, this is what caused the Indian Rebellion.
The British refused to honor Indian religious customs.
Besides teaching and nursing, this was one new job opportunity for middle-class women.
What is typist, telephone operator, secretary, department store salesgirl?
This was one characteristic of Impressionism.
What was focus on changing light and color, painting in the countryside, use of splotches or dots?
These were the two ways in which Kaiser Wilhelm II destabilized European diplomatic relations.
What are retiring Bismarck and dropping the Reinsurance Treaty with Russia?
Name ONE way in which New Imperialism differed from Old Imperialism.
The use of new technologies and weapons; conquest of the interior regions rather than just settler colonies or trading posts on coastal regions; attempt to remake colonial people into "Europeans" rather than the destruction of native peoples; indirect rule and the use of native peoples as enforcers rather than direct rule
Name ONE way in which British rule may have positively affected India.
Efficient government, western-style schools, infrastructure, telegraph and telephone lines, improved sanitation and medicine, "harmful" religious practices were banned or discouraged.
This is one new invention that facilitated the conquest of the African interior.
What is the machine gun, steamboats, railroads?
This is a way in which empire shaped internal migration.
Seasonal laborers migrated to port cities to work unloading ships returning from Africa and Asia.
How did British newspapers influence public opinion?
By publishing sensationalistic news stories.
Name all four of the motives used to justify New Imperialism.
Nationalism, Economic Competition, Religion, and Social Darwinism
These were the three main terms of the Treaty of Nanking.
The Opium trade was legalized in China, more Chinese ports were opened to the British, and Britain acquired Hong Kong.
This was one new product of the Second Industrial Revolution.
What is steel, chemicals?
Name TWO ways in which nations focused on the health of their population.
Ragged schools, child care centers, birth control clinics, men’s sports teams, women’s exercise classes, bicycle-riding clubs, restricting where women could work
Name ONE way Jews were targeted in France and Russia at the end of the nineteenth period.
Newspapers printing stereotypical or false stories, books depicting Jews as dangerous, relocating Jews to the Pale of Settlement, pogroms against Jews