Key People
Key Events
Motives
Quotes
Political Cartoons
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Which Motive drove Herbert Spencer?
Social Darwinism
100
Fill in the blanks: ______ declared war on _______ in the 2nd Boer war.
The Boers, the British
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What was the primary motive for the Opium Wars?
Economic
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Who Said this? “Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for making the Anglo Saxon race but one Empire? What a dream, but yet it is probable; it is possible.” Kipling, Rhodes, or Spencer?
Cecil Rhodes
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Explain the irony of this political cartoon: White Man's Burden https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Epn3nYXNlPIqKDDqjE8lbKr_43oBYACaR2bTyDcJobM/edit#slide=id.gadd56621a_0_14
We would expect that since it is titled "The White Man's Burden", the people struggling in the picture would be the "white men". This cartoon shows: Uncle Sam (representing the U.S), John Bull (representing Great Britain), the Kaiser (representing Germany) and a french emperor (Representing France) being carried by Africans, showing that imperializing Africa is actually a burden on the native people rather than the European powers.
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Why did Ferry face opposition within France?
The large amount of money that the expansion was costing the Nation
200
When accused of being the cause for the widespread Opium addiction in China, what was Britain's reasoning behind not being at fault
They insisted that they were simply providing a service: satisfying the demand, not creating the demand
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How would the reasoning of the White Man's Burden create more support amongst people for imperialism?
People would think imperialists are doing a service to the countries they are colonizing, and thus they would provide their support.
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Who said this? (society is) “rightly regarded as a moral rational organism in the sense that it has a common psychic life, character and purpose, which are not to be resolved into the life, character, and purpose of its individual members”. Ferry, Kitchener, or Hobson?
John Hobson
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What is the meaning of this political cartoon? https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Epn3nYXNlPIqKDDqjE8lbKr_43oBYACaR2bTyDcJobM/edit#slide=id.gadd56621a_0_14
Everyone wanted to get in on trading in China - but China didn't want foreign countries in their land
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