Key Terms
A policy of extending a country's power and influence through colonization, use of military force, or other means.
What is Imperialism?
To protect the mother country or have access to transit and communication lines.
What is strategic?
How many countries attended the Berlin Conference?
What is the modern Silk Road?
What is the Internet?
Who was the first male Black athlete from Canada to secure gold at the Winter Olympics?
What is Jarome Iginla?
The change in production from a domestic to a factory system.
What is Industrialization?
Looking for loot
What is economic?
Which country wanted the Democratic Republic of Congo?
Belgium
By the end of the 16th century, people were concentrating their exploratory trips on?
Who didn't give up their seat to a white man on a Montgomery Bus in 1955?
An economic/political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
What is Capitalism?
Nations searched for a place to put extra population
What is colonization?
When did the Berlin Conference occur?
What is 1884-1885?
The three obstacles along the silk road were?
What is Bandits, Nature and Lack of Water?
Who challenged racial segregation at a cinema in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia by refusing to leave a whites-only area of the Roseland Theatre?
What is Viola Desmond?
An economic system that encourages exports and limits imports through the use of tariffs, the primary goal being to increase the state’s wealth through the accumulation of gold, silver and other resources.
What is Mercantilism?
A condescending belief that it was their duty to help the colony with political and economic organization
What is paternalistic or humanitarian?
Who hosted the Berlin Conference?
What is Otto von Bismarck?
The silk road covered more than______________kms?
What is 9,600?
What route to Canada did slaves take to escape slavery in the US?
What is The Underground Railroad ?
The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own culture. It entails the belief that one's own race or ethnic group is the most important and/or that some or all aspects of its culture are superior to those of other groups.
What is Ethnocentrism?
Some felt that it was their duty to convert other people to their religion (Christianity).
What is religious?
Which countries left without any formal possessions in Africa?
What is Austria-Hungary, Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden-Norway, and the United States?
What was traded from Russia and the Baltic region?
What is fur and amber?
Who was the youngest player to appear for the Canadian men's national soccer team?