This conflict originated in China's efforts to enforce laws banning the import of drugs, which were having a terrible effect on Chinese society.
What is the Opium War(s)?
100
This event in 1884-85 arranged how Europeans would divide up Africa.
What is the Berlin Conference?
100
This is the name given to the kind of imperialism when stronger countries make weaker ones economically dependent upon them and thus can easily manipulate them.
What is Free Trade Imperialism?
100
This African state was the only one that successfully defeated colonizing Europeans during the era of colonization.
What is Ethiopia?
100
This term, which was the title of a poem of 1899, is related to the idea that Europeans and Americans had a duty to "civilize" the rest of the world.
What is the White Man's Burden?
200
The Chinese still considered their nation to be the ____, and therefore viewed the goods the Europeans brought to trade with as nearly worthless trinkets.
Who is the Middle Kingdom?
200
Economic gain, military power, national status and missionary enthusiasm are all examples of what?
What is motivations for imperialism?
200
This 1914 event was made possible by a revolution in Colombia, which the the United States encouraged and supported.
What is the opening of the Panama Canal?
200
The Japanese response to Western demands in the late 19th century was not typical, and let to this great period of reform in Japan.
What is the Meiji Era?
200
Before the Scramble for Africa, Europeans were present on approximately what percentage of the continent?
What is 10%?
300
This event of 1869 was a huge milestone in European colonization of the East because it made travel there much much easier. (Middle East)
What is the opening of the Suez Canal?
300
This pseudo-scientific theory, based on new real scientific discoveries of the 19th century, justified imperialism on an explicitly racial basis, and was eventually discredited as unsound.
What is Social Darwinism?
300
In both official and unofficial colonies, most of the profit earned from colonial ventures ended up going where?
What is back to the home country to investors, rather than staying in the local area to help it modernize and improve.
300
This battle of 1889, in which the imperialist casualty rates were much lower (2%) than that of the Africans (98%), dramatically proved the significance of technological advantage in the conquest of colonies.
What is the Battle of Omdurman?
300
This event of 1898 made the United States into an imperial power, as it gave the Philippines, Guam and Puerto Rico tot the US as colonies.
What is the Spanish American War?
400
During the ___ Japan adopted Western industry and modernized in less than 50 years.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
400
(1899-1902) War between Great Britain and the Dutch in South Africa over control of rich mining country. Great Britain won and created the Union of South Africa comprised of all the South African colonies.
What is the Boers War?
400
This US foreign policy statement said that the US should intervene in the affairs in Latin America in cases of "chronic wrongdoing."
What is the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Dcotrine.
400
Some Africans appreciated the arrival of Europeans because the brought modern tools and ways, and also because they did this.
What is put an end to slavery and other forms of oppression or conflict?
400
This anti-foreigner uprising in China in the 1890s was put down by Europeans and other foreigners, and symbolizes the ongoing instability in China.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
500
The Indian revolt that led the British to take tighter control over India.
What is the Sepoy Rebellion/Mutiny?
500
Leader of the Zulu nation that placed an emphasis on military organization.
Who is Shaka Zulu?
500
Europeans and Americans chose NOT to colonize Latin America officially because:
Mostly because they didn't have to. They got what they wanted in other ways.
500
Though some of the colonized rebelled, and some collaborated with the colonizers, many of them simply tried to do this when the Europeans arrived.
What is live lives as they normally did before the Europeans arrived?
500
This 1910 event marked Japan's arrival as an imperial power.