Imperialism Motives
European nations sought colonies partly to obtain these raw materials and new markets for manufactured goods.
What are resources and markets?
This 1884–1885 meeting divided Africa among European powers.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This major uprising in India in 1857 challenged British rule.
What is the Sepoy Mutiny?
Large numbers of workers from this country migrated globally during the 19th century.
What is China?
This movement sought to grant women the right to vote.
What is the women’s suffrage movement?
This idea, influenced by Charles Darwin, claimed that stronger societies were naturally destined to dominate weaker ones.
What is Social Darwinism?
This Asian country became the “jewel in the crown” of the British Empire.
What is India?
This Chinese rebellion led by Hong Xiuquan was one of the deadliest conflicts in history.
What is the Taiping Rebellion?
These laborers from India were contracted to work on plantations after the decline of slavery.
Who are indentured servants / indentured laborers?
This 1848 meeting in the U.S. was an early major women’s rights convention.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This ideology justified U.S. expansion across North America in the 1800s.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This African king violently resisted Belgian imperialism but ultimately lost control of his territory in the Congo.
Who is King Leopold II?
Chinese nationalists launched this uprising against foreign influence in 1900.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
This crop failure in the 1840s caused mass migration from Ireland to the United States.
What is the Irish Potato Famine?
Reformers worked to abolish this global system of forced labor in the 19th century.
What is slavery?
This belief that Europeans had a duty to “civilize” colonized peoples was famously expressed in a poem by Rudyard Kipling.
What is the White Man’s Burden?
This U.S. war in 1898 resulted in control of territories like the Philippines.
What is the Spanish-American War?
Germany started workers' accident compensation insurance, unemployment insurance, and old age pensions for employees. under this leader's direction?
Who was Chancellor Otto von Bismarck?
Migrant workers often moved to build this major U.S. transportation project completed in 1869.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This British reformer argued that women deserved equal rights in works like The Subjection of Women.
Who is John Stuart Mill?
Industrial powers often competed for overseas territories as a symbol of this global political goal.
What is national prestige or power?
This policy allowed foreign powers equal trade access in China without fully colonizing it.
What is the Open Door Policy?
This African leader organized resistance against French colonial expansion in West Africa.
Who is Samori Touré?
Laws in the U.S. restricting immigration from China began with this 1882 act.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This ideology promoted the idea that governments should provide welfare and protections for citizens.
What is liberalism (social liberal reform)?