Imperial Motives & Justifications
This poem by Rudyard Kipling was used to justify imperialism as a moral duty.
What is 'The White Man's Burden'?
This European leader personally owned the Congo Free State.
Who is King Leopold II?
This addictive product from India was sold to China by Britain, sparking wars.
What is opium?
This form of contract labor replaced slavery in many imperial colonies.
What is indentured servitude?
This Native American ritual was believed to restore ancestral lands and drive out colonizers.
What is the Ghost Dance?
This ideology misused Darwin’s theory to justify racial superiority and imperial conquest.
What is Social Darwinism?
This 1884–85 meeting divided Africa among European powers.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This forced labor system in the Dutch East Indies demanded unpaid labor or export crop cultivation.
What is the Culture System?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This 1882 U.S. law barred immigration based on ethnicity.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This leader of a Peruvian rebellion was descended from the last Inca emperor.
Who is Tupac Amaru II?
This Protestant minister argued that the Anglo-Saxon race was destined to dominate others.
Who is Josiah Strong?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This infrastructure project linked the Red Sea to the Mediterranean.
What is the Suez Canal?
This imperial power extracted rubber from the Congo through brutal coercion.
What is Belgium?
This Indian political activist began his resistance work in South Africa.
Who is Mohandas Gandhi?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This revolt by Muslims and Hindus was a response to colonial religious insensitivity.
What is the Sepoy Mutiny?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This term describes the belief that Europeans had a mission to 'civilize' non-Europeans.
What is the civilizing mission?
This rebellion in India was sparked by cultural insensitivity in military practices.
What is the Sepoy Mutiny (Indian Rebellion of 1857)?
These financial remittances were sent by migrants to support families back home.
What are remittances?
These cultural hubs preserved traditions in foreign lands.
What are ethnic enclaves?
This Vietnamese emperor resisted the French before being exiled to Algeria.
Who is Ham Nghi?
This 19th-century theory claimed skull size determined racial superiority.
What is phrenology?
This Chinese anti-foreign uprising from 1899–1901 targeted Christians and Westerners.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This policy allowed the U.S. and others equal trade access to China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
These were the two largest immigrant groups to the Americas in the 19th century.
Who are the Chinese and the Irish?
This war was fought by Filipino revolutionaries against U.S. annexation after 1898.
What is the Philippine-American War?