Rationales for Imperialism
This motivation for imperialism was driven by the needs of factories industrialized countries
Raw Materials:
examples: copper, tin, palm oil, guano, iron, coal
Things to make other things
What was the Berlin Conference and what did it lead to?
A conference amongst Europeans to set the rules for dividing up Africa and "the Scramble for Africa"
Define and give an example of an "Unequal Treaty"
Various responses: good examples include the Treaty of Nanjing, standard form treaties promulgated by the Royal Niger Company, Unequal Treaties pushed on Japan by the US and others (the Ottomans had to sign similar treaties as well)
This place started its imperial experience as a penal colony
Australia
This motivation for imperialism was driven by a need to find consumers for prodcuts
markets
(or captive markets, aka, the requirement that colonies only by products from the empire and have no protectionist trade barriers to imperial products)
Describe a type of imperialism that avoids "direct" control and name a country that expereinced it in East Asia
Spere of Influence and China
The British call this mid-19th Century South Asia resistance movement a "Mutiny"
The (1857) Sepoy Rebellion
describe settlement patterns of migrants in new, recieving, societies
Migrants tended to congregate into ethnic enclaves, for example "Chinatown" (examples of which are all over the Pacific Rim)
This motivation for imperialism was marked by fierce competition
nationalism, or national competition, or strategic need
Who colonized Korea
Japan
This violent movement in late 19th Century China was directed at both foreigners and the Qing Dynasty that failed to drive them out.
The Boxer Rebellion
What gender were typical migrants and how did this affect life in their places of origin?
male, this tended to empower women as they took on roles that had been filled by the men.
This motivation for imperialism was driven by European desires to spread their culture and "civlize" the peoples of the world
"white man's burden" and/or desire to spread Christianity
Describe Imperialism in the Congo
Various answers; should discuss King Leopold II, forced labor systems, human rights abuses.
identify 5 products imperialist often sought in the regions they colonized
Cotton, Rubber, Palm Oil, Diamonds, Guano, tin, copper, iron, coal
Name locations where Indian migrant labor, especially indentured servants, ended up working.
Caribbean, South America, South Africa, Kenya
This justification for imperialism was a supposedly scientific and based on the idea of the "survival of the fittest" as applied to human societies
Social Darwinism
Settler Colonialism, e.g. displacement of local populations vs. rule over local populations.
Daily Double!! What term arguably came to define imperialism with the territories of what would become the continental United States
Meiji Restoration
How could "Free Trade", that's is to say, trade without barriers such as tariffs, be a tool for economic imperialism.
Various answers.
basically, industrial produced products can wipe out local industries without a protectionist tariff to keep them alive.
-example include India
other variations:
-Opium Wars in China
-Brits and American buying up all the natural resource production in Latin America, ensure profits largely go go abroad
identify a specific law demonstrating how receiving countries were often unwelcoming to new migrants.
The Chinese Exclusion acts and/or the "White Australia" policy; its worth noting that even in places where no legal ban was put in place, immigrants are often made to feel unwelcome by social custom many, arguably, most places in the 19th century.