Rationales for Imperialism
This motivation for imperialism was driven by the needs of factories industrialized countries. What am I?
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 the main reason or the most influential factor among the several reasons or motives driving the European imperialism.
Economic Reasons
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
Sphere of Influence - China
The British call this mid-19th Century South Asia resistance movement a "Mutiny."
The (1857) Sepoy Rebellion
What were the three (3) technological developments in transportation and communication which brought by industrialization and magnified imperialism?
(1) Railroads (2) Steamships (3) Telegraph Service
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. What is this?
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 do you mean by monocultures?
Monocultures refers to a lack of agricultural diversity, particularly in developing nations. It is where farmers were raised only cash crops, such as sugar, cocoa, or groundnuts, at the expense of other agricultural products.
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 "civilize" the peoples of the world. Discuss it briefly.
"White Man's Burden" and Desire to spread Christianity
Describe Imperialism in the Congo
Various answers; should discuss King Leopold II, forced labor systems, human rights abuses.
Identify at least 5 products imperialist often sought in the regions they colonized.
Cotton, Rubber, Palm Oil, Diamonds, Guano, Tin, Copper, Iron, and 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
Compare Settler Colony from State-Run Colony
Settler Colony - Focus on control and use of land, settlers remove or dominate the indigenous population, and most common in sparsely populated lands
State-Run Colony - Western institutions slowly replace the local culture and often defended by claims by helping the indigenous population
Name the successful modernization movement in late 19th century Japan and explain how it became successful.
Meiji Restoration - Experts were invited to Japan, adopted reforms based on what it admired, abolished feudalism by the Charter Oath, established constitutional monarchy based on the Prussian model, reorganized the military based on the Prussian Army, expanded educational opportunities, built railroads and roads.
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.