Rationales for Imperialism
Send forth the best ye breed—
Go send your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk and wild—
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child
The White Man's Burden by Rudyard
This 100 mile long canal could save an entire trip around Africa. It was built by 1.5 million Egyptian corvee laborers.
Suez Canal
This conclusion of this event led to the start of the British Raj.
Indian Rebellion of 1857, or Sepoy Mutiny
"From Cape to Cairo"
Who said this and what did they mean?
Cecil Rhodes, founder of De Beers Diamonds, wanted the British Empire to colonize all of Africa from the Cape of Good Hope to Cairo and he hoped this could be done by installing a transcontinental railroad
The British government shipped convicts from England, Scotland, Ireland, and India, to this region that was turned into a penal colony.
Australia
the idea that certain people become powerful in society because they are innately better
Social Darwinism
Unlike other kings, King Leopold II owned this colony personally. He imposed a ruthless system forcing the indigenous to harvest rubber making himself a fortune of some 220 million francs ($1.1 billion in today's money)/
The Congo Free State
This man fought against the US because he wanted to keep the Philippines independent.
Emilio Aguinaldo
The machinery in Europe's factories required constant lubrication to keep it working, thereby creating a demand for palm oil, which originated from _________
West Africa
Japanese sought opportunities on sugarcane and pineapple plantations here.
Which regions provided the British Empire with abundant access to cotton?
China, Egypt, India, North America
Which territories did the US acquire at the end of the Spanish-American War?
Guam, Puerto Rico, Philippines, Cuba
In 1885, several British-educated Indians formed this organization which began as a forum for airing grievances against the colonial administration but quickly began to call for self-rule.
Indian National Congress
After the Opium Wars, this agreement forced China to open up four additional ports to foreigners, cede the island of Hong Kong to Britain, and pay damages. Also, Britain could continue to sell opium.
Treaty of Nanking
Immigrants from this country sought work in gold mines, agriculture and factories as well as on the Transcontinental Railroad built across the United States.
China
In 1600, the English monarch granted this business a monopoly on England's trade with India
British East India Company
Europeans carved out ________________ within China over which they had exclusive trading rights and access to natural resources.
spheres of influence
This mighty warrior queen led a rebellion against the British. It was the last African war led against the British and it resulted in the deaths of 2,000 Asante and 1,000 British.
Yaa Asantewaa
Chile provided an abundance of this commodity which was used for telegraph cables and electrical power lines.
Copper
The cost of living in this city was much lower than that of many rural Italian provinces. By 1909, Italian immigrants owned nearly 40 percent of the commercial establishments in this city.
Buenos Aires
Identify one contribution Dr. David Livingstone made to the geographic understanding of Africa. (Or one of his major non-geographical contribution)
He was the first man to forge a transcontinental path across southern Africa, he discovered an enormous waterfall he named "Victoria Falls," traced the Zambezi River to the Indian Ocean, discovered Lake Malombe, and Lake Nyasa (also known as Lake Malawi - ninth largest in the world). He also discovered a quinine-based formula for curing malaria and promoted an end to Britain's African slave trade.
Established in 1787, it was a home for freed people from throughout the British Empire who had been enslaved.
Sierra Leone
Under this 1840 agreement, the British agreed to respect the property rights of the Maori. Shortly thereafter, expanded British settlement led to the Maori Wars, leading the Maori to eventually sell or be removed from more of their land.
Treaty of Waitangi
The US proposed a policy known as the ________ _________ policy to ensure all countries could have equal access to China's markets, and prevent any one power from having total control.
The Open Door Policy
Indentured servitude was replaced by this British labor system where entire Indian families were recruited to work on tea, rubber and coffee plantations in Ceylon, Burma and Malya.
kangani system