Definitions
The acquisition and exploitation of territory by a foreign power for its own economic and political benefit.
What is colonialism?
All men are created equal and no man should be born into more power than another.
What is equality?
What year was the Berlin Conference?
1884
What does CER stand for?
Claim, evidence, reasoning
The era of the French Revolution that included decapitations of any enemy of the revolution.
What is the Reign of Terror?
Foreign settlers immigrate and permanently reside on land already inhabited by indigenous groups of people.
What is settler colony?
Power should be distributed across different branches of government.
What is separation of powers?
The King of Belgium who kicked of the Scramble for Africa by colonizing the Congo.
Important parts of the source's identity to identify when analyzing a source.
What is point of view?
Man who seizes power after the French Revolution, becomes a dictator, and reinstates slavery in the colonies.
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?
A policy of exerting cultural, economic, or political influence over other societies ... powerful states use to influence the affairs of weaker states.
What is imperialism?
All men possess natural rights to life, liberty, and property.
What is liberty and individual rights?
Name three separate motives for European acquisition of African territories.
Define nationalism.
is proud of his country no matter what it does. enthusiasm for a state or country, but it extends into unquestioning loyalty to the state.
Name one reason why the Haitian Revolution is so significant to history.
It’s the only successful slave rebellion in modern history
Haiti became the first Black republic
Haitian revolutionaries defeated Britain, Spain, and France. (An enslaved population defeated the three world superpowers at the time!!!!)
Americans feared that the Haitian Revolution would inspire rebellion in the United States. So much so that they banned white people from Saint Domingue from coming to the United States.
Haitian Revolutionaries helped Latin Americans in their own revolutions.
Haiti was the first country to outlaw discrimination based on skin color in 1798. (The U.S. didn’t do that until 1964!)
A foreign nations withdraws, leaving the indigenous population to their own independence.
What is decolonization?
No ruler should have unlimited power.
What is opposition to absolute monarchy?
A meeting of 13 European countries + the United States in which the leaders divided up the continent of Africa as territories for themselves.
What was the Berlin Conference?
Historical context, audience, POV and purpose
Name the most profitable crop in Haiti.
Sugar.
Caused by the Industrial Revolution. An evolved form of asserting power and control over other states and places in the world. Europeans colonies all over the world Nationalistic movements of conquered peoples. Competition for influence between European nations.
What is new imperialism?
Governments should allow markets to operate with minimal interference.
What is free market capitalism?
Stipulates that any claim to African territory by one country has to be approved by the rest of the countries present.
Establishes the Congo Free State (an area King Leopold II previously claimed) as a free trade area under the King’s personal control.
Any previously negotiated treaties with African territories were being FORMALLY recognized as legal claims.
4. European countries are now required to occupy all territories they claimed at the conference
Conclusion sentence(s) that goes beyond the content. Were there any long term consequences as a result of this?
What is synthesis sentence?
The leader of the Haitian Revolution who was captured and died before Haiti's independence was realized.
Who was Toussaint L'Ouverture?