New Imperialism
This European country expanded its empire in West Africa during the 19th century.
What is Britain (or France)?
This racial ideology was used to justify European imperialism by claiming superiority of certain races.
What is Social Darwinism?
These wars between Britain and China opened Chinese markets to European trade and influence.
What are the Opium Wars?
This 1857 uprising against British rule in India was influenced by religious and political grievances.
What is the Indian Rebellion of 1857 (Sepoy Mutiny)?
This ethnic group migrated in large numbers to the United States during the 19th century.
Who are the Irish?
This conference in 1884-1885 divided Africa among European powers without African representation.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This concept argued that Europeans had a duty to educate indigenous populations.
What is the civilizing mission?
This crop, produced in the Middle East and South Asia, was exported to China and created economic dependency.
What is opium?
This West African leader led military resistance against French colonial expansion.
Who is Samory Touré?
This coerced labor system brought workers from China and India to various parts of the world.
What is indentured servitude?
This shift occurred when European governments took direct control over colonies previously held by private companies.
What is the shift from company to state control?
This ideology promoted the superiority of one's nation and justified imperial expansion.
What is nationalism?
This export economy emerged in West Africa, providing raw materials for European industrial production.
What is the palm oil trade?
This Peruvian indigenous leader led a major rebellion against Spanish colonial rule.
Who is Túpac Amaru II?
A community where a specific group lives, separate from the surrounding population,
What is an enclave?
These colonies were established by Europeans in parts of their empires.
What are settler colonies (like New Zealand)?
This motivation drove imperial powers to convert indigenous populations to Christianity.
What is the desire to religiously convert indigenous populations?
This South American port was constructed with British support to facilitate trade.
What is the Port of Buenos Aires?
This religious movement among Native Americans sought to restore traditional ways of life.
What is the Ghost Dance movement?
This U.S. law restricted immigration from a specific Asian country.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
These three countries expanded their land holdings by conquering and settling neighboring territories.
What are the United States, Russia, and Japan?
These cultural, religious, and racial ideologies were used collectively to justify 19th-century imperialism.
What are imperial ideologies/rationales for imperialism?
These resource extraction economies specialized in producing raw materials for industrialized nations.
What are export economies (cotton in Egypt, rubber in Amazon/Congo, diamonds in Africa)?
These new states were created on the peripheries of empires as forms of resistance to imperial rule.
What are Cherokee Nation, Zulu Kingdom, Sokoto Caliphate?
This policy in Australia restricted non-European immigration to maintain racial homogeneity.
What is the White Australia policy?