The Age of Imperialism was largely fed and encouraged by the previous major period of world history known as the age of what?
What is industrialization?
100
Colonization of the Congo which led to greater colonization of the rest of Africa was initiated by which European nation?
What is Belgium?
100
What were the two major religions of India during the Age of Imperialism?
What is Hinduism & Islam?
100
What political document essentially gave the United States the right to exercise international police power against any threats in the Western Hemisphere?
What is Roosevelt Corollary?
100
The northwestern area of Africa, including much of the Sahara Desert was predominantly colonized by which European nation?
What is France?
200
A type of foreign policy in which a strong nation takes over a weaker nation or region and dominates it economic, political, or cultural life is known as what?
What is imperialism?
200
Southern Africa was predominantly colonized by which European nation?
What is Britain?
200
What was the name of the company that began colonization of territory in India as early as the 1600s?
What is British East India Company?
200
Restrictions placed on Cuba as well as the United States being given the right to land in Cuba for a military base were all the result of which political document?
What is Platt Amendment?
200
Prior to being a protest leader and champion for Indian nationalism, what career did Gandhi originally pursue?
What is lawyer?
300
The belief that all human groups compete for survival, and that the stronger groups will replace the weaker groups is known as what?
What is social Darwinism?
300
Identify the two countries that remained independent of European rule during the Scramble for Africa.
What is Liberia & Ethiopia?
300
The religious hierarchical social system into which most Indians were divided into is known as what type of system?
What is caste?
300
America’s first example of imperialism in Latin America and what essentially threatened Europe from further colonization and exploitation of Latin America was embodied in which document?
What is Monroe Doctrine?
300
Yellow Fever was the most aggressively destructive disease suffered by workers building the Panama Canal. Identify two other diseases these workers also suffered from.
What are malaria, plague, and/or dysentary?
400
Full or partial control of a country through the occupation of the country with settlers is known as what?
What is colonialism/colonization?
400
The desired to trade textiles and manufactured goods for raw materials such as peanuts, timber, and animal hides was the primary motivation for colonizing which part of Africa (ex. East, West, North, South, or Central)?
What is West Africa?
400
Identify 1 of the benefits Indians had from living under British colonial rule.
What is:
End to infanticide
Allowing Hindu widows to marry
Education for males & females OR
loans for development of railways & irrigation?
400
Spanish-born Europeans who ruled the Mexico and dominated the Mexican social structure prior to Mexico’s war for independence were known as what?
What is penisulares?
400
The loss of Africans’ farmlands, the establishment of segregated European clubs, and the rise of a new urban educated class of Africans were all factors that led to the rise of what?
What is African nationalism?
500
The strong belief, ideology, or creed involving one’s identification with one’s country is referred to as what?
What is nationalism?
500
Most European countries governed the territories they had colonized in Africa through which type of colonial rule?
What is direct?
500
Divisions within the Indian nationialism movement were largely fueled by religious differences of which two groups?
What are Hindus & Muslims?
500
Identify the 2 great figures that led the Mexican Revolution (last names only are acceptable).
What is Pancho Villa & Emiliano Zapata?
500
What was the primary motivation of the United States for constructing the Panama Canal?