Motives of Imperialism
The type of colonialism practiced in the USA, Australia, and South Africa is known as?
Settler colonialism ?
Native American religious movement promised the return of buffalo and the disappearance of white settlers.
What is the Ghost Dance?
South African ethnic group carried out the cattle-killing movement.
Who are the Xhosa?
The 1884–1885 meeting that divided Africa among European powers without African representation.
What is the Berlin Conference. or Scramble for Africa.
the 1896 battle resulted in Ethiopia defeating Italy.
What is the Battle of Adwa?
European nations sought these to sell manufactured goods and increase profits.
What are people for "new markets"?
Paiute prophet inspired the Ghost Dance movement in 1889
Who is Wovoka?
The teenage prophetess who claimed ancestors told her the Xhosa must destroy their cattle and burn their fields.
Who is Nongqawuse?
Process of a country extending control or influence over territories beyond its borders.
What is imperialism?
The 1857 rebellion in India that sparked in part by rumors about rifle cartridges greased with cow and pig fat.
What is the Sepoy Mutiny (or Indian Rebellion of 1857)?
Belief of European culture was superior and that imperialism would “civilize” other societies.
What is the Civilizing Mission (or White Man’s Burden). or What is used Social Dwarnism to Justify this belief.
U.S. authorities wanted others to think the Ghost Dance would lead to this.
What is armed Native American rebellion?
Xhosa believed killing their cattle would cause this outcome
What is the expulsion or destruction of British settlers and return to how it was before?
This Mexican liberal president led resistance against the French-installed Emperor Maximilian and was restored to power after French troops withdrew in 1867.
The Chinese uprising targeted foreigners and Christian converts between 1899–1901
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
Ideological justification that applied Darwin’s theory of evolution to societies and empires
What is Social Darwinism? Arguing that "survival of the fittest" justifies social inequalities, racism, imperialism.
This 1890 massacre in South Dakota resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Lakota Sioux.
What is the Massacre at Wounded Knee?
The cattle killing led to these devastating consequence. (name at least 3).
Famine, mass starvation, loss of territory and working for the British.
Britain’s control over India after 1857 that was transferred from this to the British government.
What is the British East India Company?
The West African Muslim leader resisted French expansion and built a strong Islamic state in the 19th century.
Who is Samori (Samory) Touré?
Control of strategic naval bases and coaling stations of geopolitical motive to project military power
What is militarism (or strategic expansion for global power)?
The Ghost Dance movement is an example of this type of resistance?
What is religious (or cultural) resistance?
Compare and Contrast the Xhosa Cattle Killing and the Ghost Dance?
Compare: Both use spiritual prophecies as they were desperate to drive out the white man and establish land and animals to the previous state so they believed in prophecies to accomplish this.
Contrast: Americans had destroyed buffalo, fish, trees (pine nuts)
British had brought disease outbreak by European cattle destroyed their cattle.
This Filipino nationalist leader initially cooperated with the United States against Spain but later led armed resistance against American annexation.
Who is Emilio Aguinaldo?
The Sudanese religious leader who led a revolt against British-Egyptian rule in the 1880s.
Who is the Mahdist revolt (Muhammad Ahmad)?