Key Terms
This system forced farmers in the Dutch East Indies to grow export crops for the state.
What is the Culture System?
System used after slavery declined to supply plantation labor globally.
What is indentured servitude?
Irish migration surged because of this catastrophic famine.
What is the Irish Potato Famine (Great Famine)?
Country forced to accept opium imports and unequal treaties after war with Britain.
What is China?
Economic imperialism primarily benefited these countries.
What are industrialized nations?
Regions in China where foreign powers controlled trade privileges.
What are spheres of influence?
Chinese and Indian workers who replaced enslaved labor in many colonies.
Who were contract laborers?
Many Chinese migrants left due to poverty and this major rebellion.
What is the Taiping Rebellion?
Region where Indian laborers migrated to plantations after slavery declined.
What is the Caribbean (and other British colonies)?
Migration increased diversity and created these communities abroad.
What are ethnic diasporas?
Workers bound by contract for years in exchange for passage and wages.
What are indentured servants (indentured laborers)?
Plantation labor system tied to sugar, rubber, and palm oil production.
What is coerced colonial labor?
Industrial jobs and higher wages acted as this type of migration force.
What is a pull factor?
Nation where large numbers of Italian migrants settled for work and opportunity.
What is Argentina?
Colonial economies became dependent on this type of production.
What is single-crop export production?
Colonial economies centered on exporting a single major crop or resource.
What are cash-crop economies?
British system of sending criminals to Australia to work.
What is transportation of convicts?
Land shortages and overpopulation in rural areas encouraged this.
What is emigration?
Territory where Japanese laborers migrated to work on sugar plantations.
What is Hawaii?
Economic domination often led to this type of resistance or conflict.
What is anti-imperial resistance / rebellion?
A migration pattern in which prisoners were sent to colonies like Australia.
What are penal colonies / convict transportation?
Labor migration tied directly to building railroads and mines.
What is industrial labor migration?
Global transportation networks made migration easier through these technologies.
What are steamships and railroads?
Area where economic imperialism reorganized agriculture into export production.
What is Africa?
Global migration reshaped cities and contributed to this major demographic trend.
What is urbanization?