Motives for Imperialism
This major era pushed imperialist countries to colonize Africa and Asia for natural resources.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
One reason Great Britain was able to export high amounts of opium into China was because it already controlled this other Asian country, where the poppy plant (opium is made from poppy plants) grows in abundance.
What is India?
Cotton, Coffee and Sugarcane are examples of this type of crop because they are grown for their commercial value rather than to be used by the farmer.
Main motivation for colonizing Africa.
Industrialization (wanted natural resources to make manufactured goods)
What is the West?
This word describes the ideology of European countries wanting to imperialize/colonize countries in Africa and Asia because they had pride in their country.
What is nationalism?
If you watched "CREED III", you might understand why Chinese rebels named themselves this when they were fighting against British colonizers.
What are Boxers?
Prior to taking over the entire country, the British first used this company to extend trade relationships with businesses and merchants of this South Asia country.
What is the East India Company?
Name of the meeting where European imperialists decided how to split up Africa.
Berlin Conference
American Naval Captain Matthew Perry arrived in this country in 1853 to "encourage" the leaders to open its ports for trade so the U.S would have greater access to resources and trade routes in Asia.
What is Japan?
Colonizing missionaries were also motivated to imperialize parts of Africa and Asia to spread this belief system.
What is Christianity?
In this treaty that ended the Opium Wars, the Chinese were required open ports to Western powers for free trade, pay an indemnity of 20 million silver dollars, and turn over Hong Kong to the British.
What is the Treaty of Nanking?
Lipstick, "Cup of Noodles", Ice Cream, Baby Formula, Chips and Laundry detergent all contain this raw material, first cultivated by farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 1300's and later collected and sold by European colonizers in the 1800's.
What is Palm Oil?
Term used to describe the process of European countries exploring Africa to decide which parts they wanted to colonize.
Scramble for Africa
In 1823, President James Monroe spoke about this document which opposed European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Daily Double!
The concept that Europeans should colonize indigenous peoples of Africa and Asia because they think they are genetically superior.
What is Social Darwinism?
After "slicing up" parts of China for imperialistic means, many European countries also issued this policy, which basically relieved Europeans from following Chinese laws while living and working in China.
What is Extraterritoriality?
Though you might say "YUCK!", industrialists of the 1800's would love if this organic substance of birds and bats fell on their heads because they could use it to help their soil be healthy for growing crops.
What is guano?
Invention that made exploring Africa easy for European countries.
Steamships
The United States ceded (added) three territories to its empire in the treaty that ended the Spanish-American War - The Philippines, Guam, and this island nation of the Caribbean.
What is Puerto Rico?
When Japan started to industrialize, they changed almost everything in their country - the technology, the laws, even the clothing. In addition, the government, which had been formerly feudal, was renamed to this "enlightened" state
What is the Meiji Restoration?
Though the Sepoys, the title for Indian soldiers fought alongside British soldiers in the Anglo-Mysore Wars (1767-1799) and the two Anglo-Sikh Wars (1845-1849), the Sepoys turned against British leaders because of this disrespectful act.
The British manufactured gunpowder cartridges that required fighters to bite into cow or pig fat in order to be operable. Doing this was a violation of the religious beliefs of most Sepoys - Hinduism and Islam.
Since farmers in imperialized countries were only allowed to raise certain crops, there was a lack of agricultural diversity in developing nations, which was also known as this.
What is a monoculture?
X (leader) from Y (country) wanted to imperialize the Congo for the natural resource of rubber.
King Leopold II from Belgium
Between 1830 and 1850, the United States government forced approximately 60,000 people of the "Five Civilized Tribes" of southeastern U.S to relocate from their indigenous homes. Since so many of these people died along the migration route, it is commonly referred to as this.
What is the Trail of Tears?