Imperialism Basics
This term describes the extension of a nation’s power over other lands.
What is Imperialism?
This European nation began the imperial process in Southeast Asia.
What is Great Britain?
This type of rule allowed local leaders to remain in power while answering to colonial rulers.
What is indirect rule?
Before 1880, Europeans controlled very little of this continent.
What is Africa?
These were the original Dutch settlers of South Africa.
Who were the Boers?
These Indian soldiers hired by the British East India Company served as troops.
Who were the sepoys?
This belief claimed that stronger nations were naturally superior and should dominate weaker ones.
What is Social Darwinism?
This British official founded a colony at the tip of the Malay Peninsula.
Who was Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles?
This type of rule removed local leaders and replaced them with officials from the colonizing country.
What is direct rule?
Britain annexed the coastal region of West Africa known by this name in 1874.
What is the Gold Coast?
This African kingdom led by Shaka rivaled the Boers in South Africa.
Who were the Zulu?
This uprising of Indian soldiers against the British East India Company became known by this name.
What is the Sepoy Mutiny (Great Rebellion)?
This racist imperial idea claimed Europeans had a moral duty to civilize other peoples.
What is the White Man’s Burden?
This Southeast Asian country remained independent by balancing relations with Britain and France.
What is Thailand (Siam)?
This trading company controlled the Dutch East Indies and represents an example of indirect rule.
What is the Dutch East India Company?
This canal connected the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea and made Egypt strategically important.
What is the Suez Canal?
This British businessman and imperialist controlled diamond and gold mines in South Africa.
Who was Cecil Rhodes?
After the rebellion, India was ruled directly by Britain through this official representing the monarch.
What is a viceroy?
This belief argued that race determines a person's traits and capabilities and helped justify imperialism.
What is racism?
This Asian territory became a French protectorate after France occupied Saigon and Hanoi.
What is Vietnam?
Under this system, European powers established plantations mainly to export raw materials for profit.
What is a colonial economy?
This Belgian king brutally exploited the Congo and drove colonization in Central Africa.
Who was King Leopold II?
This war between the British and the Boers lasted from 1899–1902.
What is the Boer War?
This Indian nationalist leader later became famous for leading the independence movement.
Who was Mohandas Gandhi?
European countries wanted colonies mainly for these two economic reasons: resources and this economic purpose.
What are markets for manufactured goods?
This Filipino leader resisted American rule through guerrilla warfare after the United States took control of the Philippines.
Who was Emilio Aguinaldo?
Resistance to colonial rule in Southeast Asia often came from people defending this major part of their identity.
What are religious beliefs?
This meeting in 1884–1885 set rules for European colonization of Africa.
What is the Berlin Conference?
By this year, most of Africa had been divided among European powers.
What is 1914?
This U.S. policy used American economic power and investment to influence Latin America.
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
In 1904, this U.S. president expanded the Monroe Doctrine by declaring that the United States had the right to intervene in Latin American countries guilty of “chronic wrongdoing.” Because of frequent U.S. intervention and influence in the region, many Latin Americans began referring to the United States by this nickname.
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
What was the “Big Bully of the North”?