Imperial Growth
What is the Meiji Restoration?
A period of modernization in Japan provided by the west.
What was the Boxer Rebellion?
An uprising in response to the Opium Wars in China
The Treaty of Nanking and more western control was the result of which wars?
The Opium Wars
What is the name for the competition for Africa in the age of imperialism?
Scramble for Africa.
Cultural changes and economic exploitation in Africa was caused by...
Imperialism
The Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 was used to divide which area?
Africa.
What dynasty was in power during the Taiping rebellion?
Great Britain was fighting the Opium wars against who?
China
What policy focused on allowing local rulers to maintain their positions of authority?
Indirect Rule
Cultural changes and economic exploitation in Asia was caused by...
Imperialism
What were the reasons for Imperialism?
New markets/resources, Spread Christianity, "Civilize" others.
The Treaty of Nanking granted concessions to which nation?
Britain
Primary Source: "On Liberty" by John Stuart Mill
Excerpt: "The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant."
Question: According to John Stuart Mill in "On Liberty," when is it justifiable to exercise power over an individual?
To prevent harm to others.
The Meiji Restoration marked the shift influence in Japan from ____ to ____?
Primary Source: "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism" by Vladimir Lenin
Excerpt: "Imperialism has grown up and has become transformed from potential to inevitable reality. The substitution of monopolies for free competition is the fundamental economic characteristic, the quintessence of imperialism."
Question: According to Lenin in "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism," what is the fundamental economic characteristic of imperialism?
Monopolies
Which dynasty was essentially ended by the Opium Wars?
The Qing dynasty.
Excerpt: "Take up the White Man's burden—Send forth the best ye breed—Go bind your sons to exile, To serve your captives' need; To wait in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild—Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half devil and half child."
Question: What justification for imperialism does Rudyard Kipling provide in "The White Man's Burden"?
That the white man must go civilize others.
Industrial Revolution(s)
Primary Source: "The Treaty of Nanking"
Excerpt: "His Majesty the Emperor of China agrees to cede to Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain... the island of Hong Kong, to be possessed in perpetuity by Her Britannic Majesty."
Question: What was one significant outcome of the Treaty of Nanking?
Hong Kong becomes owned by Britain.
What Policy ensured equal trading rights in China for European nations?
Open Door Policy.