Imperialism Miscellaneous
Describe what "imperialism" means...
system of empire building by founding colonies or conquering other nations
What was the Berlin Conference?
The meeting that divided African territories among European powers, without considering the interests of African people.
Who began colonizing China?
The British
This company initially controlled India before the British government took over.
What is the British East Indian Trading Company
The U.S. acquired this territory after American plantation owners and marines overthrew the monarchy.
What is Hawaii?
The feeling of pride in ones nation and the belief that they are the best.
Nationalism
This war was fought between Dutch settlers and the British in South Africa, partly over control of valuable resources like gold and diamonds.
What is the Boer war?
This rebellion, led by Chinese nationalists, opposed foreign influence and Christian missionaries in China.
The Boxer Rebellion
After British rule ended, the Islamic population in India separated to form this country.
What is Pakistan
Vietnam was colonized by this European country. Describe the problem they create here.
The French, 4x increase in rice production but exported most of it so peasant consumption of rice decreased.
What is direct rule?
a system of colonial governance where a colonizing power takes complete control over a territory, replacing local leaders with officials from their own country and imposing their laws and administrative structures, essentially running the colony directly without significant involvement from the local population
Who is King Leopold II?
This king exploited the Congo for its resources and subjected the population to brutal treatment.
Describe how the Opium wars begin.
England begins selling Opium in China, Chinese officials work to restrict this trade and go as far as destroying chests of opium in Chinese ports, England begins sending their navy to gain control over Chinese port cities.
Gandhi protested British control by championing this nonviolent strategy.
What is civil disobedience?
The U.S. gained control of ______ as a result of the Spanish-American War.
The Phillipines
Give me some motives of imperialism. (at least 3)
Resources, open new markets to sell good, empire building (great countries have colonies), opening military bases, controlling trade routes.
This engineering project was a crucial link between the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean, leading to British control of Egypt.
The Suez Canal
This treaty ended the Opium War, opening China to trade and weakening the Qing Dynasty.
What is the Treaty of Nanjing?
This protest symbolized Gandhi’s resistance to British salt taxes. And this movement to boycott British made clothes.
What is the Salt March, homespun movement
What South East Asian country was able to remain independent? How?
Thailand (Siam), The king Chulalongkorn played Britain and France off each other to keep Siam neutral
What benefits, if any, were there to imperialism?
Infrastructure (roads, bridges), schools, hospitals, courts, things like that.
Name the method used in direct control. This method forces the colonized people to almost abandon their own culture and adopt the culture of the conquering country.
Assimilation
This U.S. policy promoted equal trading rights for all nations in China.
Open Door Policy
British issued new rifles to the sepoys that required soldiers to bite off the tips of cartridges. The cartridges were greased with animal fat either from cows (sacred) or pigs (forbidden). Sepoys massacre British men, women and children. British send in more troops and crush the rebellion. British Parliament makes India British owned territory using direct rule(British Raj)
The British move into Burma and Malaysia and open mines, what problem do they create.
Britain encouraged Chinese to immigrate to Malaysia, to work the rubber plantations and tin mines. Malays soon became a minority in their own country.