Systems
A system of government with many departments and officials is described as a ________________
Bureaucracy
What year did the British gain dominance in India and when did India gain independence?
(1600) 1757 & 1947
Who: hosted the Berlin Conference?
Otto Von Bismark, Chancellor of Germany
What is a possible positive outcome of "new" imperialism?
Modernizing, Industrializing, Efficiency, Global connection
What did British Administrators write into law in the first decade of the British Raj?
The Famine Codes
What British system helped modernize India and ultimately undermine British authority?
Education/Schools
What year did Belgium gain control of the Congo & when did the Congolese gain independence back?
1884-1885 & 1960
What: was the Berlin Conference also known as?
The Scramble for Africa
Indians participating in the British education system can be described as a____________________n.
acculturation
Native Americans being forced into Indian Boarding Schools can be described as a__________________n.
What trade system existed before the EIC?
Indian Ocean trade between Africa, Asia, and India
The American Colonization Society was around from the ______s to ______s.
1830s-1850s
When: Did the Berlin Conference take days, weeks, months, or years?
Months
Who won the Berlin Conference?
Britain
or
Belgium
Who lost the Berlin Conference?
Indigenous Africans
What group can be directly attributed to a growing Hindu middle class in India as a result of the British education system?
When did Apartheid start and end?
1948-1994
Why: What justification did delegates of the conference use when dividing up the map of Africa?
Less violent/more civilized than colonization of the Americas
The ACS's plan to ___________________ freed African Americans would create a future where black people could reach equality with white people (on a separate continent).
repatriate
The ACS's plan to __________________ freed African Americans was racist because it removed the issue of racial mixing in American society by sending Black Americans to a place that was not their homeland.
expatriate
What dichotomy reshaped geopolitical worldviews by the end of the 19th century?
Global North and Global South
When did George Washington Williams reveal King Leopold's crimes and when did the Belgian Parliament take away his control of the Congo?
1890 & 1908
What did King Leopold II say about his reason for attending the conference?
He wanted "a slice of the cake"
What are three innovations that the British brought to India?
Telegraph
Trains/Railroad
Education system
What language does the word Apartheid come from and what does it mean?
Afrikaans, apartness or separateness