Motives for Imperialism
Main goal for European Imperialism.
What is to make money?
This joint stock company controlled India until 1857.
What is the British East India Company?
This drug was used to get the Chinese to trade silk, tea, spices, and porcelain.
What is opium?
Prior to the Opium Rebellion, The only thing that the Chinese would accept from the British in exchange for their goods.
What is silver?
Europeans wanted to create overseas naval bases in order to supply their ships with this resource.
What is coal?
Two religions that were pitted against one another so that the British could gain power. (Must have both religions for credit)
What are Hinduism and Islam?
This arrangement allowed foreign ships to use only one port of entry so that the government could regulate and monitor trade.
What is the Canton System?
Westerners made humanitarian efforts by spreading this religion.
What is Christianity?
This time period caused European nations to seeks natural resources and raw materials.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This Indian industry was destroyed after the British forced India to grow cash crops and buy British goods instead.
What is the textile industry?
This treaty ended the Opium War and led to five ports of trade, extraterritoriality, the Chinese having to pay $20 million in war damages, and the loss of the Island of Hong Kong.
What is the Treaty of Nanjing (Nanking)?
This canal in Africa helped European countries reduce travel time to get to their colonies in Asia.
What is the Suez Canal?
The duty or responsibility that Westerner’s felt to, “spread the blessings of Western civilization and culture.”
What is the White Man's Burden?
This event is considered a turning point in India's history because the British Crown took direct control of India.
What is the Sepoy Rebellion?
areas of China where only one imperialistic power was allowed to dominate with exclusive rights to trade
What are Spheres of Influence?
The Boxer Rebellion hoped to remove what from China.
What are foreign countries?
Application of the ideas of natural selection and survival of the fittest to human societies and nations
What is Social Darwinism?
This cultural/religious practice of a widow throwing herself on a funeral pyre was outlawed by the British.
What is suttee or sati?
This event was a civil war where the chinese catholic rebels sought to overthrow the Qing Emperor.
What is the Taiping Rebellion?
Thinking of one's own group's ways are superior to others.
What is ethnocentrism?