Industrial Imperialism
Africa changed in this main way between 1880 and 1914.
Most of the continent had been colonized by European empires.
The British-Chinese trade relationship was imbalanced heavily in the favor of this side.
China.
The only resource China wanted from European traders was this.
Silver.
Workers make money in this way in industrial capitalism.
Selling their labor.
This process made it so landlords could privately own fields and block out tenant farmers.
Enclosure.
These two countries were the only ones to survive European colonization of Africa after the 1880s.
To remedy their trade imbalance, Britain planned to sell this product from northern India to China.
Opium.
China suffered this tremendous rebellion in the 1800s that killed 20 million.
Taiping Rebellion.
Capitalists make money in industrial capitalism by owning this.
Enclosure closed off tenant farmers from their land and forced them to do this for work instead.
This is the main difference between imperialism and colonialism.
Imperialism: the ideas that lead one group to conquer others
Colonialism: the experience of the colonized people.
Treaty of Nanjing.
This single event sparked the fighting in the Opium Wars.
Threw opium into water / China illegalized opium
This is one of the ways that industrial capitalism impacted women.
They could make money independently, higher standard of living, less pay than men, still had responsibilities at home
Capitalism is a cultural system because it celebrates these things (give two)
Investment, free markets, innovation, humans as consumers and producers.
Europeans had access to these (at least two) new technologies that helped them spread imperialism further.
Steam boats, medicines, machine guns, telegraphs, trains.
The Treaty of Nanjing forced the Chinese to do these things for Britain (give at least two).
1. Pay reparations (in billions of today's dollars)
2. Give up treaty ports including Hong Kong
3. Allow British citizens to abide by British laws, not Chinese
4. Legalize Opium
This other rebellion in 1899 required the intervention of American, British, and German troops in Beijing.
Boxer Rebellion.
Define the Proletariat.
A class of people that sell their labor in exchange for a wage.
These are the two kinds of socialism. Each wanted change by doing this.
Utopian: reform.
Revolutionary: through revolution.
Racism motivated Europeans to engage in imperialism in this way.
Europeans believed their society was superior and that they had a civilizing mission to spread their society to non-European places.
These diseases (name two) prevented Europeans from colonizing the interior of Africa until the 1880s.
Malaria, nagana, yellow fever, sleeping sickness.
The Tongzhi Restoration aimed to combine these two things to strengthen China.
Traditional Chinese values and modernization.
Workers who wanted greater conditions normally organized themselves into this and use this tactic to get what they want. (need both)
Labor unions; collective bargaining
Class struggle.