Vocabulary
England used this type of power structure over most of their occupied territories.
What is Indirect Rule?
This country colonized India for hundreds of years
Who is Great Britain or England?
In the beginning, this was the only trade good that China was willing to accept from England.
What is Silver?
This conference set the stage for African Imperialism.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This mode of transportation enabled European nations to pave their way to and through Africa.
What is the steamboat?
This is the term to describe the original people that lived on the lands that were being colonized.
What is Indigenous?
Local Indian soldiers employed by the British.
Who are the Sepoys?
This highly addicted drug created a severe problem for Chinese citizens within a generation of being introduced by the British
What is opium?
This king initiated African Imperialism and in particular, the Congo and Africa's interior.
Who is King Leopold II of Belgium?
The medicine quinine was made to combat this deadly disease in Africa.
What is Malaria?
The ideas, beliefs, and actions used to justify control over others.
What is Imperialism?
This transportation means revolutionized the practice of Imperialism in India.
What are railroads?
China trying to stop British's distribution of opium into its country led to this.
What are the Opium Wars?
After diamonds were found in South Africa, the fighting between the Dutch and British became know as this.
What are the Boer War?
After the "opening" of Japan by U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry, Japan industrialized quickly, which led to Russia suffering an embarrassing defeat by Japan in this event.
What is the Russo-Japanese War?
British citizens did not have to follow another country's laws that they occupied.
What is Extraterritoriality?
Indian troops rose up against the British and rebelled for the alleged use of pork and beef fat on bullet cartridges.
What is the Sepoy Rebellion?
China was forced to sign this unfavorable treaty, which gave England control of Hong Kong, trade in major Chinese cities, exterritoriality, and the legalization of opium in China.
What is the Treaty of Nanking?
The name of Dutch farmers that colonized South Africa.
What are Afrikaners or Boers?
These two waterways, one controlled by the British and the other by the United States, were instrumental to military and trade growth.
What is the Suez Canal and Panama Canal?
The concept of the 'White Man's Burden' was based on this man's poem
Who is Rudyard Kipling?
The term used by the British to describe how highly profitable India was in comparison to other territories that they controlled.
What is "The Jewel in the Crown"?
The "Harmonious Fists", a Chinese Nationalist group, were attacking missionaries and other foreign sympathizers, which led to this event and was eventually stopped by a joint action from European, American, and Japanese soldiers.
What was the Boxer Rebellion?
Only these two countries in Africa remained free during Imperialism.
What is Ethiopia and Liberia?
List the 5 motivators for Imperialism.
What is Economic, Exploratory, Political, Ideological, and Religious?