The idea that considers the thoughts and feelings of people.
What is Liberalism?
A group of people who settle in a foreign country that is not theirs.
What is a Colony?
The name of the king of Belgium.
Who is King Leopold II.
The meeting assigned various territories in Africa to Great Britain, France, Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Germany.
What was the Berlin Conference?
What is Nationalism?
Someone who travels the world performing charitable work and spreading Christianity.
What is a Missionary?
The main natural resource Belgium wanted that came from a specific tree.
What is rubber?
Exotic woods such as mahogany grew along with rubber, palm oil, coffee, and cocoa crops.
What are Natural Resources?
This philosophy believes in promoting policies that protect traditional values and ways of governing.
What is Conservatism?
A powerful, large country takes over a smaller, weaker country.
What is Imperialism?
The area in Africa that Belgium controlled.
What is the Belgium Congo?
This approach imposed French culture and, in effect, made colonies into French provinces.
What is Direct Rule?
"Hands off" policy allows people to choose who and how they want to be governed.
What is "laissez-faire?"
A foundation or framework of a system, organization, or location. It is often classified as either “hard” or “soft.”
What is Infrastructure?
If Africans failed to meet this, they were beaten, and their hands were cut off for not getting enough rubber in a day.
What is a Quota?
Officials from the larger country were responsible for setting laws, but law enforcement was left to the local leaders already in place.
What is Indirect Rule
A belief that European, industrialized nations are superior to nations that were not industrialized.
What is Social Darwinism?
An empire that included parts of Europe, North Africa, Arabia, Russia, and Southwest Asia.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
A country has a claim or control over another land. It represents a legal agreement between countries.
What is a Sphere of Influence?
Territories still ruled by local leaders, but only with the support of a foreign state which maintained considerable control over that territory.
What is a Protectorate?