Imperial Power Plays
What ideology justified European superiority and imperial expansion using pseudoscience?
What is Social Darwinism?
What African nation successfully resisted European imperialism and remained independent by 1900?
What is Ethiopia (Abyssinia)?
What cash crop, essential for the textile industry, led to the exploitation of Indian farmers?
What is cotton?
What term describes Indian and Chinese laborers who worked under contracts that often resembled slavery?
What is indentured servitude?
What African movement involved killing cattle in the belief that spirits would drive out the British?
What is the Xhosa Cattle-Killing Movement?
What 19th-century event saw European nations dividing Africa without African representation?
What is the Berlin Conference?
What rebellion in India was sparked by cultural insensitivity regarding rifle cartridges?
What is the Sepoy Mutiny (Indian Rebellion of 1857)?
What company controlled trade and governance in India before British direct rule?
What is the British East India Company?
What was a major push factor for Irish migration to the U.S. in the mid-19th century?
What is the Great Famine?
What rebellion in China was led by an anti-foreigner group that attacked Christian missionaries?
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
What was the primary reason Britain took control of Egypt in 1882?
What is controlling the Suez Canal?
Which Southeast Asian nation remained independent by modernizing and negotiating with European powers?
What is Siam (Thailand)?
What natural resource, critical for machine lubrication, was extracted from West Africa and Southeast Asia?
What is palm oil?
What law, passed in 1882, banned Chinese immigration to the U.S.?
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
What war between British and Dutch-descended settlers in South Africa led to concentration camps?
What are the Boer Wars?
What country defeated China in the Sino-Japanese War, gaining control of Korea and Taiwan?
What is Japan?
What war resulted in the U.S. gaining control of the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico?
What is the Spanish-American War?
What was the nickname for Central American nations dominated by U.S. fruit companies?
What are Banana Republics?
What is the term for neighborhoods of people from the same foreign country living together?
What are ethnic enclaves?
What South American leader led an uprising against Spanish colonial rule, inspired by his Incan ancestry?
Who is Túpac Amaru II?
What poem by Rudyard Kipling encouraged Europeans to "civilize" colonized people?
What is "The White Man’s Burden"?
What Belgian king personally controlled the Congo and exploited its people for rubber production?
Who is King Leopold II?
What African resource, controlled by Cecil Rhodes' De Beers company, fueled European wealth?
What are diamonds?
What term describes the global spread of cultural traditions through migration?
What is a diaspora?
What war was fought between Britain and China over the British sale of a highly addictive drug?
What is the Opium War?