Key Conflicts
The conflict in which the British began economically dominating the Qing.
What is the Opium Wars?
The "Cairo to Cape Town" railroad was championed by this man.
Who is Cecil Rhodes?
The belief that one's own country is superior to others on the basis of history, culture, language, race, or technological advancement.
What is nationalism?
The population of Argentina grew due to an influx of migrants from this region.
What is Italy?
A term for a laborer who signs a multi-year contract for manual labor.
What is an indentured servant?
The conflict in which the British won control of South Africa from the Dutch.
What are the Boer Wars?
Foreign investment in places such as Argentina relied on this institution to funnel profits to investors.
What is a joint stock company/exchange?
A pseudoscience which claimed to tell about human nature via examination of the skull.
What is phrenology?
What is Qing China?
A method of colonialism which quickly transformed population demographics.
What is settler colonialism?
A key rebellion which ended "company rule" in South Asia and instituted the British Raj.
What is the Sepoy Revolt?
This cash crop became a focus for Europeans to grow in Brazil, the Congo, and Vietnam.
What is rubber?
A belief that colonial regions needed to be given the gifts of the modern era by the imperial great powers was known as this.
What is a civilizing mission?
The primary motivation for nations allowing mass migration during the Imperial age was demand for this.
What is cheap/low-cost labor?
The discovery of this mineral resource led to significant pull factors for migration in the Americas.
What is Gold?
A series of anti-Imperialist revolts against European powers in China, ultimately defeated with the cooperation of U.S., French, Russian, & British effort.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
The Western Hemisphere's great canal.
What is the Panama Canal?
An ideology which motivated American westward expansion against indigenous peoples, Spain, & Mexico and contributed to racial policies.
What is manifest destiny?
A pathway through which industrial-era migrants traveled great distances to new destinations.
A term for communities of migrants whose cultural exclusion allowed their traditions to continue.
What is an ethnic enclave?
The conflict in which control over Korea was won by Japan.
What is the Sino-Japanese war?
The Argentine fertile zone is known as this.
What is the Pampas?
The idea that weaker nations and peoples are destined to be conquered or replaced by superior groups.
What is social Darwinism?
This act disallowed migrants from Qing to the American West Coast.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
A term for high-class laborers whose jobs were "clean" and respectable.
What is white-collar?