Imperialism Methods and Motivations
This is the economic motive for Imperialism.
What is extracting raw materials to fuel industrial production?
This war between Britain and China began because Britain wanted to continue selling opium to Chinese consumers.
What is the Opium War?
**BONUS 200 pts**
Why did Britain want to sell Opium in China?
A colony where settlers from the ruling country moved permanently and established their own society.
What is a settler colony?
**BONUS (100 pts/ea)**
Name a settler colony during this time period.
Industrialization increased migration largely because factories needed this.
What is labor/workers?
This 1884–1885 meeting of European powers established rules for dividing Africa during the Scramble for Africa.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This ideology claimed stronger societies would naturally dominate weaker ones and was used to justify imperial expansion.
What is Social Darwinism?
DAILY DOUBLE
This treaty ended the First Opium War and forced China to open ports and give Hong Kong to Britain.
What is the Treaty of Nanjing?
This form of imperialism occurs when a nation controls another region’s economy rather than its government.
What is Economic Imperialism?
DAILY DOUBLE
Chinese migrants in the United States were especially known for working on this type of infrastructure project.
What are railroads?
This 1857 uprising by Indian soldiers in the British East India Company’s army became the largest rebellion against British rule in India during the nineteenth century.
What is the Sepoy Mutiny?
**BONUS (300 pts)**
Explain the events that led to the Sepoy Mutiny.
This form of imperial control occurred when foreign powers dominated trade and investment in a region without directly ruling its government, especially in China.
What are spheres of influence?
This massive civil war weakened the Qing Dynasty and caused tens of millions of deaths in China.
What is the Taiping Rebellion?
DAILY DOUBLE
This type of imperial control allowed local rulers to stay in power while Europeans influenced them behind the scenes.
What is indirect rule?
These were neighborhoods within larger cities where immigrants from the same culture settled and formed communities.
What are ethnic enclaves?
**BONUS (200 pts)**
Name an example of an ethnic enclave.
This U.S. law passed in 1882 restricted immigration from China and was one of the first major immigration restrictions in American history.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
DAILY DOUBLE
The phrase coined by Rudyard Kipling promoted the belief that Europeans had a duty to civilize other peoples.
What is "White Man's Burden"
This uprising attempted to remove foreign influence and Christian missionaries from China.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
This Belgian king took control of the Congo in the late nineteenth century and ruled it as his personal property.
Who is King Leopold II
**BONUS (400 pts)**
What was the primary resource extracted from the Congo Free State during this time period?
Indentured labor systems expanded in the British Empire after this institution was outlawed.
What is slavery?
DAILY DOUBLE
This immigration policy adopted in Australia around 1901 lasted until the 1970s and was designed to restrict non-European immigration.
What is the White Australia Policy?
This political motive for imperialism focused on increasing a nation’s prestige and power in competition with rival nations.
What is nationalism?
The state of being exempt from the local laws of the country where you are physically located, often applied to diplomats, embassy grounds, or international organizations.
What is extraterritoriality?
These were the only two African nations that avoided European Imperialism in the 19th century.
What are Ethiopia and Liberia?
Indentured servants from this region were brought to Caribbean plantations after the end of slavery.
What is South Asia?
What is guano and what was it used for?
Bird poo. Fertilizer.