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Unit XIII Imperialism Flashcards

1
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What is imperialism?

A

Control of one people by another

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2
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What is the exception for the old imperialism?

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the “new world”

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3
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How much of the world was held by Europe?

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84%

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4
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How is new imperialism being done?

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by military force

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5
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Why does Europe impose their ideas?

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they feel they are supior in religion and politically

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6
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What is the model for new Imperialism?

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British control over Egypt

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7
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What are the two major causes?

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raw materials and new markets

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What are the raw materials wanted?

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diamands, cocoa, tea, cotten, spices, ivory, wood

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9
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What are missionaries wanting?

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to Christianize the world

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10
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How are the colonies protected?

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instituting military bases

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11
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Why are Germany and France having trouble with imperialism?

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had to unify first

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12
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What was the justification of imperialism?

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the improving of the cultures and people of the world

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13
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What nations of Africa were not controlled?

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Liberia, and Ethiopia

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14
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What was the Berlin Conference?

A

set the rules for Imperialism in Africa

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15
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What was Leopold II doing?

A

taking control of the Congo

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16
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How was Africa treated?

A

like savages almost like the holocaust

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17
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What did Belgium do to leopold?

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took away his colony of the congo

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18
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What is the fate of South Africa?

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does not have a chance to maintain its pocession

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19
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Who had control over Egypt?

A

the ottomans

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20
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What is the most important Canal of Europe?

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Suez

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21
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Who was the Prime minister during the building of the suez canal?

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Disraeli

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22
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What is a protectorate?

A

a state controlled by a larger state

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23
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Which way does the Nile flow?

A

North

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24
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What is jinglism?

A

Super patriotisms

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25
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Where did the Christians flee to?

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Kartune

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26
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What technology is way too far supior?

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Machine gun

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27
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How was africa split?

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through friendly partitioning

28
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Why did Rhodes want to have influence over the Boers?

A

gold and diamonds

29
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Did the Boers win?

A

yes

30
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Who celebrated them?

A

Germany

31
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Was Rhodes rich?

A

yes

32
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What was the transvall region?

A

diamonds and gold

33
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Boer’s were descendents of who?

A

the dutch

34
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What telegram congratuated the Boer’s?

A

Kruger Telegram

35
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Who organized the Berlin Conference?

A

Bismark and Ferry

36
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Who were the last of the Europeans to participate in Africa?

A

Italy

37
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Who had a monopoly on the drug trade?

A

Brittian

38
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Why did China not like Britian?

A

Opium was a highly addictive drug that was hurting China

39
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What city did Britian gain in China?

A

Hong Kong

40
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Did the Indian’s like the British?

A

no

41
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How did Britian control India?

A

directly

42
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What is building in India?

A

nationalism

43
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Where did the Sepoy’s first rebel?

A

Deli

44
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What were the postive effects of British imperialisms in India?

A

industry, schools, weopons

45
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Did the Boxer’s gain the governments support at all?

A

yes just not in military

46
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What did the boxers want to do?

A

clense China

47
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What Matthew Perry (MCPerry) want to do?

A

open Japan

48
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Why did Japan want to reform?

A

to compete and modernize with Europe

49
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What was the Miji?

A

“Western” widespread reforms in Japan

50
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Did the reforms of Japan work?

A

yes

51
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What was the treaty between Japan and Russia? Who won?

A

Portsmouth; Japan

52
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What did Russia want?

A

the balkans

53
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Which European power is associated most strongly with the “Civilizing Mission,” the idea that European nations had a duty to spread their culture?

A

France

54
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Between the late 1870s and about 1912, European powers established control over African territories through

A

The “Scramble for Africa”

55
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The modern Western missionary movement originated in

A

Great Britain

56
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Nineteenth-century anthropologists

A

Believed in a hierarchy of races

57
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“The Great Game” refers to

A

Russian-British rivalry over Afghanistan

58
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In independent Christian churches in Africa,

A

The leaders were African

59
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Which of these groups was most often responsible for introducing Western medicine into the colonial setting?

A

Missionaries

60
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Which country was known as “the workshop of the world”?

A

Great Britain

61
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At the end of the First Opium War, Great Britain gained all of the following EXCEPT

A

Shanghai

62
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What was the shared element in the Hobson and Lenin theories of imperialism?

A

Both proposed that capitalists, in their quest for expanded markets, pressured governments to acquire colonies

63
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What does Gustav Schmoller claim is the goal of German expansion?

A

To allow Germans “to live and sustain a growing population

64
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Starting in the late eighteenth century, the tsarist government viewed conquered peoples as

A

Foreign

65
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Why was West Africa called “the white man’s graveyard”?

A

Europeans had a high death rate from tropical diseases

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