Chapter 11

Question 1

Takeover of a country or territory by a stronger nation

Answer 1

Imperialism

Question 2

Idea that one race is superior to others

Answer 2

Racism

Question 3

Charles Darwin ideas about evolution were applied to social change

Answer 3

Social Darwinism

Question 4

14 European nations met to lay down rules for division of Africa

Answer 4

Berlin Conference 1884-85

Question 5

Used highly disciplined warriors and good military organizations to create large centralized state

Answer 5

Shaka

Question 6

Gradually took over native Americans lands and established large farms

Answer 6

Boers

Question 7

Thousands of boers move north

Answer 7

Great Trek

Question 9

What motives caused the nations of Europe to engage in imperialism activities?

Answer 9

As European nations industrialized they searched for new markets and raw materials to improve their economies

Question 10

What effect did the Boer war have on Africans?

Answer 10

Europeans made efforts to change political, social, and economical lives of the ones they conquered

Question 11

First total war in Africa

Answer 11

Boer War

Question 12

Europeans governed people in a fatherly way by providing for their needs but not giving them rights

Answer 12

Paternalism

Question 13

Local populations would become absorbed into French culture

Answer 13

Assimilation

Question 14

Successfully played Italians, French, and British against each other

Answer 14

Menelik II

Question 15

What are the forms of imperial rule?

Answer 15

Colony, protectorate, sphere of influenced economic imperialism

Question 16

How did Ethiopia resist European rule so successfully?

Answer 16

Played Italians, French, and British against each other + built up huge arsenal of modern weapons brought from France and Russia

Question 17

Interwstbin ir taking of land for its strategic location or prducts

Answer 17

Geopolitics

Question 18

War between Russians and ottomans

Answer 18

Crimean War

Question 19

Man made waterway that cut through the isthmus of Suez

Answer 19

Suez Canal

Question 20

Why did the european nation’s have an interest in controlling the Muslim lands?

Answer 20

Wanted passage for its grain exports across the black and Mediterranean Sea and discovery of oil in Persia and Arabian Peninsula

Question 21

What methods did the Muslim leaders use to try to prevent European imperialism?

Answer 21

Selling concessions, tobacco boycott, and riots

Question 22

Indian soldiers

Answer 22

Sepoys

Question 23

Most valuable of all Britain’s colony

Answer 23

“Jewel in the crown”

Question 24

Rebellion of Hindu and Muslims soldiers against British in India

Answer 24

Sepoy Mutiny

Question 25

British rule over India from 1757-1947

Answer 25

Raj

Question 26

How was the economy of India transformed by the British?

Answer 26

British held most economic power, British introduced hands-off policy, and restricted India owned industries

Question 27

What caused the sepoy mutiny?

Answer 27

85 of 90 sepoys refused to accept the cartridges and British then handled it badly

Question 28

Countries that border the Pacific Ocean

Answer 28

Pacific Rim

Question 29

Who Siam modernized itself under

Answer 29

King Mongkut

Question 30

Leader of Filipino nationalists

Answer 30

Emilio Aguinaldo

Question 31

Adding of territory to US

Answer 31

Annexation

Question 32

Hawaiian ruler/ took throne in 1893/ called for new Consitution that increases her power

Answer 32

Queen Liliuokalani

Question 33

How did Siam manage to remain independent the other’s countries in the area were colonized?

Answer 33

France + Britain each aimed to prevent the other from gaining control to Siam: knowing this the Siamese kings skillfully prompted Siam as a neutral zone for the 2 powers

Question 34

Describe the attitudes held by Americans about colonizing other lands.

Answer 34

Built roads, railroads, hospitals, set up schools, exploited Philippines economically, encouraged growing cash crops