Unit 6 (1750-1900)

Question 1

Motives/justifications for imperialism

Answer 1

Nationalism (gain presitge from new territories), racial justification that smaller skulls proved inferiority (phrenology), Social Darwinism proved superiority, religious motives that Europeans wanted to spread Christianity like David Livingstone across Africa and economic motives that nations needed new markets to sell goods to

Question 2

Opium Wars

Answer 2

Fought between England and China because China didn’t want to buy opium anymore but it’s how England got silver back

Question 3

Treaty of Nanjing

Answer 3

Forced China to pay for Opium war debts and to open five new ports (spheres of influences)

Question 4

Sphere of Influence

Answer 4

An area where a country has exclusive trading rights and access to another’s natural resources

Question 5

U.S. Open Door Policy

Answer 5

Treaty that proposed that everyone had equal access to Chinese trading ports

Question 6

USA colonies

Answer 6

Phillippines won in Spanish-Amer. War and Hawaii

Question 7

Sepoy Rebellion

Answer 7

Indian soldiers rebel against the British for making them handle weapons greased in animal fat

Question 8

Boers War

Answer 8

Boers, Dutch in South Afr., resisted British control but it ended up becoming an English colony

Question 9

Berlin Conference

Answer 9

When European powers met to create colonies in Africa

Question 10

King Leopold

Answer 10

Invaded the Congo to encourage colonial expansion, keeping the colony for himself and brutally forcing natives to harvest ivory and rubber

Question 11

Only two independent African states

Answer 11

Ethiopia and Liberia (relied on US because it had been founded as a refuge for slaves)

Question 12

Settler Colonies

Answer 12

Type of colony where settlers intend to relocate to permanently

Question 13

Tupac Amaru II

Answer 13

Led an unsuccessful military conflict against Spanish in Peru

Question 14

Gandhi

Answer 14

Leader of the Indian National Congress and nonviolent protests against India

Question 15

Ghost Dancers

Answer 15

Indians believed the dead would drive out whites

Question 16

Xhosa Cattle Killing

Answer 16

Indigenous group of people resisted English rule by killing cattle

Question 17

South American Exports

Answer 17

Silver, copper, tin, guano (bird poop) and rubber

Question 18

Economic Imperialism was driven by…

Answer 18

The need for natural resources, new markets, and cheap labor

Question 19

Consequences of Export Economies

Answer 19

More famines because substinence farming shifted to cash crop growing, deforestation, and monocultures

Question 20

Causes of migration

Answer 20

Poverty, famine, and political opression

Question 21

Kangani System

Answer 21

Recruiters would find workers from their family and friends and recruit them to work as well

Question 22

Corvee Labor

Answer 22

Compulsory unpaid labor in Australia

Question 23

Ethnic Enclaves

Answer 23

Neighborhoods of people from the same foreign country/share common food, language, or culture

Question 24

Chinese Exclusion Act

Answer 24

Limited Chinese immigration

Question 25

“White Australia”

Answer 25

Limited the number of Chinese who could come ashore

Question 26

Boxer Rebellion

Answer 26

Chinese boxers opposed Christianity and were supported by the government and many were killed