Unit 6: CED style

Question 1

Ideologies contribute to imperialism (6.1)

Answer 1

1. Social Darwinism (phrenology): prove that we are better
2. Nationalism (take over more land to be better)
3. White Man’s Burden: have to help because we better
4. Religious conversion: they are savages

Question 2

State power shifts (warfare & diplomacy & colonies too!) (6.2)

Answer 2

1. States take from businesses/people: Belg. takes Congo from Leopold, Indonesia from VOC
2. Spain and Portugal mid (less industrial, lose colonies)
3. Japan GEACPS (neighbors), US manifest for railroad & god, Russia for pan-slavism
4. Berlin Conference for Africa, invade Algiers
5. Settler colonies (13, AU/NZ, kicked out natives and disease)

Question 3

Internal & external effects on state building (anticolonialism) (6.3)

Answer 3

1. Anticolonial cuz Enlightenment/west edu. and nationalism
   Direct res. – Yaa Asantewaa vs GB (took gold stool) – L
   Indian Rebellion cuz pig/cow fat on guns (conversion of sepoys): GB Raj, Indians make INC after leaving for school but L
2. Form new state on periphery: cherokee with gov./judiciary in Oklahoma cuz removal
3. Rebellions w/religion: Xhosa Cattle Killing for new cows and spirits kick out GB: starve L

Question 4

Factors contributing to global economic development (6.4)

Answer 4

Need food for cities and mats for factories: make export economies in colonies
1. India and Egypt farm cotton, west Africa palm oil: profits to buy manufactured goods
2. Ranching in Argentina/Uruguay and type guano for food
Closed market! Economically imperialized (make specifically for daddy country: US/EU)

Question 5

Factors contributing to global economic development, imperialism style (6.5)

Answer 5

1. Economic imperialism (make states dependent)
   Opium Wars because China won’t buy stuff from GB (unfavorable): sell illegal drugs instead, gov. tries to stop: loses 2 wars, forced to open ports &missionaries (spheres of influence)
   Buenos Aires port made by GB near GB factories: need GB to keep using it or will be indebted: export only what GB wants (meat)

Question 6

Causes of migration (economic and environmental) (6.6)

Answer 6

1. Population++; from diets and medicine (limited resources/jobs)
2. Famine at home (potato style) - go for food and jobs (industry down from death)
3. Railroads/steamships: go to cities, able to go back and forth (Italians to AG for industrial work, home for harvest, Lebanese for jobs/out of Ottomans, come back to family)
4. Search for work: Irish, Chinese, Italian cuz economy mid (China railroads) – factories
5. Forced to go: slave trade or penal labor (AU/FruzzG)
6. Indentured servitude: poor Indians go to Caribbean to farm sugar, Chinese for tin in Malaysia

Question 7

Effects of migration (6.7)

Answer 7

1. Gender imbalance: women farm and sell stuff (cassava)
2. Enclaves: Chinese food and Chinatowns to Peru/US (working on railroads y plantations), Hindu caste/practices (abandoned caste later) to sugar plantations in Africa, Irish catholicism to protestant US
3. Restrict it: Chinese Exclusion, White Australia (Chinese taking jobs for cheap! Riot!)