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| 344105525 | capital-intensive | Industry that required the purchase of expensive machinery. Using more MONEY than just WORKERS in production. Ex: hydroelectricity. | |
| 344105526 | labor-intensive | Industry that required the hiring of workers. Using more WORKERS than just MONEY in production.. Ex: normal factories where people hand make stuff? | |
| 344105527 | Leopold II | Belgian king who ruthlessly exploited the natives on his African land for personal gain. | |
| 344105528 | Rhodes | British colonial financier and statesman in South Africa. Made a fortune in gold and diamond mining; pushed Britain to tale over the area but the didn't do it immediately; he created his own country, Rhodesia, now known as Zimbabwe. Wanted the "Cape to Cairo" railroad. Took the land he needed to make it. | |
| 344105529 | New Imperialism | Historians' term for the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century wave of conquests by European powers, the United States, and Japan, which were followed by the development and exploitation of the newly conquered territories. | |
| 344105530 | Suez Canal | Ship canal dug across the isthmus of Suez in Egypt linking the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. Designed by Ferdinand de Lesseps. It opened to shipping in 1869, was a vital trade route in the British Empire during imperialism, and shortened the sea voyage between Europe and Asia. Its strategic importance led to the British conquest of Egypt in 1882. | |
| 344105531 | Scramble for Africa | Sudden wave of conquests in Africa by European powers in the 1880s and 1890s. Britain obtained most of eastern Africa, France most of northwestern Africa. Other countries (Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Italy, and Spain) acquired lesser amounts. | |
| 344105532 | Cape to Cairo | British' dream of of building a continental railway stretching across all their colonies in Africa; blocked by the German acquisition of territory on the eastern coast. This plan was initiated at the end of the 19th century, during the time of colonial rule, largely under the vision of Cecil Rhodes, in the attempt to connect adjacent African possessions of the British Empire through a continuous line from Cape Town, South Africa, to Cairo, Egypt. | |
| 344105533 | Boers | Dutch descended colonist living in South Africa. | |
| 344105534 | Indian National Congress | Group formed by Hindu nationalist leaders of India in the late 1800's to gain greater democracy and eventual self-rule while it was still under the control of Britain. | |
| 344105535 | Trans-Siberian Railroad | Constructed during the 1870s and 1880s to connect European Russia with the Pacific; increased the Russian role in Asia. | |
| 344105536 | Berlin Conference 1885 | *KNOW DATE* Meeting in Berlin, called by Bismarck to regulate European colonization of Africa - called for "effective occupation" to claim territory. Basically a meeting at which representatives of European nations agreed upon rules for the European colonization of Africa. Led to the scramble for Africa. | |
| 344105537 | Algeria | A country in Northern Africa that became France's first colony. French captured town and gave trade acess to North Africa while exploiting their oil industries and setting up their own farms here. | |
| 344105538 | Tunisia | French occupied this country in 1881-83. Attacks by this country on Algeria (a French possession) caused France to invade. It became a French protectorate. (Italy against this b/c of its economic interest & nationalists are there) | |
| 344105539 | Congo | Greedy King Leopold II of Belgium's possession. The worst example of exploitation by imperialists. Treated the natives brutally, and forced them to collect rubber, gold, diamonds, etc for him. |
