6257836648 | what were four motivations for imperialism? | 1. military 2. political 3. economics (European capitalism) 4. religious | 0 | |
6257844653 | concerning religious motivations for imperialism, what was this called? | "the golden age of missionaries" | 1 | |
6257852372 | in the "White Man's Burden," by Rudyard Kipling, who's duty was it to bring order and enlightenemtn to distant lands? | the white man | 2 | |
6257855775 | imperial policies were used to do what? | distract the proletariat from domestic politics | 3 | |
6257860868 | who had the idea that imperialism was an alternative to civil war? | Cecil Rhodes | 4 | |
6257867805 | during the time of vast imperialism, what spread widely? | different modes of transportation | 5 | |
6257872874 | concerning infrastructure, what two structures were built during this age of imperialism? | the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal | 6 | |
6257904521 | what was India the major supplier of from 1820 to 1914? | indentured servants | 7 | |
6257909961 | the British Empire in India is an example of what type of colony? | a non-settler colony | 8 | |
6257914095 | how did the British form an Empire in India? | they took advantage of the declining Mughal Empire | 9 | |
6257920635 | the death of what Mughal emperor allowed the British to gain control in India? | Aurangzeb (1707) | 10 | |
6257923234 | who was Queen Victoria? | the self-named, "empress of India"," in 1877 | 11 | |
6257928251 | what was the British, "Doctrine of Lapse," idea? | the idea that if a ruler dies in an area and there is no male successor to take over, the land has lapsed and the British can come in and rule the area of land | 12 | |
6257939352 | what was the Indian Rebellion (1857) sparked by? | the rumor that the newly issued rifles had cartiges in wax paper greased with animal fat; posed offense to both Hindus (beef) and Muslims (pork) | 13 | |
6257959497 | who ignited a small-scale general anti-British revolution? | the sepoys | 14 | |
6257950968 | what did Britain do in India in response to the rebellion? | they exiled the emperor to Burma, they abolished the East India, and estalished the direct rule of India by the British government | 15 | |
6257979410 | what three strategic port locations did the British hold inbetween the Indian Ocean and South China Sea? | - Burma - Singapore - Malaya | 16 | |
6257991118 | what was the "Great Game"? | the conflicting Russian and British intrigue in Afghanistan | 17 | |
6258001651 | the imperialism in Southeast Asia was an example of what type of imperialism? | indirect imperialism | 18 | |
6258074991 | in the French imperialized lands of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, what did they greatly encourage? | a conversion to Christianity | 19 | |
6258080792 | Rhodesia is also known as what country now, and what was is exploited for when it was being imperialized? | Zimbabwe; gold and diamonds | 20 | |
6258083474 | who was David Livingston? | a medical missionary who names "Victoria Falls" and was the first person to really explore the interiror of Africa | 21 | |
6258098407 | alongside the exploration of the African interior, what did they also explore? | the rivers (ex. Nile, Niger, Congo, Zambezi, etc.) | 22 | |
6258112481 | the Congo Free State was established by who? | King Leopold II of Belgium | 23 | |
6258120014 | when did King Leopold II of Belgium take control of the Congo Free State, and what did he rename it? | 1908; the Belgian Congo | 24 | |
6258145870 | with the British take over of South Africa in 1806, the Afrikaners migrated eastward in what movement? | the Great Trek | 25 | |
6258148016 | what was the purpose of the Great Trek? | to establish a new land somewhere else, not under British rule | 26 | |
6258160624 | the British tolerated the new colonies form in South Africa formed by the Great Trek until what happened? | gold was discovered | 27 | |
6258168790 | the South African War (1899-1902) is also known by what name? | the Boer War | 28 | |
6258173426 | what was the result of the South African War? | the Afrikaners conceded in 1902, and 8 years later integrated into the Union of South Africa | 29 | |
6258221551 | what was the purpose of the Berlin West Africa Conference (1884-1885)? | it produced the rules for colonization in Africa; any European state could take "unoccupied" territoy after informing other European powers | 30 | |
6258231251 | what was one main system of colonial rule? | concessionary companies | 31 | |
6258243076 | who used the idea of direct rule? | the French; with this they had French citizens in charge of the lands, which also produced a personell shortage (ex. in West Africa, 3600 Europeans ruled 9 million natives) | 32 | |
6258256549 | who used the idea of indirect rule? | the British; they kept the pre-existing system in place, with that, they did not face personell shotages | 33 | |
6258267499 | what two places in Oceania were settler colonies? | Australia and New Zealand | 34 | |
6258270456 | in 1907, what did New Zealand do? | the became self-governing, but still remained a part of the British Empire | 35 | |
6258278967 | the British used Australia as a penal colony and what resulted from that? | they had voluntary migrants follow, they discovered gold in (1851), but smallpox and measles devastated the natives | 36 | |
6258286814 | what did they call Australia? | *terra nullius*: "land belonging to no one" | 37 | |
6258318936 | who originally explored New Zealand? | James Cook | 38 | |
6258324043 | what treaty were the New Zealand natives forced to sign, placing them under British "protection"? | the Treaty of Waitangi (1840) | 39 | |
6258331717 | the Pacific Islands were primarily used as what during this time? | commercial outposts | 40 | |
6258334727 | what are three resources the Pacific Islands held? | - sugarcane - guano - copra | 41 | |
6258339100 | what was the Monroe Doctrine? | the doctrine that warned Europeans to not engage in imperialism in the western hemisphere (1823) | 42 | |
6258345399 | when did we purchased Alaska, and from whom? | 1867; Russia | 43 | |
6258349702 | wha land did the US establish. protectorate over in 1875? | Hawaii | 44 | |
6258354739 | how did the US get the opportunity to acquire the Hawaiian Islands? | in 1893, the locals overthrew the queen and persuaded the US to acquire the islands in 1898 | 45 | |
6258378960 | what war launched the US into imperialism, and why? | as a result of the Spanish-Cuban-American War (1898-1899) America acquired Puerto Rica, Cuba, Guam, and the Philippines, displaying them as a widespread nation, launching them into imperialism | 46 | |
6258401918 | who used "Big Stick Diplomacy"? | President Theodore Roosevelt | 47 | |
6258408380 | what was the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine? | the stated that the US had the right to intervene in the domestic affairs of other nations if US investments were threatened | 48 | |
6258455871 | in the 1870's, Japan worked to colonize northern regions, name one. | Hokkaido | 49 | |
6258462940 | in 1876, Japan purchased what from Britain in an effort to strengthen their forces to dominate Korea? | warships | 50 | |
6258470033 | who fought in the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), and what was it over? | the Japanese and the Chinese; over the domination of Korea | 51 | |
6258477073 | economically, what did the legacies of imperialism encourage? | a dependency on imperial powers for manufactured goods made from native raw products (ex. Indian cotton) | 52 | |
6258488876 | the Europeans more to more __________ lands. | temperate | 53 | |
6258497595 | Africans, Asians, and Pacific Islanders moved to __________ / __________ lands. | tropical / subtropical | 54 | |
6258504237 | in German West Africa, what rebellion took place during 1905 to 1906? | the Maji Maji Rebellion | 55 | |
6258514466 | who was Ram Mohan Roy (1772-1883)? | who Bengali called, the "father of modern India" | 56 | |
6258522893 | when was the Indian National Congress? | 1885 | 57 | |
6258533256 | who did the Indian National Congress join with in 1916? | the All-India Muslim League | 58 |
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