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Industiralization
Using factories to mass-produce products from natural resources.
Higher supply and demand
Need for natural recources
Nationalism
Competition among European nations to industrialize, seise colonies, gain power
Old Imperialism
Major emphasis on trade relations and missionary activity
Little effort to settle areas or control gov….
Control confined to coastal areas where trade occured
New Imperialism
More than just trase - want of direct control over economy and gov.
Every continent touched by this
Major powers - European powers
Practice of extending power of one nation over political, economic and social life of another
Social Darwinism
A social theory that uses survival of the fittest and it applies to human society
Europeans=superior and led to more seperation of race
The White Man's Burden
Belief that christian region and european forms of gov. and education and law would improve the lives of people
Imperialism
A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
David Livingstone
A missionary from Scotland who traveled to Africa in hopes to spread Christianity
Henry Stanley
An American newspaper worker looking for David Livingstone
He searched all of Africa and signed treaties
Boer War/Boers
Also the South African War, this war between the British and Boers was a big war with rebellion
Berlin Conference
A meeting with European countries, deciding how to split the colonization of Africa
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.
Direct control
Control that was very clear and was left to a source of power, not the people
Indirect control
A type of control relying on existing political rulers
Paternalism
A policy where Europeans gave people the necessities but no individual rights
Assimilation
A foreign policy that was based on the idea that everyone wanted to be like the french
King Leopold
King of Belgium who began imperialistic trade inside of Africa which resulted in the Scramble for Africa.