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ideologies motivating second wave of imperialism
1) nationalism (led to Italian unification, German unification)
2) scientific racism
3) social darwinism
4) civilizing mission
civilizing mission
a sense of duty that western industrial societies possessed to bring glory of their civilizations to lower societies (sent christian missionaries, reorganized colonial govs into western models, imposed western style education to suppress indigenous culture + language)
imperialism methods
1) state takeovers of private colonies (king Leopold the 2nd of Belgium snatched congo free state)
2) diplomacy and warfare in Africa
3) settler colonies (British did with New Zealand, Australia)
4) conquering neighboring territories (us with the louisiana purchase, MANIFEST DESTINY!!!!)
berlin conference
otto von Bismark calls European countries to split up Africa, trying to stop “scramble for Africa”
effect of Berlin conference
borders drawn in Africa dividing united ethnic groups and joining rival ones
example of warfare used in imperialism
france invading Algeria because of money they didn’t want to pay back
settler colonies
colony in which an imperial power claims an already inhabited territory and sends its own people to set up an outpost of their own society
pan slavism
unite all Slavic people under Russian authority, including those already living under ottoman and Austrian rule (had trading post in Vladivostok)
where did Japan expand their influence
korea, Manchuria, part of china
causes of resistance to imperialism
1) increasing questions about political authority
2) growing sense of nationalism
types of resistance
1) direct resistance (fighting using weapons)
2) creation of new states
3) religious rebellions
yaa Asantewaa war
british attempting to find gold stool to assert power, west Africans fought back!!!! they lost tho.
cherokee nation
cherokee establishing new territory in united states /w semi-autonomous government and a judicial system
indian removal act of 1835
US bill forcibly removing indigenous people from their territory, made them resettle in Oklahoma territory
xhosa cattle killing movement
british taking over kosa territory led to Xhosa prophet nongqawuse telling prophecy that slaughtering of cows would lead to new ones and europeans would leave their land
export economies
economies mostly focused on the export of raw materials or goods for distant markets
reasons europeans turned Africa into export economies
1) needed raw materials for industrial factories
2) need to supply food to growing urban centers
effects of economic development
1) profits from exports were used to purchase finished manufactured goods
2) growing economic dependence of colonial people on their imperial parents
economic imperialism
act of one state extending control over another state by economic means
treaty of nanjing
unfair treaty between china and Britain opening several new trading ports to Britain
taiping rebellion
religious movement among ethnic han people trying to get rid of ethnic Manchu rulers. didn’t work tho
second opium war
the french and the British fighting qing dynasty leading to more unequal treaties
port of Buenos aires
port in argentina funded by British for profit
commodity
any good that can be bought and sold on the market
cause of migration
1) demographic change
2) famine (Irish potato famine!!)
3) cheap transportation
4) voluntary for work (Irish, Italian, German, chinese to America)
5) coerced and semi-coerced labor (Atlantic slave trade, convict labor)
6) indentured servitude
effects of migration
1) gender imbalance
2) ethnic enclaves
3) nativism
ethnic enclave
geographic area with a high concentration of people of the same ethnicity and culture within a foreign culture
nativism
a policy of protecting the interests of native born people over against the interests of immigrants
chinese exclusion act
passed in the US to ban almost all Chinese immigration
white Australia policy
cut off flow of Asian immigrants to australia
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