The New Imperialism

Imperialism

The policy of one's country's political, economic or cultural domination over other lands and territories

Protectorate

The possibility that a conquering peoples would leave local rulers in positions of power so long as they followed the advice of their advisors advisers on issues such as trade or missionary activity

Sphere of Influence

An area in which an outside power claimed exclusive investment, or trading privileges

Direct Rule

A nation sends officials and soldiers from their country to their colonies with the goal of imposing their culture on their colonies

Indirect Rule

A nation sends a Governor and council of advisers to their colonies in order to make laws for them, local rulers loyal to the governor retains some authority and served as agents for the conquering power. The children of the local ruling class were encouraged to go to the conquers country and go to school, grooming them to become future agents of the rulers

Social Darwinism

An idea, accepted by many Westerners, that embraced the concept of natural selection and survival of the fittest to human societies

Nationalism

A political motive in which people have a strong love of one's country

A, B, C, D

How is migrating to find work a cultural as well as an economic effect of imperialism?

A. Economic development created jobs that enabled colonial people to acquire new skills

B. To earn money, men often took jobs in distant mines or plantations

C. New roads and railroads were built in the colonies, making travel easier

D. Colonial governments required local people to pay taxes in cash, the only way people could earn cash was to sell their labor

E. Cash crops are raised to be sold for money on the world market. the rise and fall of prices for cash crops affected standards of living in the colonies

A, C, D

Why was Social Darwinism important to the new imperialism?

A. The Europeans could argue they were superior to all others and imperial conquest of weaker races was simply nature's way of improving the human species

B. Europeans claimed that colonies were needed to protect their national security interests

C. The idea that the West had a civilizing mission created a growing sense of racial superiority

D. The West could accept and apply ideas about natural selection and survival of the fittest to human societies

A, B, C, D

What main factors contributed to European imperialism in the 1800's?

A. Expanded markets, increasing consumers

B. Natural Resources

C. Coaling bases for merchant ships and naval vessels

D. Officials believed they had a duty to spread western Civilization and Christianity

E. Europeans wanted to lump people who shared no common heritage together into one colony, lessening their threat to the Motherland and to Europe

B, C, D, E

How did Western imperialism spread through Africa and Asia so quickly?

A. Colonialism was a tool of the rich, which it was

B. Maxim gun and repeating rifles

C. Improved medical knowledge

D. Large armies and navies

E. Well-organized governments

A, B, C, D

What were the long-term effects of imperialism on the colonized peoples?

A. Better methods of sanitation

B. Secured peace by ending local warfare

C. Improved medical care

D. New crops, tools and farming methods that increased food production

E. Artificially-drawn borders split ethnic or cultural groups causing the new nations to come together, securing even more peace where before you had unending tribal warfare