Unit 6 + 7 History

What are the three rationales for Imperialism?

Nationalist rationales, cultural and religious rationales, economic rationales

Nationalist pride

Imperialist success as an expression of new ________ among rival European nations.

Example of Nationalist rationales

Japan in Korea and China

What are the two terms for racism in science?

Phrenology (bigger skulls= bigger brains) and Social Darwinism (survival of the fittest)

Why did Europeans think it was okay to impose their political, economic and religious views on colonies?

Europeans assumed technological superiority implied cultural superiority

What were the five economic rationales for imperialism?

Raw materials for industrialization, markets for selling industrial goods, east India company, Dutch east India company, settler colonies in Australia+new zealand+South Africa

What does the White Man’s Burden by Rudyard Kipling justify?

It justifies imperialism and claiming they can help other countries live better lives by carrying them on their shoulders

Through imperialism in Africa, what resources was Europe looking to find?

Ivory, gold, and diamonds

Why was there European exploration of Africa in 1800s?

Quinine (meds for malaria) and steamboats (meaning they can go up river)

Why did Britain go to Egypt?

To gain control of the Suez Canal which connects Europe to Asia, allowing for easier connections to trade and move

What were the names of the unpaid workers on the Suez Canal?

corvee laborers

Why did Britain take control of Egypt?

Unrest threatened British control of canal

What did Britain spread in West Africa?

Christianity, western education, and English

Where did Britain go in West Africa?

Sierra Leone, Ghana, and Lagos

What did France do in North Africa?

Conquered Algeria

What is The Scramble for Africa?

As industrialized European countries competed for resources in Africa, leaders become concerned that it would lead to war

What’s the name of the meeting to establish boundaries regarding the colonization of Africa?

The Berlin Conference

Who wasn’t invited and thought of in the Berlin conference?

No African countries were invited, and borders paid no respect to groups living there.

Who did the South Africa and the Boer wars consist of?

British vs Dutch afrikaners

What did Britain force Afrikaners and Africans to do?

To get off their land and into segregated concentration camps.

Who did King Leopoldo II send to explore the Congo river basin and create treaties with African leaders?

Henry Stanley

what resources did the Belgian Congo have?

Copper, rubber, and ivory

Why was Leopold forced to hand over the colony to the Belgian government?

Villagers were brutalized while extracting resources.

What is the Raj?

The era of British control over india

Which countries imperialized in South Asia (India)?

Portugal, France, and Britain

What did the British east India company do after the seven years war?

they began dominating India

what did the British east India company begin to control?

The Mughal empire and controlled the entire subcontinent

Who did the EIC recruit?

Local soldiers called sepoys

What did Europeans try to gain in China?

Spheres of influence

What happened in the Taiping rebellion?

Poor try overthrowing Qing government, and Europeans help the Qing hold power in exchange for more control over trade

who were the boxers?

Boxers were an anti-imperialist group trained in martial arts

What did the boxers do?

Tried to expel foreign influence, attacked Chinese Christian’s and missionaries (1 mil Chinese Christian’s died) although they failed to expel western powers

where did the Dutch east India company imperialize in Southeast Asia?

In the Indian Ocean, especially Indonesia

Where did France imperialize in Southeast Asia?

Vietnam

Where did Britain imperialize in Southeast Asia?

Burma (Myanmar)

What is Australia?

A British penal colony (colony for prisoners and convicts)

What were the two justifications for U.S imperialism in Latin America and the pacific?

Manifest destiny in the west and white mans burden in Spanish-American war

Who did Balkan countries sought independence from?

The ottomans

Where were nationalist movements in the balkans happening?

Serbia, Greece, Bosnia, and Herzegovina

What kind of tensions were in the Balkans?

Ethnic tensions

Who led Inca revolt in Peru?

Tupac Amaru

What happened to Tupac Amaru?

He was captured and executed in 1781

What happened in the Indian rebellion (the sepoy mutiny)?

Britain gave sepoys rifle cartridges greased with cow and pig fat, which went against their religions; they were furious and this marked the start of Indian nationalism

What religion were the majority of Sepoys?

Hindu and Muslim

During the Raj, what did the Indian National congress begin calling for?

Independence

What was the African resistance?

African nationalism post world war I

Who was the African resistance led by?

Western educated africans

What is pan africanism?

Shared African identity and emphasis on independence

What is economic imperialism?

Economic power over another country

By economic imperialism, what did Europeans develop in India?

Railroads, which were primarily for extracting more resources

In South Africa what was taken for economic imperialism?

Cecil Rhodes/ debeers diamonds

Why were transportation networks made in Africa?

For extraction of resources and mobilization of military

Who did Cecil Rhodes pave the way for?

Apartheid

In agriculture, how was economic imperialism used?

Cash crop monocultures forced upon colonized locations

What were causes of migration in an interconnected world?

Labor systems (slavery, indentured servitude, contract labor), penal colonies, and diaspora (Indian diaspora, Chinese diaspora, Irish, and settler colonies)

What were the effects of migration?

Ethnic enclaves, Irish and Chinese in the U.S., and backlash

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Who were closely connected to foreign companies that controlled most of Mexico’s railroads, silver mines, plantations etc?

Wealthy Spaniard-Mexican elites

How did wealthy Mexicans and American businesses acquire Mexicos best agricultural land?

Bribery and force

What did peasants lose after their land was taken from them?

They lost Access to firewood, lost land, and lost pastures for animals

How did peasants survive?

Peasants took loans from landowners to buy food, and they fell into debt permanently (debt peonage)

What did peasants have to do for work?

Work on haciendas

Prior to the revolution in 1910, who was the president of Mexico for thirty years?

Porfirio Diaz

What was wrong under the ruling of Diaz?

Elections were rigged, “Pan o Palo” policy- critics were beaten or jailed, discrimination against non white majority, and traditional Mexican culture devalued in favor of European American culture

What did progress and development mean under Diaz?

Allowing foreign investors to exploit Mexico’s labor, land, and natural resources

Who were the two leaders of the Mexican Revolution?

Emiliano Zapata in the south and Poncho Villa in the North

What did zapata and villa fight for?

Land and liberty

Who was zapata?

An indigenous farmer who led the revolt against the haciendas

Who were zapata’s soldiers?

Peasants (some women), mounted on horseback, who descended upon haciendas from the mountains, burned building and returned land to Indian villagers and peasants

What did zapata want?

Justice

What part of the revolution did Poncho Villa lead?

The revolt in chihuahua, a northern state in which 17 people controlled 40% of the land and over 95% of people owned no land.

What did villa’s army do?

Villas army of 3000 men-mostly cowboys, took land from large haciendas and created family ranches on it.

What kind of revolution did zapata and villa lead?

an agrarian social revolution

What did Zapata and Villa struggle from?

The facts that they were Indian, and it was difficult to win a revolution against the constitutionalists who controlled cities, oil exports, and could buy U.S. modern weapons

How did zapata and villa die?

Zapata was defeated and killed, villa was assissinated four years later

What did the constitutionalists agree to do to win over the country?

they were forced to adapt many of zapata and villas views about land reform and the right to communal land

What did the new constitution promise?

Universal suffrage, free education outside the Catholic Church, an end to debt peonage, and restrictions on foreign ownership of property

Who was the Mexican president during the 1930s?

President Lazaro Cardenas

Who did Cardenas bring into the Mexican Revolutionary Party (PRM)?

Peasants and workers organizations, and Cardenas began a transformation of Mexico

What did President Lazaro implement?

He implemented the changes promised in the 1917 constitution

What did Lazaro distribute to peasant communities?

44 million acres of land

What did Lazaro take back from foreign owned companies?

He nationalized railroads and oil- he reclaimed oil lands in Mexico from foreign owned companies.

What is the slogan of the Mexican Revolution?

Land and liberty

Who was Tsar during the start of the Russian Revolution?

Tsar Nicholas II

Who was Tsar Nicholas?

Head of the Romanov Dynasty, he assumed the throne as a young man, not interested in politics but in friends and family

What is the slogan of the Russian revolution?

Bread, peace, land

Who was Nicholas’ wife?

Alexandra, and she was despised by commoners

How is Nicholas disconnected?

He’s disconnected from the realities of life and fails to understand the depth of discontent of the people

Who was the Tsar blamed by for problems at home in the Russo-Japanese War?

Struggling Russians

What happened on Bloody Sunday (January 1905)?

100,000 workers engaged in a general strike, and a protest led a large group to the winter palace. Palace guards disperse crowd by shooting and killing hundreds, sparks revolts across Russia

What happened in the revolution of 1905?

Workers/peasants/soldiers rebel against Tsar, general strikes cripple economy

What happened when the first soviets formed?

Network of underground radicals works to organize Russia, and Soviets (councils) formed to elect leaders and spread information

What happened during the 1905 October Manifesto?

Nicholas responds to revolution with reforms, creates the Duma (congress), Duma is powerless, proposes a free press but uses secret police to prevent it amid continued revolt

What did Russia struggle with during World War I?

Russia experiences devastating losses to the central powers (170k died at battle of tannenberg), Russia struggles to supply its army with food, weapons, ammo, etc, tsar heads to front lines to command troops

Who ran the country while Tsar was at the front lines?

Tsarina Alexandra runs the country in St. Petersburg

Who was Tsarina’s top advisor?

Notorious Russian mystic, Rasputin

How are civilians suffering during the war?

They’re starving while food is sent to soldiers

Who was drafted to the war?

Millions of peasants drafted and made to fight with no training

who begins forming soviets?

Workers/sailors

When did the February revolution (1917) begin?

During international women’s day march, and the march expands into widespread revolt