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1. What were Cecil Rhodes goals for the British Empire?2. Which two new industrial powers joined the Europeans in the quest for EMPIRE?4524375196850003. What were some of the economic motives for empire?4. What were some of the political motives for empire?5. What were some of the cultural justifications for empire? 6. What was the “civilizing mission”?7. What new transportation technologies made imperialism more practical?8. What were the impacts of the Suez and Panama Canals?9. What new military technologies made imperialism more practical?10. Read “White Man’s Burden” by Rudyard Kipling. What are your impressions of this poem?11. What were the impacts of submarine (underwater) telegraph cables?12. How did the British East India Company come to dominate India?13. Why did the Sepoys rebel?14. What was the outcome of the Sepoy Rebellion?15. What was the “Great Game”? Why was there never a direct conflict between the Russian & British Empires?16. Where did the French establish an important imperial presence in Asia?17. Why was The Kingdom of Siam (modern Thailand) permitted to remain independent?18. What was the “Scramble for Africa”?19. Where did Belgian King Leopold II build a personal colony? Who helped him do this?20. What were the origins of the European colony of South Africa (Capetown)?21. When did it fall into British hands? Why? 22. What was the result for the Afrikaners?23. Who were the vooktrekkers? What did they do?24. What caused the Boer War? What was the outcome?25. What was the purpose of Otto von Bismarck’s Berlin West Africa Conference in 1884?26. Who attended the conference? Who was notably absent?27. What was the only indigenous African country to resist colonization? Who tried to conquer them?28. Study the map on P.742. Who had the most extensive, wide-ranging holdings in Africa? 29. Though they held a great deal of land, why are the French holdings less valuable?30. What would be the advantages of the “Cape Town to Cairo” railway? (It was never fully completed)PART TWO1. How were ‘concessionary companies’ supposed to administer colonies?2. Why did administrative boundaries intentionally cut across pre-existing ethnic and political boundaries?3. Why do you think the British sought “indirect rule” using tribal authorities and customary laws?4. Study the “Treaty” of the Royal Niger Company” on P. 744. Do you think the company offered fair terms to the Nigerian “Chiefs”? Do you think the company lived up to the terms of the agreement?5. Briefly describe the settlement of Australia and New Zealand.6. How did the experience of these settlers mirror those of Canada and the USA?7. How were the Aborigines treated in Australia? How were the Maori treated in New Zealand?8. What were the original activities of Europeans in the islands of the pacific in the 1700s-late 1800s?9. Why did things change in the late 1800s?10. How had the USA been practicing semi-imperialism in the Americas since the Monroe Doctrine? (1823)11. How did Alaska come under control of the United States?12. How did Hawaii come under control of the United States?13. What did the United States seek in its war with the Spanish? What did they obtain?14. Why did the United States seek to build a canal across the Isthmus of Panama?15. What was the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?16. When did Japan obtain modern warships? How were they used?17. How did the Sino-Japanese War break out? What happened to the Chinese fleet?18. What was the outcome of the war? How did this outcome alarm Russia?19. How did the Russo-Japanese War break out? What happened to the Russian Navy?20. How did late1800’s imperialism “make the world a smaller place”? 21. What were the TWO patterns of labor migration from 1800-1914?Europeans:Asians, Africans, & Pacific Islanders:22. List a few instances when imperialism led to revolts among subjugated peoples?23. How did Gobineau character the various “races?24. Do you think this led to a justification of racism? Why?25. How were Charles Darwin’s ideas on biology applied to human interaction?26. Who led these “social Darwinists”? What did he claim?27. In what ways were the Americans and Japanese racist in the their imperialist pursuits?28. How did imperialism in the late 1800s have mirror Napoleon’s conquests in Europe in the early 1800s? 29. Briefly describe the goals of Ram Mohan Roy and the later Indian National Congress.Cecil RhodesImperialism“civilizing mission”Rudyard Kipling, White Man’s BurdenNemesis (steam-powered gunboats)Suez CanalPanama CanalMaxim Gunsubmarine cablesBritish East India Company“doctrine of lapse”Sepoy RebellionQueen Victoria“The Great Game”“Scramble for Africa”Dr. David LivingstoneHenry Morton StanleyKing Leopold II (Belgium)The Belgian CongoCape TownBoersAfrikanersvoortrekkersBoer WarBerlin West Africa Conference (1884)terra nullisAustraliaNew ZealandMonroe DoctrineAnnexation of HawaiiSpanish American WarSino-Japanese WarRusso-Japanese War1800-1914 Labor MigrationJoseph Gobineau, Essay on the Inequality of the Human RacesCharles Darwin, Origin of Species“survival of the fittest”Indian National Congress ................
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