Study Guide for TEST on Imperialism



Study Guide for TEST on Imperialism

The test will consist of multiple choice questions, fill in the blanks, matching and short answer.

Chapter 24 in textbook:

563-586

• *always pay attention to the bold face words (could be a matching section on vocab from chapter and terms from notes file….some are in both)

• Imperialists: British/Dutch/

• Imperialized Areas: Areas: Java/Africa/India/Southeast Asia & Pacific/

• Consolidation of British Rule/Social reforms in the colonies/colonial wars and resistance/

• Discovery of Diamonds in South Africa(1967 found in Orange free state): causing influx of Europeans (dominant British immigration)

• Political cartoon of Leopold

• Document Contrary images

• Cecil Rhodes- De Beers

Notes File

Terms:

Karl Marx Socialism Revisionism Otto von Bismarck

Count Camillo di Cavour Benjamin Disraeli Charles Darwin Albert Einstein

Romanticism Robert Clive Raj Plassey Nabobs Racism

Boer Republics Imperialism Direct rule Indirect rule

British East India Company Sphere of influence

Boer War Great Trek Cecil Rhoads Leopold II of Belgium

Berlin Conference 1885 Dutch East India Company French Indochina

The Boxer Rebellion Sino-Japanese War Meiji Restoration

Essential Questions

• Briefly discuss the Unification’s of Italy and Germany.

• What was the emotional/ideological appeal of imperialism for many Europeans?

• What were the causes of the Boer War?

• Create a diagram/flowchart that illustrates the typical European pattern of increased involvement in a non-Western country during the late 19c. (Do on computer)

***ALSO REFER THE TO THE FLOWCHART I SHOWED IN CLASS, WHICH WAS A GOOD EXAMPLE TO STUDY

• What were the specific British and French goals in Africa?  How did the Fashoda Crisis reflect the different goals of these two countries?

• What were the major motivations for European engagements/entanglements in the non-Western world during the "New Age of European Imperialism" [mid-19c to mid-20c]?

• Why did so many Middle Eastern, Asian, and African rulers "succumb" to European domination?

• What were some of the political, economic, social, intellectual, and military factors that explained the sudden increase in the pace and importance of European imperialism in the late 19c?

• Discuss the imperialism in South Africa.

• What was the outcome of the Berlin Conference in 1885?

• What are the varying views on Imperialism during the late 19th early 20th century? (positive and negative)

• What were the motives behind the global scramble for the colonies?

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