6.1 Rationales For Imperialism

Question 1

Kilpling’s poem’s message

Answer 1

Urged the whites to establish colonies for the good of the inferior people of the world

Question 2

Justifications for imperialism

Answer 2

Nationalism
Economic wealth
Religious duty (conversion to Christianity)
Belief that Europeans were “biologically superior”

Question 3

Sino-Japanese War

Answer 3

Japan won control of Korea instead of China

Question 4

Social Darwinism

Answer 4

The “fittest” species were the ones that survived

Question 5

What did British Protestant Missionaries do?

Answer 5

Set up schools for instruction in religion
Improved medicine
David Livingstone worked in Sub-Saharan Africa to end the illegal slave trade

Question 6

Commercial treaties

Answer 6

Allowed Europeans to establish trading posts & forts
Originally for the spice trade

Question 7

Quasi-governmental powers (public & private)

Answer 7

Raised armies & conquered territory to form colonies

Question 8

East India Company

Answer 8

Royal charter that gave monopoly on Englands trade w/ India
British government’s managing agency in India
EIC engaged in the slave trade and illegally exported opium to China in exchange for tea

Question 9

Dutch East India Company

Answer 9

Dutch government gave the VOC a monopoly on trade between the Cape of Good Hope and the Straits of Magellan
Corruption & debt led the government to take control of the company’s possessions, creating Indonesia
Abused power to make treaties, forts, & maintain armed forces in Southeast Asia