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imperialism

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when one country takes control of another country

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country might control the other’s

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government, trade, or culture

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by 1914 European powers, Japan, and the U.S.

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controlled almost the entire world

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imperialism usually started when

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merchants or explorers went to foreign lands

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local people had very little say

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in what happened to their land and the process

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four types of control

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settlement colony, dependent colony, protectorate, spere of influence

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settlement colony

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large groups of people from one country living together in a new place

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dependent colony

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a few European officials ruled the non-European people

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an example of a settlement colony

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Australia was a settlement colony of Great Britain

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an example of a dependent colony

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India was a dependent colony of Great Britain

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protectorate

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local ruler kept his title but Europeans really controlled the area

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sphere of influence

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an area in which one nation had a special interest

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nationalism

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pride or devotion for one’s country

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colonies were seen as

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places to get troops for bigger armies

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“from coal to coal”

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from coaling station to coaling station; talked about the range of a steamship

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coaling station

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a place where ships could refuel

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tiny island became and and also became objects of

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coaling stations
naval bases
fierce competition among naval powers

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economic motives for imperialism

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industrialization, new markets, and population growth

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nations needed but didn’t want to depend

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a lot of raw materials

on other nations for raw materials

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create new markets by

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changing people’s habits

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create more business for Europe; more for factories, and more for everyone

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business
workers
money

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between 1800 and 1900

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world population doubled

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industrial development created

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many jobs

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displaced farmers and laborers found it necessary

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to go elsewhere or move for work

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“White man’s burden”

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a phrase used to sum up the Western attitude toward non-Western people

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non-Western people were

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primitive

“half devil and half child”

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how Europeans used the idea of “burden”

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to justify imposing their own values and cultural ideas on other people

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according to non-imperialists the only burden the white man wanted was

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the burden of colonial wealth

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missionaries hoped to

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convert people to Christianity

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other work of missionaries

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  1. helped to build schools and teach in them 2. cared for sick and helped to establish and operate hospitals 3. provided medical help and training
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attitude toward N. Africa

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French looked to expand their empire and colonize

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Algiers

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A Muslim state in the Ottoman Empire

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for 40 years the French fought

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against almost continuos local rebellions

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Tunis

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east of Algiers and part of Ottoman Empire

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1881

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Tunis became a French protectorate

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Tunis governor

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stayed as ruler but the French controlled the country

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Morocco was located

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on the Strait of Gibraltar which was a very strategic location

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in 1854 the French began building in

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a canal

Egypt

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canal would connect

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the Isthmus of Suez to the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea

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building and spending sent Egypt so Egypt decides to

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into debt

sell its stock in the Suez canal

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Britain in 1875 buys

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the Egyptian stock and eventually they gained control of the canal

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Sudan

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an Egyptian colony that both Britain and France wanted to control

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Britain wanted to and France wanted to

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build dams along the river

add Sudan to their colonies

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outcome of the Fashoda crisis

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Great Britain and Egypt won joint control of Sudan

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West Africa was a major center of

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the slave trade

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early 1800s most European countries had

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abolished the slave trade

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former slaver centers turned to

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other types of trade such as palm oil,feathers, ivory, and rubber

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Liberia

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only independent state in West Africa

settled by former slaves from the United States

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US kept Liberia from becoming

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a European colony

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Henry Stanley was hired in 1871 to

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find Dr. David Livingstone

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Dr. David Livingstone

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a missionary who had disappeared in central Africa

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1890s Rinderpest

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a disease carried by cattle imported from Europe that killed a lot of people

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the people were too weak because of the Rinderpest to

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resist the Europeans

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in 1652 European settlement in

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South Africa began

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Capetown

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settled by the Dutch

was a supply station for ships sailing to the east indies

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the Boers

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descendants of the original Dutch settlers

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Great Trek

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the mass migration of the Boers out of Cape Colony

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Boers came into contact with

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the Zulu and Shaka was a great leader of the Zulu

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in 1879 the British joined the war and

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assisted the Boers in defeating and destroying the Zulu empire

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Boers had kept the British

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from opening mines (diamond)

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1899 the broke out and defeated the

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Boer War
British
Boers

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British kept the Boers peaceful by

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  1. allowing them to keep using their language in schools and courts 2. provided funds for the Boers to rebuild their destroyed farms
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English began a system of

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racial segregation called apartheid

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Shaka

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led the great Zulu Empire in a fight against the Boers

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paternalism

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a way of ruling based on the belief that Africans cannot rule themselves

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Sir Henry Stanley

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hired to find Dr. David Livingstone, a missionary who disappeared in Central Africa

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Boer War

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a conflict tha tended with the British gaining control of the Transvaal

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assimilation

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what happens when people give up their own culture completely and adopt another culture

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Boers

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speak Afrikaans and migrated north and east in the Great Trek when the British came into South Africa

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Cecil Rhodes

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completely controlled South African diamond production

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governing colonies as parents would guide children

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paternalism

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name given by Europeans to the race for African colonies

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the Scramble for Africa

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system of governing colonies by allowing local rulers to keep some power

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indirect rule

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farm product sold for money on world market

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cash crop

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European power’s control of colony at all levels by appointing its officials

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direct rule

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possession of a country or an area by a foreign power

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a colony

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policy of slowly absorbing colonies politically and culturally

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assimilation

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