Chapter 24- Imperialism

Question 1

Berlin Conference

Answer 1

A meeting of European leaders held in 1884 and 1885 in order to lay down some basic rules for imperialist competition in sub-Saharan Africa.

Question 2

Boer War

Answer 2

British and Boers(Afrikaners) fight for control of territory. Both sides fought savagely, and the British establish the first concentration camps.

Question 3

British Raj

Answer 3

This is basically a term used to describe the period when British ruled India, where a small amount of British ruled a huge number of Indian people.

Question 4

Global Mass Migration

Answer 4

The mass movement of people from Europe in the 19th century; one reason that the West’s impact on the world was so powerful and many-sided.

Question 5

Gunboat Diplomacy

Answer 5

The use of threat of military force to coerce a government into economic or political agreements. Used by the U.S.A. in Japan.

Question 6

Great Rebellion( Mutiny of 1857)

Answer 6

The 1857 and 1858 insurrection by Muslim and Hindu mercenaries in the British army that spread throughout northern and central India before finally being crushed.

Question 7

Afrikaners

Answer 7

Descendants of the Dutch settlers in the Cape Colony in Southern Africa. Enemies with British.

Question 8

Hundred Days of Reform

Answer 8

A series of Western-style reforms launched in 1898 by the Chinese government in an attempt to meet the foreign challenge.

Question 9

Meiji Restoration

Answer 9

The restoration of the Japanese emperor to power in 1867, leading to the subsequent modernization of Japan.

Question 10

Nativism

Answer 10

Policies and beliefs, often influenced by nationalism, scientific racism, and mass migration, that give preferential treatment to established inhabitants over immigrants.

Question 11

New Europes

Answer 11

Settler colonies with established populations of Europeans, such as North America, Australia, New Zealand, and Latin America, where Europe found outlets for population growth and its most profitable investment opportunities in the nineteenth century.

Question 12

New Imperialism

Answer 12

The late 19th century drive by European countries to create vast political empires abroad.

Question 13

Opium Wars

Answer 13

Two mid 19th century conflicts between China and Great Britain over the British trade of Opium, which was designed to “open” China to European free trade. In defeat, China gave European traders and missionaries increased protection and concession.

Question 14

Orientalism

Answer 14

A term coined by literary scholar Edward Said to describe the way Westerners misunderstood and described colonial subjects and cultures.

Question 15

Scramble for Africa

Answer 15

Basically, all of the dominant Western powers wanted a slice of Africa, age of imperialism.

Question 16

Spheres of Influence

Answer 16

Basically, a term used to say that someone is not running everything, but still has some influence or power. This was used through economic imperialism.

Question 17

Social Darwinism

Answer 17

A body of thought drawn from the ideas of Charles Darwin that applied the theory of biological evolution to human affairs and saw the human race as driven by an unending economic struggle that would determine the survival of the fittest.

Question 18

White Man’s Burden

Answer 18

The idea that Europeans could and should civilize more primitive nonwhite people’s and that imperialism would eventually provide nonwhites with modern achievements and higher standards of living.