Imperialism (ch 26)

Question 0

Imperialism

Answer 0

One who dominates the political, social, and economic life of another

Question 1

Algeciras Conference

Answer 1

Conference provoked Germany backfired on Germany over the issues of the Morocco crisis

Question 2

Belgian Congo

Answer 2

Exploited by Leopold II at Belgium under the Berlin Act. Leopold was supposed to act as a trustee. He violated the agreement and stripped the country of its resources

Question 3

Boer War

Answer 3

English vs Dutch settlers in South Africa. England won (1899-1902) showed that English tactics were no good

Question 4

East India Company

Answer 4

Dutch trading company worried about colonizing the world

Question 5

Congress of Berlin

Answer 5

Assembly of representatives of Germany, Russia, Hungary, Britain, France, Italy, and the Ottoman Empire

Question 6

Fashions Incident

Answer 6

Conflict in Africa between France and Britain

Question 7

Cecil Rhodes

Answer 7

Born in 1853. Played a major political and economic role in colonial South Africa. He was a financier, statesman, and empire builder with a philosophy of mystical imperialism

Question 8

Protectorate

Answer 8

Relationship between two states in which the stronger state guarantees to protect the weaker state from external aggression in return for full or partial control of its domestic and foreign affairs

Question 9

Sphere of Influence

Answer 9

In internal politics, the claim by a state o exclusive or predominant control over a foreign area or territory

Question 10

The White Man’s Burden (1899)

Answer 10

Rid yard Kipling’s poem

Critical about imperialism

Question 11

Heart of Darkness

Answer 11

Joseph Conrad (1902) the story reflects the physical and psychological shock Conrad himself experienced in 1890 when he worked briefly in the Belgian Congo