Nationalism And imperialism

Question 1

List 5 positive effects of imperialism

Answer 1

• infrastructure improved
• Ed. Improved
• sanitation improved
• easier to get med. care
• food supply increased
• internal conflicts decreased
• Eco.dev. Stimulated

Question 2

What’s the negative effects of imperialism

Answer 2

• People w/ common culture separated
• Nat. Resources exploited
• Native culture damaged
• Economic self-sufficiency lost
• cash crops over emphasized
• farm life disrupted
• native expectancy diminished

Question 3

What happened at the Berlin Conference?

Answer 3

Colonizer smoke the British gathered at a meeting in Germany about who should get rights/land to Africa w/o and y Africans at the meeting. Think the French said that the British should get the right b/c of King Leopold’s greed

Question 4

List the reason s for European colonization

Answer 4

• New markets
• new training colonies
• new/more land

Question 5

Define: Direct Rule

Answer 5

System of gov. In which a province is controlled by a central government
(British had to obey what British told them)

Question 6

Define indirect rule

Answer 6

System of governance used by the British and French to control parts of their colonial empires, particularly in Africa,Asia & pre-existing local power structures
(Natives who were under control of the British; on the other side of the world)

Question 7

Define: Partition

Answer 7

A division into pieces

Question 8

What is White Man’s Burden

Answer 8

A poem that focused on the twisted ways of the colonist (British) as its their “burden” to take another’s gain; to help the people that their exploiting

Question 9

Define interdependence

Answer 9

Quality or condition of being independent or mutually reliant on each other

Question 10

Define Mercantilism

Answer 10

Colony gives natural resources and raw materials.

Mother country gives manufactured goods