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Social StudiesCh17
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Imperialism | a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force |
| Sphere of Influence | An area in which one nation had a special interest and other nations agreed to respect those special interests. Ex. China |
| Dependent Colony | Colonies in which a few officials from one country (usually European) rule (non-European people) of another country. Ex. India was a dependent colony of Great Britain |
| Settlement Colony | Large groups of people from one country living together in a new place ex. Australia was a Settlement Colony of Great Britain |
| Protectorate | Colonies in which the native rulers keep their titles, but officials of the foreign power actually control the region. Ex Great Britain used this in Nigeria and the French in Tunis |
| White Man's Burden | A paper Kipling wrote that said that the task that white colonizers believed they had to impose their civilization on the black inhabitants of their colonies. |
| Missionaries | people sent on a religious mission |
| Raw Materials | the stuff from which a product is made |
| Suez Canal | a shipping canal that connects the Mediterranean Sea at Port Said with the Red Sea that Great Britain claimed was their "greatist treasure" |
| Boers | Dutch Settlers |
| Afrikaans | The Boer's language |
| Apartheid | a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race. |
| Boer War | Hostility resulting from British attempts to seize control of the Transvaal |
| Fashoda Crisis | A military struggle between the British and French in Sudan |
| Paternalism | A system of governing colonies in the same way that parents guide their children |
| Assimilation | Taking the dominant culture and making people follow that culture |
| Berlin Conference | A conference in 1884 that divided up Africa with no regard for traditional or ethnic boundaries |
| British East India Company | A trading company which traded with India |
| Divide and Rule | A system that the British used to control India |
| Meiji Restoration | An uprising in Japan in which the people wanted a more Western style social class system |
| Sino-Japanese War | A rebellion in Korea that the people wanted to be free of Chinese control |
| Treaty of Shimonosecki | It forced China to Korea their independence and Japan gained Taiwan |
| Buffer State | a small neutral country, situated between two larger hostile countries, serving to prevent the outbreak of regional conflict. |
| Rudyard Kipling | the writer of "The White Man's Burden" |
| Cecil Rhodes | A British businessman who completely controlled Africa's diamond production |
| Leopold II | King of Belgium |
| Henry Stanley | The man who found Livingstone |
| Menelik II | Emperor of Ethiopia |
| Mongkut | King of Siam |
| The Industrial Revolution's contribution to imperialism | The Industrial Revolution had a huge contribution because the population was booming |
| The Role of Racism in Imperialism | It played a huge role through "The White Man's Burden" |
| 4 types of Imperial Control | Sphere of Influence, Dependent Colony, Settlement Colony, Protectorate |
| Economic Motives for Imperialism | Industrialization, Independence, New market, Population Boom |
| Cultural motives for Imperialism | Felt they had a duty, "The White Mans Burden" led people to believe that they were "helping" others, missionaries hoped to convert people to Christianity |
| 3 contributions made by Missionaries | helped to build schools and teach in them, they cared for the sick, helped to establish and operate hospitals |
| 5 characteristics (attributes) of colonial governments | undemocratic, Law and Order, Divide and Rule, exploitation of raw materials for EXPORT, lacked capacity |
| Positive effects of Imperialism on Africa | New Crops, New Farming Techniques, European Medicine, Roads and Railroads |
| Negative effects of Imperialism on Africa | Failure of Assimilation policies |
| Great Britain | 1. Imperializer 2. Central and Southern Africa and Suez Canal |
| France | 1. Imperializer. 2. Western Africa |
| USA | 1. Imperializer 2. Pacific Islands |
| India | 1. Imperialized dependent colony of Great Britain |
| Egypt | 1. Imperialized protectorate for Great Britain |
| China | 1. Imperializer sphere of influence |
| South Africa | 1. Imperialized Dependent Colony ,Great Britain |
| New Zealand | 1. Imperialized ,Great Britain Settlement colony |
| Guam | 1. Imperialized ,US Dependent Colony |
| Algeirs (Algeria) | 1. Imperialized ,France, Dependent Colony |
| Tunis (Tunisia) | 1. Imperialized ,France Protectoreate |
| Morocco | 1. Imperialized ,France Sphere of Influence |
| Persia (Iran) | Sphere of Influence |
| Australia | 1. Imperialized Settlement colony of Great Britain |
| Puerto Rico | 1. Imperialized US Protectorate |
| Ethiopia | Independent |
| Congo | Imperialized by France Dependent Colony |
| Japan | Imperialized by US dependent colony |
| Singapore | Imperialized by Great Britain Protectorate |
| Siam (Thailand) | Imperialized by France Protectorate |
| French IndoChina (Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam) | Imperialized by France Settlement Colony |
| Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) | Imperialized by the Dutch Protectoriate |
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