5.7 Imperialism
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Imperialism | A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries poitically, socially, and economically. |
| White Man's Burden | idea that many European countries had a duty to spread their religion and culture to those less civilized |
| Cecil Rhodes | British colonial financier and statesman in South Africa |
| Sepoy Mutiny | an 1857 rebellion of Hindu and Muslim soldiers against the British in India |
| Boer War | either of two wars: the first when the Boers fought England in order to regain the independence they had given up to obtain British help against the Zulus (1880-1881) |
| Opium War | War between Britain and the Qing Empire that was, in the British view, occasioned by the Qing government's refusal to permit the importation of opium into its territories. The victorious British imposed the one-sided Treaty of Nanking on China. (p. 684) |
| Treaty of Nanjing | 1842 agreement ending the Opium War between China and England and giving England control of Hong Kong and regional ports, as well as awarding British citizens extraterritorality rights. |
| spheres of influence | areas in which countries have some political and economic control but do not govern directly (ex. Europe and U.S. in China) |
| Taiping Rebellion | The most destructive civil war before the twentieth century. A Christian-inspired rural rebellion threatened to topple the Qing Empire. (p. 687) |
| Boxer Rebellion | 1899 rebellion in Beijing, China started by a secret society of Chinese who opposed the "foreign devils". The rebellion was ended by British troops |
| Sun Yixian | Chinese statesman who organized the Kuomintang and led the revolution that overthrew the Manchu dynasty in 1911 and 1912 (1866-1925) |
| Old Imperialism | characterized by establishing posts and forts on coastal regions but not penetrating inland to conquer entire regions or subjugate their populations |
| Scramble for Africa | Sudden wave of conquests in Africa by European powers in the 1880s and 1890s. Britain obtained most of eastern Africa, France most of northwestern Africa. Other countries (Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Italy, and Spain) acquired lesser amounts. (p. 731) |
| Berlin Conference | A meeting from 1884-1885 at which representatives of European nations agreed on rules colonization of Africa |
| Zulu | A people of modern South Africa whom King Shaka united beginning in 1818. (p. 649) |
| King Leopold | King of Belgium who began imperialistic trade inside of Africa which resulted in the Scramble for Africa. |
| Boers | Dutch farmers in South Africa |
| Effects of Imperialism | Good-Orderly government, Hospitals and Schools: Bad-Change their way of life, Bitter feelings of the natives |
| Rudyard Kipling | British writer who wrote of "the white man's burden" and justified imperialism |
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