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Imperialism Motives

Imperialism Motives

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History

9th Grade

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24 Slides • 20 Questions

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Imperialism and its Motives

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How was imperialism a result of Industrial Revolution ???


  • Manufacturers wanted access to raw materials

  • Businessmen needed markets to sell their goods

  • Colonies provided an outlet for Europe’s growing population.

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Multiple Choice

Which motive will match a motivation to spread one's own beliefs about God?

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Economic Interest

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Political and Military Interest

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Exploratory Reasons

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Religious Goals

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Social Darwinism/Ideological/Humanitarian

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Multiple Choice

Which motive will match a motivation to find new discoveries and inventions?

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Economic Interest

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Political and Military Interest

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Exploratory Reasons

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Religious Goals

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Social Darwinism/Ideological/Humanitarian

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Multiple Choice

Which motive will match a motivation to make more money by taking raw materials or creating new markets to sell finished goods?

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Economic Interest

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Political and Military Interest

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Exploratory Reasons

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Religious Goals

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Social Darwinism/Ideological/Humanitarian

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Multiple Choice

Which motive will match a motivation to make another group of people more like you ...it can be through dress, food, language, conditions?

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Economic Interest

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Political and Military Interest

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Exploratory Reasons

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Religious Goals

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Social Darwinism/Ideological/Humanitarian

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Multiple Choice

Which motive will match a motivation to make gain more space for power and control?

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Economic Interest

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Political and Military Interest

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Exploratory Reasons

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Religious Goals

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Social Darwinism/Ideological/Humanitarian

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Multiple Select

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Which motives does this example of imperialism represent?

A Methodist Sunday School at Guiongua, Angola, in 1925

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Economic Interests

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Political and Military Interests

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Exploratory Reasons

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Religious Goals

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Social Darwinism/ Ideological/ Humanitarian

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Multiple Select

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Which motives does this example of imperialism represent?

Germans taking possession of Cameroon in 1881

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Economic Interests

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Political and Military Interests

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Exploratory Reasons

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Religious Goals

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Social Darwinism/ Ideological/ Humanitarian

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Multiple Select

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Which motives does this example of imperialism represent?

Quote from explorer Henry Stanley in 1882

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Economic Interests

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Political and Military Interests

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Exploratory Reasons

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Religious Goals

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Social Darwinism/ Ideological/ Humanitarian

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Multiple Choice

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Which motive does this example of imperialism represent?

Africans bringing ivory to the wagons in South Africa, 1860

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Economic Interests

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Political and Military Interests

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Exploratory Reasons

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Religious Goals

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Social Darwinism/ Ideological/ Humanitarian

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Multiple Choice

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Which motive does this example of imperialism represent?

Sketch map of Central Africa, showing Dr. Livingston’s exploration

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Economic Interests

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Political and Military Interests

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Exploratory Reasons

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Religious Goals

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Social Darwinism/ Ideological/ Humanitarian

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Multiple Select

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Which motives does this example of imperialism represent?

An advertisement for Pears’ Soap from the 1890s, and one stanza of the British poet Rudyard Kipling’s poem, “The White Man’s Burden” written in 1899

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Economic Interests

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Political and Military Interests

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Exploratory Reasons

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Religious Goals

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Social Darwinism/ Ideological/ Humanitarian

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Multiple Select

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Which motives does this example of imperialism represent?

Mrs. Maria C. Douglas, doctor and missionary, and the first class of pupil nurses in Burma, in 1888

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Economic Interests

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Political and Military Interests

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Exploratory Reasons

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Religious Goals

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Social Darwinism/ Ideological/ Humanitarian

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Multiple Select

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Which motives does this example of imperialism represent?

British cartoon showing the Chinese being savaged by European powers and the poem “The Partition of China, 1897

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Economic Interests

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Political and Military Interests

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Exploratory Reasons

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Religious Goals

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Social Darwinism/ Ideological/ Humanitarian

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Multiple Choice

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Which motive does this example of imperialism represent?

Bagged groundnuts in pyramid stacks in West Africa

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Economic Interests

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Political and Military Interests

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Exploratory Reasons

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Religious Goals

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Social Darwinism/ Ideological/ Humanitarian

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Multiple Choice

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Which motive does this example of imperialism represent?

French capture of the citadel of Saigon, Vietnam

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Economic Interests

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Political and Military Interests

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Exploratory Reasons

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Religious Goals

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Social Darwinism/ Ideological/ Humanitarian

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Which motives does this example of imperialism represent?

British Lipton Tea advertisement in the 1890s

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Economic Interests

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Political and Military Interests

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Exploratory Reasons

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Religious Goals

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Social Darwinism/ Ideological/ Humanitarian

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Multiple Select

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Which motives does this example of imperialism represent?

British cartoon “The Rhodes Colossus” showing Cecil Rhodes’ vision of making Africa “all British from Cape to Cairo,” 1892

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Economic Interests

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Political and Military Interests

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Exploratory Reasons

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Religious Goals

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Social Darwinism/ Ideological/ Humanitarian

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Multiple Select

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Which motives does this example of imperialism represent?

Epitaph and quote from missionary and explorer David Livingstone

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Economic Interests

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Political and Military Interests

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Exploratory Reasons

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Religious Goals

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Social Darwinism/ Ideological/ Humanitarian

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Multiple Select

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Which motives does this example of imperialism represent?

An imperial yacht passing through the Suez Canal in Egypt at the opening of the canal in 1870

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Economic Interests

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Political and Military Interests

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Exploratory Reasons

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Religious Goals

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Social Darwinism/ Ideological/ Humanitarian

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Open Ended

Which of the listed motives do you think is the most acceptable? Support your answer.

Imperialism and its Motives

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