Imperialism in Africa Asia and U.S Territories Part I

1. What was the Berlin Conference?

• A meeting between European nations to peacefully divide Africa among themselves

• The precursor to The Berlin Wall.

• A meeting of European soccer teams to discuss the creation of The World Cup.

• Where Napoleon and Belgium discussed colonizing Africa

European created borders in Africa are called improper because?

• England got the most land

• They were drawn without consideration for the people living in those areas.

• They did not include the United State's input

• They caused climate change and the desertification of The Sahara.

1. What was a consequence of the border designs to Africans? Select all that are correct.

• Disease spread through the Congo

• Ethnic groups and families were split up

• Africans became rich from the land purchases

• New land was made available for nomads to graze

What is imperialism

• Using the military to enforce your country's foreign policy

• A process that always makes the colonized people's lives better.

• Domination of one country by another in order to expand territory, power and influence

• Turning land o lakes butter into Imperial Margarine

Country whose economics, government, and justice are partially or fully controlled by a stronger power is called a ....

• Slave state

• Satellite country

• Democracy

• Protectorate

Ideology influenced imperialism because

• Europeans believed the Anglo-Saxon race was superior and therefore it was their duty to civilize people in Africa.

• Europeans thought Africans should have civil rights

• Nationalists Christianized Ethiopia

• Democracy was used in Africa

Which was not an example of exploitation of the African people during the Imperial Age?

• They were forced to work on rubber farms for little or no pay

• They were captured and sold as slaves in the Transatlantic Slave Trade

• They were paid high wages for their labor

• Europeans took their land and farms

Westernization is part of the process of assimilating people into European customs and ways of life

• True

• False

When a territory is annexed it is?

• Given freedom to rule itself

• incorporated into a larger state's territory

• Always governed democratically

• purchased from the native people

An example of an Extractive Economy would be

• An economy that allows the sustainable harvest of farm goods

• One that gives as much as it takes

• The private ownership of companies

• One that harvests natural resources from an area without purchasing them.