Imperialism Study Guide

A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, economically, or socially.

• Social Darwinism

• Imperialism

• Annexation

• Geopolitics

The belief that one race is superior to others.

• Racism

• Imperialism

• Assimiliation

• Annexation

The application of Charles Darwin’s ideas about evolution and “survival of the fittest” to human societies - particularly as justification for imperialist expansion.

• Racism

• Social Darwinism

• Imperialism

• Evolution

A meeting at which representatives of European nations agreed upon rules for the European colonization of Africa.

• Imperialism

• Berlin Conference

• United Nations

• Geopolitics

A conflict lasting from 1899 to 1902, in which the Boers and the British fought  for control of territory in South Africa.

• Boer War

• Boxer Rebellion

• Spanish-American War

• Sepoy Mutiny

A policy of treating subject people as if they were children, providing for their needs but not giving them rights.

• Assimiliation

• Paternalism

• Imperialism

• Colonization

A policy in which a nation forces or encourages a subject people to adopt its institutions and customs.

• Paternalism

• Imperialism

• Darwinism

• Assimilation

A human-made waterway, which was opened in 1869, connecting the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.

• Panama Canal

• Suez Canal

• Bering Strait

• English Channel

 Indian soldiers serving under British command.

• Raj

• Shaka

• Zulus

• Sepoys

The British colony of India - so called because of its importance in the British Empire, both as a supplier of raw materials and as a market for British trade goods.

• Raj

• "Jewel in the Crown"

• Algeria

• Sepoy