Unit 8: Colonization and Imperialism Review - 2022-23

Why did European states fight to acquire overseas colonies?

• To acquire raw materials to fuel their Industrialization

• To spread Enlightenment ideas

• To abolish slavery world wide

• To stop the spread of Islam throughout the world

How did capitalism and industrialization incentivize Europeans to conquer new colonies?

• Both encouraged international cooperation and control.

• European economic gain made it easy to buy land for colonies.

• European capitalists needed factories from colonies to process raw materials.

• European factories needed raw materials and new customers.

How was imperialism in this era primarily connected to ideas about race?

• Imperialism led to the emergence of racial ideas.

• Racial ideas were used to justify imperial expansion.

• Racial ideas emerged much later than this era.

• Imperialism was connected to religion but not race.

All of the following were motivations for “New Imperialism” EXCEPT:

• Economic - empires looking for raw materials and new markets to sell manufactured goods

• Rivalries between European countries

• Racism - Belief that Europeans were superior to other races.

• Helping regions set up democracies and their own independent governments.

What was the colony that the United States gained in Southeast Asia after the Spanish-American War?

• Vietnam

• Philippines

• Laos

• Borneo

During the 18th and 19th centuries, Europeans improved roads and bridges and built railroads in their colonies primarily to

• impress the colonists with their technological knowledge

• help missionaries spread Christianity

• provide jobs for the colonists

• obtain raw materials needed for industrialization

What was completed in 1869 in Egypt and created a “lifeline to India” for Britain?

• The Panama Canal

• The Cairo Dam

• The Victorian Falls

• The Suez Canal

What was the name of the explorer that spent 30 years in central Africa looking for a river that would open up central Africa to European commerce and Christianity?

• Dr. David Livingstone

• Cecil Rhodes

• Edward Morel

• Rudyard Kipling

What famous event took place from 1884-1885 with European representatives (no African delegates were there) that settled claims between nations across Africa?

• The completion of the Suez Canal

• The Berlin Conference

• The Treaty of Paris

• The Conference of African Colonization and Empire Building

What was Apartheid in South Africa?

• A rule that allowed the right to vote for all South Africans

• A word used to try and unite the colonizers and native South Africans

• It was a large overcrowded area where white colonizers were forced to live

• It was racial segregation