WorksheetsNew Imperialism & The Scramble for Africa
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 12mins
Which of the following are not one of the three G's of New Imperialism?
God (missionaries - predominantly protestant).
Glory (Nationalist expansion & prestige).
Gold (raw materials for industrialization)
Goods (raw materials for industrialization)
This Scottish physician, Congregationalist, pioneer Christian missionary, and explorer in Africa.
David Livingstone
Eric Liddell
Henry Morton Stanley
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist who was born in India. His major works include The Jungle Book famously wrote what text which makes him controversial today?
The White Mans Burden
The Vindication of the Rights of Woman
The Jungle
The Scopes Monkey Trial
The theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals. Advocated by Herbert Spencer and others in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Social Darwinism
Anti-Semitism
Zionism
Eugenics
This conference also known as the Congo Conference (German: Kongo Konferenz) or West Africa Conference (Westafrika -Konferenz), regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period and coincided with Germany's sudden emergence as an imperial power.
Berlin Conference
Conference of Vienna
Treaty of Versailles
Paris Peace Conference
This highly influential text by Alfred Thayer Mahan inspired many nations to begin building up their navy's.
The Influence Of Sea Power Upon History
The Guns of August
Orientalism
On the Origins of Species
During New Imperialism "Gold" took on a new meaning often meaning raw materials. What raw material found in the Congo & Philippines was needed industrial especially the automotive industry.
Rubber
Cotton
Electricity
Timber
This conflict(s) saw China humbled by the Britain it declared war over illegal drug smuggling by the British.
Opium Wars
Opening of Japan
Boxer Rebellion
Taiping Rebellion
What island/territory was seized by the British along with a sizable reparations as part of the treaty which ended the Opium Wars?
Hong Kong
Machu
Taipei
Taiwan
Which are strategic points which the British Empire would own during this period?
Strait of Gibraltar
Cape of Good Hope
Falklands (South of America)
Strait of Malacca (Singapore)
Suez Canal.
What is the rush to gain territories in Africa during the era of New Imperialism called?
Scramble for Africa
Scrap for Africa
Surprise for Africa
The Rise of Africa
What factors spurred the wave of New Imperialism in the 19th Century?
Nationalism
Militarism
Industrialization
Romanticism
What factors halted the colonization of the interior of Africa before the 19th century?
Disease
The strength of native populations.
Unnavigable rivers
Vast mountains
What technological advances made conquest of Africa possible?
Steamboats
Quinine medicine
Machine guns
Gin & tonics
In the 1800's in India there were fewer that 1,000 British ruling over 300 million Indians. The British accomplished this by, "ruling through and by the natives" which is also known as?
Indirect rule
Direct rule
Substitute rule
Picking people with funny hats
What advantages did submitting to imperial rule have for native officials?
Native rules got to keep their position of power.
Advantages included a Western education for your children.
Lots of Gin and tonics.
It had none.
Who is a notable native people who resisted British rule in New Zealand?
The Apache
The Bores
The Maori
The Aborigines
Which African Kingdom was able to maintain its independence during this time?
Ethiopia
South Africa
Madagascar
Egypt
Which African Kingdom was conquered business imperialism after it over spent on modernization projects such as the Suez Canal, Ciro Opera House?
Ethiopia
South Africa
Madagascar
Egypt
Which are examples of the complicated legacy of Imperialism?
Cheap bananas.
Call centers in India.
Chocolate from Africa.
Most everything else being produced in China.
