Imperialism

What was the main purpose of the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885

• To ensure that African borders would be based on culture and language

• To prevent fighting of European nations over the division of Africa

• To keep peace between Africans and European leaders

• To give African leaders a chance to be heard by colonial interests

The takeover of a country or territory by a stronger nation with the intent of dominating the political, economic, and social life of the people.

• Racism

• Imperialism

• Paternalism

• Assimilation

The belief that one race is superior to others.

• Paternalism

• Imperialism

• Racism

• Prejudice

Which of the factors made it easier for Europeans to colonize Africa?

• Gold

• Diamonds

• Invention of the telegraph

• Invention of the steam engine

The policy that the local populations would adopt the dominant culture and become like them.

• Protectorate

• Paternalism

• Social Darwinism

• Assimilation

What caused low food supplies in Africa during European colonization?

• Most of the farm land was used for mining

• Native farmers were drafted in to the colonial armies

• European used too much farmland as building sites

• Europeans insisted on the growth of cash crops, such as cotton

Ideas about evolution and “survival of the fittest” to human societies, especially justification for imperialist expansion.

• The Fittest Movement

• Evolutionist Movement

• Social Darwinism

• Social Evolutionist

Rwanda was the mass genocide of what group?

• Hutus

• Janaweed

• Tutsis

• Twa

Which country had an empire on which, “the sun never set?”

• Austro-Hungarian

• American

• Spanish

• British

What was the “white man’s burden?”

• The belief that European nations should colonize all non-whites

• The belief that European nations should provide supplies for indigenous people

• The belief that the Europeans had a duty to civilize the rest of the world

• The argument used by European who did not want to see colonization