Reach of Imperialism

What is Imperialism?

• The extension of a nation's power over the other lands

• Identification with one's own nation and support for its interests

• A group with a certain equality between its members

• A form of government with a monarch at the head

Europeans had set up colonies and trading posts in ____, ____, and ____ by the sixteeth century

• Singapore, North America, Africa

• South America, Africa, North America

• North America, South America, Asia

• Africa, Britain, South America

New imperialism means

• States wanted more and more lands

• States wanted no land

• States wanted to share lands equally

• States want to take only a little bit of land

Economic reasons to take lands is

• States wanted more money

• A major stopping point for traveling

• Whoever had the most lands was most prestige

• Countries in the West were looking for trading opportunities

Rivaliers motives to take the lands

• To have more money

• Whoever had the most lands was most prestige

• Countries in the West were looking for trading opportunities

• To be able to own all the lands

Imperialism tied in Social Darwinism and

Because of the Industrial Revolution and Steamships, it became ___

To stop any British movement into Vietnam, the French government decided in 1857 to

• Occupy the city of Saigon and extend their control over the rest of the country

• Force the Vietnamese to accept French protection

• Seize the city of Hanoi

• Make the Vietnamese empire a French protectorate

In __, ____ and later made the Vietnamese empire a French protectorate

• 1883, France seized the city of Hanoi

• 1887, France seized the city of Hanoi

• 1883, France seized the city of Philippines

• 1887, France seized the city of Philippines

____ was the only remaining free state in Southeast Asia

• Thailand

• Singapore

• Vietnam

• Japan