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AP World History Ch 24 Reading Study Guide #2 P. 560

1.  Why did European powers (+the US) ‘scramble’ for colonies in the late 1800s? Pg. 560

2.  How did increased numbers of middle and lower class voters affect this? Pg. 560

3.  What new military technologies gave the Westerners an advantage over native populations? Pg. 561

4.  Where did Europeans encounter some effective resistance? Pg. 562

5.  According to the map 24.4, What were the only two independent territories in Africa by 1914? Pg. 562

6.  Describe “Tropical Dependency” colonies. Pg. 563

7.  Describe “White Dominion” colonies. (The USA fits this model though politically independent) Pg. 563

8.  What places had features of Tropical Dependency & White Dominion Colonies? Pg. 563

9.  How and WHY did Westerners use indigenous elites to help operate their empires? Pg. 564

(Read Document: Contrary Images, The colonizer vs. the colonized on the ‘Civilizing Mission)

10.  What sorts of roles does Davie assume that the Europeans must play in the colonies? (Reading, 564)

11.  What does Batouala say about colonial rule for the Africans? (Reading, 564)

12.  Describe the development of “white racial supremacy” as it related to empire. Pg. 566

13.  Where was the worst forced-labor/tax collection system? Pg. 566

14.  What were the basic patterns of settlement in settler societies? Pg. 568

15.  How did South Africa differ? Why? Pg. 568

16.  What happened on the Great Trek by the Boers? Why did they GO on this trek? Pg. 569

17.  What were the two Boer states? Pg. 569

18.  What was the outcome of the Boer War? (1899-1902) Pg. 569

19.  What tragedies befell the Maoris of New Zealand during colonization? Pg. 570

20.  How did the Maoris manage to survive? Pg. 570

21.  How did British Captain James Cook meet his demise in Hawaii? Pg. 570

22.  Why did western powers continually intervene in Hawaiian politics and economy from the late 1700s all the way till the American takeover in the 1890s? Pg. 571

23. How did Hawaii come under United States domination (and eventual colonization)? Pg. 571

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Borrowed from Mr. Walker