Chapter 27 New Imperialism Q&A
Big Questions
1. What were the motives and methods of Western imperialism in Africa and Asia?
2. What were the economic, social and environmental consequences of imperialism?
3. What were the patterns of western interaction in Latin America, Africa, and Asia?
Small Questions
1. What were the differences between new and old imperialism?
2. What were the major motives of new imperialism?
3. Examples of political, economic and cultural?
4. What were the tools of empire?
5. Why could you have predicted the construction of the Suez and Panama Canal?
6. What was significant about the Battle of Omdurman?
7. What are protectorates?
8. What might be the impact of having large or small number of European settlers?
9. Why did the arrival of European women facilitate greater levels of segregation?
10. How did Egypt fall into debt? Results
11. What was significant about the Berlin Conference?
12. Who were the Afrikaners? How is South Africa different from most of Africa?
13. What was the role of nationalism in South Africa?
14. Who was Cecil Rhodes?
15. What was significant about the Boer War?
16. What was the Natives Land Act of 1913?
17. How was Ethiopia’s contact with the west different than most of Africa?
18. Why did much of the land in present day South Africa and Kenya end up in the hands of Europeans?
19. What was the impact of the attempts of spread religion in Africa?
20. Why was there such a strong desire on the part of Europeans to control parts of Southeast Asia?
21. What were motives to US imperialism in the Pacific?
22. What motivated the US to intervene in the Philippines? What lesson was learned?
23. What is free trade imperialism?
24. Why were Creole elites so eager to encourage foreign investment?
25. What were the causes and results of the Spanish American War?
26. What was the Platt Amendment?
27. Overall, how were the tropics changed during this period of imperialism?