Name______Mr. Lawniczak

Block______Social Studies 10

Imperialism Review Sheet - KEY

Use your class notes to assist you in completing this essential review sheet. Place answers on a separate sheet of paper!

1. List three areas of the world that European nations imperialized.

  • Africa, India and China (also the Middle East)

2. What exactly is imperialism?

  • When one country (mother country) takes over another and uses them to benefit the mother country

3. What are the three main reasons why European nations imperialized?

  • To make money, gain new markets and gain raw materials

4. Describe the term “White Man’s Burden”

  • Europeans felt they had a responsibility to educate non-Europeans.

5. What was the primary purpose for building the Suez Canal?

  • To shorten the trip between Europe and the Middle East/India

6. Why were the French and British interested in controlling Egypt in the mid-19th century?

  • Because of its strategic location and to control the Suez Canal

7. What did European powers divide China into after the Opium Wars?

  • Spheres of Influence

8. Why did China lose conflicts with the west?

  • The lacked modern military technology

9. Name the two conflicts between China and the west.

  • Opium War and Boxer Rebellion (Uprising)

10. How did Europeans treat Africans when they began to imperialize Africa?

  • Europeans felt Africans were inferior to them and took advantage of them

11. What revolution that we have studied led to European nations beginning imperialism?

  • The Industrial Revolution

12. Describe the Berlin Conference and discuss why Africans wouldn’t have liked it.

  • European nations divided Africa among themselves to avoid wars. Africans were not invited to the conference

13. Why did the Sepoy Rebellion in India begin?

  • Sepoys were forced to perform duties that violated their religions (biting of bullet casings greased with animal fat)

14. Who won the Sepoy Rebellion and what changes occurred in India as a result?

  • The British won and increased their control of India. Also it increased tensions between the British and Indians.

15. What are 2 reasons Britain built roads, irrigation and transportation systems in India?

  • To transport raw materials faster and increase their control over India.

16. Describe the term Social Darwinism.

  • The belief that Europeans were racially superior to non-Westerners.

17. List two synonyms of the word imperialism.

  • Colonialism and Mercantilism

18. Under what emperor did Japan begin to modernize?

  • Emperor Meiji

19. What was Japan lacking which led them to imperialize?

  • They were lacking natural resources

20. What were some results of the Meiji restoration?

  • Japan began to modernize and westernize. Also Japan began to imperialize parts of Southeast Asia (Korea, China, etc.)