Unit 4: Age of Imperialism
Reading Guide
10.4 Students analyze patterns of global change in the era of New Imperialism in at least two of the
following regions or countries: Africa, Southeast Asia, China, India, Latin America, and the
Philippines.
1 Describe the rise of industrial economies and their link to imperialism and colonial-ism (e.g., the role
played by national security and strategic advantage; moral issues raised by the search for national
hegemony, Social Darwinism, and the missionary impulse; material issues such as land, resources, and
technology).
2 Discuss the locations of the colonial rule of such nations as England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan,
the Netherlands, Russia, Spain, Portugal, and the United States.
3 Explain imperialism from the perspective of the colonizers and the colonized and the varied immediate
and long-term responses by the people under colonial rule.
4 Describe the independence struggles of the colonized regions of the world, including the roles of leaders,
such as Sun Yat-sen in China, and the roles of ideology and religion.
Ch 9 Sec 1
Imperialism
Protectorate
Sphere of influence
White mans burden
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2.
3.
4.
What factors contributed to European Imperialism in the 1800’s?
Compare and contrast how Britain and France ruled their colonies?
What are three reasons for the rapid spread of western imperialism? How did people oppose it?
How did western imperialism spread through Africa and Asia so quickly?
Chap 9 Sec 2
Usman dan Fodio
Shaka
Paternalistic
David Livingstone
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Henry Stanley
King Leopold II
Boer War
Samori Toure
Yaa Asantewaa
Nehanda
Menelik II
elite
Which factors shaped each of the main regions of Africa during the early 1800’s?
How did European contact with Africa increase in the late 1800’s?
How did King Leopold II set off a scramble for African colonies?
How did Ethiopians resist imperialism?
What impact did explores and missionaries have on Africa?
Chap 9 Sec 3
Muhammad Ahmad
Mahdi
Pasha
Sultan
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2.
3.
4.
genocide
Muhammad Ali
concession
How was Western imperialism a source of stress in Muslim regions of the world?
How were efforts to Westernize problematic for the Ottoman Empire?
How did Egypt fall under British control?
How did Persia attract foreign interest in the early 1900’s?
Chap 9 Sec 4
Sati
Sepoy
Viceroy
Deforestation
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2.
3.
4.
Ram Mohun Roy
purdah
What were the causes of the Sepoy Rebellion in northern and central India?
How did British colonial rule affect Indian agriculture?
How did Indians and British view each other’s culture in the 1800’s?
How are the origins of Indian nationalism linked to British rule?
Chap 9 Sec 5
Balance of trade
Trade surplus
Trade deficit
Opium War
1.
2.
3.
4.
indemnity
extraterritoriality
Taiping Rebellion
Sino-Japanese War
Open Door Policy
Guang Xu
Boxer Uprising
Sun Yixian
How did British trade with China trigger the Opium Wars?
How did the Taiping Rebellion and other internal problems weaken the Qing Dynasty?
How did reformers try to solve China’s internal problems?
What caused the Qing Dynasty to fall?
Chapter 10.1
Matthew Perry
Zaibatsu
Tokyo
Homogeneous society
Meiji Restoration First Sino-Japanese War
Diet
Russo-Japanese War
1. By mid-1800s, why did so many groups of people in Japan feel disconnected?
2. How did Japan react when it was forced to accept unequal treaties?
3. What changes did the reforms of the Meiji Restoration bring in Japan?
4. How did industrialization help start Japan on an imperialist course?
Chapter 10.2
French Indochina
Mongkut
Spanish-America War
Liliuokalani
Focus Questions:
1. How did the Burmese and the Vietnamese respond to attempts to colonize them?
2. How did the United States gain control of the Philippines?
3. Why did some Americans think the United States should control Hawaii?
Chapter 10 Section 3
Confederation
Dominion
Metis
Indigenous
Penal colony
Maori
Focus Questions
1. How did the British respond to the Canadians’ desire for self-rule?
2. What effect did colonization have on Australia’s indigenous population?
3. Compare and contrast the European settlement of Australia and New Zealand?
Chap 10 Section 4
La Reforma
Peonage
Monroe Doctrine
Panama Canal
Regionalism
Caudillo
Benito Juarez
La Reforma
Focus Questions
1. What factors undermined democracy in post-independence Latin America?
2. What struggles did Mexico go through as it tried to find stability in the 1800’s?
3. How did foreign influence and investment affect Latin America?
4. How did the US act as an imperialist power in Latin America