Essential Questions: Chapter Twenty-Seven –

Rajan Saini

The Suez Canal made Britain rich and also caused it to invade and occupy Egypt, destroying Egyptian
independence from the Ottomans.
The New Imperialism affected nonindustrial and industrial areas, especially the United States, Europe,
Africa, and Asia.
It brought remote areas of the world into the global economy by forcing them to be suppliers of cheap
raw materials and food.
Latin American imperialism was not affected by conquest; rather, it was economic imperialism. In Africa,
Europeans directly invaded and partitioned the land.
The expansion of the Qing was just military conquest; New Imperialism reflected economic motives.
The power struggle in Europe caused New Imperialism to reach new heights. It was used as a form of
competition between rival European states.
European powers used their superior technology, such as steamships, to invade such territories.
Women from imperialist nations campaigned for rights and equalities within other countries during the
New Imperialist movement.
This caused non-Western nations to westernize and modernize.
Nationalist pride causes members of imperialist states to support the imperialism, while nationalist in the
invaded countries prevents large imperial expansion.
It caused the Americans and Europeans to want to imperialize so that they could have economic
security.
It allowed the mother country to communicate with military forces far from the center.
It shows how a smaller number of Europeans armed with modern weapons could easily defeat
indigenous forces lacking such weapons.
More settlers meant more extraterritoriality, changing the government.
Most administrators were indigenous.
The cooperation allowed the people to be subjugated, preventing rebellion.
Colonialism caused the Europeans to support one rival destroying the other and indebting the assisted
one.
Women found themselves at the head, so they saw themselves as superior, causing segregation.
This period referred to how the Europeans sought to gain as much territory in Africa as possible and
form colonies.
Egypt required European support to rid themselves of the Ottomans.
Foreign influence caused Egypt to lose its sovereignty, and it ultimately negatively affected the Egyptian
economy.
The Berlin Conference caused Africa to be partitioned into states controlled by European powers.
 West Africa had existing trade networks, equatorial Africa was densely forested and largely uninhabited,
and the Gold Coast had flourishing Muslim cities.
South Africa had lots of precious metals and fertile land for Europeans to settle.
Afrikaners were loyal to the Dutch, while the British annexed the land for the diamond trade.
South Africans were mostly indigenous, though there were a lot of white settlers, so the apartheid
system emerged, along with a largely autocratic rule.
Africans struggled against the Europeans, but they were ultimately defeated.
It shows how the Russians thought of themselves as being greater than any other group, so they
invaded other people without hesitation.
It westernized Southeast Asia and Indochina, but it also caused them to be largely focused on the
production of raw materials for global trade.
England was set on conquering, while the US was focused on island-nations, like Hawaii and the
Philippines.
They were dependent for economic success, since they lacked a centralized authority for such a
powerful government needed to be self-sustaining.
They focused on Africa and Asia, they didn’t need to, it would have been difficult to overcome
opposition, and the US claimed to uphold the NAFTA.
It shows how they were willing to take advantage of such territories for the economic prospects that
could have been gained.
They sought economic benefits from raw-material producers as well as a larger number of potential
consumers.
The Spanish-American War, because it shows how the US was willing to go against their supposed
ideals found in the constitution for the gaining of territory that the Mexicans held.