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Name: ______________________ Date: ___________ Period: _____ IMPERIALISM Unit 5, Section 7 I. SECTION OVERVIEW (check out "The Big Idea") A. Powerful industrialized nations sought to gain power and economic might by building empires. B. Through economic and military power. Britain colonized and dominated India. C. European nations divided Africa. D. Western countries and Japan created spheres of influence in China. II. KEY PEOPLE AND TERMS A. Define or describe the following items: 1. Imperialism – ____________________________________ ____________________________________________ 2. Sepoy Mutiny - __________________________________ ____________________________________________ 3. Boer War - ______________________________________ ____________________________________________ 4. Opium War - ____________________________________ ____________________________________________ 5. Treaty of Nanjing – _______________________________ ____________________________________________ 6. Sphere of Influence – ______________________________ ____________________________________________ 7. Taiping Rebellion – _______________________________ ____________________________________________ 8. Boxer Rebellion – ________________________________ ____________________________________________ 9. Sun Yixian (Yat-sen) - _____________________________ ____________________________________________ III. THE NEW IMPERIALISM A. Imperialism is the domination by one country of the ______________, ______________and ______________life of another country. B. Imperialism has been divided into two periods: 1. The Old Imperialism (1500-1800) a. Europeans built colonies in _____________, _____________, and _____________, Africa and _____________ 2. The New Imperialism (1870-1914) a. Japan, _____________and industrialized nations in Europe became aggressive in expanding to other areas. b. The main targets were in _____________and Africa. C. Causes of Imperialism 1. Nationalistic Motives a. Imperialists felt that they had the right to take control of countries that were _____________. b. They wanted power and _____________. 2. Military Motives a. Colonies were important to _____________ships. 3. Economic Motives a. Imperialists needed _____________for their factories. b. They needed a market for their _____________ c. They needed a place to invest their _____________. 4. Missionary Motives. a. Imperialists felt that it was their duty to educate people in nations they considered _____________. b. They wanted to spread their _____________, _____________and _____________. IV. THE BRITISH IN INDIA A. The British East India Company 1. By the mid 1800's, this company, who once was nothing more than a trading company, controlled ____________ of India. 2. They even had their own army called _____________. B. The Sepoy Mutiny (1857) 1. The soldiers got upset because the British wanted them to ] follow rules that were against their _____________. 2. Because of this the British government took control of India. V. THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA A. The _____________Conference 1. This conference set up the rules for colonizing Africa by the various European countries. B. Battle for Southern Africa 1. The Zulu Empire a. The great leader _____________, organized warriors to fight against the Europeans. 2. Arrival of Europeans a. The _____________ (Dutch farmers) settled in southern Africa. b. The Boers fought African groups like the Zulus 3. Zulu Resistance a. The Boers moved north in 1835 and came into conflict with the Zulus. b. They also fought the British and lost in 1879 4. The Boer War a. The Boers and the British fight for control of _____________ b. The British win and form the _____________. VI. IMPERIALISM IN CHINA A. The Opium War and the Treaty of Nanjing. 1. The British introduced _____________as an item for trade in the late 1700's. 2. The Chinese government made opium illegal. 3. In 1839, Britain went to war with China to keep the trade of opium legal – and won. 4. The Treaty of _____________was the unequal treaty that ended the Opium War a. China had to open their ports again b. China had to pay war reparations to Britain. c. Britain got the island of _____________. 5. Other western powers seeing the weakness of the Chinese, began to develop "_______________________" in China. B. Chinese reactions to Imperialism 1. The _____________Rebellion (1850-1864) a. Chinese peasants rose up in revolt because they were angry about their poverty and at corrupt Qing officials. 2. The Boxer Rebellion a. This was a group who wanted to get rid of _____________from China. 3. Sun Yixian (Yat-sen) and the Chinese Revolution a. He was a Chinese reformer who had 3 goals which he called the Three Principles of the People. - End foreign domination - Form a representative government - Have economic security for the Chinese people. VII. IMPACT OF IMPERIALISM: MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES A. Effects on the Colonies 1. Short Term Effects a. Large numbers of _____________and _____________came under foreign rule b. Local economies were dependent on _____________ countries. c. Some nations introduced changes to meet _____________ d. Individuals and groups resisted European domination e. Western _____________spread to new regions f. _____________political units were destroyed. g. _____________occurred in areas where crops had to be given to imperialist nations. 2. Long Term Effects a. Western _____________continued to influence much of the world b. _____________, _____________and medical care were improved. c. resistance to imperial rule led to the development of _____________. B. Effects on Europe and the World. 1. The west discovered new crops, _____________and other products. 2. Westerners were introduced to new and different _____________. 3. Competition for _____________created conflict between imperial powers 4. The industrialized nations controlled a new _____________