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Imperialism
Standard: Describe the impact of industrialization, the rise of nationalism, and the major characteristics of
worldwide imperialism.
Essential Question: What was the impact of industrialization, the rise of nationalism, and the major
characteristics of worldwide imperialism?
Describe imperialism in Africa and Asia by comparing British policies in Africa, French policies in
Indochina, and Japanese policies in Asia; include the influence of geography and natural resources.
Description
Great Britain
Location
Colonial Policies
Influence of Geography
Natural Resources
France
Japan
Essential Question: What was the impact of industrialization, the rise of nationalism, and the major
characteristics of worldwide imperialism?
Describe the reaction to foreign domination; include the Russo-Japanese War and Young Turks, and
the Boxer Rebellion.
Description
Sepoy Mutiny
Boxer Rebellion
Russo-Japanese War
Young Turks
Reaction to Foreign Domination
Imperialism
Standard: Describe the impact of industrialization, the rise of nationalism, and the major characteristics of
worldwide imperialism.
Essential Question: What was the impact of industrialization, the rise of nationalism, and the major
characteristics of worldwide imperialism?
Describe imperialism in Africa and Asia by comparing British policies in Africa, French policies in
Indochina, and Japanese policies in Asia; include the influence of geography and natural resources.
Description
A stronger nation controls a weaker one
Early Imperialism:
 seventeenth century
 Americas
 have trading posts and agreements
Great Britain
Location
West Africa
 Gold Coast
 Nigeria
North Africa
 Egypt
 Sudan
South Africa
Colonial Policies
 protectorate over Gold Coast,
Nigeria, Egypt and Sudan
 created the independent Union
of South Africa a selfgoverning nation within the
British Empire to appease the
Boers(Dutch), the policy was
that only whites could vote
 most decisions came from
Great Britain, and local rulers
rubber-stamped and enforced
these decisions, maintaining
their power (indirect rule)
Influence of Geography
Controlled Egypt for the suez
canal
Natural Resources
Gold, Salt, Diamonds
New Imperialism:
 nineteenth century
 Africa and Asia
 wanted direct control over territories
France
Japan
Indonesia(Indochina)
 the Vietnamese Empire
 Cambodia
 Laos
 Annam
 Tonkin
Korea
Ryukyu Islands (Okinawa)
Tawain
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1884 the Vietnamese Empire
became a French
protectorate—a political unit
that depends on another
government for its protection
1880s extended protection
over neighboring Cambodia,
Laos, Annam, and Tonkin.
imposed direct rule in the
southern provinces in the
Mekong delta
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1874 the Japanese claimed
control of the Ryukyu Islands
annexing Korea in 1910
Ideal location for plantations
Control of the pacific especially
North eastern Asia
teak wood, rubber, tin, spices, tea,
coffee, sugar
coal, iron, tea, silk
Essential Question: What was the impact of industrialization, the rise of nationalism, and the major
characteristics of worldwide imperialism?
Describe the reaction to foreign domination; include the Russo-Japanese War and Young Turks, and
the Boxer Rebellion.
Description
Reaction to Foreign Domination
Sepoy Mutiny 1857
 during the eighteenth century British power in
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India increased as the power of the Mogul rulers 
declined
 the British East India Company had its own
soldiers and forts
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 hired Indian soldiers, called sepoys, to protect the
company’s interests
 in 1857 some Sepoy’s revolted against the British
that
Boxer Rebellion 1900
 Boxer was the popular name for members of the
secret group called the Society of Harmonious
Fists
 practiced a system of exercise they thought
would protect them from bullets
 upset over foreign influence in China
 disliked Christian missionaries and Chinese
converts to Christianity
 killed Christians and foreigners, including the
German envoy to Beijing
Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5
 rivalry with Russia over influence in Korea led to
strained relations
 Russia supremely confident it could defeat Japan
in a war
 Japan launched a surprise attack on the Russian
naval base at Port Arthur, Manchuria
 Russia had taken from China
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Young Turks, 1908-9
 the size and power of the Ottoman Empire
decreased dramatically beginning at the end of
the 1700s
 by the1800s Ottoman rule ended in North Africa
and Greece
 the empire lost much of its territory in Europe
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revolt spread quickly
as a result of the Sepoy uprising, the British
Parliament transferred the powers of the British
East India Company to the British government
in 1876 Queen Victoria acquired the title of
Empress of India
in response an allied army of the Western powers
and Japan attacked Beijing in 1900
restored order and demanded more concessions
from the Chinese government
forced to pay a heavy indemnity—payment for
damages—to the powers that had ended the
rebellion
the Chinese imperial government was weaker
than ever
Japanese forces moved into China, and the
Russian troops were not a match for them
the Japanese navy defeated the Russian navy
Russia agreed to a humiliating peace in 1905
first time an Asian country defeated a European
country
gave the strategic Liaodong Peninsula to Japan,
as well as part of an island north of Japan
established Japan as a world power
in 1876, Ottoman reformers seized the
government and adopted a constitution that
would form a legislature
named Abdulhamid II sultan
he immediately suspended the constitution and
ruled by himself
Young Turks = a group of reformers
forced the restoration of the constitution in 1908
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deposed the sultan in 1909
many ethnic Turks pressed for an independent
Turkish state