Imperialism Study Guide
Due: Friday. Jan. 29th for Extra Credit
Directions: Answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper. You do not have to
answer in complete sentences. The following questions are not exhaustive, but a guide to help
you study.
***Make sure to study all vocab terms
Notes
1. Why did the Industrial Revolution originate in England?
2. How did the Industrial Revolution produce changes in culture and society including women,
children, and the family?
3. What were the various revolutions within the Industrial Revolution?
4. What were the factors that led to the Industrial Revolution in general?
Ch. 12 Sec. 1
5. Why did European countries participate in imperialism and a race for colonies?
6. What were some responses of colonized peoples to European imperialism?
Ch. 12 Sec. 2
7. How did imperialists European powers claim control over most of Africa by the end of the
1800s?
8. How did European contact with Africa increase in the late 1800s?
9. How did King Leopold II set off a scramble for colonies in Africa?
10. How did Ethiopians resist imperialism?
11. What happened at the Berlin Conference?
Ch. 12 Sec. 5
12. How did the Qing dynasty respond to the British trade of Opium?
13. How did the Meiji Restoration affect Japan?
Ch. 10 Sec. 2/ Ch. 13 Sec. 1
14. How did Germany and Japan become and industrial giant?
15. Who was Otto von Bismarck and what was his influence on the development of Germany?
Ch. 13 Sec. 4/Notes
16. Why were the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal so important?
17. What was the significance of the Monroe Doctrine? Roosevelt Corollary?
*** Understand what countries imperialized which regions and the impact that imperial power.