Industrialization & Western Global Hegemony 1750-1914: The Making of the Global European Order
Study the maps on P. 551 be prepared to discuss.
1. Why did European powers (+the US) ‘scramble’ for colonies in the late 1800s?
2. How did increased numbers of middle and lower class voters affect this?
3. What new military technologies gave the Westerners an advantage over native populations?
4. Where did Europeans encounter some effective resistance?
5. According to the map on P. 551- What were the only two independent territories in Africa by 1914?
6. Describe “Tropical Dependency” colonies.
7. Describe “White Dominion” colonies. (The USA fits this model though politically independent)
8. What places had features of Tropical Dependency & White Dominion Colonies?
9. How and WHY did Westerners use indigenous elites to help operate their empires?
Read “Visualizing the Past- Capitalism & Colonialism” Be prepared to discuss the data in class.
10. What TWO areas received most British capital investment?
11. Why do you think British investment capital flowed to these areas?
12. Describe the development of “white racial supremacy” as it related to empire.
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Industrialization & Western Global Hegemony 1750-1914: The Making of the Global European Order
Read “Document- Contrary Images: The colonizer vs. the colonized on the ‘Civilizing Mission’”
13. Where was the worst forced-labor/tax collection system?
14. What were the basic patterns of settlement in settler societies?
15. How did South Africa differ? Why?
16. What happened on the Great Trek by the Boers? Why did they GO on this trek?
17. What were the two Boer states?
18. What was the outcome of the Boer War? (1899-1902)
19. What tragedies befell the Maoris of New Zealand during colonization?
20. How did the Maoris manage to survive?
21. How did British Captain James Cook meet his demise in Hawaii?
22. Why did western powers continually intervene in Hawaiian politics and economy from the late 1700s all the way till the American takeover in the 1890s?
23. How did Hawaii come under United States domination (and eventual colonization)?
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