Imperialism Case Studies
INDIA
I. Countries Involved
1.
List main colonizer(s) of this area.
2.
What was the British East India Company?
II. Reasons for Colonization
1.
Give a specific example from India for each of the following Imperial motives?
a.
What was a specific economic motive for imperializing India?
b.
What was a specific ideological motive for imperializing India?
c.
What was a specific political motive for imperializing India?
2.
Provide characteristics of Indian culture and life before colonization.
3.
What was the Sepoy Rebellion?
III. Nationalistic Movements
1.
What was the Indian National Congress?
2.
What was the Muslim League?
3.
What was the Amritsar Massacre?
4.
Who was Mohandas Ghandi?
IV. Effects of Imperialism
1.
Give three positive effects of colonization
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2. Give three negative effects of colonization
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Imperialism Case Studies
LATIN AMERICA
I. Countries Involved
1.
List the main colonizers of Latin America
2.
What was the form of Imperialism?
3.
What was the Panama Canal? When was it built?
II. Reasons for Colonization
1. Give a specific example from Latin America for each of the following Imperial motives?
a.
What was a specific economic motive for imperializing Latin America?
b.
What was a specific ideological motive for imperializing Latin American?
c.
What was a specific political motive for imperializing Latin America?
2. Provide characteristics of Latin American culture prior to colonization.
3Why did the European powers have internal conflict over Latin America?
4.
Who was Simon Bolivar?
III. Nationalistic Movements
1.
How did Brazil gain their independence??
2.
What and when was the Mexican Revolution?
IV. Effects of Imperialism
1.Give three positive effects of colonization
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2. Give three negative effects of colonization
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3.
Imperialism Case Studies
SOUTHEAST ASIA
I. Countries Involved
1.
List the countries that colonized this area.
2.
What was the form of Imperialism
3.
What were the Dutch East Indies?
II. Reasons for Colonization
1. Give a specific example from Southeast Asia for each of the following Imperial motives?
a.
What was a specific economic motive for imperializing Southeast Asia?
b.
What was a specific ideological motive for imperializing Southeast Asia?
c.
What was a specific political motive for imperializing Southeast Asia?
2. Describe Provide characteristics of Southeast Asian culture prior to colonization.
III. Nationalistic Movements
1. Describe the conflicts between the southeast Asian countries and their colonizers?
2. What was the Spanish American War? Who fought in it?
3.
Who was Emilio Aguinaldo?
IV. Effects of Imperialism
1.Give three positive effects of colonization
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2. Give three negative effects of colonization
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3.
Imperialism Case Studies
Middle East
I. Countries Involved
4.
List the countries that colonized this area?
5.
What was the form of Imperialism
6.
What was the Ottoman Empire?
II. Reasons for Colonization
1. Give a specific example from the Middle East for each of the following Imperial motives?
d.
What was a specific economic motive for imperializing the Middle East?
e.
What was a specific ideological motive for imperializing the Middle East?
f.
What was a specific political motive for imperializing the Middle East?
2. Provide a description of traditional Middleeastern culture before colonization?
III. Nationalistic Movements
1. How did the colony react to European Geopolitics?
2. What was the Crimean War? Who fought in it?
4.
Who was Muhammad Ali?
IV. Effects of Imperialism
1.Give three positive effects of colonization
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3.
2. Give three negative effects of colonization
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3.