Danny Hennessy

Causes of modern imperialism

The major industrial countries of Europe, United States and Japan,

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all acquired colonies in the 19th century.

Places taken over were Asia, Africa, the South pacific, and Latin

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America

Imperialism: Is extending a nations political and economic

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dominance or control over another country

Leaders wanted to be positive that they had enough materials for

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their factories

All these needs were met by controlling colonies

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Empire Building in the 19th century

Europeans moved into these new places ( asia, Africa, Americas),

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bringing their goods and ideas with them

1500s 1600s This is when European expansion had reached its

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peak

Military might, industrialization and technology had given European

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nations enormous power and influence throughout the world

Imperialism in Africa

Europeans took African land for colonies, by 1900 almost all of

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Africa was in European ownership

The French wanted to stop pirate raids in the Caribbean

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Great Britain had the greatest portion of Africa

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Dutch farmers were called Boers resented British rule

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When trying to settle in new territory, they bumped into a group of

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Africans called the Zulu

The Zulu were later defeated

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The Boers took their land and later diamonds were discovered, this

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area became the best source of diamonds in the world

Germany and Italy came late into the race for colonies in Africa

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King leopold of Belgium owned a lot of central Africa

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In 1908 the Belgian government forced him to give up the land

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because the Africans were being treated extremely cruel

It was then controlled by the Belgian government

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The British were searching for a product to sell to chin because

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they imported more than they exported

They found a drug called opium which would accomplish the aim

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The Chinese got addicted to the drug

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China officials tried to stop the trade by destroying 20,000 chest of

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opium

Resulting in the Opium war

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British responded to this by sending troops and ships to invade

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china

China was forced to sign the treaty of Nanjing in 1842

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Open door policy

The united states didn’t take any control of china

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But they indeed engaged in trade with china

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The U.S proposed that all nations interested in trade with

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china be given equal trading right which was called the open

door policy

U.S. Imperialism

The United states started it empire in 1867 when it

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purchased Alaska from Russia

Victory over spain in the Spanish-American War gave the

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U.S. control over the Philippines islands and Guam

War of 1898 convince the U.S. that it needed a canal for

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natural defense

1903 the United states negotiated an agreement with

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Columbia to allow the U.S. to build a canal across panama

The United states given the right to build and operate a

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canal in panama

The U.S. also dominated the governments and economies

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of other Latin American countries through a policy called

the Dollar diplomacy

This policy encouraged united states businesses to invest

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the development of countries and to build factories in

them

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