IMPERIALISM
 (19th century)
 
I.  Who & Where?
  	A.  Colonizers = Europe, U.S.A., Japan
  	B.  Colonized = Asia, Africa, Pacific 
II.  Why & How?
  	A.  Expansion
   		1.  industrialized nations
   		2.  world market
   		3.  conquering distances 
    			a) railroads & steamships
    			b) canals = Suez (1869) & Panama (1914) 
    			c) technology (i.e. telegraph & refrigeration)
   		4.  economic dominance
    			a) Indonesia (Netherlands)
     				-- Java War (1825-30)
    			b) China (Britain)
     				-- Opium Wars (1839-42, 1856-60)
  	B.  Competition
   		1.  economic  
    			a) Egypt in 1882 (British vs. French)
    			b) South Africa (British vs. Dutch)
     				-- Boer War (1899-1902) 
   		2.  diplomatic 
    			a) national security 
     				-- Pacific (U.S.A., 1898-99)
    			b) international prestige
     				-- Pacific (Germany, 1880s)
     				-- “scramble for Africa” (1880-1900)
  	C.  Justification
   		1.  special-interest groups
    			a) Indo-China (France, 1859-93)
    			b) Hawaii (U.S.A., 1898)
   		2.  “social Darwinism”
    			-- Sudan (Britain, 1898) 
   		3.  “The White Man’s Burden”
    			a) India (Britain, 1857)
    			b) Philippines (U.S.A., 1899)
 III.  What difference does it make?
  	A.  Contradiction (self-rule & foreign rule)
  	B.  Modernizers & Traditionalists
 
 
 Think/Write
 Do you think imperialism was good or bad for the people who were colonized?