Ap Euro Chapter 24
What new model for European expansion did Britain establish in Egypt?
A combination of trade, educational support, and technological assistance
What was the Boxer Rebellion?
A rebellion of traditionalist Chinese patriots who wished to expel all Westerners from China
Why did Japan open its shores to Western trade?
As a response to U.S. military pressure
How was the flow of goods directed around the globe in the nineteenth century?
By new communication systems, such as the telegraph, that could direct ships from port to port
What pattern did migration out of Europe often follow in the nineteenth century?
Families and friends would coordinate their migrations so that they would settle together in a new land.
How did Muhammad Ali finance his modernization of Egyptian society?
He forced farmers to become tenants of large, private landowners who adopted commercial agriculture.
What belief drove native opponents to European colonial rule?
The nationalist assertion that every people had a right to control their destiny
What was the primary factor that influenced whether European immigrants returned to their native lands?
The possibility of buying land in the home country
What was the goal of the New Imperialism of the late nineteenth century?
To create large political empires
Why were Jewish immigrants in the nineteenth century unlikely to return to their native land?
Violent anti-Semitism in eastern Europe
Great Britain chose to seize land in Africa and Asia in the late nineteenth century because it
feared that France and Germany would seal off their empires with high tariffs, causing it to lose future economic opportunities.
Rudyard Kipling's "white man's burden" referred to
the white race's supposed duty to civilize inferior, nonwhite races
