

Imperialism Motives
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Imperialism and its Motives

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How was imperialism a result of Industrial Revolution ???
Manufacturers wanted access to raw materials
Businessmen needed markets to sell their goods
Colonies provided an outlet for Europe’s growing population.
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Multiple Choice
Which motive will match a motivation to spread one's own beliefs about God?
Economic Interest
Political and Military Interest
Exploratory Reasons
Religious Goals
Social Darwinism/Ideological/Humanitarian
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Multiple Choice
Which motive will match a motivation to find new discoveries and inventions?
Economic Interest
Political and Military Interest
Exploratory Reasons
Religious Goals
Social Darwinism/Ideological/Humanitarian
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Multiple Choice
Which motive will match a motivation to make more money by taking raw materials or creating new markets to sell finished goods?
Economic Interest
Political and Military Interest
Exploratory Reasons
Religious Goals
Social Darwinism/Ideological/Humanitarian
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Multiple Choice
Which motive will match a motivation to make another group of people more like you ...it can be through dress, food, language, conditions?
Economic Interest
Political and Military Interest
Exploratory Reasons
Religious Goals
Social Darwinism/Ideological/Humanitarian
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Multiple Choice
Which motive will match a motivation to make gain more space for power and control?
Economic Interest
Political and Military Interest
Exploratory Reasons
Religious Goals
Social Darwinism/Ideological/Humanitarian
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Multiple Select
Which motives does this example of imperialism represent?
A Methodist Sunday School at Guiongua, Angola, in 1925
Economic Interests
Political and Military Interests
Exploratory Reasons
Religious Goals
Social Darwinism/ Ideological/ Humanitarian
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Multiple Select
Which motives does this example of imperialism represent?
Germans taking possession of Cameroon in 1881
Economic Interests
Political and Military Interests
Exploratory Reasons
Religious Goals
Social Darwinism/ Ideological/ Humanitarian
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Multiple Select
Which motives does this example of imperialism represent?
Quote from explorer Henry Stanley in 1882
Economic Interests
Political and Military Interests
Exploratory Reasons
Religious Goals
Social Darwinism/ Ideological/ Humanitarian
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Multiple Choice
Which motive does this example of imperialism represent?
Africans bringing ivory to the wagons in South Africa, 1860
Economic Interests
Political and Military Interests
Exploratory Reasons
Religious Goals
Social Darwinism/ Ideological/ Humanitarian
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Multiple Choice
Which motive does this example of imperialism represent?
Sketch map of Central Africa, showing Dr. Livingston’s exploration
Economic Interests
Political and Military Interests
Exploratory Reasons
Religious Goals
Social Darwinism/ Ideological/ Humanitarian
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Multiple Select
Which motives does this example of imperialism represent?
An advertisement for Pears’ Soap from the 1890s, and one stanza of the British poet Rudyard Kipling’s poem, “The White Man’s Burden” written in 1899
Economic Interests
Political and Military Interests
Exploratory Reasons
Religious Goals
Social Darwinism/ Ideological/ Humanitarian
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Multiple Select
Which motives does this example of imperialism represent?
Mrs. Maria C. Douglas, doctor and missionary, and the first class of pupil nurses in Burma, in 1888
Economic Interests
Political and Military Interests
Exploratory Reasons
Religious Goals
Social Darwinism/ Ideological/ Humanitarian
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Multiple Select
Which motives does this example of imperialism represent?
British cartoon showing the Chinese being savaged by European powers and the poem “The Partition of China, 1897
Economic Interests
Political and Military Interests
Exploratory Reasons
Religious Goals
Social Darwinism/ Ideological/ Humanitarian
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Multiple Choice
Which motive does this example of imperialism represent?
Bagged groundnuts in pyramid stacks in West Africa
Economic Interests
Political and Military Interests
Exploratory Reasons
Religious Goals
Social Darwinism/ Ideological/ Humanitarian
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Multiple Choice
Which motive does this example of imperialism represent?
French capture of the citadel of Saigon, Vietnam
Economic Interests
Political and Military Interests
Exploratory Reasons
Religious Goals
Social Darwinism/ Ideological/ Humanitarian
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Multiple Select
Which motives does this example of imperialism represent?
British Lipton Tea advertisement in the 1890s
Economic Interests
Political and Military Interests
Exploratory Reasons
Religious Goals
Social Darwinism/ Ideological/ Humanitarian
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Multiple Select
Which motives does this example of imperialism represent?
British cartoon “The Rhodes Colossus” showing Cecil Rhodes’ vision of making Africa “all British from Cape to Cairo,” 1892
Economic Interests
Political and Military Interests
Exploratory Reasons
Religious Goals
Social Darwinism/ Ideological/ Humanitarian
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Multiple Select
Which motives does this example of imperialism represent?
Epitaph and quote from missionary and explorer David Livingstone
Economic Interests
Political and Military Interests
Exploratory Reasons
Religious Goals
Social Darwinism/ Ideological/ Humanitarian
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Multiple Select
Which motives does this example of imperialism represent?
An imperial yacht passing through the Suez Canal in Egypt at the opening of the canal in 1870
Economic Interests
Political and Military Interests
Exploratory Reasons
Religious Goals
Social Darwinism/ Ideological/ Humanitarian
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Open Ended
Which of the listed motives do you think is the most acceptable? Support your answer.
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