What were the motivations behind the establishment of the New Imperialism? Do economic motives and the civilizing mission explain this story, or were other factors important?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. Hobson's and Lenin's ideas about capitalist societies seeking to expand markets
2. The limited investments and economic success of the New Imperialism
3. The civilizing mission as a justification for empires after they were built
4. The idea that empires could allow for relief from population surplus, and the limits of this explanation
5. Colonies as symbols of national prestige
6. Europeans' anticipation of the fall of the Ottoman Empire as a motivation for strategic moves
7. Competition between European powers to protect real or perceived interests
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The main tool of the Soviet Union in spreading Lenin?s Communist revolution in the 1920s was
A) military aggression. B) allegiance with Germany. C) the Comintern. D) the power of the example provided by communism in the Soviet Union. E) terrorist attacks.
The Navigation Act of 1660
A) promoted colonial trade by removing English duties on enumerated articles. B) created stringent enforcement mechanisms by which England regulated colonial trade. C) allowed expanded exports of colonial tobacco to European markets. D) listed colonial products that could be shipped only to England or to other English colonies.
Prior to the French Revolution, how was the Atlantic World united by political and commercial and social ideology?
What will be an ideal response?
Which of these was an attack Bush made against Dukakis during the 1988 presidential election?
A. Dukakis was too socially conservative. B. Dukakis was against taxation. C. Dukakis was soft on crime. D. Dukakis was hurting the middle class.