What factors sparked, enabled, and rationalized the “new” imperialism of 1870-1914?
What will be an ideal response?
Discuss inter-European (and American) competition, the need for somewhere to invest capital, the extreme importance of new technology, and the ideological role of Social Darwinism.
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King Frederick William I was a Calvinist and an absolutist
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The interstate slave trade transported slave laborers to
A) ?the Chesapeake. B) ?the Deep South. C) ?New Orleans. D) ?California. E) ?the Northeast.
In the aftermath of Columbus and voyages of encounter, Europeans believed the first humans in the Americas might have been
a. Chinese pirates. b. the lost tribes of Axum. c. Phoenician seafarers from Carthage. d. Mongol tribesmen. e. ancient Sumerians.
Which of the following statements is true about the Dutch colonization of the New World?
A) In the 1630s, the Dutch won a large chunk of northern Brazil from the Portuguese. B) By the sixteenth century, the Dutch were evicted from the Caribbean by the French settlers. C) The Dutch first set foot in the New World shortly after the English colonies were established there. D) A Dutch trading company hired a Spanish sailor to sail up the Hudson River. E) The French settlers in the New World often collaborated with the Dutch in trading with the local tribes.