Ch. 25: The Age of Western Imperialism

Britain loses North American colonies AND establishes itself as ruler of India

Period: Mar 9, 1775 to Mar 9, 1783

Napoleon sold Louisiana territory to the U.S. (Fr, pol)

Mar 9, 1803

British ban slave trade (soc)

Mar 9, 1807

Robert Fulton invents the steamboat

Mar 9, 1807

Parliament permits British Cristian missionaries to work in India

Mar 9, 1813

Society for the Propagation of the Faith (France)

Mar 9, 1822

Monroe Doctrine (US, GB, econ, pol)

Mar 9, 1823

closed the Americas to European colonialism

~1830s British control over India complete (pol, econ)

Mar 9, 1830

East India Company had control: company of merchants chartered by parliament in 1600
Expanded authority through warfare and negotiations

Charles X launches military exped vs. Algiers (France)

Mar 9, 1830

saw fertile coastal regions as good land for a settler colony

First Opium War (Ch, GB, econ)

Period: Mar 9, 1839 to Mar 9, 1842

British wanted to impose free trade of Obpium in China
Effects:
Control of Hong Kong
Christian missionaries allowed in CHina
ports opened

First submarine cable laid between GB and Fr

Mar 9, 1850

norvous system of the civilized world

US under Matt Perry arrived in Japanese waters

Mar 9, 1853

Second Opium War (GB, FR, Ch, econ)

Period: Mar 9, 1856 to Mar 9, 1860

Britain alliance with France, forced chinese to allow foreign envoys to establish embassies in Beijing, open more ports and areas of foreign trade, and missionaries operate more freely

End of rule of Mughal Empire in India

Mar 9, 1857

SEPOY REBELLION (India, GB, soc, pol, cult)

Mar 9, 1857

religious conflict, misunderstanding with cartridges on guns
tens of thousands die from repressions and murder

British back in control of India

Mar 9, 1858

Suez Canal*** (GB, FR)

Mar 9, 1869

french enginers, no longer had to sail around africa to get to asia

NEW IMPERIALISM

Period: Mar 9, 1870 to Mar 9, 1914

"Great Depression"

Period: Mar 9, 1873 to Mar 9, 1896

GB control of Suez Canal

Mar 9, 1875

King Leopold II of Belgium formed Int'l African Assoc

Mar 9, 1876

colonial ambitions, disguise of humanitarian concern for Africans
gathered people in brussels, including Henry Morton Stanley, who got africans to sign "treaties"----> BRUTAL ECON EXPLOITATION

Disraeli declared Queen Victoria to be Empress of India

Mar 9, 1877

after bringing India under rule of the Crown (away from EIC)

French est. protectorate over Tunisia

Mar 9, 1882

Muhammad Ahmad (muslim egypt leader) annihilated exped force

Mar 9, 1883

Berlin Conference

Mar 9, 1884

partition of Africa

Hindus found Indian National Congress

Mar 9, 1885

goals of modernizing Indian life and liberalizing british policy

Germany rule in Africa

Mar 9, 1885

Southwest Africa, Togoland, Cameroons, East Africa

Royal Niger Company (GB, pol, econ)

Mar 9, 1886

Gold discovered in Transvaal, SA

Mar 9, 1886

Muslims organize the Muslim League in India

Mar 9, 1887

sought an independent Muslim state

Japan seizes Taiwan from CHina

Mar 9, 1895

Joseph Chamberlain colonial secretary in GB

Period: Mar 9, 1895 to Mar 9, 1903

Battle of Omdurman (GB)

Mar 9, 1898

Br army w/ Kitchener vs. Sudanese force w/ less advanced weapons
10,000 african warriors killed, 48 British men killed

Spanish-American War

Mar 9, 1898

US: puerto rico, philippines, Guam, Hawaii

US proposes Open Door Policy in Far East

Mar 9, 1899

Boxer Rebellion (Au-Hu, Fr, Ge, It, Ja, Ru, UK, US invade China)

Mar 9, 1900

rebellion endangered Western missionaries and western interest in china

Imperialism: A Study by J.A. Hobson (GB, soc, econ, pol)

Mar 9, 1902

motives for NI are economic
opposed GB conquest of SA durin the Boer War

Boer War (GB)

Mar 9, 1902

Anglo-French Entente

Mar 9, 1904

Herero revolt in S-W Africa vs. Germans w/ von Trotha

Mar 9, 1904

80% died by 1908

Anglo-Russian Convention

Mar 9, 1907

Belgium takes over Congo from Leo II

Mar 9, 1908

British combined SA colonies into confed

Mar 9, 1910

Japan annexes Korea

Mar 9, 1910

Italy- Libya from Turkey

Mar 9, 1911

Euro powers sought to maximize strategic control of African territory, markets, and raw materials

Mar 9, 1912

French protectorate in Morocco

Mar 9, 1912

GB combined territories into Nigeria

Mar 9, 1914

Lenin adopts and modifies Hobson's Ideas: Imperialism: the Highest Stage of Capitalism

Mar 9, 1916

monopoly stage of capitalism (last stage of a dying system)
competition leads to monopoly
Lenin wanted revolution