APWH Ch 14: Empires and Encounters Responses Margin Review Questions 1. What enabled Europeans to carve out huge empires an ocean away from their homelands? • Europeans were much closer to the Americas than were their potential Asian competitors. • Europeans were powerfully motivated after 1200 to gain access to the world of Eurasian commerce. • Groups within European society—including competing monarchs, merchants, impoverished nobles and commoners, Christian missionaries, and persecuted minorities—all had strong, if different, motivations for participating in empire building.
At that time, imperialism was a trend around the world. America became an imperialist nation because of economic reasons, military interest, and cultural superiority. Foreign policy experts insisted that U.S leaders should set up a military presence out of the country. Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor became the naval base for the United States. It was a refueling station for American military and merchant ships headed to Asia.
In the Caribbean Sea, the island of Saint Eustace was under Dutch control during the American Revolution and actually supplied the United States with large amounts of weapons, and could possibly be one of the deciding factors in the war. As these examples show, the Dutch have been very influential in US history. The Dutch started landing in the New World much like the other European countries – they were trying to find a route across the Atlantic Ocean to India for trade. As such, the first Dutch to land were not looking for new settlements, but the abundance of game and resources was a surprising find. That
Much of this economic emphasis was brought about by the industrial revolution, which created large surpluses of European capital and heavy demands for raw materials. Additionally, it brought about the accumulation of capital in which England sought investment abroad. The British had also forced China to open itself to the Opium trade in the 1840's. China in the middle of a social upheaval; The Tai Ping rebellion, was unable to prevent foreign domination of its trade. By the end of the 19th century, England, Germany, Russia, Japan, and the United States had all compelled China to trade with
The Spanish-American War The Spanish-American War (1898) is viewed by many to have been the first indication of America’s imperial ambitions – however, historical conflict persists when viewing the nature of this imperialism. Some view it as a state-directed form of expansion; others as adhering to a sinister ‘military-industrial complex’; some consider it an explosion of jingoism. The investigation does not focus merely on whether American intervention in Cuba, and its concurrent declaration of War on Spain, was imperialistic; I also seek to examine how different schools of thought – Revisionist, Economic, Marxist and Cultural – characterise this imperialism and explain its contribution to war’s outbreak. The question developed from contemporary
11/8/12 Per.2 History Imperialism Imperialism is the policy in which stronger nations extend their economic poltical, or military control over waeker territories was already a trend around the world. Imperialism is done by force. From the earliest years of nationhood, many americans looked for ways to expand the United States,both territorially and econmically.The United States was protected on both sides by vast oceans,and american citizens generally wanted to keep the rest of the world at arm's length. Reasons for Imperialism ,a desire for a miliary strength.The U.S had the techology to produre more than american people could cousume american needed more raw material. By then the United States had been settled,andthe nation
The war started when the American Indians became bitter about the settler’s encroachment on their land. Many grievances were also left unresolved from shady fur trades. A group of Yamasee Indians attacked and killed 90 white traders and their families (April 15, 1715).1 In early 1715, a confederation was formed consisting of Yamasee Indians and several other tribes. This confederation struck white settlements all over South Carolina. Many hundreds of settlers were killed while their homes were burned and their livestock destroyed.
This was the start of the First Chechen War. The conflict lasted from 1994 to 1996 and the brutal violence finally ended when the Russian troops left Chechnya. In 1999 the Russians began to attack again which started the Second Chechen war, also known as the War in the North Caucasus. The second war started because of terrorist attacks around Russia killing many like the bomb that went off in a Russian apartment killing 68 in 1996. There was suspicion that it was Chechens who caused these acts of terror.
Amermenia The Ottoman Empire embarked on a campaign of genocide, targeting its own Armenian population in the middle of World War I. The first day the Ottomans set out and rounded up the first Armenian intellectuals to be killed was the 24th of April, 1915. During this, 1.5 million men, women and children were slaughtered. The significance of this genocide is that the not only was it the first genocide, but it caused the end to the Armenians 3000 year-old heritage. Nanjing, China When the Japanese invaded China, they looted, raped, killed the Chinese civilians of Nanjing, even after they had surrendered to Japan.
Violence was often used to enforce the system of segregation. More than 2000 people were lunched or burned in the last two decades of the 19th century. As well as this, in the years after the Civi War, terrorist groups such as the White league and the Ku Klux Klan, also know as the KKK, were formed. These were set up as secret societies and their aim was to make sure that white people controlled society by terrifying black people and ethnic minorities. The KKK used brutal violence, black people were beaten, lynched, burned, shot or drowned.