The document defines and discusses several key concepts related to imperialism: 1) Imperialism involves extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or force, while colonialism involves acquiring political control over another country and exploiting it economically. 2) Social Darwinism supported imperialism and racism by arguing that stronger countries had a right to dominate weaker ones, similar to survival of the fittest among species. 3) "The White Man's Burden" poem promoted the idea that white races had a responsibility to care for non-white subjects they ruled. 4) The scramble for Africa in the late 1800s saw European powers invade, attack, and occupy Africa to claim

1. Unit 4 Vocabulary
By: Matthew Koen

2. Imperialism

3. Imperialism defined
• Imperialism is a policy of
extending a country’s power and
influence through diplomacy, or
military force.
• Colonialism is the policy or
practice of acquiring full or
partial political control over
another country, occupying it
with settlers, and exploiting it
economically.
• Annexation is the act of annexing
something, esp. territory.

4. Social Darwinism
• The theory that said that individuals
are subject to the rights of the
Darwinian laws of natural selection
as plants and animals, this theory
backed up Imperialism,
conservatism, and racism.
• If there someone were to take over
the country by a mutual diplomacy
then They would have a right in
Imperialism, I believe they used
darwinism in the Diplomatic way to
have the leaders of that country to
come to their agreement.

5. “White Mans Burden”
• The “White Man’s Burden,” is the
supposed responsibility that a white
race to provide care for their non-
white subjects. It was a poem written
by Kipling Hymn to U.S. Imperialism.

6. Racism and missionary
impulse
• Racism: Prejudice, discrimination,
and directed against someone of a
race based on such a belief.
• A policy for authority in which they
restrict the freedom and
responsibilities of those
subordinate to them, in the
subordinates supposed best
interest. This could be racist if it
were to be exemplified by a white
master and a black save, etc.
• Missionaries could of used
paternalism in the way that saying
that it was in their best interest to
join God and go to heaven, in that
way it was paternalism.

7. The scramble for Africa
• The scramble for Africa occurred
between the 1880’s- 1914.
• The scramble was a process of
invasion, attack, and occupation by
European powers.
• The Berlin conference allowed
colonization and trade in Africa, for
European powers.
• Ethiopia and Liberia were the only
two countries that were not
colonized in Africa during the
scramble.

8. Nationalism
• Nationalism is the
advocacy of political
independence for a
particular country.

9. Colonized VS. the
colonizers
• A reason why a
industrialized country would
take over another one, is
probably they needed to
expand, and they new they
could take them over do to
the opponents lack of
technology.
• The reaction of the victims I
could assume is the feeling of
being overwhelmed by the
enemy.