Social Sciences and History / Unit 6 SSH 0528 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Imperialism's Motives, Means, and Costs
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The idea
Industrial nations wanted cheap raw materials, markets and harbors for steamships, and took Africa, Asia and the Pacific, aided by medicine, transport and weapons. The Scramble left nearly all Africa European; France took Indochina, Japan Korea; the United States the Pacific islands.
In practice
The Congo Free State's Force Publique enforcing quotas.
Where people slip
Cash crops, low wages, disease; India resisted by organizing.
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