Question 1

What was economic imperialism?

Accepted Answer

Situation where foreign business interests have a lot of influence over a country

(Britain had economic imperialism over China during the opium wars)

Question 2

What was the Culture System?

Accepted Answer

A Dutch revenue system in the Dutch East Indies which forced farmers to choose between growing cash crops or performing corveé labor

(very exploitative)

Question 3

What is opium?

Accepted Answer

An addictive drug that relieves pain and reduces stress

Britain sold opium to China for profit

Question 4

What was the Treaty of Nanking?

Accepted Answer

A treaty to end the First Opium War that required China to...

open four additional ports to foreigners

give Hong Kong to Britain

pay damages

allow free trade

(neither side was satisfied)

Question 5

What was the First Opium War?

Accepted Answer

A war between Britain and the Qing Dynasty, where the Qing attempted to stop illegal importation of opium

(opium had horrible effects on the Chinese population, which is why the Emporer banned it in 1729)

Question 6

What was the Second Opium War?

Accepted Answer

Another war between the Qing Dynasty and Britain (also including France) that pressured China to legalize opium

Question 7

What was the Plantation Syndicate?

Accepted Answer

A group of British weaving companies that dictated land use to farmers in Sudan

Question 8

What did the British do after colonizing Uganda?

Accepted Answer

Encouraged cotton as a cash crop, which soon replaced enslaved people and ivory as the biggest export

Question 9

Why did Argentina become the richest country in Latin America?

Accepted Answer

It received lots of investments from British companies and entrepreneurs

Question 10

What are "banana republics"?

Accepted Answer

Small Central American countries under the economic power of foreign corporations

Often politically unstable and dependent on limited exports such as bananas

Question 11

What are the Pampas?

Accepted Answer

Fertile Southeamerican lowlands that are primarily in Argentina

Allowed for large-scale farming, after British investment

6.5 - Economic Imperialism, AP World History: Modern Flashcards