HIST 1007 : History Exam 2
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Answer the following using information from the text and lectures in class. You will be required to answer two of the following. Discuss the growth in imperialism from 1750 to 1900. Nineteenth-century imperialism: growth of a global economy. Imperialism is always related to economics: comes about with the emergence of global trade, 200% increase in global trade. Imperialism brings about arrogance from the europeans: build schools, bring medicine, more prevalent things to all over the world, christianity sends more missions, formal empires, british example, government in foreign territories, become extremely expensive to keep. Informal empires: america thrives at this, liberia had the interest of goodyear tires because of their rubber trees, forced trade with them, colonies were a way to say a country was better, more people under your flag. If europeans stopped a ship with slaves on it, they would set them free: human embargo slows down.
