Social Studies Test 3/31/06
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- What was the religous mission for justifying expansion?
- spreading Christianity to pagans abroad.
- What was the political mission for justifying expansion?
- spreading democracy to the oppressed.
- What was the ecenomic mission for justifying expansion?
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1. Spreading industrilization
2. Prosperity
3. Spreading modern tech. to the poor. - What is White Man's Burden?
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Idea: Whites were superior racially and technologically to the poor and backwards.
-Spreading Capitolism - Who was Charles Darwin?
- a botnist and zoologist. He studied evolution of species.
- What is Social Darwinism?
- The idea of survival of the fittest.
- What was the voyage of the Beagle?
- Darwin took a voyage to the Galpagos Island to study evolution of species.
- What were the 3 critques of social Darwinism?
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1) "Fitness" is often created by a society rather than reflected by it.
2) Are we brothers/are we brothers' keepers.
3) False analogy - What was the real cause of Expansion Abroad?
- America was producing more food and manafacturing more goods than we needed so, we needed to sell them.
- What were the good reasons for Seward buying Alaska?
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1) oil reserves
2) gold
3) strategic location
4) great beauty - What were Mahn's boat changes?
- He switched Yankee Clipper boats to metal plated ones with a steamed power engine.
- What were China's Luxury goods?
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silk
tea
ivory
porcelain(china plates) - What were the China trade ideas?
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1840's 1) The Brits forced China to trade with them by using armies.
1890's 2)Spheres of Influence opened China to the world with trading zones.
1898 3)Open door policy- We "persuades", with force, Europeans to open China to the world. - What were the Midway Islands useful for?
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Midway islands useful for:
1)Strategic defense regarding Asia.
2)Stocking trade ships. - What does protectorate and abdicate mean?
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protectorate=
a country or region protected or partly controlled by a more powerful country.
abdicate=
to formally give up power or high office.