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Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founded a new colony under the name of Malay Peninsula. They wanted to control Burma in order to protect their possessions in India. Britain then wanted control over the next kingdom to fall, Burma. -
The war lasted from 1846-1848, and Mexico was defeated and also lost at least 1/3 of its original territory. -
Before 1850 Africa, Asia and oceans were unknown to Europeans. The British and the French led expeditions that mapped out Africa -
New innovations in steel production, petroleum and electricity led to the introduction of public automobiles and airplanes. -
Imperialism is the state policy, practice, or advocacy of extending power and dominion, especially by direct territorial acquisition or by gaining political and economic control of other territories and peoples. -
Industrial capitalism saw the rapid development of the factory system of production, characterized by much more rigid, complex, and intricate divisions of labor, both within and between production processes, to which reference has already been made. -
Because the Industrial Revolution increased the production capacity of Western states astronomically, there was an enormous hunger for raw materials to satisfy demands. -
Immigrants were generally more willing to accept lower wages and inferior working conditions than native born workers. -
The industrial revolution created the need for Europe to take over colonies around the world.The industrial revolution was the force behind this New Imperialism, as it created not only the need for Europe to expand, but the power to successfully take and profitably maintain so many colonies overseas. -
King Leopold II was the real driving force behind the colonization of Central Africa. Leopold's claim to the vast territories of the Congo aroused widespreadbconcern among other European states. -
They were great replations of the telegraph because they were great ways for communication across the world. -
The elecricity was invented to Nikola Tesla -
European states had been content, especiall in Africa and Asia, to set up a few trading post where there materials could be traded amoung. -
During the Spanish-American War, United States naval forces under Commodore George Dewey defeated the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay. Believing it was his moral obligation to "civilize" other parts of the world. -
Art of the Industrial Revolution tends to be pastoral, plein-aire, more often a reaction.