Overview
Instructions: Complete and then submit the answers to the questions below as directed by your instructor.
- Compare Manifest Destiny in the United States with European imperialism in Africa. What common influences shaped both kinds of expansion? How did they differ?
- Describe the challenges that mass nationalism and economic expansion posed for the multiethnic, multireligious empires of Austria-Hungary and Russia.
- Compare the Meiji Restoration with China's Self-Strengthening movement. What values did they share? Can you explain their differences?
- Explain the significance of steel and limited-liability joint-stock companies to the second industrial revolution.
- Analyze the cultural impact of imperialist ambitions on imperialist nations. How did notions of race and ethnicity shape the colonial mentality of Europeans, Americans, And Japanese?