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๐ŸŒAP World History: Modern Review

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Imperialism and Global Migration, c. 1750 - c. 1900

๐ŸŒAP World History: Modern
Review

Imperialism and Global Migration, c. 1750 - c. 1900

Written by the Fiveable Content Team โ€ข Last updated September 2025
Verified for the 2026 exam
Verified for the 2026 examโ€ขWritten by the Fiveable Content Team โ€ข Last updated September 2025

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Students can improve thesis writing with practice. A successful thesis needs to provide a historically defensible response to the prompt and outline a line of reasoning.

Overseas imperialism and global migration were two major, and related, developments, 1750 - 1900. New industrial technologies and economies provided the means and motivation for some European countries, plus the US and Japan, to expand their overseas empires. These empires extracted resources from colonized and justified their expansion with racist rationales. Colonized peoples resisted in multiple ways. These empires, especially the British empire, created new migration networks. Many indentured laborers from South Asia migrated through these.