Mrs. Kalantrov
Global ll
Period 4
December 22, 2012 In Europe imperialism accelerated between 1870 and 1920 due to economic, political and social forces. The European nations developed ambitions because of the Industrial Revolution with advances in technology these nations were able to spread their control over the less-developed parts of the world. The empire-building frenzy has been viewed in a variety of perspectives on its causes. The economic force that is most responsible for the new imperialism that began in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries because of the demand of colonial raw materials (Doc. 1). Each country touched by the industrial revolution needed a "cash crop" to manufacture into