The New Imperialism was new for the main reasons of the increased capacity and quality of emerging technology brought on by the Industrial Revolution and the power of westernized, modern European nations. The increase in manufacturing that was the result of the Industrial Revolution brought about the need to sell goods to other markets in order to increase the profit that the rising economic powers were after. This was one justification of Britain's expansion into Africa. Another characteristic of the New Imperialism was the political force of Nationalism that played a huge role in the expansion, and more importantly in the uprisings, that occurred in this period. The area of time in which the most conquest occurred was from about 1870 to 1914, and most of it occurred in Africa.
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