The canal built across across Egypt to connect the Mediterranean sea with the Red sea.
What is the Suez Canal?
Because European nations were superior in military strength, they carved out this within China and demanded exclusive trading rights and natural resources.
What are the spheres of influence?
_________ and __________ originally controlled European trade with Southeast Asia.
What are Portugal and Spain?
An area where Native Americans were moved covering what is now Oklahoma and parts of Kansas and Nebraska.
What is Indian Territory?
Britain decided to locate a _______ in Australia, which is a colony to which convicts are sent to as an alternative to prison.
What is a penal colony?
A colony in which people from the imperial country actually relocate to that place in order to live there.
What is a settler colony?
In China, European powers exercised a different kind of imperialism called ______
What is economic imperialsim?
The British conquered this place which provided them with an abundant amount of rubber.
What is Malaya?
The Cherokee Indians were forced to leave their land to go to the Indian territory, they had to travel hundreds of miles, and along the way, many Native Americans dies from exposure, malnutrition, disease, and exhaustion, this forced migration became known as _________
What is the Trail of Tears?
This was the struggle between the British empire and the Russian empire for control of Central Asia.
What was the Great Game?
This is the Belgian king who claimed congo,he used brutal policies to profit off of, and under these policies, over 8 million people died.
Who was Leopold ll?
Once Japan had modernized its military in the Meiji restoration, they wanted to expand to places rich in these.
What are raw materials?
The French controlled Cambodia, Laos, and all of modern day Vietnam, these nations came to be known as this.
What is Indochina?
This was a conflict between the U.S. and Spain, the U.S. had declared war on Spain, in which the U.S. won, and they brought Guam, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines under U.S. control.
What was the Spanish-American war?
The French established trading ports in India, however its loss to Britain in this war drove the French out of India.
What was the Seven Years' War?
The European powers competing for Africa would eventually lead to a war, so this was held for an orderly colonization of Africa.
What was the Berlin conference?
This country's imperial expansion eventually included Korea, holdings in Southeast Asia, some Pacific islands, and parts of China.
What is Japan?
The _________ took over spice trade from the Portuguese, setting up several trading posts. Even though the trade was profitable, the company went bankrupt due to corruption.
What was the Dutch East India Company?
White Americans believed they had a ________ which was a natural and inevitable right to expand to the pacific ocean.
What is a Manifest Destiny?
This treaty guaranteed that the rights of the original Maori inhabitants would be protected by the British crown.
What was the Treaty of Waitangi?
The British and Afrikaners continued to fight over land, thus conflict eventually led to _______. In the end, the British forced many of the Afrikaners and Africans off their land, forcing many into concentration camps.
What were the Boer wars?
This rebellion began in 1850, during this rebellion failed civil servant applicant, Hong Xiuquan and starving peasants, workers, and miners attempted to overthrow the Qing dynasty.
What was the Taiping Rebellion?
What is Siam?
President James Monroe issued this policy that stated European nations should not intervene with the affairs of the countries in the Western Hemisphere.
Who was Catherine ll?