Southeast Asia
Modern day country formerly colonized by the Dutch
What is Indonesia?
The company in charge of British India from 17XX-18XX, initials EIC
What was the British East India Company?
United states Foreign Policy that forbids Europeans from further imperializing the Americas, while paving the way for American imperialism in the process
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Term used to describe the Europeans' rush to colonize Africa
What is the "Scramble for Africa"?
Zones where an Imperial power can project power and influence, usually used for trade
What are Spheres of Influence?
Initials VOC, the company that ruled over Dutch colonial holdings in Southeast Asia
What was the Dutch East India Company?
White cash crop grown in India to fuel industry back in Endland
What is Cotton?
This island was put under "new management" after the Spanish American war, switching from Spanish to American control
What is Puerto Rico?
Here the British built the first concentration camps, a place known for Cecil Rhodes and his DeBeeres diamond company and one end of the proposed railway across Africa
What is South Africa?
The British East India company got China addicted to this drug in order to create demand for trade
What is Opium?
Black and grown on plants native to Africa and Brazil, this is an important export of French Indochina, British Malaysia and the Dutch colonies in the former spice islands
What is Rubber?
India's once-thriving industry that was out-competed and sabotaged by the British
What is the Textile Industry?
This Latin American country had policies that favored immigration, making it second to only the U.S in Immigration. It also received more British Investment than some of Britain's colonies
What is Argentina?
African nation colonized by the British, yet rose to fill cotton demand caused by the American Civil War and one end of a proposed railway across Africa
What is Egypt?
The sequel to a war between China and Imperialist European powers Britain and France that ended with a multitude of Chinese concessions, one of which being the legalization of a certain drug
What was the Second Opium war?
This revolution started under Spanish rule, became apart of the greater Spanish American war, then continued under American rule after independence was not granted to them
What was the Philippine Revolution?
The rise and fall of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 caused and increase in this
What is Indian Nationalism?
What are Banana Republics?
The one of the only African nations to remain free, was unsucessfully invaded by the Italians
What is Ethiopia?
Emperor Cixi halted the _____________ of China, preferring to stick to traditions. This caused China to fall behind European powers
What is Modernization?
This system forced farmers in Dutch colonies to either grow cash crops or preform compulsory unpaid labor known as corvée labor
What was the Culture System?
The formation of the British Raj paved the way for this group to begin to air grievances with British rule and eventually call for self-governance
What was the Indian National Congress?
Japan attempted to start a settler colony via Colonization Society and France tried to invade this Latin American country
What is Mexico?
One of the only African nations to remain free, founded via an American Colonization Society
What is Liberia?
This treaty ended the Opium Wars, forcing China to cede various port cities to Great Britain
What was the Treaty of Nanking?