India & the Indies
Opium & China
Africa
Latin America & Hawaii
Key Terms
100
English company formed in 1600 that came to dominate the world textile trade
East India Company
100
Conflicts that began after China seized British opium in Canton
Opium Wars
100
West African region that became the world's largest cocoa producer
Gold Coast
100
Main crop traded by the United Fruit Company
Bananas
100
A crop grown to be sold rather than eaten
Cash crop
200
Raw material India supplied to British mills after the Industrial Revolution
Raw cotton
200
Treaty that ended the First Opium War
Treaty of Nanking
200

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Economy built on producing a single crop for export

Monocrop economy

200
Grassy plains of Argentina developed by British investors
Pampas
200
Foreign businesses gaining great economic power beyond their own borders
Economic imperialism
300

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Dutch policy forcing villagers to grow export crops or work government fields

Culture System

300
Zones where foreign powers held exclusive trading rights in China
Spheres of influence
300
West African export used to lubricate industrial machines
Palm oil
300
Unstable countries dependent on exporting one product under foreign corporations
Banana republics
300

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U.S. policy that kept trade in China open to all nations equally

Open Door policy

400
Name for Britain's direct rule over India after the East India Company lost control
British Raj
400

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Right of foreigners in China to be tried in their own country's courts

Extraterritoriality

400
Group of British weaving companies that dictated land use to farmers in Sudan
Plantation Syndicate
400
U.S. policy opposing European colonialism in the Americas
Monroe Doctrine
400
Colonial economy producing goods to be sold by the colonial power, not used at home
Export economy
500
Compulsory unpaid work owed by landless villagers under the Dutch Culture System
Corvée labor
500

Name three provisions of the Treaty of Nanking

Any 3: opened five ports, ceded Hong Kong, paid damages, allowed free trade (including opium), extraterritoriality

500
Belgian king's privately owned African territory, notorious for forced rubber labor
Congo Free State
500

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U.S. policy of using investment and loans to extend influence in Latin America

Dollar diplomacy

500
Term historians use for Britain's economic control over formally independent nations like Argentina
Informal empire
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