Rebellions and Resistance
Major indigenous uprising in Peru, led by Tupac Amaru II against the Spanish. (Spoilers)
What was the Tupac Amaru II Rebellion?
Industrialized nations dominated less industrialized nations in trade and commerce rather than conquest.
What is Economic Imperialism?
An act passed in the United States that severely restricted immigration of Chinese to the US. The only racially-motivated immigration law passed in the United States ever.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The wars that Britain fought against China after China dumped the illegal British opium in their harbor. (American revolution flashbacks)
What were the Opium Wars?
A conference where European powers partitioned Africa to limit competition, without the consent of the Africans.
What was the Berlin Conference?
A Native American spiritual movement that believed that performing this dance would bring back ancestors and drive the whites off of their land. Was suppressed by the U.S. Government, but is still performed today.
What was the Ghost Dance?
A colony where another nation permanently settles and tries to replace native populations.
What is a settler colony?
Areas that are home to a large group of people from the same ethnicity, like San Francisco’s Chinatown.
What are Ethnic Enclaves?
Treaty that ended the Opium Wars. Forced China to surrender Hong Kong and open 5 trade ports to the British.
What was the Treaty of Nanjing? (Nanking)
The name for the struggle over territory in Africa between European powers. Many industrialized European powers like Britain and France wanted access to Africa's vast natural resources.
What was the Scramble for Africa?
Anti-foreign and Anti-Christian violent uprising in China, led by a peasant secret society.
What was the Boxer Rebellion?
A joint-stock company that accidentally conquered India and turned it into a resource extraction area for British industries.
What was the British East India Company?
A set of racially-motivated immigration policies designed to keep non-Europeans out of Australia.
What was the White Australia Policy?
The French established this territorial block in Southeast Asia for resource extraction.
What was French Indochina?
A waterway connecting Egypt to the Mediterranean, built by the French using Egyptian labor.
What is the Suez Canal?
A deadly civil war in China due to an uprising against the Qing Dynasty. Led to 20-30 million deaths.
What was the Taiping Rebellion?
A racially-motivated ideology from the 19th century. People tried to classify other races the way Darwin classified birds, saying that white people were the most evolved.
What was Social Darwinism?
A famous Chinese diaspora in San Francisco.
What is Chinatown?
A secret society in China that staged a violent anti-foreign uprising.
What were the Boxers?
Conflicts in South Africa between the Boers and the British, which the British won.
What were the Boer Wars?
Major uprising against the British East India Company, especially over the greasing of rifles with cow/pig fat, which was offensive to Hindus and Muslims.
What was the Indian Rebellion of 1857?
A political ideology that Western powers used to justify colonizing places. They believed that they had a duty to bring their technology and industrialization to new, underdeveloped nations.
What was the Civilizing Mission?
Central American republics that were dominated by foreign corporations.
What were Banana Republics? (not the store)
British imperialism in Southeast Asia was mainly focused on controlling this peninsula.
What is the Malay peninsula?
This state was driven by industrial needs to capture the Suez Canal and they took over Egypt in the process.
What is Great Britain?