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The ship that carried the Pilgrims across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World.
What is the Mayflower?
This country received the island of Formosa (Taiwan) from China following the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895.
What is Japan?
The countries that had the most amount of territories.
What is Great Britain and France?
The policy, derived from the Latin word meaning 'command,' that describes a stronger nation extending its economic, political, or military control over weaker territories, especially peaking in the late 19th century.
What is the "Age of Imperalism"?
The year Christopher Columbus first reached the Americas.
What is 1492?
The famous department store that has hosted a major Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City since 1924.
What is Macys?
After losing the battle of the Opium Wars, this country was forced to sign a series of "unequal treaties" with Western powers.
What is China?
The country that had the least amount of territory.
What is Belgium?
Imperalism shows a increase in power within these three things.
What is economic, political, or military control?
This Greek city-state is considered the birthplace of democracy.
What is Athens?
This Founding Father, known for flying a kite in a thunderstorm, famously preferred the turkey to be the national bird.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This country, which acquired the Philippines in 1898, proposed the Open Door Policy to prevent other nations from carving up China and to ensure its own trade access.
What is the United States?
President Theodore Roosevelt referred to the foreign policy of this country as using the "Big Stick."
What is the United States?
The main economic reason imperial powers wanted colonies: new resources and customers for their goods.
What are Raw Materials and Markets?
The primary author of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The two NFL teams that traditionally play football games every single Thanksgiving Day.
What are the Detroit Lions and the Dallas Cowboys?
This European nation controlled a large territory in Southeast Asia known as Indochina, which included present-day Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.
What is France?
This country gained the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico after winning the Spanish-American War in 1898.
What is the United States?
A country or region completely governed by a foreign power.
What is a colony?
The type of slow, defensive warfare that defined the Western Front for most of World War I.
What is Trench Warfare?
The number of passengers and crew aboard the Mayflower when it set sail.
What is 102 passengers?
This country, which was an early colonial power, retained large territories in Africa well into the 20th century, including Angola and Mozambique.
What is Portugal?
This country controlled India, its most valuable colony, which it called the "Jewel in the Crown."
What is Great Britain?
The political reason for imperialism: wanting to gain more land than rivals to show national pride.
What is Nationalism?
The Italian fascist dictator who allied with Hitler to form the primary Axis powers in Europe.
Who is Benito Mussolini?