Significant Individuals
He helped to organized the Rough Riders during the Spanish American War.
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
Common Treaty Name in American History.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
Agricultural products that were not raised for consumption but for sale.
What were Cash Crops?
This was opened in 1869 to facilitate trade from Europe to Asia and avoid the unsafe travel around the Cape.
What was the Suez Canal?
This eventually defeated the mighty Zulu tribes.
What is superior weapons/technology?
This was "opened" up for European Countries to create Spheres of Influence.
What is China?
This East Asian Nation worked to modernize their nation to compete with European nations.
What was Japan?
He was the first Governor of the Cape Colony.
Who was Cecil Rhodes?
Religious Movement by Central Plains tribes in the US to call to ancestors for help - precipiated Massacre at Wounded Knee.
What was the Ghost Dance?
This was the primary industry of Chile and Peru.
What was Mining?
Monocrop of Ireland
What is the Potato?
The Sokoto Caliphate in West AFrica fought the British over what labor system? (Ironically)
What is slavery?
The grassy plains of Argentina - great for raising cattle.
What are the pampas?
Through Modernization and Diplomacy this East Asian Country avoided European Imperialism.
What was Siam?
She encouraged the boxers to kill westerners in the Boxer Rebellion.
Who was Dowager Empress Cixi?
The use of animal fats was a precipating factor in this violent and large scale rebellion.
What was the Sepoy Mutiny/Indian Rebellion of 1857?
Key trade item in China that created a massive trade deficit with the British.
What was Tea?
The Monroe Doctrine prohibited Europeans from doing this.
What was creating new colonies?
He lead a revolt in South America to protest the ancient and revived system of Mi'ta to pay increased taxes.
Who was Tupac Amaru II?
Serbia, Albania, Montenegro, Kosovo, Bosnia, Herzegovina were nations on this Peninsula (part of Ottoman Empire).
What is the Balkan Peninsula?
The Shogun were overthrown in Japan and replaced with this.
What was the Meiji Restoration?
She fought to retain the Golden Stool.
Who was Yaa Asentewa?
In 1788, criminals were sent there to form a penal colony.
What is Australia?
South African Company that controlled the Diamond Industry.
What is DeBeers?
While it could have made them money - farmers in Kenya were prohibited from growing what cash crops? (Name One)
What are Coffee and Tea?
The son of Massasoit, he rebelled against English colonists in Massachusetts.
Who was Metacom (or King Philip?)
The Dutch East India Company had a trade monopoly here.
What were the Spice Islands? (Indonesia)
The Taiping Rebellion tried to over throw this dynasty.
What was the Qing?
He burned 21K cases of Opium.
Who was Lin Zexu?
A term coined by O. Henry to describe small Central AMerican countries under the influence of a foreign corporation.
What is a banana republic?
Primary Cash Crop on the Gold Coast of Africa.
What was Cocoa?
Mande Chieftain who opposed the French in Guinea.
Who was Samory Toure?
These people killed their cattle to drive out the British.
Who were the Xhosa?
In 1799 The Dutch Government instituted this system, requiring farmers to grow cash crops or perform corvee labor.
What was the Culture System?
The Empress of China ordered the execution of foreigners during this event.
What was the Boxer Rebellion?