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This economic phase of the 2nd half of the 19th century fueled imperialism.
What is the 2nd Industrial Revolution?
Name one of two nations in Africa that remained free from European imperialism
What is Ethiopia/Liberia?
The largest area acquired by the US after the Spanish American War, they led a decades long fight against American occupation and gained independence after World War II
What is the Philippines?
What is tea, porcelain, and silk?
A type of colonialism where a population from the dominant power moves to the area being imperialize and seeks to replace and erase the indigenous population.
What is settler colonialism?
This area was taken over by the owners of US fruit and sugar companies as a coup against the traditional rulers before being annexed by the US.
What is Hawaii?
Who is Matthew Perry?
In this theory, ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" were applied to people and nations to justify imperialism as well as poverty in industrialized nations.
What is Social Darwinism?
1857 mutiny between the British and Indian soldiers that resulted in stronger British control over the country
What is the Sepoy Rebellion?
In this country, the US wanted to be able to trade in everyone's sphere of influence. To do so, they issued a statement/policy with this name.
What is the Open Door Policy?
Japan fought and won both of these wars, against powers which had traditionally exceeded them in both strength and territory.
What is the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War?
These were led by reformers, many of whom were former abolitionists, and falsely identified indigenous culture as uncultured while spreading European cultural beliefs.
What are 'civilizing' missions?
Name of the Emperor and Empress who led Ethiopian forces at the Battle of Adwa
Menelik II and Taytu
The nickname for the Spanish American War
What is the splendid little war?
Name of the strategy the US used to open Japan to trade after they refused to sign a treaty.
What is gunboat diplomacy?
With the increase of industrial farming in the 19th century, new fertilizers were needed, such as this one found on remote, uninhabited Pacific Islands.
What is (bird) guano?
What is malaria?
The name for indigenous rulers in India; these leaders sometimes worked with British colonizers and sometimes lead resistance against them.
Who are Raj?
Name the populated territories that the US gained during late 19th and early 20th century that it still possesses today. There are 5 total.
What is Puerto Rico, Guam, Hawaii, American Samoa, US Virgin Islands?
Several European countries grabbed areas of China for exclusive trading rights, and the areas were known as...
What are 'spheres of influence'?