Southeast Asia
The colonies of Burma, Malaya, and Singapore were controlled by
What is Great Britain?
The country that colonized Nigeria, the Gold Coast, and eventually South Africa was
What is Great Britain?
This company initially colonized Africa using a form of economic imperialism.
What is the British East India Company?
The nationalist leader of the Cuban independence movement in the 1860s and 1890s.
Who is Jose Marti?
The belief that race determines traits and capabilities.
What is racism?
The countries of Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam were controlled by
What is France?
The Belgian Congo was a prized possession for this Belgian King. He wanted to extract precious minerals and rubber.
Who is King Leopold II?
The event in which Indian soldiers turned against their British colonizers.
What is the Sepoy Rebellion (Mutiny)?
In 1903, President Roosevelt sought to gain access to a valuable piece of land in the Central American country of Panama. What country did America help Panama gain independence from?
What is Columbia?
To incorporate a country within another country.
What is annex?
The only Southeast Asian country to maintain its independence was
What is Thailand?
This was built to connect the Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Suez Canal?
As a result of the Sepoy Rebellion, this person named themselves "Empress of India".
This stated that the U.S. had the right to intervene in any country in Latin America accused of "Chronic wrongdoing"
A colonial system in which a colonizing government replaces local leaders with members from the colonizing country.
What is direct control?
In 1898, the Philippines became a colony of
What is The United States?
The Boers were
What is Dutch settlers that farmed in South Africa.
A leader of a nationalist Indian movement that was know for peaceful protests.
Who is Mohandas Gandhi?
This man was the Mexican president that removed Porfirio Diaz from power in 1911 after promising land reform to peasants to gain support.
Who is Francisco Madero?
A political unit that depends on another government for its protection.
What is a protectorate?
The Vietnamese resistance movement that was started by the wealthy elites was called the
What is "Can Voung" (Save the Government)
The meeting of European countries that divided the African continent up into colonized territories.
The Berlin Conference of 1885.
Answers may include: Pros- universal education, industrialization, modernization (roads, bridges, medicine) Cons- poor working conditions for women and children, social and political inequality.
What type of economy did Mexico create in order to compete with the other industrialized countries of the world.
What is an Export Economy?
A term that describes people who are native to a region.
What is Indigenous?