Unhappy Unions
Many Irish farmers grew wheat and oats for their British landlords, but they kept this crop for themselves.
What are potatoes?
Pedro II agreed with his father that this was a "cancer" on Brazil and should be outlawed.
What is slavery?
Alexander II of Russia belonged to this royal family.
Who are the Romanovs?
What is Korea?
The Chinese government had its headquarters here, inside Beijing.
What was the Forbidden City?
He was the British Prime Minister who insisted that the Corn Laws should be repealed.
Who was Peel?
Abdulhamid II became known by this name because he had shed so much blood.
What is Abdulhamid the Red?
Russians who spoke out against Alexander III were sent here.
Where is Siberia?
Cuba was important to Spain because many fields of this crop grew there.
What is sugarcane?
After the Boxer Rebellion, Russia decided to seize this country.
What is Korea?
This British Prime Minister asked Parliament to pass the Home Rule Bill.
Who was Gladstone?
This group of medical students wanted to change the Ottoman Empire and the way it was ruled and form a new country.
Who are Young Turks?
What are Liberia and Ethiopia?
Name one of two American newspaper owners who published exaggerated stories about the Cuban crisis.
Who were Hearst and Pulitzer?
He was the commander of the Japanese navy during the Boxer Rebellion.
Who was Togo?
The war between Great Britain and the Afrikaners, according to the British.
What was the Boer War?
The first emperor of Brazil, Pedro I, was the son of the king of this country.
What is Portugal?
Yohannes IV and Menelik II both argued over who deserved this traditional Ethiopian title.
What is King of Kings?
He led a band of soldiers nicknamed the Rough Riders in a famous battle up San Juan Hill.
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
This American President helped arrange a peace treaty between Russia and Japan.
Who was T. Roosevelt?
Boers wanted to be called by this name to signal their African birth/citizenship coupled with their European ancestry.
What are Afrikaners?
The medical students at Istanbul University and other colleges wanted the Ottoman Empire to have this.
What are secular laws?
After the Battle of Adowa, Menelik earned this title.
What is Lion of Africa?
Theodore Roosevelt was the Assistant Secretary of the Navy who helped direct U.S. battleships during this war.
What was the Spanish-American War?
She, not her husband Guangxi, was the real ruler with all the power during the Boxer Rebellion.
Who was Cixi?