Social Developments
This act, created in 1763, reserved the land between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River for Native Americans.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
These laws, passed in the United States, limited immigration from certain regions of Asia and encouraged American Citizens to discriminate against the immigrants who had already crossed over.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This was the belief of the White American that they had a natural and inevitable right to expand to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This word refers to mass emigrations from one country to another to escape poverty, political conditions, or famine.
What is diaspora?
his metal was widely mined in Chile in the mid 19th century which was used for telegraph cables and electrical power lines; makes cents!
What is copper?
This sort of work had people work a set number of years, either to pay for transportation from a poor community or to pay off debt.
What is indentured servitude?
This country created a constitution that guarantees to foreigners the same civil rights as its citizens. It led to an influx of European settlers, especially from Italy.
What is Argentina?
During the 19th century, this was the forced relocation of Cherokee Indians to new territories, now Oklahoma, where, in the process, many of them died from exposure, malnutrition, disease, and exhaustion.
What was the Trail of Tears?
These people were the original inhabitants of New Zealand.
Who are the Maori?
This resource, extracted from a tree of the same name, earned large profits from the nefarious King Leopold II of the Congo.
What is rubber?
This policy in Australia took action to limit non-British immigration in 1901.
What is the White Australian Policy?
This man, who descended from the last Incan ruler, arrested a colonial administrator, which led to the last Indian revolt in southern Peru. He was soon tortured and executed along with his family, ending the revolt in 1781.
Who is Tupac Amaru II?
During 1845-1849, the loss of major crops resulted in the emigration of ~3 million people.
What was the Great Famine?
This ritual by Native Americans, starting in 1869, was thought to encourage the dead to come back and help the living with the problems they were facing, but was soon suppressed by the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890.
What is the Ghost Dance?
The need for machinery to constantly be lubricated from 1750 to 1900 made this resource highly demanded, it was also used for candle making and originated from west Africa.
What is palm oil?
These two locations are twin island countries where their people practiced Hinduism and contributed to Caribbean musical traditions.
What is Trinidad and Tobago?
This region was known for setting the stage for World War One with the growing tensions of ethnicity after seeking independence from 1821 to 1912.
What is the Balkans?
This man-made sea-level waterway connects both the Mediterranean and the Red Sea.
What is the Suez Canal?
The Mahdist Revolution was an Islamic revolt against the Egyptian government in this country. An apocalyptic branch of Islam, Mahdism incorporated the idea of a golden age in which the Mahdi, translated as “the guided one,” would restore the glory of Islam to the earth.
What is Sudan?
This resource extracted from an animal of whom there are only 50,000 left was very popular among the nobility in the mid 19 hundreds and used for many expensive objects such as billiard balls and piano keys.
What is ivory?
This system in Malaya replaced indentured servitude, where families were recruited to work on tea, coffee, and rubber plantations in Ceylon, Burma, and Malaya.
What is the Kangani System?
The Spanish-American War (1898) was a conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in the U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America. This is the treaty that ended the war.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1898)?
This region, named after a precious metal, was introduced to cocoa in the 1880’s, turning it into a major cash crop and the largest producer in the world.
What is the Gold Coast?
The Treaty of Nanking (Nanjing), signed on this date, ended the First Opium War between Britain and China, forcing Qing China to cede Hong Kong, open five ports to British trade (Canton, Amoy, Foochow, Ningpo, Shanghai), pay a large indemnity, abolish the Cohong monopoly, and accept low tariffs, initiating China's "century of humiliation" and the era of unequal treaties.
When is August 29, 1842?
A company formed by Cecil Rhodes in 1880 and accounted for more than 90 percent of the world's diamond production which led to Cecil being one of the most powerful men in Africa.
What is De Beers Mining Company?