India
Indian soldiers of the British East India Company
What were sepoys?
Type of Imperialism based on trade and investment
What was sphere of influence?
Japanese military dictators
What were shoguns?
US policy of keeping Europeans from colonizing the Western Hemisphere (1823)
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
War in which Japan gained control of Korea (governed it until 1945)
What was the Russo-Japanese War?
Two main religious groups in India
What Hindus and Muslims?
The difference in how much country imports and how much a country exports
What is balance of trade?
Time when the emperors regained power from the shogunate...1860's
What was the Meiji Restoration?
From what county did many countries gain independence from in the 1820's and 1830's?
What was Spain?
Huge rebellion of Chinese peasants against the Qing Dynasty (millions dies)
What was the Taiping Rebellion
After it was created, Britain could reach India quicker
What was the Suez Canal?
US plan for China to open its borders to all industrialized nations for trade
What was the open door policy?
The emperors decided to _______________ in the late 1800's to keep from possibly being taken over.
What is modernize?
A result of the Spanish American War 1898
What was the US gained a sphere of influence in Cuba?
What was the US acquired the Philippines?
Britain gained this island as a result of the Opium Wars
What is Hong Kong?
Happened because of having to bite off cartridges greased with animal fat
What was the Sepoy Rebellion?
the idea that a person is protected by the laws of his own country while visiting or living in foreign lands
What is extraterritoriality?
American commodore that demanded trade and diplomacy with the Japanese?
Who was Matthew Perry?
A disease that proved to be a hindrance in building the Panama Canal
What was malaria or yellow fever?
Rebellion of Chinese citizens who wanted westerners and western influence and trade out of China
What was the Boxer Rebellion
"The crown jewel of the British Empire"
What was India?
1830's conflicts caused by British trade of opium for Chinese tea
What were the Opium Wars?
An area of Japanese (westernization) modernization
What was industry, clothing, government, education or military?
The US backed a Panamanian revolt against which country to gain the area around where the canal was built.
What was Columbia?
Result of the Sino-Japanese War 1894-95
What was Japan gained a sphere of influence in China? and
What was Japan acquired the island of Taiwan?