The Dutch East Indies
The Dutch and the British governments both wanted to claim this island.
What is Sumatra?
The people of Acheh fought against the Dutch using this type of warfare, rather than using an organized army on a regular battlefield.
What is guerilla?
He was President Lincoln's general.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
The Ottoman Empire was ruled by a person called this.
What is a sultan?
The Ottoman Empire included the mountainous land north of Greece, which the Turks named this Turkish word for "mountain".
What is Balkans?
Tjoet Njak Dien was a fierce Achenese woman who became known as this.
What is "The Queen" or "Ibu Perbu"?
The British and the Dutch agreed to make Acheh in this type of place.
What is a "neutral zone"?
French-speaking colonists lived in a part of Canada known as Lower Canada, which was later named this. Ch. 6
What is Quebec?
This is who the Russians hoped would help them in their fight against the Turks.
Who was the British (or Great Britain)?
Revolutionaries from this place revolted against the Turks, but they weren't organized.
What is Bulgaria?
This happened in 1873.
What is the Dutch invaded Acheh (with 3,000 men)?
This is how the Dutch convinced mayors and chiefs in the East Indies to help them.
How is the Dutch promised to share their profits with the local mayors and chiefs?
This is why Louis-Napoleon took power away from the assembly. ch. 7
Why is the assembly wouldn't give him all the money he wanted, and they wouldn't agree to let him run for president a second time?
Young Bulgarians wanted these two things for their country.
What is a modern constitution and for their country to be free of the Turks?
This describes Murad V, Aziz's nephew.
What is he was not clever or brave? He fainted and threw up when he inherited the throne and he lost his wits.
This is why Indonesia was once known as the Dutch East Indies?
Why is the islands were east of India, so they were called the East Indies. When the Dutch government took control of the ports, they called them the Dutch East Indies.
This is why farmers of the East Indies begin to revolt against the Dutch.
Why is the Dutch government forced them to set apart one-fifth of their land to grow crops for the Dutch and spend three days a week working on this land, rather than on their own?
This is why the British helped fight against the Chinese revolutionaries. ch. 4
Why is because China had signed a treaty that would open up more Chinese ports to British merchants as soon as the rebellion was put down?
What is he ordered his soldiers to kill all of the Bulgarian revolutionaries and anyone who had helped them. His soldiers wiped out sixty villages and killed almost twelve-thousand Bulgarians?
This is how Abdulhamid II tried to improve his country.
What is he announced that the Ottoman Empire would have a constitution, like modern Western countries and an assembly that would meet together to make laws?
This is why the kingdom of Acheh was allowed to remain independent.
Why is it was to remain a neutral zone between the British in Signapore and the Dutch in Sumatra?
This was the trick that Dien and her husband played on the Dutch.
What is they pretended to surrender, then took Dutch guns, ammunition and cannons off to the Acheh guerrilla fighters.
This is why the provinces of Canada argue about forming a federation. (give 2 reasons) ch. 6
Why is many Canadians were afraid that the western territories of Canada would be taken by the United States, unless Canadians joined together? Smaller provinces, like Prince Edward Island, were afraid that a federation would give the larger provinces too much power.
This is the excuse that the Russian army used to invade the Ottoman Empire.
What is the Russians said that when the Turkish army had wiped out Bulgarian villages, Muslim soldiers had killed many Bulgarian Christians, and that the Christians of Russia were obliged to help protect their fellow believers?
This is why the Ottoman Empire was known as the "sick man of Europe".
Why is for many years, the Ottoman Turks had been growing weaker and poorer? The sultans spent too much money so they had to borrow from other countries just to pay their soldiers. Also, people in the Balkans, Anatolia and Lebanon were starting to ignore the sultan.