China Adrift
During the end of his reign, Chi’en-lung gave power to Ho-Shen, his _________
favorite army officer
______ was a young congressman from Illinois who opposed the war with Mexico
Abraham Lincoln
The native people of New Zealand called themselves the Māori which meant _______
Ordinary people
The Spanish found gold in _____, and the Americans found gold in ________.
South America, California
Isaac Newton observed an apple falling to the ground. He named this force ______
Gravity
Britain
The young captain who led the U.S. to victory near Mexico City was _____
Robert E Lee
_______ was a Maori chief who rebelled against the British
Hone Heke
Marshall and his men found gold in the American River in the _____
Sacramento Valley
How old was Louis XIV when he became king?
Four
-ordered 60 Chinese opium merchants arrested
-Threatened to close all Chinese ports unless Canton ships handed over their opium
-Threatened to arrest British merchants trading opium
President Jackson proposed that Mexico sell ______ to the United States
Texas
What did the Māori receive in trade from the British?
How did Marshall test the gold to see if it was real?
He hammered it out
Canada
What did the Māori do to the British at Kororareka four times?
When a person in California wanted to claim land as his own, what did he do?
What did the Manchu force the Chinese to do as a sign of the Manchu’s control?
Wear their hair in the Manchu style
What did the Treaty of Nanjing(the unequal treaty) require of the Chinese?
Forced them to pay Britain for the destroyed opium, to allow British ships into 5 Chinese ports, and to allow English merchants to build settlements and live in China year round
Why did the Mexicans become annoyed with the Americans who lived in Texas?
The English speakers outnumbered Spanish speakers, the Americans refused to follow Mexican laws or convert to Catholicism. And Americans insisted on bringing their slaves to Texas.
How were the two versions of the Treaty of Waitangi different?
Maori version only gave the British the right to rule as long as they agreed with their actions. The British version said that the British had sovereignty - complete control - over the Māori lands.
People came to California from _______
England, France, China, Germany, and Sweden
How did the great fire in London get started?
A coal fell out of a baker’s oven