Imperialism
When a larger or stronger nation takes over a generally smaller or weaker nation.
Imperialism
Forced separation by race.
Segregation
Why did European countries want to create colonies in Africa?
Answers may vary. Land, Resources, a chance to create wealth.
What large event that was a national crisis occurred in Ireland between 1845 and 1852.
The Irish Potato Famine
The policy of increasing the amount of territory a government holds.
Expansionism
What was the monarchy of Austria-Hungary called?
The Dual Monarchy
Creole
Great Britain and France
What country was in control of Ireland prior to, and during the potato famine.
Great Britain
An idea that the United States should stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean.
Manifest Destiny
A drug that the British exported in large amounts to China.
Opium
People of Native American and European descent.
Mestizo
Why didn't many African countries want European interference?
What were created in order to try and provide the poor in Ireland a job and a place to live.
Workhouses
Territory purchased by Thomas Jefferson from France in 1803.
The Louisiana Purchase
Self-rule
Autonomy
People of African and European descent.
Mulatto
How did European nations justify colonization attempts in Africa?
They believed that because they were more technologically advanced, they were improving conditions in Africa.
What was the primary cause of the Irish Potato Famine?
The potato crops were infected with a fungus that the Irish called "The Blight", making the potatoes inedible.
A period of reduced economic activity.
Recession
A French leader who was Emperor of the Second Empire of France.
Napoleon III
A self-educated slave who led a successful rebellion in present day Haiti.
Toussaint L'Ouverture
A war in which the British defeated a group in South Africa.
The Boer War
What did Irish Penal Laws say about property inheritance?
That if a Catholic landowner died, his land would go to his son if his son became Protestant.
Violent attacks on Jewish communities.
Pogroms