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Vocabulary
People
Rebellions
Places
Stuff & Things
100
Country with its own government but under the control of an outside government.
Protectorate
100
Commodore of the American Navy fleet that approached Japan and gave Japan a letter from the President.
Matthew Perry
100
Poor martial artists in China who rebelled against "foreign devils" from the West in this rebellion.
Boxer Uprising (or Boxer Rebellion)
100
The Boer War, between the Boers & the British Empire, occurred in which African country?
South Africa
100
The taking over of multiple countries. by one country, in all aspects (social, political, economical, and cultural).
Imperialism
200
Area in which an outside power claims exclusive investment or trading privileges.
Sphere(s) of Influence
200
British African adventurer/explorer who wrote stories of his interactions and got "lost" in central Africa before being "found."
David Livingstone
200
War between China & Britain where China lost miserably... all over a controlled drug.
Opium War
200
Boxer Uprising & Opium War both involve this country.
China
200
unification (of colonies, like with Canada or Britain)
Confederation
300
Initiated by President Monroe, said that the Western hemisphere (the Americas) were off limits to European intervention and colonization.
Monroe Doctrine
300
Westerners' nickname during the Boxer Uprising.
"Foreign Devils"
300
The mass killing of a ethnic, cultural, or political group.
Genocide
300
Connection "area" between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea.
Suez Canal
300
Named after the Japanese reformers that transformed Japan into a modern society today in the Emperor's stead, this movement is called?
Meiji Restoration
400
Where people convicted of crimes are sent...
Penal Colony
400
Ruler of the Congo, worked briefly with Stanley & Livingstone to understand the surrounding Congonese area.
King Leopold II
400
The rebellion against the Qing Dynasty by the poor peasants. One of, if not the most, bloodiest revolt in history. Neither side really "wins."
Taiping Rebellion
400
Connection "area" between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in the Western Hemisphere.
Panama Canal
400
Self-governing nation... known as a...
Dominion
500
Payment for losses in a war. EX: Britain demanded this from China in the Opium War.
Indemnity.
500
Hawaiian Queen and last monarch of Hawaii before U.S. annexation.
Queen Liliuokalani
500
The war that lead to the control of the Philippines and Cuba by the United States that started with a naval ship explosion in 1898.
Spanish-American War
500
Name for the colonial holdings of France in Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia).
French Indochina
500
The "native" or "original" people of a specific area... the first settlers.
Indigenous