The Scramble for Africa
Under the guise of humanitarianism, King Leopold II established this colony to personally extract rubber and ivory.
What is the Congo Free State?
While marketed as "modernization," the British introduced these two technologies primarily to move troops quickly and transport raw materials like cotton.
What are railroads and telegraphs?
This period, starting in 1868, saw Japan end the Shogunate and launch a frantic campaign to modernize and westernize.
What was the Meiji Restoration?
The United States established a "state within a state" in Latin America by controlling this strategic transit zone.
What is the Panama Canal Zone?
A country with its own government but under the control of an outside power is known as this.
What is a protectorate?
This term describes King Leopold II’s true motive in the Congo, where forced labor was used for maximum personal profit.
What is Economic Imperialism?
This 1857 rebellion was triggered by cultural insensitivity regarding rifle cartridges greased with animal fat.
What was the Sepoy Rebellion?
These powerful, family-owned banking and industrial monopolies provided the industrial backbone for Japan’s global rise.
What are Zaibatsu?
American sugar planters overthrew this monarch because she proposed a new constitution to restore power to native inhabitants.
Who was Queen Liliuokalani?
This term describes a region where an outside power claims exclusive investment or trading privileges.
What is a Sphere of Influence?
At the Berlin Conference, European powers redrew the map of Africa while almost entirely ignoring these two crucial social boundaries.
What are ethnic and linguistic boundaries?
Known as the "Father of Modern India," he founded the Hindu College to blend Western education with Indian cultural traditions.
Who was Ram Mohun Roy?
China and Japan fought the Sino-Japanese War of 1894 primarily over control of these two territories.
What are Korea and Manchuria?
This 1867 legal act created the first federal legislature in Canada and moved it toward "Dominion" status.
What was the British North America Act?
In economics, this occurs when a country exports more than it imports.
What is a trade surplus?
This Sudanese religious leader declared himself the "Guided One" and led a jihad against British and Turco-Egyptian rule.
Who was Muhammad Ahmad (the Mahdi)?
This term refers to the representative of the British king who ruled India in his name.
What is a Viceroy?
Japan’s victory in this 1905 conflict was the first time an Asian power defeated a European power in the modern era.
What was the Russo-Japanese War?
This liberal lawyer of Zapotec origin led the "La Reforma" movement to modernize Mexico.
Who was Benito Juárez?
This right allowed foreigners in China to be protected by the laws of their own nation rather than Chinese law.
What is extraterritoriality?
This is the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group, such as the tragedy committed by the Ottoman Empire against Armenians.
What is genocide?
These two traditional Indian practices—the burning of widows and the isolation of women—caused significant cultural clashes with British officials.
What are Sati and Purdah?
This 1898–1900 anti-foreign movement in China attempted to drive out "foreign devils" who were polluting Chinese culture.
What was the Boxer Uprising?
This American policy discouraged European intervention in the Western Hemisphere, effectively claiming the region for U.S. influence.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
These people are of mixed Native American and French Canadian descent.
Who are the Métis?