British Invasions
The largest and most important city in Afghanistan.
What is Kabul?
Who are shoguns?
British merchants brought this drug to Chinese ports.
What is opium?
He became President Lincoln's general.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
They were Spanish colonists who had been born in South America rather than Spain.
Who are Creoles?
H.M. Stanley found David Livingstone at Ujiji, a village just east of this river.
What is the Congo River?
Japanese rulers wanted to keep Westerners out because they feared that Christianity would destroy this faith.
What is Buddhism?
They were followers of Hong Xiuquan.
Who are Taiping?
Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general, didn't approve of slavery, but he refused to fight against this home state.
What is Virginia?
Francisco Solano Lopez asked this country to join him in a fight against Brazil.
What is Argentina?
The Russian and British strategies to gain control of Afghanistan are known by this name.
What is the Great Game?
When the Crimean War began, he was the czar of Russia.
Who is Nicholas?
He became the first king of Italy in 1861.
Who is Victor Emmanuel II?
President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on this date.
What is April 14, 1865?
French-speaking colonists lived in Lower Canada, which was later named this city.
What is Quebec?
What is the Crystal Palace?
This family ruled Japan for over 200 years.
What is Tokugawa?
In 1850, the Chinese emperor belonged to this dynasty.
What is Qing?
The years after the Civil War were known as this time.
English-speaking colonists lived in Upper Canada, which was later given this name.
What is Ontario?
They were the native Indian soldiers who worked for the East India Company.
What are sepoys?
In 1853, he sailed into Edo Bay with four huge warships.
Who is Commodore Matthew Perry?
Giuseppe Mazzini formed this secret society.
What is Young Italy?
President Lincoln announced that all slaves in the Confederacy would be declared free in this executive order.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
To keep the Canadian provinces from rebelling,the Earl of Durham suggested giving power to them.
Who are assemblies?