Famous Leaders/People
On Jan. 17, 1893, this monarch was overthrown when a group of businessmen and sugar planters forced this ruler to abdicate. The coup led to the dissolving of this Kingdom two years later.
Queen Liliuokalani
This U.S. Navy ship that sank in Havana Harbor during the Cuban revolt against Spain, an event that became a major political issue in the United States.
U.S.S. Maine
a state that is controlled and protected by another.
protectorate
1.
Israel
What is the capital and nickname of the largest Pacific State?
Sacramento and The Golden State
Leader of the Ethiopians - he modernized Ethiopia and is also remembered for leading Ethiopian troops against the Kingdom of Italy in the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
Emperor Menelik II
The name for the war between Great Britain and China over restrictions to foreign trade
Opium War
the task that white colonizers believed they had to impose their civilization on the black inhabitants of their colonies
White Man's Burden
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Ireland
Patriots' star player Tom Brady holds the title for the quarterback with the most Super Bowl wins (six). How many total Super Bowls has he played in?
Nine
Teddy Roosevelt’s regiment of volunteer soldiers who fought bravely in Cuba during the war.
Rough Riders
The United States would acquire these territories as a result of victory in the Spanish American war.
Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. (Cuba technically gained its independence, but United States soldiers remained in the country for years, commonly intervening in the new nation's politics).
Exaggerated, sensationalized news.
Yellow Journalism
3.
Norway
What are four types or ways of imperialism?
political, economic, military, and cultural
A United States Marine Corps major general, the highest rank authorized at that time, and at the time of his death the most decorated Marine in U.S. history. During his 34-year career as a Marine, he participated in military actions in the Philippines, China, in Central America and the Caribbean during the Banana Wars, and France in World War I. He later became an outspoken critic of U.S. wars and their consequences, and also exposed an alleged plan to overthrow the U.S. government.
Smedley Butler
At this conference, European nations divided up the land of Africa amongst themselves without any African leaders present.
The Berlin Conference of 1884-1885
the application of the evolutionary concept of natural selection to human society. Was used to justify political conservatism, imperialism, and racism and to discourage intervention and reform.
Social Darwinism
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The Netherlands
African-American regiment formed during the American Indian Wars. They fought in Cuba & won 5 medals of honor.
Buffalo Soldiers
King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909. He founded and exploited the Congo Free State as a private venture and atrocities were perpetrated there under his rule
King Leopold II
fought between the British Empire and two states, the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, over the Empire's influence in South Africa.
The Boer War
a country or area in which another country has power to affect developments although it has no formal authority.
Sphere of Influence
5.
Iran
Which one of these is NOT a neighborhood of Boston?
Allston, Bay Village, Beacon Hill, Brighton, Brookline, Charlestown, Chinatown, Dorchester, Downtown, East Boston, Fenway, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Mattapan, Mission Hill, North End, Roslindale, Roxbury, South Boston, South End, West End
Brookline