19th century wars
Boer Wars and Zulu Wars location.
Where is South Africa?
This empire fought multiple wars to gain control of South Africa and its gold and diamonds.
Who were the British?
Where are cities?
Sepoy Rebellion or Mutiny locations.
Where are India and Pakistan?
Red River, Victorios, Wounded Knee people and location.
Where is North America and who are Indigenous Americans?
This war was fought to modernize Japan and lead them into the Meiji Restoration where they would renegotiate their unequal treaties and modernize their country.
What is the Boshin War?
This technology would replace muskets and rifles on the battlefield.
What are machine guns?
Maori Wars were indigenous people from here fighting the British.
Where is New Zealand?
The United States claimed to help these people gain their independence from Spain in 1898, then went behind their backs and purchased this archipelago from Spain. They eventually gained their independence.
Who are the Philippines?
This American imperialist war was fought in 1845-1848 and led to the gaining of Texas, and the southwest including California.
What is the Mexican American War?
Living conditions for the poorest factory workers in the industrial cities are best described as this.
What are crowded, unsanitary and unsafe due to fire hazards and lack of access to clean drinking water?
The United States struggle against North African piracy.
What were the Barbary Wars?
This Caribbean island became a United States territory (and still is) as a result of the Spanish American War.
What is Puerto Rico?
This conference was held in 1884-1885 to carve up (what had not already been claimed) Africa for western imperialist nations.
What was the Berlin Conference?
James Watts perfection of this power was applied to transportation, manufacturing and just about any other thing you could imagine.
What is steam?
Greece gained independence from this weakening empire.
Who were the Ottomans?
Franco-Prussian, Austro-Prussian, and Schleswig Wars were some that brought about unification of this country (they didn't get Denmark).
What is Germany?
This empire and now country views the 19th century as their century of humiliation due to their multiple defeats and concessions to western powers.
What is China?
These were formed to improve labor conditions in factories, and were often violently suppressed by factory owners and the government.
What are labor unions?
These two empires were frequently fighting over control of the Crimean Peninsula and the Black Sea.
Who were the Russian and Ottoman Empires?