THE BRITISH ARE COMING
KING LEOPOLD THE NOT-SO-FRIENDLY GHOST
THE WAR WITH SPAIN STAYS MAINLY IN THE PLAIN
USA! USA!?
100

Armed resistance against the British East India Company that ultimately led to Crown control of India

What is the Sepoy Mutiny/Indian Rebellion of 1857?

100

City that hosted an 1812 conference in which European divided up African colonial possessions

What is Berlin?

100
Future US president who famously fought with the Rough Riders in Cuba in the Spanish-American War

Who is Teddy Roosevelt?

100

19th century American belief that it was the country's fate to spread from the Atlantic to the Pacific

What is manifest destiny?

200

Most historians consider the main positive contribution of the British in India

What is the railroad?

200

Main justification given by King Leopold for governing the Congo as a private colony

What is converting Congolese people to Christianity?

200

Representative of the U.S. in political cartoons of this era

Who is Uncle Sam?

200

The near-eradication of this animal made Native Americans increasingly dependent on the federal government

What is the American bison?

300

Pashminas, calicos, and silks are all examples of this, Britain's main economic motive for imperialism in India

What are textiles?

300

The plant in the Congo jungle that, forcibly harvested, made Leopold a fortune 

What is rubber?

300

3 major US territorial gains in the Spanish-American war

What are Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines?

300

The last queen of this island nation was Liliuokalani before the US took over in 1893

What is Hawai'i?

400

The British fought multiple wars in China in order to continue selling this illicit drug there

What is opium?

400

A common, bloody practice for enforcing Belgian power in the Congo

What is cutting off hands?

400
Famous poem by Rudyard Kipling in response to the U.S. takeover of the Philippines

What is the White Man's Burden?

400

From Frederick Jackson Turner, the idea that the winning of the west meant the end of one era of American history and the beginning of a new (imperialist) one

What is the "frontier thesis"?

500

Britain's colonial stronghold in Northern Africa

What is Egypt?

500

The ironic name of King Leopold's private colony in Africa

What is the Congo Free State?

500

Battleship that exploded in Havana harbor, setting off the Spanish-American War

What is the U.S.S. Maine?

500

Nation that gained independence from Colombia with US assistance related to US economic goals

What is Panama?