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Denne's Chapter 25
Question | Answer |
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The belief that race determines a person’s traits and capabilities | Racism |
Native to a region | Indigenous |
Colonial government in which local elites are removed from power and replaced by a new set of officials brought from the colonizing country | Direct Rule |
A colonial government in which local rulers are allowed to maintain their positions of authority and status | Indirect Rule |
A political unit that depends on another government for its protection | Protectorate |
To make use of unfairly for one’s own advantage | Exploit |
To send a product or service for sale to another country | Export |
To incorporate into an existing political unit, such as a city or country | Annex |
A governor who ruled as a representative of a monarch | Viceroy |
An Indian soldier hired by the British East India Company to protect the Company's interests in the region | Sepoy |
The extension of a nation’s power over other lands | Imperialism |
Not mapped, unknown | uncharted |
Involving the general public or civic affairs | civil |
A sociological, economic, or political subdivision of society | sector |
The diplomacy that seeks to strengthen the power of a country or effect its purposes in foreign relations by the use of its financial resources | dollar diplomacy |
The working class | Proletariat |
The middle class, including merchants, industrialists, and professional people | Bourgeoisie |
A movement in which writers and artists between 1870 and 1914 rebelled against the traditional literary and artistic styles that had dominated european cultural life since the Renaissance | Modernism |
An internal movement originally for the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine and later for the support of modern Israel | Zionism |
The movement for women’s rights | Feminism |
Production of goods in quantity usually by machinery | Mass Production |
A Marxist who rejected the revolutionary approach, believing instead in evolution by democratic means to achieve the goal of socialism | Revisionist |
A method by which a therapist and patient probe deeply into the patient’s memory; by making the patient’s conscious mind aware of repressed thoughts, healing can take place | Psychoanalysis |
The right to vote. | suffrage |
Theory used by western nations in the late nineteenth century to justify their dominance; it was based on Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection, “ the survival of the fittest,” and applied to modern human activities | Social Darwinsim |
The most important figures in the uprising in 1857 in India were | disgruntled sepoy troops. |
Between 1859 and 1893, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos all fell under the control of | France |
The Berlin Conference | devised the ground rules for the European colonization of Africa. |
Old imperialism was different than new imperialism because | old imperialism was about setting up trading companies. |
The 2 European countries that had the largest colonial empires were | Great Britain and France. |
Which Asian country was growing in the 19th century? | Japan |
Which of the following was an effect of British domination? | The Indians became interested in their own culture. |
What role did Emiliano Zapata play in the Mexican Revolution? | He led the call for agrarian reform. |
What did Western nations hope to gain by establishing new colonies after 1880? | Raw material for their industrial and markets to sell their products. |
Citizens of the colonies probably preferred indirect rule over direct rule because | there would be be fewer changes to their way of life |
Europeans were interested in West Africa especially for its | raw materials. |
What is one important reason that European nations met at the Berlin Conference? | Europeans countries wanted to settle conflicting claims for lands in Africa. |
Which segment of Latin American society grew as a result of the new prosperity? | Middle sectors |
The call for agrarian reform in Mexico led to | redistribution of land. |
The United States used dollar diplomacy to | expand its economic influence in Latin America. |
Which of the following benefited from Diaz’s dictatorial reign in Mexico? | Foreign capitalists |
European nations began to search for new overseas colonies after 1880 to | obtain raw materials for their industries and open new markets for their products. |
The colonial takeover of Southeast Asia began with the rivalry between which two nations? | France and Britain |
One reason the Great Rebellion did not succeed was that | Hindus and Muslims could not work together. |
What was the immediate goals of the Indian National Congress? | A share in the governing progress of India. |
Under the reign of Porfirio Diaz, | a few wealthy families owned most of the land. |