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Imperialism
(Willis) Unification, Reform, Imperialism
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| A conflict over religion and territory and for power among European ruling families. | Thirty Years' War |
| She was heir to the Austrian throne. Her main enemy was Prussia. | Maria Theresa |
| He was the monarch of Prussia who enforced his father's military policies, encouraged religious toleration, and legal reform. | Frederick the Great |
| In 1756, Prussia attacked Austria's ally drawing every great European power into war. Fought in Europe, India, and North America. The war lasted until 1763. | Seven Years' War |
| The monarch of Russia that came to the throne in 1533 when he was only three years old. | Ivan the Terrible |
| Russia's landowning nobles. | Boyars |
| This monarch was one of Russia's greatest reformers. He also increased the power of the czar. | Peter the Great |
| The title for the king of Russia, meaning "Ceasar." | Czar |
| Using western Europe as a model for change. | Westernization |
| A Protestant revolt against the Catholic Hapsburg rulers in 1618 that resulted in the Thirty Years' War. | Bohemian Protestants Revolt |
| This ended the Thirty Years' War and weakened the Hapsburgs while stregthening France. | Peace of Westphalia |
| Peasants who are legaly bound to the land. | Serfs |
| Pride in one's country. | Nationalism |
| He was a nationalist leader who founded young Italy. | Guiseppe Mazzini |
| He was the monarch of Sardinia who wanted to unify Italy to increase his own power. | Victor Emmanuel II |
| He was made prime minister in 1852 and his main goal was to drive Austria out of Italy and to unite Italy. | Count Camillo Cavour |
| A state of disorder due to the absence of a government system. | Anarchy |
| In southern Italy, he led a volunteer force of 1,000 "Red Shirts." | Giuseppe Garibaldi |
| People who move from their homeland. | Emigrate |
| The unique government system where two separate kingdoms are ruled by the same monarch. | Dual Monarchy |
| The 18-year old that inherited the Hapsburg throne in 1848. | Francis Joseph |
| The person who came up with the idea of a dual monarchy. | Ferenc Deak |
| The nation that was formed as a result of the dual monarchy. | Austria-Hungary |
| European powers viewed the Ottoman empire as the | Sick man of Europe |
| Meaning huge. | Colossus |
| The name for the rulers of Russia. | Tsar |
| When Alexander freed the serfs, he gave them ______. | emancipation |
| Local government in Russia. | Zemstvos |
| Violent mob attacks on Jews in Russia. | Pogroms |
| The event in Russian history that led the Russian people to lose faith in the Tsar. | Bloody Sunday |
| National government system in Russia. | Duma |
| To extend a nation's boundaries. | Expansionism |
| The idea that the U.S. was destined to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific. | Manifest Destiny |
| The largest addition of land added to the U.S. in 1803. | Louisiana Purchase |
| To withdraw formally from a federal union. | Secede |
| To enforce separation of different ethnic groups. | Segregation |
| The domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region. | Imperialism |
| He was a well known missionary in Africa. He crisscrossed East Africa for 30 years. | Dr. David Livingstone |
| An American journalist who trekked across Africa to "find" Dr. Livingstone. | Henry Stanley |
| The Belgium king who sought fortune in the Congo river basin. | King Leopold II |
| This kingdom in Africa was successful in resisting European rule. | Ethiopia |
| A Hindu custom requiring a wife to throw herself on her husband’s funeral fire. | Sati |
| Indian soldiers serving the East India Company. | Sepoys |
| A representative of the queen who governed India in her name. | Viceroy |
| The isolation of women in separate quarters. | Purdah |
| The difference between how much a country imports and how much it exports. | Balance of trade |
| When a country exports more than it imports. | Trade surplus |
| When is country imports more than exports. | Trade deficit |
| Payment for losses in a war. | Indemnity |
| The British subjects in China had the right to live under their own British laws and be tried in British courts. | Extraterritoriality |
| Suffering peasants rebelled against the Qing Dynasty between 1850 and 1864. | Taiping Rebellion |
| A policy to keep Chinese trade open to everyone on an equal basis. | Open Door Policy |
| A secret society that launched an attempt to drive Europeans out of China. | The Righteous Harmonious Fists |
| Emperor of Japan that wanted to restore power and moved the capital to Edo. | Emperor Mutsuhito |
| Emperor Mutsuhito's goal to make Japan a rich country with a strong military. | Meiji Restoration |
| This supervised finance, education, and military in Japanese government. | Diet |
| Wealthy business families in Japan. | Zaibatsu |
| To take over land. | Annex |
| Competition between China and Japan for control of Korea resulted in this war. | First Sino-Japanese War |
| Japan challenged its economic rival Russia in this war, ending in 1905 with a Japanese victory. | Russo-Japanese War |
| The king of Siam (Thailand) who studied and used his knowledge to negotiate with Western powers. | Mongkut |
| This war broke out in 1898, the result was it ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and the United States annexed territories in the western Pacific and Latin America. | Spanish-American War |
| America took control of this country as a result of conflict with Spain. | Philippines |
| In 1878, America signed an unequal treaty with this nations and gained a naval station there. | Samoa |
| In these islands, American planters overthrew the queen, Liliuokalani, and made this area the United State's 50th state. | Hawaii |
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