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Module 17&18 test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is imperialism? | the forced seizure of a nation's land |
| What is colonialism? | a branch of imperialism, involving migration and settlement on top of the traditional idea of resource explanation |
| What did Pre-Colonial Africa look like? | largely diverse, with many different cultures and regions across territories |
| Why did Europeans not colonize earlier? | The terrain was not suitable for migration, new diseases, and trade networks |
| What changed? | The Industrial Revolution |
| Why colonize? | God, Glory, and Gold |
| What was the Berlin Conference? | 1884, conference among 14 European nations on how Africa should be divided |
| What was the scramble for Africa? | divisions following the Berlin Conference |
| What resistance did Europeans face? | Zulu Wars, Ethiopian Wars, Boer Wars |
| What is a total war? | a war that is unrestricted in terms of weapons used, the territory, or combatants involved |
| What were the forms of colonialism? | S.P.E.C.'s; Sphere of Influence, Protectorate, Economic imperialism, Colony |
| What is Sphere of Influence? | the claim by a state to exclusive or predominant control over a foreign area or territory |
| What is a Protectorate? | a state that is controlled and protected by another |
| What is Economic Imperialism? | a situation in which one country has a lot of economic power or influence over others |
| What is Colonization? | to take control of an area or place and send people to live there |
| How do nations control their colonies? | Indirect and direct management |
| How did the Ottoman Empire collapse? | Selim III takes power and tries to reform but conservatives stop him before progress can be made |
| What countries were born from the collapse of the Ottomans? | Greece and Serbia |
| What was the Crimean War? | war fought mainly on the Crimean peninsula between the Russians and the British, French, and the Ottoman Turkish |
| What is the Great Game? | Britain and Russia fight over Afghanistan |
| Why was the Middle East so important? | it's in the middle of a trade route, many countries wanted to annex it. |
| Why did Persia change? | lacked natural resources, they were enemy forces with the ottoman empire, they unify under one ruler |
| What is the Suez Canal? | canal used to make trade more efficient |
| How did the Suez Canal happen? | french money, egyptian labor |
| How was the economy affected? | The British began to crack down on Indian production to create a global textile monopoly |
| What was the major inciting incident for the rebellion? | Rumors spread that new ammunition cartridges for their rifles were greased with beef and pork fat, offended several groups. (Hindus, who consider the cow sacred; Muslims, who can't eat pork) |
| What were the results of the Sepoy rebellion? | It failed, and the British crown took direct control of India |
| What is "Southeast Asia"? | the series of islands and peninsulas between China and Australia |
| Why was this region important? | these lands were perfect for plantation agriculture of crops like sugar cane, coffee, cocoa, rubber, coconuts, bananas, and pineapple |
| Who was involved in Southeast Asian colonization? | Dutch, British, France |
| Did any nations resist European colonization? | Siam (modern-day Thailand) maintained its independence |
| What is Manifest Destiny? | The idea that the United States is destined by God, to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent and the World |
| What was the Spanish-American War? | 1896- A conflict between Spain and America over Cuba and the sinking of the USS Marine |
| How did Hawaii become a state? | 1894- Plantation owners oust the Queen and name Sanford B. Dole President of Hawaii. Hawaii calls for annexation |
| What was the Monroe Doctrine? | James Monroe issued a document stating that that: "The American continents... are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers." |
| What was travel like before the Panama Canal? | The transcontinental railroad connected its east and west coasts. A trip from coast to coast involved a 13,000 mile voyage around the tip of South America |
| What about after the Panama Canal? | Cut time in half, making the trip closer to 5,200 miles |
| How was the Panama Canal created? | After Columbia refused the money Roosevelt offered to rent the land, the United States responded by aiding a revolution and taking the land as repayment |
| What was the Roosevelt Corollary? | gave the United States the right to be "an international police power" in the western hemisphere |
| What is Isolationism? | a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries |
| What is self-sufficiency? | needing no outside help in satisfying one's basic needs, especially with regard to the production of food |
| How was China able to be Isolationist? | It was able to produce all of the food, metal, and luxury resources it needed |
| What was the Opium War? | A conflict between the Chinese and British over the illegal sale of Opium. Britain won. |
| What was the Taiping Rebellion? | A peasant rebellion to try and bring about a shared Chinese Utopia. |
| How did Europe take advantage of a weak China? | Several conflicts and rebellions result in more treaties and Europeans taking more land |
| What was the Boxer Rebellion? | A peasant rebellion against foreign powers interfering with Chinese Politics. |
| What reforms came about? | Despite the failure of the Boxer Rebellion, a strong sense of nationalism had emerged in China |
| What were the first signs of Japanese Imperialism? | Invading China, Annexing Korea, Russo-Japanese War |
| China V. Japan (Invading China) | Japan forces Korea to open to Japanese trade, China and Japan decide to share with Korea, China breaks agreement, they signed a peace treaty |
| Russia V. Japan (Russo-Japanese War) | Japan offers to recognize Russia's rights in Manchuria if they stay out of Korea, Russia refuses, Japan launches a surprise attack on Russia, Japan and Russia sign the Treaty of Portsmouth |
| Korea V. Japan (Annexing Korea) | Korea is made a protectorate, Japan forces Korean king to surrender control, Japan imposes annexation |
| What was Japanese rule like in Korea? | Japanese immediately and cruelly suppress Korean culture and people (cut them of from learning in and about their culture) |
| How did Western Powers react to Japanese Imperialism? | Russo-Japanese War broke the mindset of White Radical Superiority in modern war. Replaced by the "Yellow Peril Idea" |
| What was the "Yellow Peril Idea"? | depicts the peoples of East and Southeast Asia as an existential danger to the Western worlds |
| Porfirio Díaz (1876-1911) | loses rebellion to Pancho Diaz and Emiliano Zapata; calls for new elections |
| Francisco Madero (1911-1913) | fails to reform; resigns after rebellion by Pancho Diaz and Emiliano Zapata |
| Victoriano Huerta (1913-1914) | Tries to copy Diaz, loses rebellion to Pancho Diaz and Emiliano Zapata |
| Who was Venustiano Carranza? | Mexican leader who authored the 1917 Constitution, over thrown by General Alvaro Obregón |
| What did the 1917 constitution do? | land, social, and labor reforms and modernizations minimum wage, equal pay, break up large estates, etc. |
| Alvaro Obregón (1920-1928) | supported many of the same reforms as Carranza; assassinated in 1928 |
| Industrial Revolution Party | took over and continued to run the government for a good amount of time |
| Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna | influential military dictator, clever politician, a President of Mexico |
| Benito Juárez | governor of the state of Oaxaca; 1861, he became the first indigenous president of Mexico |
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