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Study Boxes Imp&Slav
Question | Answer |
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The Great Rebellion (The C point Mutiny) | Indian soldiers serving the British East India Company started and uprising, attacking British Officials and their families in India, but they were eventually defeated |
Japan Civil War | Humiliated by Matthew Perry, samurai leaders overthrew the shogun and began to modernize, but had to defeat other samurai who rebelled against the new gov't |
Indian Wars | The United States expanded into western North American Tribes and had to fight for 30 years to defeat them. |
Opium Wars (1st Civil War) | The Chinese tried to outlaw drug-use in their country, but the British fought to stop them from doing that so they could continue importing the drugs to pay for tea. |
Philippine American War (Filippine Revolt) | The U.S.A. fought to stop a rebellion against American control in its newly acquired island-nation territory in the South-Pacific region. |
Britain | empire that took over India and much of Africa |
French | empire that took over Indochina and much of Africa |
Netherlands(dutch) | empire that took over the East Indies (Indonesia) |
Japan | was forced to accept trade, had a civil war, overthrew its ruler, and westernized rapidly |
Russia | country that built an empire out of Siberia and the rest of Northern and Central Asia |
France | first major power to abolish slavery |
Britain | first country to outlaw Atlantic Slave Trade |
Queen Victoria | British monarch during most of the 1800s |
Tokugawa | dynasty that Japan last shogun belonged to |
Meiji | imperial name of Japan's new modernizing Emperor in 1868 |
Leopold II | Belgian monarch who brutally exploited Congo |
Augustus Caesar | Roman emperor who took the title of Imperator |
Qialong | Chinese emperor who sent a famous reply to King George III or Britain |
Emilio Aguinaldo | Filipino rebel leader who fought against the U.S. |
Sitting Bull | famous Lakota chief who defeated General Custer at Little Bighorn, but was later murdered |
Ito Hirobumi | great prime minister who modernized Japan during the Meiji Era |
Matthew Perry | US Navy captain who altered Japanese history |
Henry Stanley | British Explorer who charted the Congo River while working for King Leopold II |
3 Main Regions of US Imperialism | Pacific Islands, Caribbeans, Central Asia |
Lucrative crops that created demand for Slave Trade | Sugarcane, Cotton, Tobacco |
Main Reason for Enslavement in the Ancient World | debtors, criminals too poor to pay bail, kids of parents who don't have money/cant feed them, prisoners of wars |
Major Revolutionary Events that promoted Ideals which Led to the Abolition Movement | Age of Enlightenment (basic human rights), American Revolution (all races) and French Revolution |