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6.2 WHAP VOCAB:
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| King Leopold the 2nd | An evil "king" over Congo who was greedy for rubber. |
| Suez Canal | A 100-mile-long canal (Med. Sea to Red Sea) in Egypt. Made water way routes shorter. (Saved a trip around the whole continent of Africa). |
| Quinine | A medicine that treats tropical diseases. |
| Corvee laborers | Unpaid workers who were forced to work as a form of taxation (Egyptians). |
| Gold Coast (crowned colony) | British colony in West Africa, renowned for gold and cocoa, and a center for the transatlantic slave trade. A crown colony is a British territory directly administered by a governor appointed by the British monarch. |
| Settler Colony | A form of colonialism where foreign people move to a new land permanently to build a new society, rather than just exploiting resources and returning home. |
| Cape Colony | A Dutch and later British colonial settlement at the southern tip of Africa. |
| Afrikaners | Descents of Dutch settlers |
| Boer Wars | They fought over land (British & Afrikaners). |
| Concentration Camps | Settlements that were segregated by race. |
| Congo Free States | A former state in Africa covering much of the territory that comprises the modern Democratic Republic of the Congo. |
| Abyssinia & Liberia | The only African countries that were unclaimed by Europeans; a country founded by formerly enslaved people from the U.S. |
| Ceylon (Sri Lanka) | An island that the British controlled (was a part of Indias subcontinent). |
| Sphere Influence | Gave China exclusive trading rights and access to natural resources. |
| Taiping Rebellion | Failed civil servant applicant Hong Xiuquan and starving peasants, workers, and miners attempted to overthrow the Qing Dynasty (with the help of warlords, French, and British interventions). |
| Boxers | A group of anti-imperialists (Chinese) were attacking Chinese Christians and Western missionaries. |
| Empress Dowager Cixi | She encouraged the Boxers and ordered all foreigners be killed. |
| Boxer Rebellion | A rebellion when the Chinese Boxers killed an estimate 100,000 Chinese Christians and 200-250 foreigners. |
| Commodore Matthew Perry | He came to Japan from the U.S. in large warships to secure a treaty that opened Japanese ports to trade. |
| Meiji Restoration | When Japan overthrew its traditional government. |
| Colonization Society | A society established by leaders who began plans to establish colonies in Mexico and Latin America. |
| Dutch East Indies | A Dutch colony with territory mostly comprising the modern state of Indonesia (spice islands). |
| Indochina | When France gained control of northern Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and all of modern-day Vietnam. Together these nations became Indochina. |
| Malaya | Became the world's greatest producer of natural rubber. |
| Siam (Thailand) | Managed to escape the clutches of 19th-century European Imperialism (by having relations with British & France). |
| Australia | They decided to use it as a penal colony until they discovered the discovery of well-suited fine wool provided a new industry and free settlers began to arrive. |
| Penal Colony | A settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general population by placing them in a remote location, often an island or distant colonial territory |
| New Zealand | A place where the British annexed. |
| Treaty of Waiting! | Guaranteed the rights of the original Māori people (the indigenous people of New Zealand). |
| Maori | indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand. |
| Trail of Tears | A forced migration where many Native Americans died from exposure to, malnutrition, diseases, and exhaustion. |
| Monroe Doctrine | An issue where James Monroe stated European nations should not intervene in the affairs of the countries in the Western Hemisphere. |
| Manifest Destiny | A natural and inevitable right to expand to the Pacific Ocean (west). |
| Spanish-American War | A war that brought Guam, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines under U.S. control. |
| Roosevelt Corollary | Stated that if countries in Latin America demonstrated "instability," the United States would intervene. |
| Catherine the Great | She set out to expand Russian Empire in all directions during her reign, annexing about half of Poland as well as territory won from the Ottoman Empire. |
| The Great Game | A rivalry between Russian and British empires as they competed unsuccessfully for dominance in Afghanistan. |
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