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AP World Unit 4
1750-1914
Question | Answer |
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What is absolutism? | The monarchy controls everything |
What is "every man for himself?" | Capitalism |
What is the root word of imperialism? | Empire |
When did western hemisphere free itself from European control? | By early 19th century |
What is eugenics? | Breeding people to get the best people |
What is ethnocentrism? | The belief that your culture, race, religon, and government is the best |
What is pride in one's country instead of a specific leader? | Nationalism |
What group of people applied the theory of natural selection to sociology? | Social Darwinists |
What is the "White man's burden?" | Europeans have the moral obligation to teach others hows to be civilized |
Why was China called the Middle Kingdom? | They believed they were at the center of the world |
What are new technologies that were developed? | Telegraph, telephone, radio, national postal system, steamship, railroad, trains |
What is a big farm that only produceds one crop? | A plantation system |
What was the Monroe Doctrine? | President Monroe said that Europeans could NOT intervene with countries in the Western Hemisphere |
What did the Latin American trade do? | Increase the importance of slavery |
What made Egypt a significant commerical and political power? | The Suez Canal |
England gets opium from India, and sells it to: | China |
The opium lets what flow out of China? | Silver |
What is Extraterritorality? | A crime is committed in another country by a visitor. The foreign country can not punish the visitor; the home country punishes the person. |
What changed due to the Industrial Revolution? | The country was no longer principally agricultural and rurl. People moved to cities. |
What improved farming? | The second agricultural revolution 18th century |
Who invented capitalism? | Adam Smith |
What was Adam Smith's philosophy? | The government should NOT interfere with the economy. |
If the cotton gin had not been invented, what would have ended sooner? | Slavery |
Adam Smith's book about capitalism was called: | Wealth of Nations |
Electricity overtakes steam and coal as: | Power source |
Who invented interchangeable parts? | Eli Whitney |
What is the working class? | Proletariat |
What was born because of the Industrial Revolution? | The working class |
What was the middle class? | Borgeoisse |
What began to be determined more by wealth than family position? | Social Status |
Marxism is the same as: | Communism |
Countries with industrial technologies had advanced what? | Military weapons |
The lightbulb created what? | Work shifts. Now people could work into the night. |
Role of the individual changes and what happens in the factories? | The person becomes part of the machine |
Karl Marx wrote what? | Communist Manifesto |
Charles Dickens wrote of what? | Social ills of industrialization |
What did the Ludites do? | Destroyed factory equipment and protested working conditions/wages |
What was the first industrial war? | The United States Civil War |
When was the US civil war? | 1861-1865 |
What is monoculture? | One crop is grown |
What happened in the "Banana Republic?" | US took over islands and forced them to grow bananas. They grew bananas and shiped them to America for cheap prices. |
Why didn't Russian have a real culture? | Mongol rule |
What does the Meiji Restoration? | It turns on the power switch for Industrialization in Japann. |
Who brought huge boats to Japan and forced them to trade? | Commodore Perry |
Japan fired on foreign ships; Europe fired back; what happens? | Emeror Meiji was restored to power |
Who are the zaibatsu? | Super rich families that start businesses in Japan. There were four big rich families that formed companies. |
What doubled in Britian in 1700s? | Population almost doubled 5 million to 9 million |
What are the Enclosure Acts? | Public lands closed off, so people moved to cities |
Britain had reforms: | Women's suffrage and universal, free education |
What rose up in Japan? | Private corporations arose |
What made textile revolution possible? | Cottin gin |
No matter what time the Industrial Revolutions occured, what remained constant? | They all go through the same process |
What is urbanization? | The shift of people from countryside to city |
What are propaganda writers? | Musckrackers |
What is the Scientific Revolution? | Discovering, learning, evaluating, understanding the natural world |
What is the Industrial Revolution? | Appling that understanding to natural ends |
What does urbanization cause? | Rise of nationalism, colonization, independence movements and revolutions, social unrest, |
What is the Enlightenment? | Thinking rationally |
What is anti-Semitism? | Hate Jews |
What happened in Ireland? | Famine |
What pushed the migration of people to North/South America? | Famine in Ireland; Anti-Semitism-Russia; Religous toleration; Poverty; Joblessness |
What are pogroms? | The government allows people to kill Jews |
Britain wanted to make ____ illegal? | Slavery 1807-1808 |
What did British ships to? | Stopped slave ships |
Effects of slave trade on Africa? | Loss of population growth; relies more on foreign goods; guns, textiles, alcohol |
___ decreases, as ___ decreases. | Dathrate decreases as birth rate decreased. |
Natural Resources quote: | "STEALING IS CHEAPER THAN DEALING!" |
What did countries do? | Colonize, drain natural resources, and do not compensate natives |
What disease came about in urban cities? | Rickets-disease of the bones because of underexposure to sunlight |
What diseases allowed? | Cholera/tuberculosis |
In 1850, Industrial Revolution is over, what happens? | The working class starts to benefit (People get rights) |
Most working women were ___? | Single |
Women were paid __ than men? | less |
What new group forms? | Middle class housewives |
What era idealized women? | Victorian Age |
The group of women that lost rights does what? | Organizes to demand rights/ suffrage |
What is social mobility? | The ability to move from one class to the next |
Husband= ___ Wife= _____ | Husband-wage earner Wife-Homemaker |
Old money from family; | New money- you make it |
Wealth based on Adam Smith= | Capitalism |
The lower class is worknig alongside ___ | The managers. They can now see the unfairness. They saw elite gain wealth at their expense. |
What is a safe haven for former slaves? | Sierra Leone- British colony and Liberia- colonization scheme for freed slaves from U.S. |
What is the Emancipation of 1861? | The Russian serfs are freed. They are no longer bound to land. |
Emacipation of serfts was similar to what? | Sharecroppin in US. The former serfs now had to pay for land |
What did the Cottin Gin keep going? | Slavery. The slaves could now harvest cotton quicker, and slaves needed more |
What stimulated the awareness of unequal treatment of women? | Enlightenment theories (reason) and active role of women in American and French revolutions |
What is the cult of domesticity? | Stressing women's place in the home- Dominated Western culture |
What occupations were open to women? | Child care, teaching, domestic household work, nursing |
Domestic means | domocile=home |
What is suffrage? | Voting rights |
What is temperance? | Stop drinking |
What gave women suffrage? | World War I |
What is autocracy? | Self rule= one person rules= dictator |
When is the American Revolution? | 1776 |
When is the Civil War? | 1864 |
What is a common theme in revolutions? | Frustration with economic exploitation ("No taxation without representation") |
What is the Patriot Act? | Give up freedom for security |
Who invented the social contract? | Rousseau |
What is the same thing as the Seven Years War? | French and Indian War |
Who made the Common Sense pamphlet? | Thomas Paine |
What was Common Sense? | US needs to break free from England |
What was the conflict at Lexington and Concord? | "THE SHOT HEARD ROUND THE WORLD." |
WHEN WAS THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE? | 1776 |
France helped US do what? | Defeat Britian |
Who were the Three Estates in France? | 1st Estate- Clergy; 2nd Estate- Nobles 2%; 3rd Estate- Everybody else 97% |
What does "sans culottes" mean? | Without fancy pants; the urban workers said that |
Why did the French Revoltuion happen? | Because of the 3 votes-Estates |
What was the official start of the French Revolution? | Storming the Bastille |
The Third Estate (common people) declared themselves what? | National Assembly |
Tennis Court Oath because | They were locked out of the hall |
What was the Tennis Court Oath? | The citizens demanded a constitution |
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette went where? | To Paris for "safety" |
The Declaration of the Rights of Man was what? | A copycat of the American Bill of Rights |
What did the Declaration of the Rights of man say? | Freedom of the press, freedom of religon, increased voting rights, freedom, equality, rule of law |
What is the rule of law? | No one is above the law |
The Declaration of the Rights of Man did what to Church?> | Altered the monopoly of the Catholic Church; Separation of Church and State |
Who replaced the king? | Jacobins |
Who was the leader of Jacobins? | Robespierre |
Constitutional Monarchy was similar to what? | The Mandate of Heaven, but in a legal way |
What is a Republic? | People vote for other people who then decide |
What did Robespierre do? | Beheaded anyone who disagreed with him 10s of thousands of Frenchmen were beheaded |
Who took over France after Robespierre was beheaded? | Napoleon |
When does Napoleon overthrow directory? | 1799 |
What is a Coup de tat? | Quick overthrow of the government |
Napolean gave people what that Robespierre took away? | Religous freedom |
What did the Napoleonic Codes do? | Equality of Frenchmen-All men are citizens |
Who is the first emperor of France? | Napoleon |
In russia, what happens with Napoleon? | Russia lured Napoleon into Moscow, but then burned their own city. Napoleon had no supplies for troops and retreated back to France. |
Napoleon was exiled to: | Elba |
Napoleon took French army ___ after he was exiled and returned to France? | Waterloo, Belgium |
After Waterloo, Napoleon was exiled to ___ | St. Helena (In middle of ocean) |
What was the Congress of Vienna? | If a country is overthrown, all the European countries will throw out the revolutionaries and put a king back in power |
After Napoleon's exile, what happened in Europe? | France was NOT punished; Monarchs were returned to France, Spain, Holland, and Italy |
What is a Popular Government? | People run the government |
What are the Napoleonic Wars? | All the wars that occur when Napoleon brings people into the French empire |
Conservatism is what? | You want to protect people. Take away rights to gain security |
The French Revolution accomplished what? | It did away with absolute monarchy; Governments had to be more attentive to peoples' needs; creates spirit of nationalism; spread the idea or revolution outside France |
What does Napoleon create besides and empire? | Nationalism throughout Europe |
What is Liberalism? | You want as many rights as possible |
Nationalism unites what two countries? | Italy and Germany BECOME COUNTRIES |
Britain gives in to who? | Lower classes of people in Britain in order to avoid a rebellion |
Who is the "citizen king?" | Louis Phillip of France |
What catastrophe happened in Ireland? | Irish potato famine |
What happened in the "Hungry Forties?" | Irish Potato Famine |
Lois Phillip (Citizen King) refuses reform demands, and who takes over? | Revolt starts and Napoleon's nephew, LOUIS NAPOLEON takes over. |
What two countries were NOT AFFECTED by Napoleon and French Revolution? | Britain (liberal) and Russia (dictator) |
What colony in the Americas does France have? | Haiti |
America is to Britain, as ___ is to France. | Haiti |
Where was the first successful slave revolt? | Haiti |
What inspired the slaves in Haiti? | The French Revolution |
The success of the American Revolution and the French Revolution inspired ____? | Haiti |
What does indurrection mean? | Forceful fight |
Toussaint L'ouverture was who? | He was a former slave that started the Haitian revolution! |
At the end of the civil war, what happened with Haiti? | Slaves freed and were in power, but it was still a French colony. |
In 1802, troops under Napoleon sent to do what in Haiti? | End rule of former slaves |
Why did slaves defeat French? | Haitians were capable fighters; yellow fever wiped out soldiers; Napoleon gives up attempt to reconquer Haiti |
Who was captured and imprisoned in France? | L'ouverture |
When was Haitian independence declared? | 1804 |
Who was the governor-general for life in Haiti after L'ouverture? | Jacques Dessalines who was a former slave |
What was the first independent nation in Latin America? | Haiti |
Napoleon Who sold the Louisisana Territory to US? | Napoleon |
The Louisiana Territory did what? | It gave US control of North American continent |
What brought about major change in global power? | The Louisiana Territory was sold to US. It MADE US A WORLD SUPERPOWER! |
Haitian slaves help France fight off who? | Britain/Spain who try to overun Haiti |
The Latin American countries were mad at the imperial powers because: | They had national identity; resentment of Spanish/Portugese economic policies (like US taxes); Frustrated with American born Creole uppper and middle class |
Napoleon and the confusion over who was in power sparked what? | The Latin American revolutions |
Who are the Caudillos? | Guys that take over |
What caused the Mexican revolution #1? | Revolution in Haiti, and distraction of Spain by its war with France |
El Grito de Dolores is what? | The call to arms by priest |
Delores is what? | A city where Mexicans "cried for peace." |
When is Mexican Independence Day? | SEPTEMBER 16TH NICK'S BIRTHDAY!!!! |
Mexican Independence Day is when what happened? | El Grito de Dolores (Call to arms by priest) |
Miguel Hildago was who? | Creole priest who started Mexican Revolution #1 |
Who led mestizos and Native Americans in rebellio in 1810? | Miguel Hildago |
Who did the Spanish kill? | Hildago |
Mexicans were furious because: | Spain killed a priest (Hildago) |
Who picked up where Hildago left off? | Jose Morelos |
What happened in 1815? | Jose Morelos was killed |
When was Spain kicked out by liberal Mexicans? | 1823 |
What did the Mexican's demand in the SECOND revolution of 1910? | Free elections |
Constitution of 1917 still in effect: true or false | True |
Mexican Constitution of 1917 did what? | Gave voting rights to all males, provided minimum wage, restricted religon |
Sino means what? | China |
What happened during the "Hundred Days of Reform?" | Let all people vote, all kids could got to school free, divided rich peoples' land among poor people |
What was the Sino-Japanese War in 1895 over? | China VS. Japan for Korea |
Empress Cixi (Tehsee) of China was who? | Concubine that "ruled" for nephew until he was an adult |
What was Empress Cixi (Tehsee) of China's nick name? | Dragon Lady |
Empress Cixi (Tehsee) of China ruled how? | Oppressive rule; She opposed ALL reform. Pro-Western was treason |
Empress Cixi (Tehsee) of China arrested who? | Her nephew and killed his reformers |
Empress Cixi (Tehsee) of China's nephew did what? | Hundred Days of Reform |
Chinese Revolution of 1911 was a result of what? | It was a backlash against Cixi's Conservatism |
Chinese Revolution did what? | Declaration of a republic |
Unification of China began under who? | Sun Yat-sen |
Sun Yat-sen was in charge of what? | Empress Cixi getting overthrown and run out. |
Who is the father of modern China? | Sun Yat-sen (Nationalist Party) |
Who believes the People's Principles? | Nationalists in China |
What are the People's Principles? | Nationalism, oppostion to Manchu Rule, Democracy, People's livelihood |
Sun Yat-sen was where when the revolt started? | America; He read about the revolt in a newspaper |
The Chinese revolutioni was the first time for what? | 1st time in history that China was NOT ruled by imperial dynasty |
Who came after Sun? | Chiang Kai-shek |
Who fought for control of China after Sun? | Communists under Mao Zedong |
Who was Simon Bolivar? | Venezuelan leader |
Bolivar did what? | He was enlightened and educated; he traveled to Europe and United States |
Bolivar wins the war: true of false | True |
What results from Bolivar's win? | GRAN COLOMBIA- Columbia, Ecuador, and Venezuela |
What is a republic? | People vote for people who make laws? |
Who was the leader in Argentina? | Jose de San Martin |
By 1820s, who was free from Spanish rule? | A lot of South America |
Napoleon invaded Portugal, and what happened? | Portuguses king- John VI flees to Brazil |
John VI leaves his son Pedro where? | In Brazil to rule |
Pedro does what? | Declares independece for Brazil and makes himself emperor |
Who rules after Pedro? | Pedro II |
What advantage did Brazil have? | ADVANTAGE OF STABLE MONARCHY DURING INDEPENDENCE |
Brazil did what in 1888? | Abolished slavery |
Brazil set up: | A republic |
Effects of Latin American independece movements: | Europe kicked out of Latin American |
Negative reults of Latin American independence: | Slavery still existed; peasants still worked plantations owned by a FEW landowners; No middle/working class; enlightenment ideas did not spread outside landowning class |
Catholic Church remained: | Very powerful in Latin America |
Latin American economies were dependent on: | Europe |
Who had power in Russia? | Czars had absolute power |
Who used secret police to defeat rebellions and reform? | Alexander I and Nicholas I |
1860s- Alexander I did what? | Emancipation Edict- abolished serfdom |
What abolished serfdom in Russia? | Emancipation Edict |
In Russia, what happened to freed serfs? | They were given small plots of land, and had to give huge payments to the government. It was hard to improve situation |
Some arts began to flourish in Russia after: | Serfs freed |
Tolstoy-Anna Karenina wrote what (Russia)? | War and Peace, a book |
A Russian artist, Dostoyevsky did waht? | The Brothers Karamazov |
Tchaikovsky, a Russian, wrote what? | Swan Lake and the Nutcracker (ballet) |
What was Russification? | All Russians HAD TO learn Russian language and convert to Orthodox Christianity |
Anyone who did not convert to Orthodox Christianity in Russia, was: | Persecuted, especially Jews |
Moderates in Russia march on czar's palace peacefully and ask for reform. What happens? | Nicholas II sends his troops against protesters- Bloody Sunday- 1905 |
Czar attempts legislative reform and appoints: | Prime Minister and creates Duma |
What is Duma | Prime Legislative (No real power; czar keeps power.) |
What happens in India? | Rich people are getting educated |
The educated Indians ___ | Wanted freedom |
What is formed in India? | Indian National Congress |
Mohanda K Gandhi was what? | Central figure in India's freedom movement |
What does Mohatma mean? | Great Soul |
Mohanda Gandhi was called? | "Mohatma" Gandhi (Mohatma means great soul) |
Who are Peninsularies? | Rich people from Spain who run things in Latin America |
Bolivar and Martin are doing what? | Freeing the countries in Latin America |
Between what time did all Spanish colonies become independent nations? | Between 1808-1824 |
What did Napoleon create all over world? | Nationalism |
What is nationalism? | Feelings of connection to home, region, language, cluture |
What two countries eventually unified? | Italy and Germany |
Who was the Italian nationalist who kicked out Spain and united Italy? | Giuseppi Garibaldi |
What was Garibaldi's (Italy) army called? | Red Shirts |
What do the Red Shirts do? | Unite Italy |
Where is Prussia located? | Within Germany |
Prussia and other kingdoms become: | Germany |
Germany and Austiran Empire were NOT united since when? | Holy Roman Empire |
Who united Germany? | Otto von Bismarck |
Who was Otto von Bismarck? | He was prime minister of Prussia who united Germany |
Bismarck's goal was to: | Consolidate the region under Prussia's authority |
Who was the SECOND REICH? | OTTO VON BISMARCK (BEFORE WWI) |
WHAT WAS FIRST REICH? | HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE |
THIRD REICH? | HITLER |
Germany becomes world power, and by 1914, thought what? | They thought they could take on anyone |
Why did the countries move toward REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENTS IN SECOND HALF OF CENTURY? | INDUSTRIALIZATION, MODERNIZATION, URBANIZATION, POPULATION GROWTH, TOO MANY ISSUES FOR ONE MAN TO HANDLE |
What is UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE? | EVERYONE CAN VOTE ALL COLORS BOTH GENDERS |
Second and third reform acts in Britain did what? | UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE |
Louis Napoleon renamed himself what? | Napoleon III |
Deposed means | thrown out |
In 1871, France becomes what? | Democratic Republic and has UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE |
Nationalism is more powerful than what? | Demand for democracy |
Garibaldi was ____ | Italy |
Von Bismarck was ___ | Germany |
Austria-Hungary struggled on what? | How much power to give ethnic minorities |
Austria-Hungary is 2 countries internally (domestically), but | 1 country internationally |
Who fought the Crimean War? | Russia VS Ottoman Empire |
What did Russia VS Ottoman Empire for? | Balkans |
Who wins Crimean War? | Ottomans win with the help of France and England |
Czar Alexander II forced to do what after defeat in Crimean war? | implement reforms |
What did Alexander II of Russia do? | Modernize Russia and Emancipation of serfs in 1861 |
Nicholas II ignored who in 1905? | Duma |
Who neutered the government (Duma) in 1905? | Nicholas II |
Who had authority and power in Japan in 18th century? | Shogunate (Technically emperor, but shogunate had all power) |
Tokugawa Shogunate did what? | Centralized (unified) Japan |
Problems in Japan? | Dictatorial, stratified society, few personal freedoms, and ISOLATED from world |
WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE MEIJI RESTORATION? | THEY BECOME INDUSTRIALIZED |
Meiji restoration abolishes what? | Feudalism |
What did the Constitution of 1890 in Japan do? | Elected parliament called DIet |
Women were viewed as what in Japan 1890? | Second class citizens |
During industrialization, Japan sent who where? | Young members of upper class to study in Western Europe |
Japan became what during their industrialization? | "AMERICA EAST" |
What injustice happened in Nagasaki? | Temperatures in a working factory were too hot, and the workers were shot for trying to escape |
Political posititons became based on what during Japanese industrialization? | Merit |
There was no longer negative status of who in Japan during industrialization? | Trade, merchants, artisanship |
The lower class in Japan during industrialization had what privileges | Free education, allowed to serve in military, population grew |
What is Feminism? | WOMEN ARE EQUAL TO MEN |
WHO FOUNDED FEMINISM? | MARY WOLSTONECRAFT |
WHO WAS MARY WOLSTONECRAFT? | ENGLISH WRITER AND MOTHER OF MODERN FEMINISM |
WHAT WAS MARY WOLSTONECRAFT'S MAIN IDEA?Q | EDUCATION IS THE KEY |
Who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Women? | Wolstonecraft |
Olympes de Gouges argues what? | Women suffrage |
What did the Feminists say? | Women were indviduals with different strengths and abilites; Should be allowed to develop without social restrictions |
The lack of civil rights for women made it difficult to do what? | Argue for other causes |
What causes did women help? | Slavery, temperance, improving schools, helping poor |
What jobs could women have? | teaching, nursing |
Who helped orphans and poor? | women |
Who called for better working conditions and right to vote? | Women Suffragette |
When did women get suffrage? | WWI |
What replaced agriculture as largest part of economy? | Industrialization |
What class grew with industrialization? | MIDDLE CLASS |
What class emerged with industrialization? | LOWER CLASS- INDUSTRIAL WORKING CLASS |
What was key to economy in 18-19th centuries? | slavery |
Fall of mercantilism with rise of ___? | capitalism |
Who wrote the Wealth of Nations? | Adam Smith |
What is Adam Smith's "invisible hand?" | Supply and Demand |
What is a Marxism quote? | Rich people have always taken advantage of the poor people |
What is Socialism? | Economic competition is inherently unfair and leads to injustice/inequality |
Utopian socialists say what? | With good planning and regulation- everyone can be happy |
What is more radical socialism? | Maxism |
Who wrote the Communist Manifesto? | Karl Marx |
History is driven by what? | Class struggle between upper and lower class |
Who said that all history was a result of struggle between bourgeoise and proletariat? | Karl Marx |
Workers would overthrow, which would lead to ___? | Communism (A revolution was necessary) |
What would result from overthrow? | Dictatorship of the proletariat |
What would go away in communism? | the state and government |
Communism gives what kind of society? | Classless society |
Ideally in Communism, what would happen? | Perfect justice, social equality, and plenty |
Who gets what in COMMUNISM? | GOODS ARE DISTRIBUTED BY NEED |
WHO GETS WHAT IN SOCIALISM? | GOODS ARE DISTRIBUTED BY HOW HARD YOU WORK |
WHO CONTROLS RESOURCES IN SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM? | GOVERNMENT |
What is Bourgeosie? | Middle and Uppper Class |
What is Proletariat? | Lower class |
What was the only NON-WESTERN nation to have effective colonial empire? | JAPAN |
What is popular representation? | people representation |
What is anarchism? | No government |
What was illegal in industry at first? | trade unions |
What worldview becomes huge in WEST? | Secular |
Darwin's theory of evolution accereralted what? | secular worldview |
Huge Emigration from Europe and China to___? | North and South America (Most to United States) |
Who said, "God is dead?" | Fridich Nietzche |
What did Nietzche say? | All systems or morals are valueless in the material modern age |
Japan adopted Western behaivor- True or false | True |
What is the perfect example of a ROMANTIC NOVEL? | FRANKEINSTEIN |
Why is Frankeinstein connected to Enlightenment? | DR. FRANKEINSTEIN USES SCIENCE TO PLAY GOD LIKE THE ENLIGHTENMENT. HIS CREATION KILLS HIM. |
Who started ROMANTICISM? | Rousseau |
What was ROMANTICISM a backlash to? | The Enlightenment |
The Enlightenment was about logic and reason outlook, whereas ROMANTICISM was: | EMOTION AND PASSION ARE MOST IMPORTANT AND LOVE OF NATURAL WORLD |
Realism rejected ___ | Romanticism and had a critical view of life; everyday life, poverty, class injustice |
What gave the WEST the ability and resons to conquer the world? | Industrialization |
What caused imperialism:? | Need for raw materials, and markets for goods |
What did America get from Hawaii? | Sugar and pineappples |
Central America and Caribbean are dependent on: | foreign loans |
Latin America dependent on who for finished goods? | Europe |
What gave the WEST the ability and resons to conquer the world? | Industrialization |
What caused imperialism:? | Need for raw materials, and markets for goods |
What did America get from Hawaii? | Sugar and pineappples |
Central America and Caribbean are dependent on: | foreign loans |
Latin America dependent on who for finished goods? | Europe |
United States protected the AMEICAS FROM EUROPEAN THREAT with what? | MONROE DOCTRINE |
Need to maintain bases and coal stations becuase: | Steam powereed ocean fleets; needed elaborate repair and fueling facitlities |
Medical advances did allowed for what? | Go into tropical regions without fear of sleeping sickness, yellow fever, malaria |
Racial superiority led to what belief? | White people are supposed to conquer "backward people" |
Who said, "I contend that we are the finest reace in the world, and the more of it we inhabit, the better it is." | Cecil Rhodes |
Who applied social darwinism to humanity? | Herbert Spencer |
What is social darwinism? | The people who are most technologically and culturally advanced should coquer other people |
Who wrote the poem "White Man's Burden?" | Rudyard Kipling |
What does "CIVILIZED" MEAN in terms of White Man's burden? | INDUSTRIALIZED AND CHRISTIAN |
What does the sun never sets on the British Empire mean? | Britian had so many colonies that the sun actually never set on the entre british empire. |
Who hated on Africa? | Portuguese and Belgians |
What was the French similar version of White Man's Burden? | la mission civilisatrice |
Who did germany and italy poison gas (not Jews)? | North africa |
What is jute? | strong fiber for ropes |
What gave an opening to Europe? | Mughal rule- Fighting between Hindus and Muslims |
Who did the British East India Company conquer? | Bengal in Bangladesh |
Who had a trade influence in India? | Britain |
Who were the sepoys? | Indian Soldiers that were body guards for the British East India Company in India |
WHo was similar to Big Rob? | Sepoys |
What was a rumor that made the sepoys furious? | Bullet cartridges were greased with pork and beef fat - both forbidden to Hinus and Muslims |
Sepoys killed who? | The British who disrespected their religons.`` |
Britain took over India after ___? | Sepoy Mutiny |
What was British imperialism in India? | Raw material from India to britain- finished materials back to india- textile industry |
What religon spread from Britian to India? | Christianity |
India National Congress formed when? | 1885 |
What gave British an immense wealth and prestice and some world power? | Control of India |
What happened in India because of Britain? | Famines that kill one third of Indian population |
What did the English say to their Indian friends? | "Indian in blood and color, but English in taste, in opinion, in morals, and in intellect." |
What was eliminated in India? | Sati-burning widows alive; thugee-ritual assassination of travelers; and harsh treatment of untouchables |
What is southeast asia similar to in USA? | Florida of Asia |
Who controlled Indonesia before 1800? | Dutch East India Company |
Who controlled Indochina - Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia? | France |
Who controls Burma? | Britain |
Britain had a huge influence in what Asian country? | China |
What Asian country remained independent because of their AWESOME kings? | Thailand |
Thailand was a buffer (middle ground) free zone between what? | Between British Burma and French Indochina |
Why did USA want Phillipines? | Prevents Japanfrom having a naval base over here; US colony now; moral obligation to help poor yellow brothers |
What happened in the Spanish Ameican War of 1898? | Americans and Natives overthrew Spanish; USA annexation of Phillipines |