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WHMT - Chapter 14
World History Modern Times - Chapter 14
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Annex | incorporate territory into an existing political unit, such as a city or country (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 437) |
| Attitude | a belief about something or someone (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 451) |
| Benito Juárez | Mexican national hero who served two terms as president and introduced liberal reforms, including separation of church and state, land distribution to the poor, and education for all (1806-1872). (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 456) |
| Caudillo | in post revolutionary Latin America, a strong leader who ruled chiefly by military force, usually with the support of the landed elite (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 456) |
| Commodore George Dewey | U.S. Naval officer who defeated the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay in 1898 during the Spanish-American war, thus turning the Philippines from Spanish control to an American colony (1837-1917). (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 432) |
| Conflicting | a struggle resulting from opposing needs, drives, wishes, or external or internal demands (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 440) |
| Consequence | something produced by a cause or unavoidably following from a set of conditions (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 441) |
| Creole | a person of European descent born in the New World and living there permanently (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 454) |
| David Livingstone | Scottish explorer who explored much of Africa's unchartered interior for 30 years (1813-1873). (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 439) |
| Direct Rule | colonial government in which local elites are removed from power and replaced by a new set of officials brought from the mother country (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 433) |
| Dominate | to rule or control (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 457) |
| Emilio Aguinaldo | Filipino leader of a movement for independence in the Philippines from the Spanish and then the Americans; his guerrilla force lost against the U.S. (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 432) |
| Emphasis | to place importance on something (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 457) |
| Expand | to increase the number or volume of something (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 459) |
| Exploit | to make productive use of, sometimes selfishly or unjustly (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 432) |
| Henry Stanley | Journalist hired to find David Livingstone and greeted the explorer with the now famous words: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume." He remained in Africa to carry on Livingstone's work but he had a strong dislike for it. (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 439) |
| Imperialism | the extension of a nation's power over other lands (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 430) |
| Impose | to force upon others (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 433) |
| Indian National Congress | Political group formed in 1885 by a small group of Indians who initially called for a share in the governing process of India from England. (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 451) |
| Indigenous | native to a region (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 440) |
| Indirect Rule | colonial government in which local rulers are allowed to maintain their positions of authority and status (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 433) |
| José de San Martín | Argentinean revolutionary who, along with Simón Bolívar, was hailed as the "Liberator of South America" in 1810. (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 455) |
| King Mongkut | Siam king (now known as Thailand) who remained separate by promoting Western learning and maintaining friendly relations with the major European powers; the play, The King and I, is based loosely on his life. (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 432) |
| Mestizo | a person of mixed European and native American Indian descent (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 454) |
| Mohandas Gandhi | Political and spiritual leader of India during their movement for independence; he preached nonviolent resistance (1869-1948). (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 452) |
| Monroe Doctrine | the United States policy guaranteeing the independence of Latin American nations and warning against European intervention in the Americas, made by President James Monroe in 1823 (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 455) |
| Muhammad Ali | Ottoman army officer who seized power in 1805 and established a separate Egyptian state from the Ottoman Empire. He introduced a series of reforms in education, the military, and industry to bring Egypt into the modern world. (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 438) |
| Peninsulare | a person born on the Iberian Peninsula; typically, a Spanish or Portuguese official who resided temporarily in Latin America for political and economic gain and then returned to Europe (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 454) |
| Protectorate | a political unit that depends on another government for its protection (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 431) |
| Regime | typically established or brought about by force (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 434) |
| Sepoy | an Indian soldier hired by the British East India Company to protect the company's interests in the region (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 448) |
| Simón Bolívar | Venezuelan revolutionary who, along with José de San Martín, was hailed as the "Liberator of South America" in 1810. (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 455) |
| Transfer | to move control from one person or group to another (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 449) |
| Viceroy | a governor who ruled as a representative of a monarch (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 449) |
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