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history 20th century
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| • Settlement colonies | -large groups of people from one country living in a different place |
| • Protectorates | while the local ruler kept his title, the Europeans actually ruled the area |
| • Dependent colonies | a few European officials ruled the non-European people |
| • Sphere of interest | a nation has a special interest, and other nations agree to respect that interest |
| Economic effects | Needed new markets because they produced so many goods, some industrialists got people to use/wear a product just so they would profit from it • Rapid population growth |
| Cultural effects | • Missionaries went to the colonies to try to convert people to Christianity, but they also build and operate schools and hospitals |
| Nationalism | pushing forward the interest of your own nation above the interest of all other nations; The policy by a stronger nation to attempt to create an empire by dominating weaker nations economically, politically, culturally or militarily |
| Meiji Restoration | change when a group of samurai overthrew the Tokugawa shogunate and restored the emperor to power.(1868) |
| “Rough Rider”- | ”- a member of the volunteer cavalry regiment led by Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish American war (1898) |
| Spanish-American War | Cubans were unhappy under Spanish rule. A rebellion had failed, and the situation was tense. This alarmed Americans who had businesses in Cuba. Also, many Americans thought Cuba should be free. |
| Diet (Japanese government)- | the legislative body of certain countries, such as Japan, had two houses |
| The Maine | - an American battleship, exploded in Havana harbor in 1898, killing some 260 Americans. Many in the United States assumed that the Spanish were to blame. |
| yellow journalism | the type of journalism that relies on sensationalism and lurid exaggeration to attract readers |
| Platt Amendment | provision of the Cuban constitution giving the United States the right to intervene in Cuba. |
| Roosevelt Corollary | Monroe-Doctrine stating US would guarantee Latin-Amer. nations would meet international-obligations. Also, US would make sure Latin-Amer. countries would repay the loans. It had bad-effect on relations between US and Latin-Amer. b/c L.A didn’t want to rep |
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