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Unit 4 vocab

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Imperialism   belief that a stronger nation should control weaker nations to build empires  
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Annex   to take over and control land and/or people  
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Scramble for Africa   the race of European nations to colonize land in Africa  
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Partition   to divide up  
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Assimilate   to make or become the same as another  
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Westernize   to convert to the customs of Western nations  
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Missionary   one who goes out to preach to and convert people to their religion  
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Social Darwinism   the strong belief that only the fittest, most strongest people survive and grow wealthy  
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Exploit   to use someone or something for one's own benefit  
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Direct Rule   when the mother country controls a colony alone  
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Indirect Rule   control of a colony by a mother country that allows the natives to maintain their traditions and customs  
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Sepoy   hired Indian solider  
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Zulu   a highly-skilled African warrior  
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Opia Wars   conflicts fought by the Chinese against inperialist attempts to sell drugs for economic gain  
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Boxer   Chinese peasant who vowed to fight against all foreigners in his country  
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Monroe Doctrine   a strong U.S. belief that North,South, and Central America should be closed off to further European colonization  
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Latin America   parts of Mexico, Central and South America and many of the Carribean islands where Spanish, French and Portugeuse is the national language  
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Manifest Destiny   American belief that the United States was destined to expand across the North American continent from the Atlantic to Pacific ocean  
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Propaganda   information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread to help or harm someone or something  
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Yellow Journalism   exaggerated news stories meant to stir up strong emotions in all those who read them  
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U.S.S Maine   U.S. ship that exploded in the Cuban harbor and sparked the Spanish-American war  
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Roosevelt Corollary   the policy that gave policing powers over Latin America to the United States to enforce the Monroe Doctrine  
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Mejii Restoration   period in Japan when rapid industrialization and modernization took place to avoid further imperialism by America and European nations  
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