6.2 state expansion

Question 1

King Leopold II

Answer 1

Wanted the Belgian government to conquer colonies in the Congo Basin
Belgian parliament disagreed with him but he took it himself
Parliament took the region away from him after finding that his rule was abusive

Question 2

Why did the French seize Algeria?

Answer 2

To prevent pirate attacks

Question 3

Discovery of quinine

Answer 3

In Africa
Medicine that treats malaria

Question 4

Another discovery that helped explorers

Answer 4

The steamship

Question 5

Suez Canal

Answer 5

Managed by the French
Connected Red Sea with Mediterranean Sea
Could save a trip around the entire continent of Africa

Question 6

Corvée laborers

Answer 6

Unpaid Egyptian workers
Forced to work on the Canal project as a form of taxation

Question 7

Britain seized control of Egypt from…

Answer 7

The Ottomans

Question 8

Sierra Leone

Answer 8

Home got freed people throughout the British empire who were enslaved
It and Gambia were used as bases to try to stop the export of enslaved people from the region

Question 9

Lagos

Answer 9

Crown colony
Base for annexation of Nigeria

Question 10

Britain in Ghana

Answer 10

Acquired Gold Coast- a Crown Colony
Asante Empire

Question 11

Treaty with Britain and Jaja of Opobo

Answer 11

Nigeria, rich in palm oil
Recognized Jaja as a ruler and agreed to trade terms favorable to both sides

Question 12

What type of colony was Algeria?

Answer 12

A settler colony

Question 13

Berlin Conference

Answer 13

Otto Van Bismarck
Meeting of European powers to provide for the orderly colonization in Africa
No Africans were invited

Question 14

Afrikaners

Answer 14

Descendants of Dutch settlers
Fought with the Zulus, an indigenous group

Question 15

Boer Wars

Answer 15

British & Afrikaners fighting over land
British drove them out of their lands, forcing them into refugee/concentration camps

Question 16

Independent and unclaimed countries in Africa

Answer 16

Ethiopia and Liberia

Question 17

Seven years war

Answer 17

lost to Britain and the seven years war, Britain drove the French out of India

Question 18

East India company

Answer 18

At first, they protected the firms employees
Then they began recruiting native Indian soldiers, called sepoys to join the British colonial army
Sepoy rebellion against the British was unsuccessful

Question 19

spheres of influence

Answer 19

Europeans in China had exclusive, trading rights and access to natural resources

Question 20

Taiping Rebellion

Answer 20

Made it easier for foreign countries to dominate economic affairs in China

Hong Xinquan, starving peasants, workers, and miners tried to overthrow the Qing dynasty

Question 21

China’s internal problems

Answer 21

Yellow river (Huang He) flooded farmland and left other areas open to drought
bubonic plague, also broke out

Question 22

Boxer Rebellion

Answer 22

Cixi ordered all foreigners would be killed
Boxers rebelled, Qing suffered a humiliating defeat

Question 23

Meiji Restoration

Answer 23

Japanese industrialization in hope to protect Japanese culture

Question 24

Colonization society

Answer 24

Establish colonies in Mexico in Latin America,
Japan, established colonies in China Korea southeast Asia in the Pacific Islands

Question 25

French Indochina

Answer 25

Desire for cash crops
Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam
Rubber plantations

Question 26

Malaya

Answer 26

British
Worlds greatest producer of natural rubber

Question 27

Why were the British in Australia?

Answer 27

Fine wool industry
Copper & gold discovery

Question 28

Treaty of Waitangi

Answer 28

Rights of Maori habitants would be protected by the British crown
Maori became a separate colony, but then war broke out as European settlers encroached on Maori lands

Question 29

Maori economy base

Answer 29

Sheep grazing
Dairy farminf

Question 30

Trail of tears

Answer 30

Forced migration of the Native Americans in Oklahoma

Question 31

Monroe doctrine

Answer 31

European nations should not intervene in the affairs of the countries in Western Europe

Question 32

Manifest destiny

Answer 32

White Americans believe they had a natural and inevitable right to expand to the Pacific Ocean

Question 33

U.S. Bureau of the Census

Answer 33

Declared the western frontier was closed

Question 34

Spanish-American war

Answer 34

The US bought Guam, Cuba, Puerto Rico in the Philippines

Question 35

Roosevelt corollary

Answer 35

Stated if countries in Latin America demonstrated instability, the US would intervene
US occupied Dominican republic until it repaid its foreign debts

Question 36

State-run colony

Answer 36

Western institution slowly replace the local culture

Question 37

Russian American company

Answer 37

Similar to the British and Dutch East India, companies established permanent headquarters in Novo-Arkhangelsk (modern day Sitka)

Question 38

What ended Russian plans to make the North Pacific a Russian sea?

Answer 38

The US buying Alaska

Question 39

The great game

Answer 39

Rivalry between Russian and British empires as they fought for dominance in Afghanistan

Question 40

Congo Free State

Answer 40

Leopold kept these profits made by them
Brutal conditions
Terror into submission
Family held captive so workers wouldn’t run
Belgium took over, conditions improved