6.3 Flashcards
Indigenous Responses to State Expansion
Balkan Peninsula
Area the Ottomans controlled until the native Balkan people began to rebel.
Proclamation of 1763
Proclamation made by the British after the French and Indian War that gave the natives all the land between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River. It was later broken by Americans
Cherokee nation
The Cherokee people assimilated to white culture, developed written language, and developed their own constitution. They were still displaced by the Indian Removal Act.
Indian Removal Act
Passed by the United States government to remove natives from native lands to Oklahoma to make more room for white settlers.
Ghost Dance
Native American song and dance rituals meant to hasten the return of their dead ancestors to return their native land to them from the whites. This practice ended when the Sioux lost the battle of Wounded Knee.
Tupac Amaru II
A European-educated Incan descendant, he led an Indian revolt against Spain that failed and resulted in his and his family’s deaths.
Benito Juarez
The liberal leader of Mexico who was briefly removed by Mexican conservative efforts combined with the forces of French Napolean III before being re-instated.
sepoys
Indian soldiers employed by the British
Indian Rebellion of 1857
The British forced the use of pig fat to grease rifle cartridges, which the Muslima and Hindu sepoys despised. This inspired Indian nationalism and a rebellion by them which Britain crushed.
Raj
British sovereignty and government in India
Indian National Congress
Indian group that aired grievances against the colonial government and then called for self-rule.
Philipines
Group of Asian Islands originally under Spanish control
Jose Rizal
Philippine reformer who didn’t want independence, just better conditions
Philippine revolution
Educated Filipinos called for and began to execute a revolution against Spain. In the end, control of the Philipines just transferred from Spain to the US and many Filipinos died.
Spanish-American War
War between the Spanish and the US that resulted in the Treaty of Paris and the US gaining the Philipines, Guam, Puerto Rico, and other territories/colonies.
Treaty of Paris
Treaty that ended the SPanish-American War adn gave the US the Philipines, Guam, Peurto Rico, and others.
Philippine-American War
War following the Spanish-American War in which residents of the Philippines fought for freedom against the US and lost brutally.
Aboriginal
Native Australian people. Many were killed when Australia was invaded by Europeans
Maori
Native people of New Zealand who fought the Maori Wars to maintain their land from the British
Treaty of Waitangi
Treaty between the British and Maori that allowed the Maori to keep their land until the British began breaking it, resulting in the Maori Wars
Maori Wars
The Maori fought the British when they began breaking the Treaty of Waitangi. The Maori lost after a long time and lost much land.
Pan-Africanism
Western-educated Africans
Usman dan Fodio
Muslim intellectual and purist who established the Sokoto Caliphate to purify Islam amongst the native tribes and restarted the slave trade for economic growth.
Sokoto Caliphate
Established by Muslim intellectual and purist Usman dan Fodio, they were attempting to purify Islam among the native Hausa tribes and restarted the slave trade and were later subdued by the British as they stopped the slave trade.
Xhosa
An African people group that did not want to be ruled by the Europeans. They did the Xosha Cattle Killing Movement to try to remove the British
Xosha Cattle Killing Movement
The Xosha people killed their cows and burned their crops to cause spirits to remove the British from their lands. The spirits did not do anything to the British and thousands died of famine.
Zulu
Well-organized African state that nearly defeated the British, but then were absorbed into the British colony of South Africa.
Anglo-Zulu War
War between the British and Zulu peoples that looked like the Zulu would win until the British won and absorbed their kingdom.
Samory Toure
Mande African chieftain who established a country in Guinea. He fought the French in West Africa and lost, but the French offered him protection. He took it until he fought them again while trying to expand his kingdom, and the French then exiled him.
Muhammad Ahmad
A Sudanese Muslim who resented Egyptian and British rule in Sudan. He declared himself a Mahdi. He took the political resentment and made it religious to fight for their freedom. They won until he died.
Mahdi
title of “guided one,” Muhammad Ahmad took on this mantle to restore the glory of Islam.
Sudan
Country Muhammad Ahmad ruled and fought for until he died and then the British took it over.
Asante Empire
Empire in present-day Ghana. They fought and won many wars to keep the British out, and lost the fifth war, the Yaa Asantewaa war led by Yaa Asantewaa, resulting in their colonization fo the British.
Yaa Asantewaa
Warrior queen of the Asante Empire who led the Yaa Asantewaa wars against the British until their defeat in the fifth one.
Vietnam
Resited French rule, ruled by a 12-year-old and the French tried to raid them but the empower had been removed for safety.
