Ch. 32

Question 0

White Man’s Burden

Answer 0

Defined by Rudyard Kipling as the duty of Europeans and Euro-Americans to bring order and enlightenment to distant lands

Question 1

Cicil Rhodes

Answer 1

18 year old students who went to South Africa on search of climate to relieve his tuberculosis. Made fortune mining diamonds and gold.

Question 2

Sepoy Rebellion

Answer 2

raised from rumors that cartridges for newly issued weapons were made of pig and cow fat (against Islam & Hinduism) (Sepys: Indian troops)

Question 3

(Port of) Singapore

Answer 3

Founded by Thimas Stamford Raffled in 1824, became the busiest center of trade in the strait of Melaka. Base for British conquest in Melaka.

Question 4

The Congo Free State

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A colony in the basin of the Congo River. King Leopold II of Belgium employed Henry Morton Stanley to help establish it. Belgian government took over and it was named the Belgian Congo

Question 5

Boers

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“Farmer”. Newly arrived settlers from Europe who moved into lands beyond company control (Dutch East India Company).

Question 6

Berlin Conference

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The delegates of the 12 European states as well as the US & Ottoman Empire devised ground rules for he colonization of Africa.

Question 7

New South Wales

Answer 7

Colony which was established by settlers when a British fleet brought them to the Sydney harbor

Question 8

the Monroe Doctrine

Answer 8

proclamation issued by US president James Monroe that served as a justification for later US intervention in hemispheric affairs

Question 9

Queen Liliukalani

Answer 9

last monarch of Hawaii who a group of planters & business people overthrew in 1893

Question 10

Hawaii

Answer 10

US entrepreneurs established highly productive sugarcane plantations & in 1867 claimed a protectorate over the islands

Question 11

the Spanish-Cuban-American war

Answer 11

war broke out as anticolonial tensions rose in Cuba and Puerto Rico (US took possession of Guam & the Philipinnes)

Question 12

Roosevelt Corollary

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exerted the U.S. right to intervene in the domestic affairs of nations within the hemisphere if they demonstrated an ability to maintain the security deemed necessary to protect US investments

Question 13

the Sino-Japanese war

Answer 13

conflict erupted over the status of Korea (1894). Japan declared war in China because an antiforeign rebellion broke out in Korea & Qing rulers sent an army to restore Chinese authority in Korea

Question 14

the Russo-Japanese war

Answer 14

war broke out between Russia and Japan because both imperial powers had ambitions in the Liadong Penninsula, Manchuria, and Korea. Japan won recognition of its colonial power over Korea and the Liadong Penninsula

Question 15

Maji-Maji rebellion

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Organized by a local prophet, rebels sprinkled themselves with maji-maji (“magic water”) which they believed would protect them from German weapons. Many died in the conflict.

Question 16

social Darwinists

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theorists who seized on ideas of Charles Darwin and “survival of the fittest”.

Question 17

Ram Mohan Roy

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argued for the construction of a society based on both modern European science and the Indian tradition of devotional Hinduism

Question 18

Indian National Congress

Answer 18

the most important of the reform groups. A forum for educated Indians to communicate their views on public affairs to colonial officials

Question 19

All India Muslim League

Answer 19

most prominent organization working to advance political and social interests of Muslims