Chapter 16 Par 2 Flashcards
What did Britain’s lose of its North American colonies trigger?
fueled its growing interest and interventions in Asia, contributing to British colonial rule in India and the Opium Wars in China
What did Napoleon’s brief conquest of Egypt open up?
the way for a modernizing regime to emerge in that ancient land and stimulated westernizing reforms in the Ottoman Empire
During the 19th century were did the idea of a “consititution” find advocates?
in Poland, Latin America, the Spanish ruled Philippines, China, the Ottoman Empire, and British-governed India
What three movements arose to challenge continuing patterns of oppression or exclusion?
Abolitionists sought the end of slavery; nationalists hoped to foster unity and independence from foreign rule; and feminists challenged male dominance
What revolution was particularly important in prompting Britain to abolish slavery throughout its empire in 1833?
The Great Jamaica Revolt of 1831-32
What was the famous motto of the abolitionist movement?
Am I not a man and a brother.
The movement to end slavery in the 18th century found wide support among who?
middle- and working-class people in Britain
What were some of the techniques used to help abolish slavery?
pamphlets with heartrending descriptions of slavery, numerous petitions to Parliament, lawsuits, and boycotts of slave-produced sugar
What happened in 1807 and later in 1834 in Britain?
In 1807, Britain forbade the sale of slaves within its empire and in 1834 emancipated those who remained enslaved
What did British naval vessels do as it patrolled the Atlantic?
intercepted illegal slave ships, and freed their human cargoes in a small West African settlement called Freetown, in present-day Sierra Leone
Following the British, when did most Latin American countries abolish slavery?
by the 1850s
What was one of the last Latin American countries to abolish slavery in 1888?
Brazil
What persuaded the Russian tsar to free the many serfs of that huge country in 1861?
fear of rebellion, economic inefficiency, and moral concerns
After the trade had been declared illegal, where did most of the slaves now go to?
to Cuba and Brazil
What powerful king of the West African state of Asante, was puzzled as to why the British would no longer buy his slaves?
Osei Bonsu; who said “If they think it bad now, why did the think it good before?”
What was the only place in the Atlantic world where the redistribution of land followed the end of slavery?
Haiti
Large numbers of indentured servants from India and China were imported where?
into the Caribbean, Peru, South Africa, Hawaii, Malaya, and elsewhere to work in mines, on plantations, and in construction projects
Where did freedmen everywhere desperatly seek their own land?
In Jamaica