Chapter 19 Flashcards
The purchase that President Thomas Jefferson purchased more than 800,000 square miles of French territory west from the Mississippi River
Louisiana Purchase
European powers should not attempt to extend control over Western hemisphere
Monroe Doctrine
An Australian Archduke that Napoleon III placed in charge of France
Maximilian
A corollary proclaimed that the U.S. has the right to intervene in Latin America
Roosevelt Corollary
This legislation permitted the French Canadians to retain their language, law, and customs and to freely practice their Roman Catholic Religion
Quebec Act in 1774
An act which created the Dominion of Canada, a federation of four provinces
British North America Act
An Englishman, who explored the eastern coast of Australia
Captain James Cook
When was the American War for Independence
1775
People who resented the British Rule
Boers
Hundreds of them began a migration called
The Great Trek
Growing Tension between the Boers and the British led to what war
Boer War
These people were Spanish Civil Officials called
Peninsulares
Spaniards born in the New World
Criollos
Those of mixed Spanish and Indian blood
Mestizos
2 men who dreamed of a Spanish South America free from outside control
Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin
Military Leaders
Caudillos
A new form of empire-building known as
Imperialism
What battle did British forces defeated the French and Indian forces
Battle of Plassey
Who led the British forces to defeat France and India
Robert Clive
Was the introduction of new rifles cartridges. The cartridges were greased with sheep fat to keep the powder dry.
Sepoy Mutiny
Dynasty which ruled China since 1644
Manchu Dynasty
War in which British forces were used to preserve the profitable but destructive opium trade
Opium Wars
A missionary who brought his family with him to China to preach the Gospel.
J. Hudson Taylor
A principle that states that Westerners who broke Chinese law had the right to be tried in their own national courts rather in Chinese Courts.
Extraterritoriality
A war in which China loss to Japan
Sino-Japanese War
Named after a leading society called the “Righteous and Harmonious Fists)
Boxer Rebellion
A family that ruled Japan as they had done since the beginning of the seventeenth century
Tokugawa Family
A U.S naval commander who sailed into Tokyo Bay with a small fleet. To persuade the Japanese to allow trade between the U.S. and Japan
Matthew Perry
The first ever treaty Japan ever signed with a Western nation
Treaty of Kanagawa
declared that “the uncivilized customs of former years shall be abandoned”
Meiji
During this period, Japan leaders transformed the nation from a feudal society to a major industrial power
Meiji Period
A War that the Japanese won over the Russians
Russo-Japanese War
A one large colony in Southeast Asia that bordered the South China Sea and included the nations Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos
Indochina
A system that forced the natives to use one-fifth of their land and one-fifth of their time to grow crops for the Dutch
Culture system
The man who opened the Gospel in Africa
David Livingstone
He was hired by a New York newspaper to find Livingstone
Henry Stanley
What canal did the British secure to protect a lifetime trade with India and the Far East
Suez Canal
He was called the Empire Builder, became a firm supporter of British Imperialism. His goal was “from Cape to Cairo”
Cecil John Rhodes
The Army that Louis Philippe established that would figure prominently in the history of French Imperialism
Foreign Legion
Hired Henry Stanley and other explorers to acquire as much of the region as possible. He soon controlled the nine-hundred thousand-square-mile Congo Free State
King Leopold II
Secured modern Tanzania, preventing the British from acquiring an unbroken stretch of territory from the Cape to Cairo
Dr. Karl Peters
What Congress forced Russia to return some of the territories it had won from the Turks
Congress of Berlin
This agreement divided Russia into three zones
Anglo-Russian Entente
