Chapter 19 - Attempts at Liberty

Question 1

This country’s original settlers were convicts

Answer 1

Australia

Question 2

The first treaty Japan ever signed with a Western nation

Answer 2

Treaty of Kanagawa

Question 3

Baptist missionary to India

Answer 3

William Carey

Question 4

Dutch farmers

Answer 4

Boers

Question 5

Explored the Congo for Belgium; hired by a newspaper to find another explorer in the interior of Africa

Answer 5

Henry Stanley

Question 6

Spaniards born in Spain who represented the king in Latin America

Answer 6

Peninsulares

Question 7

Englishman was an early explorer of Australia and New Zealand

Answer 7

James Cook

Question 8

Spaniards born in the New World

Answer 8

Criollos

Question 9

Missionary-explorer who spent his life among the Africans

Answer 9

David Livingstone

Question 10

Those of mixed Indian and Spanish blood

Answer 10

Mestizos

Question 11

Soldiers from India

Answer 11

Sepoys

Question 12

Missionary to the cannibals of West Africa

Answer 12

Mary Slessor

Question 13

Pioneer missionary in China

Answer 13

J. Hudson Taylor

Question 14

Ambitious military leaders in Latin America who overthrew governments and ruled to their own advantage

Answer 14

Caudillos

Question 15

The “liberator” who led the struggle for freedom in the northern portion of South America

Answer 15

Simon Bolivar

Question 16

The explosion of this ship precipitated the Spanish American War

Answer 16

USS Maine

Question 17

Opened Japan’s door to trade with the United States

Answer 17

Matthew Perry

Question 18

Acquisition of this land from France, doubled the size of the United States

Answer 18

Louisiana Purchase

Question 19

The act permitted the French Canadians the right to retain their language, law, customs, and to practice freely their Roman Catholic religion

Answer 19

Quebec Act (1774)

Question 20

Led an army over the Andes to free Chile and Peru from the Spanish

Answer 20

Jose de San Martin

Question 21

Purchased the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon for the United States

Answer 21

Thomas Jefferson

Question 22

King of Belgium who conquered the Congo

Answer 22

Leopold II

Question 23

Empire-builder who sought a string of land in Africa “from Cape to Congo”

Answer 23

Cecil John Rhodes

Question 24

United States president who refused European intervention in Latin America for any reason; only the United States was allowed to intervene

Answer 24

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 25

Britain that led his forces to defeat the Indian ruler of Bengal in 1757

Answer 25

Robert Clive

Question 26

An individual’s right to be tried in his own national court for breaking the law of another country

Answer 26

Extraterritoriality

Question 27

United States president who refused European intervention in Latin America for any reason; only the United States was allowed to intervene

Answer 27

James Monroe

Question 28

Declared Brazil independent and became its emperor

Answer 28

Dom Pedro

Question 29

Mistreatment of this country led to the Spanish American War

Answer 29

Cuba

Question 30

The 1857 revolt by native Indian troops employed by the East Indian Company

Answer 30

Sepoy Mutiny

Question 31

The 1894-95 war between China and Japan; won by Japan

Answer 31

Sino-Japanese War

Question 32

Warning issued by President Monroe that the United States would resist any efforts to colonize the Americas

Answer 32

Monroe Doctrine

Question 33

Chinese uprising against Western influences

Answer 33

Boxer Rebellion

Question 34

The extension of power by one people or country over another country

Answer 34

Imperialism

Question 35

Battle where the British defeated an Indian ruler during the Seven Years War

Answer 35

Battle of Plassey

Question 36

Drug from poppy plants that wars between China and Britain were fought over the smuggling of

Answer 36

Opium

Question 37

The mysterious explosion of what ship precipitated the Spanish-American War?

Answer 37

USS Maine

Question 38

Which Englishman was an early explorer of Australia and New Zealand?

Answer 38

James Cook

Question 39

Who was the “liberator” who led the struggle for freedom in the northern portion of South?

Answer 39

Simon Bolivar

Question 40

What term applies to ambitious military leaders in Latin America?

Answer 40

Caudillos

Question 41

Who declared Brazil independent and became its emperor?

Answer 41

Dom Pedro

Question 42

Which Britain led his forces to defeat the Indian ruler of Bengal in 1757?

Answer 42

Robert Clive

Question 43

The Battle of Plassey helped ensure British dominance in which country?

Answer 43

India

Question 44

The Spanish-American War resulted from Spain’s mistreatment of which country?

Answer 44

Cuba

Question 45

Canadians the right to retain their language, law, and customs and to practice freely their Roman Catholic religion?

Answer 45

Quebec Act

Question 46

Who were the first Europeans to settle South Africa?

Answer 46

The Dutch

Question 47

Which treaty was the first treaty Japan ever signed with a Western nation?

Answer 47

Treaty of Kanagawa

Question 48

Who led an army over the Andes Mountains to free Chile and Peru from the Spanish?

Answer 48

Jose de San Martin

Question 49

What did the principle of extraterritoriality deal with?

Answer 49

Westerners who broke Chinese law were given the right to be tried in their own national courts