Chapter 23-27 Test Flashcards
Suez Canal
Connected the Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea, financed by European investors, intervention of British into Egyptian politics to protect investment
Boxer Rebellion
Expelled foreigners from China, failed because of western armies, defeat of Chinese, enhanced control by Europeans and power of provincial officials
Opium Wars
Britain vs. Qing China, fought to protect British control and trade of Opium, British victory, Hong Kong becomes a British trade port
Taiping Rebellion
South China; Hong Xiquan, a semi Christianized prophet; wanted to overthrow Qing and Confucius bases of scholar gentry
Crimean War
Russia attempts to attack Ottoman, opposed by France and Britain, Russian defeat in face of western industrial technology, led to the Tsar Alexander II reforms
Revolution of 1905
Mass political and social unrest in Russian empire, worker strikes, peasant unrest, and military mutinies
Matthew Perry’s arrival in Edo
Insisted opening Chinese ports to American trade in threat of naval bombardment, won rights for American trade in 1854
Liberals
19th century Europe; stressed limited state interference in private life, representation of people in government; urged the importance of constitutional rule and parliaments
Radicals
Followers of 19th century of western European political influence; advocated broader voting rights than Liberals; urged reforms in lower classes
James Watt
Devised steam engine in the 1770’s that could be used in production for many industries; key step in industrial revolution
Louis Pasteur
Discovery of germs and of the purification process named after him
Karl Marx
German socialist who history as a class struggle between rulers and subjects; preached the inevitability of social revolution and the creation of a proletariat dictatorship
Simon Bolivar
Creole military officer in northern South America; won victories in Venezuela, Columbia, and Ecuador between 1817 and 1822 that led to the independent state of Gran Columbia
Benito Juarez
La Reforma; against the forces of Santa Ana
Toussaint L’Overture
Leader of the slave rebellion in Latin America allegedly loyal to the deposed Bourbon King of Spain; they actually were Creole movements for independence; St. Domingue
Mahmud II
Ottoman sultan; built a private, professional army; fomented revolution of Janissaries and crushed them with private army; destroyed power of Janissaries and their religious allies; initiated reform of Ottoman empire on western precedents
Muhammad Ali
Won power struggle in Egypt following the fall of the Mamluks; established mastery of all Egypt by 1811; introduced effective army based on western tactics,; by 1830’s was able to challenge Ottoman government in Constantinople, died in 1848
Manchus
From northeast of China empire; seized power following collapse of Ming dynasty; established Qing dynasty, last dynasty of China
Cixi
Empress who dominated the last decades of Qing dynasty; supported Boxer Rebellion in 1898 as a means of driving out Westerners
Causes of WW1
The direct cause of WWI was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo on 28 June 1914
Decline of Ottoman Empire
Internal forces:
Lack of strong leadership and able Sultans.
Failure of Turkey to modernize and industrialize quickly.
Decline in the quality of the Janissary corps and its increasing involvement in politics.
External factors:
The rise of Russia and Austria as major powers
WW1
Tokugawa Shogunate
- economic and societal changes occurred in Japan. -While merchants were officially among the lower social classes, they were able to wield economic power over the highest social class, the samurai
- The government’s development and maintenance of roads provided a link between city and countryside, allowing information and ideas to spread and helping to shape a sense of Japan as a unified culture.
MeijiRestoration
● Newgovernmentestablished underemperor
● Radicalreorganizationof government,military, economy,societyusing Westernmodels
● Goalisrevisionofunequal treaties,establishmentof Japanasequalamonggreat powers
Cause of the French Revolution
enlightenment thinkers urging the need to limit the powers of the catholic church and the aristocracy; the middle class demand for greater political representation; the peasant desire for freedom from manoralism
French Revolution began in…
1789
What piece of legislation gave the vote to many members of the middle class in great Britain?
The Reform Bill of 1832
Who was responsible for managing the unification of Italy
count camillo di cavour
what German conservative was responsible for the unification of Germany in 1871
otto von bismark
Who defeated the British at isandhlwana in January 1879
Zulus
in what way was the British experience in India different from that of the Dutch in java?
The existence of a global imperial rivalry with the French
What was the critical battle in which the British defeated a combined force of Indians and French
Plassey
Why did India become a pivot of the great British empire
the size of the indian land army; the utility of indian ports in maintaining British sea power; the existence of raw materials useful to the British industries
who was responsible for the sweeping reforms in india in 1790s
lord cornwallis
Tropical Dependencies
colonies in which small numbers of europeans ruled large numbers of non-western peoples
to which areas did most british foreign investment flow by 1913
white dominions
what event set the boer colony in south africa on a different path than the white dominions of canada and australia
the annexation of the colony by the british in 1815
what were results of the first contact between the maoris and europeans in 1790s
spread of alcoholism and prostitution; introduction of european firearms to maori warfare; introduction of european diseases such as small pox
hawaii was effectively opened to the west through the voyages of
Captain James Cook
who initiated the movement for independence in mexico by calling on the mestizos and indians to rebel in 1810
father miguel de hidalgo
the person responsible for the independence movement in argentina and chile was
Jose de san martin
in what way was the experience of the napoleonic wars different for portugal than for spain
the entire royal family fled from the french to brazil and established their capital there
Causes of increased consumerism and leisure time
Industrialism
Both the Dutch in Java and the British in India used this as a method to gain entry into the country
indigenous people as mercenaries
This republic was founded by the Boers in South Africa in the 1850s
Transvaal
This political ideology most favored by the allied powers of the congress of Vienna was
Conservatism
Chief cause of French and American revolutions was
the enlightenment
The class most responsible for the intellectual ferment and forces of change in Europe between 1750 and 1914 was the
Middle class
All of these were forces for change in Western Europe during the period 1750 – 1914 EXCEPT
Religious innovation
Which statement is a FACT about the world-wide influence of the American Revolution and early American government?
The American Revolution and early government impacted the later French, Haitian, and Latin American revolutionaries and their ideas