Chapter 24 Flashcards

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neo-Europes

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settler colonies with established populations of Europeans, such as North America, Australia, New Zealand and Latin America, where Europe found outlets for population growth and its most profitable investment opportunities in the nineteenth century

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Opium Wars

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two mid-nineteenth century conflicts between Chine and Great Britain over the British trade in opium, which was designed to “open” China to European free trade. In defeat, China gave European traders and missionaries increased protection and concessions

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gunboat diplomacy

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the use or threat of military force to coerce a government into economic or political agreements

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global mass migration

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the mass movement of people from Europe in the nineteenth-century; one reason that the West’s impact on the world was so powerful and many-sided

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nativism

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policies and beliefs, often influenced by nationalism, scientific racism, and mass migration, that give preferential treatment to established inhabitants over immigrants

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new imperialism

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the late nineteenth-century drive by European countries to create vast political empires abroad

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Afrikanes

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descendants of the Dutch settlers in the Cape Colony in southern Africa

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Berlin Conference

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A meeting of European leaders held in 1884 and 1885 in order to lay down some basic rules for imperialist competition in sub-Saharan Africa

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white man’s burden

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The idea that Europeans could and should civilize more primitive nonwhite peoples and that imperialism would eventually provide nonwhites with modern achievements and higher standards of living

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Orientalism

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a term coined by literary by literary scholar Edward said to describe the way Westerns misunderstood and described colonial subjects and cultures

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Great Rebellion

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The 1857 and 1858 insurrection by Muslim and Hindu mercenaries in the British army that spread throughout northern and central India before finally being crushed

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Meiji Restoration

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the restoration of the Japanese emperor to power in 1867, leading to the subsequent modernization of Japan

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hundred days of reform

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A series of Western-style reforms launched in 1898 by the Chinese government in an attempt to meet the foreign challenge

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