Chapter 24 Flashcards
Neo-Europe
Colonies with established populations of Europeans in different areas like Australia, North America etc. Europe then used these outlets for population growth and major investment.
Opium Wars
Two conflicts between China and Great Britain during the mid 19th century around the trade of opium. Designed to open China to European trade.
Gunboat diplomacy
Using or threatening the use of military force to pressure the government into certain agreements.
global mass migration
Big movement of people from Europe to different places. One of the reasons the West had a big impact on the world.
nativism
Beliefs and policies made to establish inhabitants over immigrants. They often came from ideas of nationalism, racism, mass migration etc.
New imperialism
The drive to create political empires abroad by the European countries in the late 19th century.
Afrikaners
Descendants of the Dutch settlers from the Cape Colony in southern Africa.
Berlin Conference
Meeting of European leaders over the course of a year to discuss the basic rules for imperialist competition in Africa.
white man’s burden
The idea that Europeans should civilize non-white people and soon enough imperialism would provide nonwhites with higher living standards.
Orientalism
A term to describe the way Westerner’s misunderstood colonial cultures and subjects.
Great Rebellion
Insurrection by the Muslim and Hindu mercenaries in 1857 and 1858 that spread through central and northern India before it was crushed.
Meiji Restoration
The restoration of the Japanese emperor leading to the modernization of Japan in 1867.
hundred days of reform
A series of reforms created by the Chinese government to meet the foreign challenge.
