Imperialism 2: The Far East & The West (1800-1914)

Question 1

used or suitable for growing crops

Answer 1

arable

Question 2

the process in which people give up their own culture and adopt another culture

Answer 2

assimilation

Question 3

domination by one country of the political, economic, and/or cultural life of another country or region

Answer 3

imperalism

Question 4

a small neutral country, situated between two larger hostile countries, serving to prevent the outbreak of regional conflict

Answer 4

buffer state

Question 5

buying more from someone than you sell to them

Answer 5

trade deficit

Question 6

the right to live under their own laws to the exclusion of Chinese law

Answer 6

extraterritoriality

Question 7

a contractual obligation of one party to compensate the loss incurred to the other party

Answer 7

indemnity

Question 8

What canal links the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean?

Answer 8

panama canal

Question 9

How was the Boxer Rebellion put down?

Answer 9

multinational force(s)

Question 10

What were Sun Yixian’s three principles?

Answer 10

1. nationalism
2. democracy
3. economic security for all chinese

Question 11

Why did Great Britain begin trading opium for tea?

Answer 11

it (tea) used trade spanish silver for tea but did not have access to spanish silver during the American Revolution

Question 12

What were the results of Perry’s visit to Japan?

Answer 12

japan opened up to trade

Question 13

What did Japan do to become an imperialist power?

Answer 13

it gained control of korea

Question 14

Why did the Russo-Japanese War begin?

Answer 14

japan interested in manchuria (resources) and distrustful of russians
(maybe.idk🤷‍♀️)

Question 15

How did Siam remain independent?

Answer 15

great britian and france guaranteed siam its independence to act as a buffer state

Question 16

Why did the U.S. not enforce the Monroe Doctrine between 1865-1876?

Answer 16

because of reconstruction

Question 17

Why was Perry’s mission to open Japan a challenge?

Answer 17

given Japan’s longstanding policy of isolation and its resistance to foreign influence.

Question 18

What two diseases were rampant during the construction of the Panama Canal?

Answer 18

malaria and yellow fever

Question 19

Why did the U.S. begin building the Panama Canal?

Answer 19

the u.s needed a faster route to move naval forces from the west to east coasts

Question 20

What were the benefits of imperialism?

Answer 20

1. transportation
2. health
3. law

Question 21

What were the costs of imperialism?

Answer 21

1. arable land reduced- taken from natives for mining, etc.
2. assimilation

Question 22

Why did the U.S. declare war on Spain in 1898, starting the Spanish-American War?

Answer 22

1. american sympathizers and business interests in cuba appeal to president and congress to fight spain
2. the Maine explodes and the u.s blamed spain

Question 23

What is the Roosevelt Corollary/what did it do?

Answer 23

teddy rosevelt said that if any european power interfered with any lating american country, then u.s would be forced to “exercise….. an international police power.”

Question 24

Who won the Russo-Japanese War?

Answer 24

japan

Question 25

What ruler was negatively affected by the Russo-Japanese War?

Answer 25

Czar Nicholas II

Question 26

What role did the media play in the Spanish-American War?

Answer 26

the media was all about stirring up the public in order to influence the government policy

Question 27

Why did imperialists support the Platt Amendment?

Answer 27

american buisnesses benefited from a close relationship with Cuba

Question 28

How did imperialists justify the occupation of the Philippines?

Answer 28

imperalist claimed that it would result in an expansion of democracy

Question 29

What were the four main causes of imperialism?

Answer 29

1. economic
2. military
3. political
4. humanitar- ian
   (or religious reasons)

Question 30

What country did France gain control of that is today Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia?

Answer 30

indochina

Question 31

Know where the following are located:
1. China
2. Japan
3. Korea
4. Russia
5. Philippines

Answer 31

👍. 👎.