Period 3 P.3 Flashcards
What is diplomacy?
When countries negotiate treaties or agreements, often through coercion/manipulation to gain control over other countries.
What is economic imperialism?
A practice in which powerful imperial countries exert economic control over colonies through trade and economic policies for their own benefit rather than for the benefit of native populations in the colony.
What is indentured servitude?
A worker bound by a voluntary agreement (though often gained through coercion and deception) to work for a specified period of years often in return for free passage to an overseas destination.
Indentured servants, largely from India, China and Japan, replaced enslaved laborers after the abolition of slavery.
What is an ethnic enclave?
Areas of high concentration of immigrants/ethnic groups in a neighborhood/area.
What is a metropole?
The homeland, central territory or the state exercising power over a colonial empire.