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Question 1

First industrial revolution

Answer 1

A shift from man made iteam to machine made iteam

Question 2

second industrial revolution

Answer 2

A shift in focus on electricity, gasline, and large scale industrial manufacturing

Question 3

Enclosure

Answer 3

land owners build fences or hedges and used fields for crops pushing tenants off the land

Question 4

Sepoys

Answer 4

Indian soldiers trained in europen warfare, who served the British army

Question 5

Raj

Answer 5

the period/govenment that gave britiain direct contral over india

Question 6

Settler colony

Answer 6

colony in which people from the home country create permanent homes and communities, colonists usually able usually able to dominate government society and economy even if minority of population and create polices that connected colony to the mother country

Question 7

boer war

Answer 7

Conflict from 1899-1902 between British and dutch Afrikaner/beors in south Africa fought over contral of land rich in minerals British won and established and colony in South Africa

Question 8

tranzimat reforms

Answer 8

western style reforms within the ottoman empire between 1839 and 176 to try to maintian the ottoman empire contral over its territory

Question 9

suez canal

Answer 9

built to connect the Mediterranean and red sea throught Egypt and Nile river made transportation faster and easier between Europe and Asia controlled by British until 1956

Question 10

Opium war

Answer 10

fight between britian and quig china beginning in 1839 becausse qing govenment tried to prevent british selling opium in china british wanted to increase opium use to ensure chinese bought more goods from british british won and demonstrated western controll.

Question 11

Taiping rebellion

Answer 11

massive rebellion in southern china in the 1850 and 1860s led by Hong xinquan and influenced by his ideas or Christianity sought to overthrow the quin dynasty and confucisnism

Question 12

bower rebellion

Answer 12

resistant movement supported by the qing government that attempted to force all forigns out of china in 1900 especially targeting Christian misinars

Question 13

Meiji restoration

Answer 13

power of the mporer restored from shogunate in 1668

Question 14

social darwinism

Answer 14

theory based on charles dowin theory of evolution by natural selection that argues that people are born with certain abilities that decide which social class they belong to

Question 15

Chinese exclusion act

Answer 15

American law passed in 1882 that banned Chinese people from immigration into the US and made it difficult to to renter the US

Question 16

white australia policy

Answer 16

australin government actions to encourage immigration for white Europeans

Question 17

Indentured servitud

Answer 17

contract based labor system in which someone works off a best for a set amount of time but is freed after the period is over

Question 18

British east India company

Answer 18

British trading company in the Indian ocean that ctrolled trade

Question 19

dutch east India company

Answer 19

dutch trading company that concentrated on goods from indonnesia and southeast Asia

Question 20

corvee labor

Answer 20

forced labor system in which people work a way to pay taxes

Question 21

Berlin conference

Answer 21

meeting organized by German Otto von Bismarck to settle europen claims to territories in Africa British French German Portuguese and Belgian offcials divided Africa and claimed spacific territory

Question 22

Afrikaner

Answer 22

South Africa person descended from dutch and or French colonists also called beors many restied British control of South Africa

Question 23

sphere of influence

Answer 23

area in which a forgion government has power influence or partial control but is not part of that started territory

Question 24

penal colony

Answer 24

area to house prisoners outside of the home country

Question 25

treaty of waitangi

Answer 25

agreement between British and maori governmeny that was supposed to help settle disagreements over British colonization and established a government maori disputed the translation and agrued that the British tricked them into giving up control of their land

Question 26

monroe doctrine

Answer 26

American policy developed by president monroe in 1823 that declared the Americas free from euprean colonization

Question 27

pan Africanism

Answer 27

movement within Africa and African diaporic communities descent who lived outside the continent

Question 28

ethic enclave

Answer 28

practice in which immigratnts who shared home cultures and their descendants live together and separated themselves from other cultures often decolped into neighborhood associated with an outside culture