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Question 1

War in which US gained the colonies of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines

Answer 1

Spanish american war

Question 2

US military official who landed in japans harbor and ordered them to begin trading

Answer 2

matthew perry

Question 3

document issued in 1823 banning European interference in Latin America

Answer 3

Monroe doctrine

Question 4

exempted foreigners from Chinese law at Guangzhou and four other Chinese ports

Answer 4

extraterritorial rights

Question 5

japans emperor who symbolized nationalism and replaced the Tokugawa shogunates

Answer 5

mutsohito

Question 6

exempted foreigners from Chinese law at Guangzhou and four other Chinese ports

Answer 6

extraterritorial rights

Question 7

campaign against foreign privilege by the society of righteous and harmonious fists

Answer 7

boxer rebellion

Question 8

the treaty that ended the Russo-Japanese war

Answer 8

Portsmouth treaty

Question 9

feeling that emerged in china partly as the result of the boxer rebellion

Answer 9

nationalism

Question 10

the treaty that gave Britain the island of hong kong

Answer 10

Nanjing treaty

Question 11

means to take control of, ex. Japanese control over Korea, Taiwan, and Pescadores

Answer 11

annex

Question 12

the country that was taken as a colony of japan and the focus of the Sino-Japanese war

Answer 12

Korea

Question 13

British vs Chinese due to Britains’ unethical attempts to correct its unfavorable balance of trade

Answer 13

opium wars

Question 14

the movement led by Hong Xiuquan to build a kingdom in which no one would live in poverty

Answer 14

Taiping rebellion

Question 15

US president who oversaw the completion of the Panama canal and negotiated the peace treaty between Russia and japan

Answer 15

Rosevelt

Question 16

Gave the US the right to be “an international police power” in the western hemisphere

Answer 16

Roosevelt corollary

Question 17

US proposal that china be open to merchants of all nations

Answer 17

open door policy

Question 18

A “foothold” in china; an area where a foreign country controlled trade and investment

Answer 18

sphere of influence

Question 19

Military dictators who ruled newly independent Latin American countries for their own benefit

Answer 19

Caudillos

Question 20

a massive building project that connected the Atlantic to the pacific

Answer 20

Panama canal

Question 21

china VS. japan because china sent troops to help the Korean king end a revolt, won by japan

Answer 21

Sino-Japanese war

Question 22

Caudillo who saw Venezuela as his own personal cattle ranch

Answer 22

gomes

Question 23

during Meiji japan, the amount of these skyrocketed from 20 miles in 1872 to 7000 by 1914

Answer 23

railroads

Question 24

reform-minded leader

Answer 24

sarmiento

Question 25

45 year period of westernization and modernization led by mutsuhito

Answer 25

meiji era

Question 26

unequal treaty created after the arrival of commodore perry that allowed trade in 2 ports

Answer 26

kanagawa

Question 27

narcotic from the poppy plant that found a market in china

Answer 27

opium

Question 28

began the movement for Cuban independence

Answer 28

Marti