Chapter 19 Flashcards

(43 cards)

1
Q

The purchase that President Thomas Jefferson purchased more than 800,000 square miles of French territory west from the Mississippi River

A

Louisiana Purchase

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

European powers should not attempt to extend control over Western hemisphere

A

Monroe Doctrine

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

An Australian Archduke that Napoleon III placed in charge of France

A

Maximilian

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

A corollary proclaimed that the U.S. has the right to intervene in Latin America

A

Roosevelt Corollary

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

This legislation permitted the French Canadians to retain their language, law, and customs and to freely practice their Roman Catholic Religion

A

Quebec Act in 1774

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

An act which created the Dominion of Canada, a federation of four provinces

A

British North America Act

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

An Englishman, who explored the eastern coast of Australia

A

Captain James Cook

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

When was the American War for Independence

A

1775

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

People who resented the British Rule

A

Boers

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

Hundreds of them began a migration called

A

The Great Trek

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

Growing Tension between the Boers and the British led to what war

A

Boer War

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

These people were Spanish Civil Officials called

A

Peninsulares

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

Spaniards born in the New World

A

Criollos

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

Those of mixed Spanish and Indian blood

A

Mestizos

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

2 men who dreamed of a Spanish South America free from outside control

A

Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

Military Leaders

A

Caudillos

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

A new form of empire-building known as

A

Imperialism

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

What battle did British forces defeated the French and Indian forces

A

Battle of Plassey

19
Q

Who led the British forces to defeat France and India

20
Q

Was the introduction of new rifles cartridges. The cartridges were greased with sheep fat to keep the powder dry.

21
Q

Dynasty which ruled China since 1644

A

Manchu Dynasty

22
Q

War in which British forces were used to preserve the profitable but destructive opium trade

23
Q

A missionary who brought his family with him to China to preach the Gospel.

A

J. Hudson Taylor

24
Q

A principle that states that Westerners who broke Chinese law had the right to be tried in their own national courts rather in Chinese Courts.

A

Extraterritoriality

25
A war in which China loss to Japan
Sino-Japanese War
26
Named after a leading society called the "Righteous and Harmonious Fists)
Boxer Rebellion
27
A family that ruled Japan as they had done since the beginning of the seventeenth century
Tokugawa Family
28
A U.S naval commander who sailed into Tokyo Bay with a small fleet. To persuade the Japanese to allow trade between the U.S. and Japan
Matthew Perry
29
The first ever treaty Japan ever signed with a Western nation
Treaty of Kanagawa
30
declared that "the uncivilized customs of former years shall be abandoned"
Meiji
31
During this period, Japan leaders transformed the nation from a feudal society to a major industrial power
Meiji Period
32
A War that the Japanese won over the Russians
Russo-Japanese War
33
A one large colony in Southeast Asia that bordered the South China Sea and included the nations Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos
Indochina
34
A system that forced the natives to use one-fifth of their land and one-fifth of their time to grow crops for the Dutch
Culture system
35
The man who opened the Gospel in Africa
David Livingstone
36
He was hired by a New York newspaper to find Livingstone
Henry Stanley
37
What canal did the British secure to protect a lifetime trade with India and the Far East
Suez Canal
38
He was called the Empire Builder, became a firm supporter of British Imperialism. His goal was "from Cape to Cairo"
Cecil John Rhodes
39
The Army that Louis Philippe established that would figure prominently in the history of French Imperialism
Foreign Legion
40
Hired Henry Stanley and other explorers to acquire as much of the region as possible. He soon controlled the nine-hundred thousand-square-mile Congo Free State
King Leopold II
41
Secured modern Tanzania, preventing the British from acquiring an unbroken stretch of territory from the Cape to Cairo
Dr. Karl Peters
42
What Congress forced Russia to return some of the territories it had won from the Turks
Congress of Berlin
43
This agreement divided Russia into three zones
Anglo-Russian Entente