Chapter 19 Flashcards

1
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The purchase that President Thomas Jefferson purchased more than 800,000 square miles of French territory west from the Mississippi River

A

Louisiana Purchase

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2
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European powers should not attempt to extend control over Western hemisphere

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Monroe Doctrine

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3
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An Australian Archduke that Napoleon III placed in charge of France

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Maximilian

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4
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A corollary proclaimed that the U.S. has the right to intervene in Latin America

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Roosevelt Corollary

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5
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This legislation permitted the French Canadians to retain their language, law, and customs and to freely practice their Roman Catholic Religion

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Quebec Act in 1774

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6
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An act which created the Dominion of Canada, a federation of four provinces

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British North America Act

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7
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An Englishman, who explored the eastern coast of Australia

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Captain James Cook

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8
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When was the American War for Independence

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1775

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9
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People who resented the British Rule

A

Boers

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10
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Hundreds of them began a migration called

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The Great Trek

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11
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Growing Tension between the Boers and the British led to what war

A

Boer War

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12
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These people were Spanish Civil Officials called

A

Peninsulares

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13
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Spaniards born in the New World

A

Criollos

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14
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Those of mixed Spanish and Indian blood

A

Mestizos

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15
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2 men who dreamed of a Spanish South America free from outside control

A

Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin

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16
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Military Leaders

A

Caudillos

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17
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A new form of empire-building known as

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Imperialism

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18
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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

A

Robert Clive

20
Q

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

A

Sepoy Mutiny

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

A

Opium Wars

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
Q

A war in which China loss to Japan

A

Sino-Japanese War

26
Q

Named after a leading society called the “Righteous and Harmonious Fists)

A

Boxer Rebellion

27
Q

A family that ruled Japan as they had done since the beginning of the seventeenth century

A

Tokugawa Family

28
Q

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

A

Matthew Perry

29
Q

The first ever treaty Japan ever signed with a Western nation

A

Treaty of Kanagawa

30
Q

declared that “the uncivilized customs of former years shall be abandoned”

A

Meiji

31
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During this period, Japan leaders transformed the nation from a feudal society to a major industrial power

A

Meiji Period

32
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A War that the Japanese won over the Russians

A

Russo-Japanese War

33
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A one large colony in Southeast Asia that bordered the South China Sea and included the nations Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos

A

Indochina

34
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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

A

Culture system

35
Q

The man who opened the Gospel in Africa

A

David Livingstone

36
Q

He was hired by a New York newspaper to find Livingstone

A

Henry Stanley

37
Q

What canal did the British secure to protect a lifetime trade with India and the Far East

A

Suez Canal

38
Q

He was called the Empire Builder, became a firm supporter of British Imperialism. His goal was “from Cape to Cairo”

A

Cecil John Rhodes

39
Q

The Army that Louis Philippe established that would figure prominently in the history of French Imperialism

A

Foreign Legion

40
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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

A

King Leopold II

41
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Secured modern Tanzania, preventing the British from acquiring an unbroken stretch of territory from the Cape to Cairo

A

Dr. Karl Peters

42
Q

What Congress forced Russia to return some of the territories it had won from the Turks

A

Congress of Berlin

43
Q

This agreement divided Russia into three zones

A

Anglo-Russian Entente