Chapter 32 Flashcards
Cecil Rhodes
Imperialist and explorer looking for areas with riches
Hegemony
Control over a country
Cape to Cairo
An African railway plan
White mans burden
Poem written toward imperialism
Social Darwinism
Survival of the fittest between ethnic groups
Steam powered gunboats
Naval advancement which allowed countries to dominate the oceans
Maxim guns
Advanced guns on the new steam powered gun boats
Battle of Omdurman
Between British and Sudanese
Submarine cables
Telegraph cables to communicate with boats
Sepoy rebellion
Muslim and Hindu Indians rebel against British
The great game
Allying with India and surrounding areas to prepare for a predicted war
French Indochina
French territory in Southeast Asia
Suez Canal
Connecting waterway in Egypt
Boer war
Between British and Dutch within South Africa
Queen lil’uokalani
Queen of Hawaii
Maoris
People of New Zealand
Indian national congress
Indian national reform group
Panama Canal
US built on panama soil. Panama allowed this because US helped them gained independence
Monroe doctrine
No imperialism in the Western Hemisphere. US became a protectorate over other nations
Russ-Japanese War
Japan beat Russian in naval warfare. It allowed Japan to obtain imperial control over more territory
Life of Ram Mohan Roy
1772-1833
Life of Charles Darwin
1809-1882
Founding Singapore by Thomas Stamford Raffles
1818 as a naval base
Roosevelt Corollary
Allowed US to intervene on domestic affairs of countries in the hemisphere
