CHAPTER 14: Height of Imperialism STUDY GUIDE
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assignment:
Question/Topic:
bellringers
Two European countries controlling most of Latin
America prior to independence.
France’s claim in Southeast Asia
Know vocabulary words: imperialism, indirect rule,
direct rule, mestizo, viceroy, Monroe Doctrine, creole,
peninsulare, sepoy, protectorate
bellringers
#3
#7
Henry Stanley’s role in Africa
#6
book
Only African free states in 1914
“white man’s burden”
#6
book
book
Established Egypt as a separate country
Boer’s were descendents of _______________
Reason schools were set up in India
#8
#10
#8
Leader of Indian independence movement
Leaders of independence movement in South America
Goal of the First Indian National Congress
#8
In 1857, a growing Indian distrust of the British led to
the _______ which the British called the __________.
Which group called for a share of the governing
process in India.
Led the revolt in the French colony of Saint Domingue
(Haiti)
David Livingstone’s role in Africa
#8
#10
#6
book
Gandhi’s goals for Independence movement (2)
#10
Structure of colonial Latin American society
#6
Countries involved in the Berlin Conference
#7
#4
African involvement in Berlin Conference
President that declared Philippines an American
colony.
The Meiji restoration, under Emperor Mutsuhito, was a
change in Japanese _________________.
The Daimyo governed __________after the Meiji
#11
book
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Spain and Portugal
Indochina: Vietnam Laos, Cambodia
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Journalist that went to look for Dr.
Livingstone but was then hired by
King Leopold of Belgium to create a
Belgium settlement in the Congo
Liberia and Ethiopia
Europeans had a moral responsibility
to civilize primitive people
Muhammad Ali, 1805
Dutch settlers in South Africa
To train Indian children to be in the
government/military
Mohandas Gandhi
Jose de San Martin and Simon Bolivar
To have a share in the governing
process in India
First War of Independence, Sepoy
Mutiny
First Indian National Congress
Toussaint-Louverture
Spent 30 years exploring territory in
Central Africa
Relief for the poor and Indian
independence
Top: Peninsulares – held all important
positions, Middle: Creoles – controlled
land and business, Bottom: Mestizos –
largest group; worked as servants and
laborers
Germany and Great Britain (fighting
over East Africa)
No African delegates were present
William McKinley
politics
prefectures
#11
government seized their lands.
The result of Matthew Perry’s trip to Japan in 1853.
#11
President Fillmore’s request in his letter to Emperor.
#4
Great Britain wanted control of this country to protect
its possessions in India.
Primary motivations for “new imperialism” beginning
in 1880s.
#4
#8, book
or
#11, book
Honors: Be able to write a brief essay (minimum one
paragraph) explaining one of the following topics: The
Sepoy Mutiny or steps taken to end Japanese
Isolationism.
Treaty of Kanagawa, 1854: opened
Japan to the West
1) Foreign relations with Japan 2)
better treatment of
shipwrecked sailors
Burma
Economic factors, political power,
Social Darwinism, Moral
responsibility