World History
• China Responds to Western
Pressures Review
–Chapter 28 Sec 1
Question 1
•Define self-sufficient.
• Needing no outside help in
satisfying one's basic needs,
especially with regard to the
production of food
Question 2:
• What product did the British
purchase large quantities of from
the Chinese that prompted them
to search for a product to balance
the trade.
•Tea
Question 3:
• The War between China
and Britain over the British
import of an addictive drug
into China (1839)
•Opium War
Question 4:
• A violent uprising caused by
Chinese resentment towards
foreigners and their influence
in (1900)
•Boxer Rebellion
Question 3:
•The rights under
which foreigners are
not subject to a
country’s laws
• Extraterritorial rights
Question 5:
• A revolt led by Hong Xiuquan,
who recruited followers to build a
“Heavenly Kingdom of Great
Peace” in China (due to gov’t
corruption and famine)
• Taiping Rebellion
Question 6:
• A foothold by foreign countries
in the affairs of another
nation, such as the control of
trade and investment
• Sphere of influence
Question 7:
• The US policy that gave all
nations the right to trade
with China and protect
China from colonization
• Open Door Policy
Question 8:
• Which of the following was an internal
problem for the Chinese?
–A: population
–B: flooding of the Huang He River
–C: gov’t corruption
–D: All of the above
• D: All of the above
Question 9: True or False
•China won the Opium
War.
• False: The British won
Question 10: True or False
The Treaty of Nanjing was the peace
treaty signed at the end of the Opium
War that gave the British control of the
island of Hong Kong.
•True
•The period of
“enlightened rule” under
Mutsuhito who
modernized Japan
(1867-1912)
•Meiji Era
•The 1904-1905 conflict
between Japan and
Russia over control of
Korea and Manchuria
•Russo-Japanese War
• The 1854 treaty in which
Japan opened two ports at
which U.S. ships could take
on supplies
•Treaty of
Kanagawa
•The rights under
which foreigners are
not subject to a
country’s laws
• Extraterritorial rights
•Review
•Describe the system of
peonage in Latin
America.
• Wages were low and prices were
high…their debt accumulated and
then passed from one generation
to the next
• A system of involuntary servitude
in which the laborer is forced to
work off a debt.
•Describe the term
caudillo.
• The term is often associated with
the military leaders that ruled
countries in Latin America in the
early 19th century when political
conditions were unstable in the
wake of long armed conflicts.
•Describe the
Monroe Doctrine.
• The policy, as stated by President Monroe in
1823,that the U.S. opposed further European
colonization of and interference with indepen
dent nations in the Western Hemisphere.
• In 1878, Cuba declared its
independence and fought a 10
year war with which European
power?
• The Spanish (fought Spain)
•Who was Jose
Marti?
• A writer that had been exiled
from Cuba, fought for Cuban
independence but was killed
during the war
• Became a symbol of Liberty
•Explain the motivation
of the US to join Cuba’s
fight against the
Spanish.
• 1.) business holdings in Cuba
(economic)
• 2.) Spanish mistreatment of
Cubans (put in concentration
camps)
•Who won the
Spanish America
War?
•Cuba/US
True or False
• After its defeat in the
Spanish-American war,
Puerto Rico, Guam and the
Philippines became U.S.
territories.
•True
•Why did the people of
Panama allow the US
to build the Panama
Canal?
• No longer wanted to be controlled
by the Colombians
• US helped Panama win their
independence
• Panama gave US a 10 mile wide
zone to build the Canal
• Canal opened trade routes from the
Atlantic to the Pacific in 1914
•Describe the
Roosevelt Corollary.
•Gave the US the right
to be an international
police power
(addition to the
Monroe Doctrine)
True or False
• In the 1820’s, Mexico encouraged
American citizens to move to the
Mexican territory of Texas to help
populate the country.
•True
True or False
• Santa Anna won the battle
of San Jacinto but lost the
battle at the Alamo.
•False
•Define the term
annex.
• To add
• To incorporate (territory)
into the domain of a city,
country or state
• After fighting with Mexico this
treaty gave the US the
northern third of what was
then Mexico, including
California and the American
Southwest.
•Treaty of GuadalupeHidalgo
True or False
• The Anglos (English speaking
colonists) were given
inexpensive land and pledged
to follow the laws of Mexico.
•True
• The liberal reformer who
strongly influenced
Mexican politics; he was
elected president in 1861
and 1867
•Benito Juarez
• The dictatorial general who
took control of Mexico and ran
an orderly but corrupt country
(1876-1911)
• Wanted order and progress
•Porfirio Diaz
• He led the Mexican fight
for independence, served
as Mexico’s president, and
fought the U.S. for Texas
•Antonio Lopez de
Santa Anna
• The Mexican liberal reform
movement, whose goals
included land reforms,
separation of church and state
and education
•La Reforma
• From exile in the US, he
called for an armed
revolution to bring
democracy to Mexico
(1910)
•Francisco Madero
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