sophomore ss ch 14
vocabulary
Terms
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- sepoys
- hired Indian soldiers used to protect the British East India Company
- Singapore
- small island at the tip of the Malay Peninsula
- Commodore George Dewey
- during the Spanish-American War the US naval forces defeated fleet in Manila Bay
- Indian National Congress
- did not demand immediate independence but did call for a share in the governing process
- David Livingstone
- explored the dense tropical jungles of Central Africa
- caudillos
- leaders who ruled chiefly by military force and were supported by the landed elites
- protectorate
- a political unit that depends on another government for its protection
- Mohandas Gandi
- An Indian active in the independence movement using nonviolent resistance
- Nicaragua
- an island in the Caribbean occupied for many years by the US military
- direct rule
- local elites were removed from power and replaced with a new set of officials brought from the mother country
- indigenous
- native to a region
- Haiti
- an island in the Caribbean occupied by the US military for many years
- Queen Victoria
- British queen that was given the title of "Empress of India"
- Rhodesia
- country named after the man who seized control of a territory
- King Chulalongkorn
- the son of Mongkut who was also a remarkable leader and king
- King Mongkut
- the remarkable king of Thailand ( known then as Siam)
- Emilio Aguinaldo
- the leader of a movement for independence in the Philippines
- Benito Juarez
- a Mexican national hero who brought liberal reforms to Mexico
- Mumbai
- new name for Bombay, a large city in India
- annexed
- incorporated a country within a state
- peninsulares
- Spanish and Portuguese officials who resided temporarily in Latin America for political and economic gain
- indirect rule
- local rulers were allowed to maintain their positions of authority and status in a new colonial setting
- viceroy
- a governor who ruled as a representative of a monarch
- mestizo
- people of European and native American descent
- Suez Canal
- the canal that connected the Mediterranean and the Red Sea
- Creoles
- descendants of Europeans born in Latin America and lived there permanently
- Philippines
- was turned into an American colony by Pres. William McKinley
- Puerto Rico
- became a US protectorate that was annexed to the United States
- Muhammad Ali
- officer of the Ottoman army who seized power and established a separate Egyptian state
- Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
- ruled Mexico in 1833-55; misused state funds, halted reforms, and created chaos
- Union of South Africa
- combined the old Cape Colony and the Boer republic
- Monroe Doctrine
- guaranteed the independence of the new Latin American nations and warned against any European intervention in the Americas
- imperialism
- the extension of a nation's over other lands
- Burma
- country near Thailand used by Britain to protect its possessions in India