New Imperialism
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- Meiji Restoration
- the moderization and industrilization of Japan in the 1800's
- Opium War
- Between Britain and China. Superior British technolgy won and led to unequal treaties for China in the early 1800's.
- Salt March
- passive resistance campaign of Mohandas Gandhi where many Indians protested the British tax on salt by marching to the sea to make their own salt.
- Berlin Conference
- European countries divided up Africa for colonization, paying no attention to tribal boundaries. 1884-1885
- spheres of influence
- area of China under control of another for trading purposes.
- White Man's Burden
- belief that Europeans should spread their superior culture to Africans
- Mohandas Gandhi
- Nationalist leader in India. Used a nonviolent approach to gain his country's freedom from Britain. Led to the Salt March.
- Treaty of Nanking
- unequal treaty between China and Great Britain after the Opium War. opened up China to trade. China gave Britain Hong Kong
- civil disobedience
- the purposeful breaking of laws to protest actions by the government.
- Imperialism
- when one country takes over another country for thier raw materials and natural resources.