WH2 UNiT 6
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- homeland
- many immigrants stayed in new lands only long enough to earn money and then went back to their own ____
- radio
- 1895 - Guglielmo Marconi
- West
- America encouraged people to move ____ by selling land cheaply or just giving it away.
- Sepoys
- Indian soldiers in the British army
- Canada
- Originally colonized by France but became part of Great Britain after the French & Indian war and resulting of Treaty of Paris, 1763
- Seven year war
- Great Britain got control of India after the ____.
- World Markets
- transportation and communication helped world trade, many European countries did away with high tariffs, all leading nations were on the gold standard by 19th century
- Imperialism
- late in the 1800s, western nations again competed for overseas territories and began to practice _____.
- emigrating
- people turned to
- Australia
- Founded as a prison colony for criminals from Great Britain
- Florida
- 1819 US bought _____- from Spain
- Five causes of imperialism
- mercantilism, nationalism, military rivalries, missionary zeal, superior civilization
- European trade with India
- trading companies set up to trade with other colonies - countries
- genocide
- systematic destruction of an entire group
- Alaska
- 1867 US purchased ____- from Russia for $7,000,000
- telephone
- 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell
- St. Lawrence River
- French lived along the ______ valley
- Manifest Destiny
- Idea that US was destined to rule North America from Atlantic to Pacific
- Nationalist Revolution
- 1919 ended 4,000 years of unbroken dynastic rule in China begun by Sun Yat-sen
- Latin America
- A growing resentment by ____ against the US
- Texas
- 1845 _______ annexed as a US state
- yellow journalism
- ssensationalized news being used by three NY papers in the late 1800s trying to get subscribers, but helped lead to the Spanish American war
- Sino - Japanese War
- 1894, belligerents were China & Japan over Korea, Japan won and China recognized independence of Korea
- Oregon
- 1846 ____ territory divided between Canada and US
- hawaii
- 1898 US also gained _____
- imperialism
- the inquiring of colonies
- Mercantilism
- defined as countries got strong and stayed strong by having gold silver and colonies and exporting more than importing.
- Advances in transportation
- railroads, steam ships, Suez Canal, Panama Canal
- Emigrate
- to move out of
- Immigrate
- to move into
- Age of Exploration
- the first contacts between europe and most of the non-western world came during the _____
- Belfast
- became the capital of Ulster
- Virgin Islands
- US buys one of the _______ from Denmark
- American expansion
- raised questions regarding slavery as the south still had the plantation system which depended on slaves
- Unexplored Frontier
- Europe had no ______ as did the US
- Own/control/protect, Panama Canal
- US was very anxious to _______/________/_______ countries that would give US strategic position to protect ______.
- technology
- ___ advances made travel and communication easier
- independence
- by he mid-1800s, however, most of these colonies had gained _____.
- Panama, Canal
- US helped _____ revolt against cuba and then gained rights to build and operate a ______ across the Isthmus for 99 years
- telegraph
- 1837 -Samuel Morse
- Treaty of Nanjing
- 1842, ended Opium war, said the western nations would determine who would trade with china, not china, so it set up the unequal treaty system which allowed western nations to own a part of chinese territory and conduct trading business in china under their own laws. This treaty set up 5 treaty ports where westerners could live, work, and be treated under their own laws. One of these were Hong Kong.
- Opportunities
- Shrank for young people
- Open Door Policy
- allow all countries to trade with China
- industrial revolution
- with the _____ the contacts widened from the age of exploration
- Industrial Revolution
- typical emigrant was farmer/artisan & could not compete with new methods of agriculture or changes brought about ___________
- Spanish American War, Cuba, Philippines, Guam & Puerto Rico
- 1898 _____ made the US an Imperial Nation by giving the US a protectorate over ______, ownership of ______, ________ & ________.
- Population growth caused by:
- higher standards of living, better medical care, between 1800-1900, population of Europe doubled.
- California
- Mexican American war resulted in ______ being added
- Population growth
- led many Europeans to move to new land
- Overcrowding
- population increases cause ______
- Mao Tse-Tung (Zedong)
- Communism in China was under ________
- Gadsden
- 1853 ____ purchase brought Arizona and new Mexico to US
- Sun Yat-sen & Kuominting
- "Nationalist Political Party): Sun was educated in US and he westernized china & established democracy with the birth of the Republic of China in 1991-12. Civil war came about trying to put an emperor back on the throne but nationalist won out.
- missionary zeal
- they wanted their governments to help spread christianity
- Dublin
- became the capital of Ireland
- Spheres of Influence
- each of the western nations carved out a section of chinese territory which gave it special authority - china was truly a very weak nation at this time.
- Pinyin
- a way of writing Chinese words with an english alphabet
- superior civilization
- many westerners felt their civilizations were far superior to others and felt they were duty bound to colonize
- Ulster
- 1921, separated from the rest of Ireland
- Indian nationalism
- Educated indians sought independence
- New Zealand
- Escape prisoners from Australia
- Louisiana
- 1803 US bought _____ from Napolean which moved Western boundary to Rocky Mountains
- Impior, Age of Imperialism
- because of this burst of _____- building, the period from 1870 to 1914 is known as the _______
- colonies
- European powers had built ____ empires during the Age of Exploration
- Opium War
- Belligerents were GB & China and China wanted GB to stop selling Opium in China
- British rule of India
- after 7 years war, Britain ruled India and was great source of wealth to Great Britain
- Nationalism
- encouraged imperialism with intense patriotism as nations tried to end their power and prestige by adding territories and colonies.
- Suez Canal
- Eqypt/connects Mediteranian to Red/1869/gave Europeans direct route to India/no locks/Great Britain got control in 1875.
- Panama Canal
- 1914/connects Atlantic to Pacific/has locks/USA had a 99 year lease/Panama took back control in 2000/shortened distance between Atlantic & Pacific
- colonization
- powerful European nations seeking wealth and prestige began to colonize vast territories for a second wave of ____
- military rivalries
- countries could send troops and settlers to areas simply to prevent other countries from taking the areas
- 1890
- Captain Alfred T. Mahan, wrote "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History" saying a national will only be great if it had a big navy.
- Chiang Kia-Shek
- Sun died and _____ became president in 1825
- Box Rebellion
- 1900, secret chinese society that tried to rid China of these foreign devils set up by the Spheres of Influence but was put down by the western nations in Europe