Imperialism Vocab 2

Sepoy

• indian soldiers

• made up British East India company’s army

• after a long time of bad treatment, they rebelled against British

jewel in the crown

• British word for india

• known as the most valuable of all Britain’s colonies

sepoy mutiny

• sepoy rebellion that started in Delhi and spread north

• took nearly a year and lots deaths for British East India Company to regain control

raj

• British rule after India came under British crown during the reign of Queen Victoria

• British promised better treatment, but Indians were again faced with oppression and tyranny

pacific rim

• countries that border the Pacific Ocean

• as European powers began to appreciate the value of the area (for its strategic location along the sea route to China and its sources of tropical agriculture, minerals, and oil), they changed each other for their own parts of the prize

king mongkut

• king of Siam

• modernized Siam with his son Chulalongkorn

emilio agulianaldo

• leader of the Filipino nationalists during the late 1800s and early 1900s

• when US acquired the Philippines islands in 1898, they promised to grant them independence

• when US didn’t, Emilio and other nationalists declared independence on their own and established the Philippine republic

Queen Liliuokalani

• the new Hawaiin ruler around 1890

• called for new constitution that would increase her power in 1893

• it would’ve also restored the political power of Hawaiins at the expense of wealthy planters

• she was removed from power by American businessmen

annexation

• adding of a territory to a certain nation

• in 1890, the McKinley tariff act was passed which cut into Hawaii’s sugar production profits

• some US business leaders pushed for Hawaii’s annexation to raise profits on their sugar

caudillo

• military dictators

• Latin American army leaders controlled their new nations as caudillos and were unstoppable because they were backed by the military

• soon, almost all Latin America was ruled by caudillos

Monroe Doctrine

• document issued by US president James Monroe that started that the American nations would not succumb to European colonization again

• US didn’t enforce it much, Cuba did

panama canal

• 10 mile wide zone in Panama granted to us to build a water way

• Latin American became crossroads of world trade and US controlled the tollgate

roosevelt corollary

• extension to the Monroe doctrine issued by the US president Roosevelt in 1904

• gave the US right to be “an international police power” in the western hemisphere

jose marti

• writer who had been exiled from Cuba by the spanish

• in 1895 he returned to launch a second war for cuban independence

• was killed early in the fighting, but Cubans battled on

spanish American war

• american and Cuban fight for cuban independence

• through attacking the Philippine islands, an unprepared Spanish colony, the Spanish were overpowered

• Cuba gained its independence in 1901