Units 5 and 6 Questions

 This was the type of industrial process pursued by the Russians in the 19^th century.

State-sponsored

This Tsar freed the serfs in 1891.

alexander II

Provide two reasons why industrialization in Russia failed.

Over taxed

Low money supply Unwilling population

Provide two reasons why industrialization in Japan succeeded.

Willing population

moderate money supply

Provide two reasons why industrialization in Japan succeeded.

Willing population

moderate money supply

Provide one new region added to the Russian Empire during the Modern Era.

Central Asia,East Asia

  What religion were these people predominantly?  

Muslims

Provide three European countries the U.S. purchased or divided territory from. 

Britain

France

Spain

What was the name of the conflict in which the U.S. acquired the American Southwest? 

Mexican-American War

What was the name of the series of conflicts with American Indians in the mid-late 19^th century on the frontiers? 

Indian wars

Provide the name of the massacre in which the U.S. Army killed and injured many unarmed natives. 

Wounded Knee

Provide the name of the conflict in which the U.S. was able to acquire many territories from Spain in 1898. 

Spanish american war

This is the 19^th-century term used to describe the sensationalization of news in order to sell magazines/papers.

Yellow journalism

Provide the name of the alteration added to the Cuban constitution that allowed the U.S. to intervene militaristically to protect its economic interests. 

Platt Amendment

This is the term used to describe the US and Europe exploiting other countries by force in the late 19^th and early 20^th century. 

imperialism

What were the two economic goals for this new wave of conquest? 

Low taxes cheap labor

the best land in latin america

Provide the three advantages that Western powers had in the 19^th and 20^th century that allowed them to exploit the formerly-powerful civilizations of Africa and Asia. 

quinine

steamboats better guns

large money supply

Provide five countries that took part in dividing Africa amongst themselves. 

Spain

Portugal

Great Britain

France

Belgium Germany Netherlands

Who was the king of Belgium that treated African colonists brutally? 

King leopold

This was the name of the agreement in 1884 to peacefully divide Africa amongst competing Europeans. 

Berlin conference

What was the name of the conflict in 1894 between Imperial Japan and China?

First sino-japanese war

What were the two areas taken from China by the victorious Japanese? 

Korea and taiwan

China’s loss demonstrated the failure of China to industrialize on their own.  What was the name of their attempt to industrialize? 

Self-strengthening movement

Who advocated the Chinese attempt to industrialize? 

prince gong

 Who opposed it? 

Empress Cixi

Rather than conquer China and colonize it, the European powers and Japan setup spheres of influence in Qing China.  Provide one thing they set up or built in China against the Qing government’s will. 

Allowing the Europeans and japanese to operate factories and businesses in china

What type of economy did the Ottoman Empire have in the 19^th century? 

agricultural

Which sultan attempted to reform the Ottoman Empire? 

Selim III

List 3 countries who took land or won independence from the Ottoman Empire in the 19^{th or 20th} century. 

France

Italy

Greeks

What was the nickname for the shrinking, industrialized Ottoman Empire in the 19^th century? 

Sick Man of Europe

What was the name for the philosophy that Europeans were biologically superior to other races of the world? 

Social darwinism

What was the name of the medicine that allowed Europeans to conquer the interior of Africa? 

quinine

This was the invention that allowed Europeans to move upriver into Africa rather than rely on horses that were killed by tropical diseases. 

steamboats

 Who forced Japan to open trade in 1853 (person)? 

commodore matthew perry of US navy

What was the name of the new Japanese government / era that took over when the Tokugawa shogunate ended in 1868? 

Emperor Meiji restoration

What was the name of the mission to the US and Europe in which Japanese officials and scholars attempted to copy the West. 

Iwakura  Mission

How did the Japanese copy the West politically? 

Democracy / constitution

  How did the Japanese copy the West industrially? 

Factories

How did the Japanese copy the West militaristically? 

Guns uniforms

Who fought for independence from the Ottoman Empire in Egypt in 1867? 

Muhammed Ali

How did he industrialize the land taken from Mamluks? 

Nationalization

What crop did he focus on producing? 

cotton

How did he copy Western governments? 

centralized governments

What two things did he focus on producing in port cities and factories? 

Navy

weapons

What was the name of the wars fought between the British and Chinese in the mid 19^th century? 

opium wars

What were the British attempting to sell the Chinese? 

opium

Why were the British attempting to sell the Chinese this controversial and illegal good? 

The chinese wanted nothing from the british

 What was the British reward for winning the second war?  

Hong kong and 4  other ports

 This is the Asante Queen versus British colonialism in the 19^th century. 

Yaa Asantewaa

This is the caliphate that formed in West Africa during the 19^th century and expanded until it’s conquest by the British in 1903. 

Sokoto

This was the anti-imperialist rebel in Peru who rebelled against Spain and adopting the name of the last Incan Emperor. 

Tupac Amaru II