Industrialization reactions

State sponsored

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

Alexander II

This Tsar freed the serfs in 1891.

Taxation

One reason why industrialization in Russia failed.

Low money support

Another reason why industrialization in Russia failed.

Willing population

One reason why industrialization in Japan succeeded.

Good money supply

Another reason why industrialization in Japan succeeded.

Central/East Asia

One new region added to the Russian Empire during the Modern Era.

Muslim

Predominant religion of certain groups in the context discussed.

Spain, Britain, France

Three European countries the U.S. purchased or divided territory from.

Mexican-American War

Name of the conflict in which the U.S. acquired the American Southwest.

Indian Wars

Name of the series of conflicts with American Indians in the mid-late 19th century.

Wounded Knee

Massacre in which the U.S. Army killed and injured many unarmed natives.

Spanish-American War

Conflict in which the U.S. was able to acquire many territories from Spain in 1898.

Yellow journalism

19th-century term used to describe the sensationalization of news to sell magazines/papers.

Platt Amendment

Alteration added to the Cuban constitution that allowed U.S. intervention to protect economic interests.

Imperialism

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

Low taxes

One economic goal for the new wave of conquest.

Land

Another economic goal for the new wave of conquest.

Steamboats & better guns, larger money supply, Quinine

Three advantages that Western powers had in the 19th and 20th century.

France, Portugal, Netherlands, Spain, Britain, Germany, Belgium

Countries that took part in dividing Africa amongst themselves.

King Leopold

King of Belgium known for treating African colonists brutally.

Berlin Conference

Name of the agreement in 1884 to peacefully divide Africa amongst competing Europeans.

First Sino-Japanese War

Conflict in 1894 between Imperial Japan and China.

Korea and Taiwan

Two areas taken from China by the victorious Japanese.

Self-strengthening movement

Name of China's attempt to industrialize.

Prince Gong

Advocate for the Chinese attempt to industrialize.

Empress Cixi

The opposing figure who was overthrown.

Factories or exclusive markets

What European powers and Japan set up in Qing China against the government's will.

Agricultural based

Type of economy the Ottoman Empire had in the 19th century.

Selim III

Sultan who attempted to reform the Ottoman Empire.

French, Britain, Greeks

Countries that took land or won independence from the Ottoman Empire in the 19th or 20th century.

Sick man of Europe

Nickname for the shrinking, industrialized Ottoman Empire in the 19th century.

Social Darwinism

Philosophy that Europeans were biologically superior to other races.

Quinine

Medicine that allowed Europeans to conquer the interior of Africa.

Steamboats

Invention that allowed Europeans to move upriver into Africa.

Matthew C. Perry

Person who forced Japan to open trade in 1853.

Meiji Restoration

Name of the new Japanese government that took over when the Tokugawa shogunate ended in 1868.

Iwakura Mission

Mission to the US and Europe in which Japanese officials and scholars attempted to copy the West.

Democracy/Constitution

How the Japanese copied the West politically.

Factories

How the Japanese copied the West industrially.

Uniforms & guns

How the Japanese copied the West militaristically.

Muhammad Ali

Leader who fought for independence from the Ottoman Empire in Egypt in 1867.

He nationalized it

How Muhammad Ali industrialized the land taken from Mamluks.

Cotton

Crop Muhammad Ali focused on producing.

Centralized

How Muhammad Ali copied Western governments.

Weapons and Navy

Two things Muhammad Ali focused on producing in port cities and factories.

Opium Wars

Wars fought between the British and Chinese in the mid-19th century.

Opium

What the British were attempting to sell the Chinese.

The Chinese wanted nothing from the British

Reason why the British were attempting to sell the controversial and illegal good.

Hong Kong and 4 other ports

British reward for winning the second Opium War.

Yaa Asantewaa

Asante Queen who resisted British colonialism in the 19th century.

Sokoto

Caliphate that formed in West Africa during the 19th century and was conquered by the British in 1903.

Tupac Amaru II

Anti-imperialist rebel in Peru who rebelled against Spain, adopting the name of the last Incan Emperor.