Unit 6 Questions (Notebooks 36, 37 and 38) part 1
1. This was the type of industrial process pursued by the Russians in the 19th century.
State sponsnsored |
2. This Tsar freed the serfs in 1891.
Alexander ll |
3-4. Provide two reasons why industrialization in Russia failed.
taxation |
low money support |
5-6. Provide two reasons why industrialization in Japan succeeded.
Willing population |
Good money supply |
7. Provide one new region added to the Russian Empire during the Modern Era.
Central/ east asia |
8. What religion were these people predominantly?
Muslim |
9-11. Provide three European countries the U.S. purchased or divided territory from.
Spain |
Britain |
France |
12. What was the name of the conflict in which the U.S. acquired the American Southwest?
Mexican-american war |
13. What was the name of the series of conflicts with American Indians in the mid-late 19th century on the frontiers?
Indian wars |
14. Provide the name of the massacre in which the U.S. Army killed and injured many unarmed natives.
Wounded knee |
15. Provide the name of the conflict in which the U.S. was able to acquire many territories from Spain in 1898.
Spanish american war |
16. This is the 19th-century term used to describe the sensationalization of news in order to sell magazines/papers.
Yellow journalism (fake news) |
17. 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 |
18. This is the term used to describe the US and Europe exploiting other countries by force in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Imperialism |
19-20. What were the two economic goals for this new wave of conquest?
Low taxes |
land |
21-23. Provide the three advantages that Western powers had in the 19th and 20th century that allowed them to exploit the formerly-powerful civilizations of Africa and Asia.
steamboats & better guns |
larger money supply |
Quinine |
24-28. Provide five countries that took part in dividing Africa amongst themselves.
France Portugal |
Netherlands |
Spain |
Britain |
Germany Belglum |
29. Who was the king of Belgium that treated African colonists brutally?
King leopold |
30. This was the name of the agreement in 1884 to peacefully divide Africa amongst competing Europeans.
berlin conference |
31. What was the name of the conflict in 1894 between Imperial Japan and China?
First sino-japanese war |
32. What were the two areas taken from China by the victorious Japanese?
Korea and Taiwan |
33. 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 |
34. Who advocated the Chinese attempt to industrialize?
Prince Gong |
35. Who opposed it? (overthrown)
Empress Cixi |
36. 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.
Factories or exclusive markets |
37. What type of economy did the Ottoman Empire have in the 19th century?
Agricultural based |
38. Which sultan attempted to reform the Ottoman Empire?
Selim lll |
39-41. List 3 countries who took land or won independence from the Ottoman Empire in the 19th or 20th century.
French |
Britain |
Greeks |
42. What was the nickname for the shrinking, industrialized Ottoman Empire in the 19th century? (sultans not advanced in thinking)
Sick man of europe |
43. What was the name for the philosophy that Europeans were biologically superior to other races of the world?
Social darwinism |
44. What was the name of the medicine that allowed Europeans to conquer the interior of Africa?
Quinine |
45. This was the invention that allowed Europeans to move upriver into Africa rather than rely on horses that were killed by tropical diseases.
Steam boats |
46. Who forced Japan to open trade in 1853 (person)?
Matthew C perry (Commodore Perry) |
47. What was the name of the new Japanese government / era that took over when the Tokugawa shogunate ended in 1868?
Meiji restoration |
48. 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 |
49. How did the Japanese copy the West politically?
Democracy/constitution |
50. How did the Japanese copy the West industrially?
Factories |
51. How did the Japanese copy the West militaristically?
uniforms & guns |
52. Who fought for independence from the Ottoman Empire in Egypt in 1867?
Muhhamid ali |
53. How did he industrialize the land taken from Mamluks?
He nationalized it |
54. What crop did he focus on producing?
cotton |
55. How did he copy Western governments?
Centralized |
56-57. What two things did he focus on producing in port cities and factories?
Weapons |
Navy |
58. What was the name of the wars fought between the British and Chinese in the mid 19th century?
Opium wars |
59. What were the British attempting to sell the Chinese?
opium |
60. Why were the British attempting to sell the Chinese this controversial and illegal good?
The chinese wanted nothing from the british |
61. What was the British reward for winning the second war?
Hong kong and 4 other ports |
62. This is the Asante Queen versus British colonialism in the 19th century.
Yaa Asantewaa |
63. This is the caliphate that formed in West Africa during the 19th century and expanded until it’s conquest by the British in 1903.
Sokoto |
64. This was the anti-imperialist rebel in Peru who rebelled against Spain and adopting the name of the last Incan Emperor.
Tupac Amaru II |