Chapter 17 WTWA
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Nation State | -Advocates asserted that the globe was divided into peoples of nations of common heritage and territory that required a state -New world Powers embraced |
| Wealth Distribution (USA) | -Due to great fortunes amassed by leading franchisers and individualists that by 1890 richest (1%) americans owned nearly 90% of nation's wealth -Over Production=depression |
| Nationalism (USA) | -Diverse groups accept united networks -Overcome regional identities by broadening public education in national language -nation-states different |
| Civil War (USA) | -Conflict between northern and southern states -led to slavery being abolished |
| Nationalism in Canada | -Promised to keep up their ties to British Crown -kept even after independence in 1867 -inter division(French Canadian, Canadian) -Act of Parliament in London (no revolution) |
| Nationalism in Europe | -Old monarchies (boarders determined by diplomates or battles) -Prosperity of property owners expand, ruling elites had to share with wider group -Intellectuals laid the ideological foundation of the nation -material and social conditions also prepared way for nation-states |
| 2nd industrial revolution | -Steel (ships and railways) -Eiffel Tower constructed -Chemicals, oils, pharmaceuticals, and mass transportation vehicles -processing plants -electricity= more factories and lower production costs -Scientific research -mass production, and grant integrated firm |
| Charles Darwin | -Animal population grew, resources became more scarce creating a struggle for exsistance -Only the "fittest" survive |
| British Rule (India) | -Raj referred to British crown's admin of Maia following end of East Indian Company's rule -After Indian muting of 1857 -home charges: Fees India had to pay Britain as it's colonial master |
| Nationalism (India) | -Modernizing transportation and communication -1857 rebellion (railroads and telegraphs) -Supply primary staples, consumed British manufactures -What it gained in trade is lost to Britain -Admin programs made India into United territory and referred to self as "Indians" |
| Dutch Rule in Indonesia | -1830s took responsibility over indonesian affairs -Move regulated colonial economy -increased production of export crops -1840s-50s famine spread across Jana (300,000 dead) -1904 sumatra finally subdued - Indonesian sales still enriched Dutch |
| King Leopold II (Colonization of Africa) | -Created and ruled colonial state in Africa -Mass slaughter and enslavement -Colonial army bullied local communities |
| Colonial Admin in Africa (Colonization of Africa) | -Power fell to "men on the spot" (rich quick) -Confines to territories (Barley able to provide for self) -Violent revolts lead to more efficient and rational admins -stabilized colonies began to deliver on economic promise -Africa was seen as "fitting into world economy" -Foundations lessened and European order became weak |
| US territorial expansion- Spanish-american war | -Between US, Spain in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines -ended with a treaty -US took over Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico -Cuba won partial independence |
| Meji Restoration ( Japan) | - Reign of Meji Emperor -Characterized by new nationalist identity, economic advantages, and political transformation |
| Zaibatso (Japan) | - large-scale, family-owned corporations in Japan -consists of factories, import- export business, and banks -dominate japanese economy until 1945 |
| Japanese Colonialism (Japan) | -Conflict over control of korea -China is forced to cede the provence of taiwan to Japan |
| Crimean War | -Waged by Russia against Great Britain and France -Spurred by Russia's encroachment on ottoman territories -Revealed Russia's weak military |
| Chinese Economy (China) | -Hundred days reform (modernizing Qing gov of china) -Slow to mobilize against west threats -more worried on threats from northern boarders -adopted western learning and tech skills(1860s) |
| Self-strengthening movement (China) | -Reformist Chinese bureaucrats attempted to adopt Western elements of learning and technological skills -later half of 19th century |
| Cixi (China) | -Emerged from retirement to overturn reforms |
| Russian Expansion | -Expanded on sense of mission -other countries expanding on boarder= russia had to expand -expansionist fronts: SW to Black Sea, S into Caucasus and Turkestan, and E into Manchuria -dependent on annexing territories and establishing protectors over venerable -Invaded ottoman(provoked opposition from Brit and France) -Being defeated spurred course of aggressive modernization and expansion |
| 1868-1912 | -Meji Era in Japan: Emperor Mutsuhito became new symbol of japan -Founded schools, initiating a propaganda campaign, and revamping army -Created single "national" fighting forces, gov promoted political community which stressed linguistic and ethnic homogeneity and superiority to others -Over came age-old regional division -1868: Tokugawa shogonate founded in 1603, hereditary military admin ruled Japan while keeping the emperor as a figurehead; toppled by reformers who united Japan to adopt not reject, Western influences -1869: Suez Canal was built accross the Isthmus of Suez to connect the Mediterranean with the Red Sea and to lower the cost of international trade. |
| 1884-1885 | -Large colonial state in Africa created ad ruled by Leppold II, king of Belgium. After rumors of mass slaughter and enslavement, Balgian parliament took the land and formed belgian colony -Berlin conference on Africa. Delegates from Germany, Portugal, Britain, France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, US, and Ottoman empire agreed to carve up Africa and to recognize the acquisitions of an European powers that had achieved occupation, on the ground. |
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