WH: Chapter 26
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85 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 1853 | United states send naval force to make Japan open its ports to trade |
| Nagasaki | japans only window into the world, Dutch allowed very limited trade |
| Daimyo | financial hardship, money was needed, wealth in land rather than cash, heavy expense of maintaing households |
| opium war | britsh vicotory over china, forced them to sign unequal treaties |
| july 1853 | american ships sailed into tokyo bay commanded by matthew perry |
| Commodore Mathew Perry | letter from presiden, demanding that japan open its ports to diplomatic and commercial exchange |
| Treaty of Kanagawa | 1854, open 2 ports for america but not for trade |
| 1854 | treaty of Kanagawa |
| Meiji restoration | 1868-1912, studied west |
| Meiji constitution | people are all equal before law, emperor power, legislature wad a diet, banking railroads and ports, zzaibatsu, ended legal distinctions |
| Zaibatsu | banking and power famlies, Kawasaki |
| Sino-japenese war | 1894, japan vs. china japan won ports in chia and taiwan |
| 1894 | sino-japenese war |
| Russo-Japanese war | Japan vs. Russian, Japan won |
| Treaty of Portsmouth | 1905 gained Korea as well as Manchuria |
| Hermit kingdom | Japan |
| March first movement | march 1, 1919 nonviolent protest of Japan, symbol of Jordan nationalists |
| 1867 | Unseated shogun restored emperor |
| March 1, 1919 | march first movement |
| Tokyo | eastern capital |
| Meiji | enlighten rule |
| 1871 | Japanese government traveled to learn western ways |
| 1889 | Meiji constitution |
| Diet | legislature, one house elected and one house emperor elected |
| Kawasaki | business dynasties who ruled industrial empires |
| Japan industry | steel, silk |
| 1989 | Japanese women forbidden political power |
| Homogeneous society | common culture and language |
| 1976 | Korea opens ports to Japanese |
| Korea | ruled by Japanese for 36 years |
| French Indochina | Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia |
| Sea | Thailand |
| Mongkut | 1851-1868, reformed government and modernized army, new technology, and abolished slavery |
| Chulalongkurn | son of mongkut |
| Spanish-American war | 1898 us vs. Spain over Cuba, us won |
| 1851-1868 | mongkut |
| 1898 | Spanish American war |
| Emilio agunald | battled American forces, |
| Samos | 1878, treaty with us giving extraterritoy |
| Liliou Kalani | Hawaiian queen overthrown in 1893 |
| Guan | us after Spanish American war |
| Phan thanh glan | Viet official and patriot |
| Dutch east India company | gained control of Moluccas |
| Moluccas | spice islands |
| Indigenous | original people |
| Replacement | when settlers overthrew indigenous |
| Canada act of 1791 | split Canada up |
| Upper Canada | English (resented British power) |
| Lower Canada | French (British ignored needs) |
| William Lyon Mackenzie | leader of Upper Canada revolt |
| Durham report | balled for united Canada |
| Canadian act of union | 1840 elected legislature for domestic policy |
| 1840 | Canadian act of union |
| John MacDonald | urged confederation our unity of providences |
| George-Etienne Cartier | dominate by us |
| British North American 1867 | dominion of Canada |
| Dominion | self governing nation |
| Canadian pacific railroad | 1885 east and west |
| Lous reil | led a revolt of Métis |
| Métis | people of Native American and Europe |
| Captain James cook | Australia and New Zealand |
| Aborigines | earliest people living there |
| Penal colony | preseason |
| Outback | rugged interior |
| Commonwealth of Australia | 1901, helped colonies unite drew from both federal and prime minister |
| Maoris | local people |
| cuadillos | local strongmen that assembled private armies to resist central governemt |
| Economic dependence | when less developed nations export raw materials and commodities to industrial nations and import manufactured goods, capital and technology |
| Mexican war | 1845, united states annexed Texas, us won and got half of Mexico |
| La reforma | era of reforming 1855 |
| Benito Juarez | la reforma, revised constitution to strip military and end special for church preside in 1861 |
| Porfirio Diaz | dictator (1875-1880)(1884-1911) |
| Order and progress | strengthened army, local police and central government |
| Peonage | workers wanted advances and required them to work kit off |
| Hacienda | ranch |
| Colossus of the north | united states |
| Monroe doctrine | 1823, American is not allowed to be colonized |
| Spanish American war | 1848 joined Cuba against Spain |
| Puerto Rico | us got in Spanish American war, guan and Philippines |
| Platt amendment | 1901, add to Cuban constitution gave naval bases and right to interfere |
| Guantanamo naval base | got in Platt amendment |
| Roosevelt corollary | 1904, policy to the Monroe doctrine "international police power" in western hemisphere |
| Panama canal | 1914, backed panama against Colombia (1903) |
| Rudyard Kipling | 1900 popular writer |
| Cecil Rhodes | leading promoter of British imperialism |
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