Unit 5 Test Corsico History

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Liliuokalani

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Hawaiian queen who tried to reduce foreign influence, but was overthrown in 1893 by American planters

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Guang Xu

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a young emperor of China who launched the Hundred Days of Reform in 1898. Was improsoned by rallying conservatives

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sphere of influence

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an area in which an outside power claims exclusive investment or trading privelages

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Benito Juarez

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a liberal reformer of Zapotec Indian heritage who gained power and opened an era of reform called La Reforma in 1855

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zaibatsu

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Japan's powerful business leaders whom pushed for policies that favored international trade and their own interests

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Henry Stanley

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a famous journalist who was able to track down Dr. David Livingstone in Central Africa in 1871

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Sun Yixian

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a passionate spokesman for a Chinese republic who organized the Revolutionary Alliance as a way to rebuild China on "Three Principles of the People" in the early 1900s

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Usman dan Fodio

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a scholar and preacher who inspired Fulani herders and Hausa townspeople to rise up against their European rulers in the early 1800s

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trade defecit

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situation in which a country imports more than it exports

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Purdah

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isolation of women in separate quarters

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balance of trade

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difference between how much a country imports and how much it exports

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trade surplus

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situation in which a country exports more than it imports

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protectorate

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a country with its own government, but under the control of an outside power

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March First Movement

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a nonviolent protest against Japanese rule in Korea that was crushed by the Japanese, but became a rallying symbol for Korean nationalists

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Ram Mohum Roy

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founder of Indian nationalism and combined Western Ways and Hindu/Muslim cultures

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Shaka

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In 1818 to 1828, Shaka conquered many tribes and regions and encouraged rival groups to forget their differences; increasing nationalism in the Zulu kingdom

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Monroe Doctrine

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American policy of discouraging European intervention in the Western Hemisphere

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Roosevelt Corollary

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policy that gave the United States "international police power" in the Western Hemisphere

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penal colony

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place where people convicted of crimes are sent

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Russo-Japanese War

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conflict between Russia and Japan in 1904-1905 over control of Korea and Manchuria

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Diet

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assembly or legislature

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Raj

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A system of colonial rule in India set up by the British Parliament after 1858

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dominion

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self-governing nation

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Taiping Rebellion

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peasant revolt in China

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Opium Wars

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war between Great Britain and China over restrictions to foreign trade

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Casement Report

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reports of the atrocities that took place in the Congo

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Spanish-American War

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conflict between the United States and Spain in 1898 over Cuban independence

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Philippines

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a country in southeastern Asia made up of several thousand islands