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25 Cards in this Set
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Matthew Perry
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US Navy commodore who led a fleet of ships into Tokyo Bay in 1853 and demanded that Japan open its ports
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Tokyo
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the new "eastern capital" named in 1867, when Emperor Mutsuhito was restored to power and took the name Meiji
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Meiji Restoration
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the reign of Emperor Meiji, which lasted from 1868 to 1912, during which Japan learned about the West and modernized
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Diet
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a legislature
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zaibatsu
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powerful banking and industrial families of Japan
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homogeneous society
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a society in which all people share a common culture and language
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first Sino-Japanese War
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war between Japan and China that broke out in 1894 due to competition between the two powers in Korea
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Russo-Japanese War
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war between Russia and Japan which began in 1904 and in which Japan gained control of Korea and rights in parts of Manchuria
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French Indochina
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french holdings in mainland southeast asia, including vietnam, laos, and cambodia
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mongkut
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the king of Siam who ruled from 1851 to 1868 and was able to make agreements to avoid becoming a European colony
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Spanish-American War
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the 1893 war between Spain and the US, which resulted in the US taking control of the Philippines
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Liliuokalani
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the Hawaiian queen overthrown by american planters in 1893
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confederation
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unification
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dominion
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a self-governing nation
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metis
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people of mixed Native American and French Canadian descent
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indigenous
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original; earliest people inhabiting a land
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penal colony
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a place where convicted criminals are sent to be punished
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Maori
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the indigenous people of New Zealand
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regionalism
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loyalty to a local area
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caudillo
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a local strongman who assembled a private army in Latin America to resist the central government
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Benito Juarez
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a liberal reformer in Mexico of Zapotec Indian heritage who gained power with other liberals and began an era of reform
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La Reforma
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an era of reform in Mexico that began in 1855
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peonage
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a system in which landowners gave workers advances on their wages and required them to stay on the hacienda until they paid back what they owed
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monroe doctrine
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a policy issued by President Monroe in 1823 that forbade European intervention in the Americas
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Panama Canal
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a passage through Panama connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans that greatly increased trade
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