World Empires Quiz #3

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Union of the Crowns

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Scotland and England coming together under one crown; NOT UK

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Pequot War

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The first war of extermination, the Bay colonists wanted to claim Connecticut for themselves but it belonged to the Pequot. The colonists burned down their village and 400 were killed.

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John Locke

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justified the people they were colonizing against like Native Americans, and Irish due to language and agriculture, didn’t have own government, weren’t sophisticated, no currency

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East India Company

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-British monopoly of trade over everything in the Indian Ocean, dominant force

-It went from controlling all trade in India to also playing a role in civil administration (local government)-It exploited local Indians terribly, ended after Sepoy rebellions

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Ulster Plantation

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English attempt to pacify the Irish by planting English people on the plantation. Direct cause of the uprising of 1641

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Gaels

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The people native to Ireland

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Rebellion of 1641

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A rebellion by the Gaels against the Ulster Plantation. English nobility sided with Gaels, and Irish identity was centered around Catholicism.

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Penal Laws

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laws passed against Roman Catholics in Britain and Ireland after the Reformation that penalized the practice of the Roman Catholic religion.

The Irish religion, culture, and language were outlawed. Seen as a "cultural cleanse" . Foreshadowed events in England & stabilized it.

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Jacobites

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Supported James II in England in the 18th century.

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"Great Awakening"

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Religious movement that spurred the colonies in America. Themultiplicity in American sects led to a lack of control from the Church of England, and England in general. Focused on the individuals awakening.

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Seven Years War

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Breaks bonds between colonies and England because they are annoyed that they cannot move farther than the Apps.

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"Virtual Representation"

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The colonies didn’t have actual representation in Parliament, but they were both English so they would be represented in Parliament.

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Quebec Act 1774

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American colonies felt betrayed; the first time that a British colony gets a freedom of religion for Catholics

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Edmund Burke

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Irish, converted to Protestantism to keep their land, one of the first to speak of Catholic Emancipation. Anti-Enlightenment, Pro-American Rev, Opposed French rev, EIC

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William Wilberforce*

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British abolitionist, served in House of Commons, argued on the cruelties of slavery and spearheaded movement to remove Britain from the African Slave Trade

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Baptist Missionary Society

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The impulse to send missionaries to all these brown/blackpopulations. Part of the second great awakening: impulse to convert rest of world to Christianity.

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Catholic Emancipation 1829

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English citizens weren’t free to practice Catholicism until 1829.

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"Cape to Cairo"

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An imperial ambition to control of all of East Africa, arail line that would connect South Africa to Egypt was never fully complete.

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Boer War

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a key turning point in GB imperial history, first time that British starts to question the morality around their imperial ambitions.

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Christobal Pankhurst

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Fighting for women’s suffrage linked with the anti-imperialist movement.

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Mary Kingsley

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Wrote travels in West Africa, critic of european colonialism, Criticized some missionaries for attempting to convert Africans and advocated for African peoples and cultures

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Isabelle Lady Gregory

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Sees parallel between english rule in Ireland and India. Writes against Empire, has a distrust towards it, sees herself as Irish, creates the Abbey theater, Irish people saw her as outsider.

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

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Ended Mexican-American War; Mexico gave up all claims to land from Texas to California for $15 million

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Manifest Destiny

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US settlers were destined to expand West in North America

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Turner Thesis

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The historian Frederick Jackson Turner argued that the frontier was the key factor in the development of American democracy and institutions; he maintained that the frontier served as a "safety valve" during periods of economic crisis.

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Spanish-American War

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Creates the American empire, we get Guam, Philippines,Puerto Rico, liberated Cuba

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American Anti-Imperialist League

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Andrew Carnegie, Mark Twain, Grover Cleveland all belonged.

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Dominion

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Colony evolves to a dominion, autonomous in everything except foreign affairs. White colonies: Canada, New Zealand, South Africa

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Gallipoli

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A battle in WWI with Australians and NewZealanders, historical memory: how people remember it.

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Easter Rising 1916

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The Rising was mounted by Irish Republicans with the aims of ending British rule in Ireland and establishing the Irish Republic at a time when the British Empire was heavily engaged in the First World War.

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Paris Peace Talks

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talks to end WWI, important for imperialism because they were picking up the German colonies and the Ottoman Empire; established Britishimperialism in Middle East

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Mandate

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Link with the League of Nations, which mandated them toguide the people toward independence. Iraq, Palestine, Jordan

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Mohandas Ghandi

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argued for self-rule and promoting non-violent opposition to British rule

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Muslim League

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Political organization founded in India in 1906 to defend the interests of India's Muslim minority. In 1940, the league began demanding a separate state for Muslims, to be called Pakistan.

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Mau-Mau

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Independence movement in Kenya, anti-colonial resistancemovement.

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Kwame Nkrumah

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First prime minister of Ghana. The first of Britain's African colonies to gain majority-rule independence. Convention People's Party in Gold Coast

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Commonwealth

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"A cool club" Like an Empire. An international association consisting of the UK together with states that were previously part of the British Empire, and dependencies. The British monarch is the symbolic head of the Commonwealth.

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Mughal Empire

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A Muslim dynastic empire that was there and the East IndiaCompany were running through it. Fall in 1857

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"Sepoy Rebellion"

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The revolt of Indian soldiers in 1857 against certain practices that violated religious customs;

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Zamindar

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a landowner who leases land to a farmer—east India Company

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The Raj

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The British rule in India, 1858. Head of the Raj is theEmpress of India, Victoria.