vocab for stearns ch 24
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| 228383393 | Sepoys | Indian troops, trained in European style, serving the French and the British. | 0 | |
| 228383394 | Raj | The British political establishment in India | 1 | |
| 228383395 | Plassey (1757) | Battle between the troops of the British East India Company and Indian army under Siraj-ud-daula, ruler of Bengal; British victory gave them control of Northeast India | 2 | |
| 228383396 | Robert Clive | Architect of British victory at Plessey; established foundations of the Raj in northern India | 3 | |
| 228383397 | Presidencies | Three districts that compromised the bulk of British-ruledterritories in India during the early 19th century; capitals at Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay | 4 | |
| 228383398 | Princely States | Ruled by Indian Princes allied with the Raj; agents of the East India Company were stationed at their courts to ensure loyalty | 5 | |
| 228383399 | Nabobs | Name given to Britons who went to India to make fortunes through graft and exploitation; returned to Britain to live richly. | 6 | |
| 228383400 | Charles Cornwallis | British official who reformed East India Company corruption during the 1790s. | 7 | |
| 228383401 | Isandhlwana (1879) | Zulu defeat of a British army; one of the few indigenous victories over 19th-century European armies. | 8 | |
| 228383402 | White Dominions | A type of settlement colony, such as those in North America and Australia, where European settlers made up the majority of the population. | 9 | |
| 228383403 | Settler Colonies | Colonies, such as those in South Africa, New Zealand, Algeria, Kenya, and Hawaii, where minority European populations lived among majority indigenous peoples. | 10 | |
| 228383404 | White racial supremacy | Belief in the inherent superiority of whites over the rest of humanity; peaked in the period before Word War I. | 11 | |
| 228383405 | Great Trek | Migration into South African interior of thousands of Afrikaners seeking to escape British control. | 12 | |
| 228383406 | Boer republics | Independent states- Orange Free State and Transvaal- established during the 1850s in South African interior by Afrikaners. | 13 | |
| 228383407 | Cecil Rhodes | British entrepreneur in South Africa; manipulated political situation to gain entry to the diamonds and gold discovered in the boer republics. | 14 | |
| 228383408 | Boer War (1899-1902) | Fought between the British and Afrikaners; British victory and postwar policies left the African population of South Africa under Afrikaner control. | 15 | |
| 228383409 | James Cook | His voyages to Hawaii from 1777to 1779 opened islands to the West. | 16 | |
| 228383410 | Kamehameha | Hawaiian prince; with British backing he created unified kingdom by 1810; promoted the entry of Western ideas in commerce and social relations. | 17 | |
| 228383411 | Great Mahele | Hawaiian edict issued in 1848 that imposed Western property concepts that resulted in much Hawaiian land passed to Western commercial interests. | 18 | |
| 228383412 | Mataram | Kingdom that controlled interior regions of Java in the 17th century; Dutch East Company paid tribute to the kingdom for rights of trade at Batavia; weakness of kingdom after 1670s allowed Dutch to exert control over all of Java. | 19 | |
| 228383413 | Ram Mohum Roy | Western-educated Indian leader, early 19th century; cooperated with British to outlaw sati | 20 | |
| 228383414 | Natal | British colony in South Africa; developed after Boer trek north from Cape Colony; major commercial outpost of Durban | 21 | |
| 228383415 | Nationalism | Political viewpoint with origins in western Europe; often allied with other "isms"; urged importance of national unity; valued a collective identity based on culture, race, or ethnic origin. | 22 | |
| 228383416 | miscegenation | mixed racial marriages | 23 |
