5992276719 | New Imperialism | Period of colonial expansion by European powers, the United States of America, and the Empire of Japan. | 0 | |
5992276720 | "Jewel in the Crown" | Used to describe India's place in the British Empire. | 1 | |
5992276721 | Social Darwinists | Theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals. | 2 | |
5992276722 | Quinine | Bitter crystalline compound present in cinchona bark, used as a tonic and formerly as an antimalarial drug. | 3 | |
5992276723 | Colonialism | Policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically. | 4 | |
5992276724 | Protectorates | State that is controlled and protected by another. | 5 | |
5992276725 | British Women's Emigration Association | English organization devoted to helping poor young women emigrate from England to the colonies of the British Empire. | 6 | |
5992276726 | "Scramble for Africa" | Invasion, occupation, division, colonization and annexation of African territory by European powers during the period of New Imperialism. | 7 | |
5992276727 | Berlin Conference | Regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period, and coincided with Germany's sudden emergence as an imperial power. | 8 | |
5992276728 | De Beers Consolidated | Formed in 1888 by the merger of the companies of Barney Barnato and Cecil Rhodes, by which time the company was the sole owner of all diamond mining operations in the country. | 9 | |
5992276729 | Native Land Act of 1913 | Defined less than one-tenth of South Africa as black "reserves" and prohibited any purchase or lease of land by blacks outside the reserves. | 10 | |
5992276730 | Free-Trade Imperialism | Academic article by John Gallagher and Ronald Robinson which was published in The Economic History Review in 1953. | 11 | |
5992276731 | Platt Amendment | Stipulated seven conditions for the withdrawal of United States troops remaining in Cuba at the end of the Spanish-American War, and an eighth condition that Cuba sign a treaty accepting these seven conditions. | 12 | |
5992276732 | General Horatio Kitchener | Expelled the Mahdi from Sudan, occupying Khartoum. | 13 | |
5992276733 | Henry Morton Stanley | Welsh-American journalist and explorer who was famous for his exploration of central Africa and his search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone. | 14 | |
5992276734 | King Leopold II | Second King of the Belgians. | 15 | |
5992276735 | Afrikaners | Afrikaans-speaking person in South Africa. | 16 | |
5992276736 | King Cetshwayo | King of the Zulu Kingdom. | 17 | |
5992276737 | Cecil Rhodes | British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa, who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony. | 18 | |
5992276738 | "Cape Coloureds" | Person of mixed ethnic descent resident in the Western Cape Province. | 19 | |
5992276739 | Menelik | Ethiopian emperor who established independence from Italy and expanded Ethiopia's borders through military conquests. | 20 | |
5992276740 | Queen Liliuokalani | Last reigning monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii. | 21 | |
5992276741 | Emilio Aguinaldo | Filipino general who played an important role in the Philippine Revolution against Spain, and later led Filipino insurgent soldiers against American forces. | 22 | |
5992276742 | Jose Marti | Cuban intellectual, poet, and revolutionary leader who founded El Partido Revolucionario Cubano in 1882. | 23 | |
5992276743 | Suez Canal | Sea-level canal in Northeast Egypt. | 24 | |
5992276744 | Congo Free State | Large state in Central Africa which was in personal union with the Kingdom of Belgium under Leopold II. | 25 | |
5992276745 | Gold Coast | A section of coastal western Africa along the Gulf of Guinea roughly corresponding to present-day Ghana. | 26 | |
5992276746 | Union of South Africa | Historic predecessor to the present-day Republic of South Africa. | 27 | |
5992276747 | Asante Kingdom | A region and former kingdom of western Africa in present-day central Ghana. | 28 | |
5992276748 | Hawaii | State located in the Pacific Ocean southwest of the mainland United States. | 29 | |
5992276749 | Panama Canal | Waterway across the Isthmus of Panama. | 30 | |
5992276750 | Battle of Omdurman | Army commanded by the British General Sir Herbert Kitchener defeated the army of Abdullah al-Taashi, the successor to the self-proclaimed Mahdi, Muhammad Ahmad. | 31 | |
5992276751 | South African War (Boer War) | War in which Great Britain fought against the Transvaal and Orange Free State. | 32 | |
5992276752 | Filipino Insurgency | Philippine-American War. | 33 | |
5992276753 | U.S. Maine incident | Second-class battleship that was part of the new U.S. Navy fleet of steel ships. It exploded in Havana Harbor in 1898 and precipitated U.S. entry into the Spanish-American War. | 34 | |
5992276754 | Spanish-American War (results of) | War between Spain and the United States in 1898, as a result of which Spain ceded Puerto Rico, the Philippine Islands, and Guam to the United States and abandoned all claim to Cuba, which became independent in 1902. | 35 |
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