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5992276719New ImperialismPeriod 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
5992276721Social DarwinistsTheory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals.2
5992276722QuinineBitter crystalline compound present in cinchona bark, used as a tonic and formerly as an antimalarial drug.3
5992276723ColonialismPolicy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.4
5992276724ProtectoratesState that is controlled and protected by another.5
5992276725British Women's Emigration AssociationEnglish 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
5992276727Berlin ConferenceRegulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period, and coincided with Germany's sudden emergence as an imperial power.8
5992276728De Beers ConsolidatedFormed 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
5992276729Native Land Act of 1913Defined less than one-tenth of South Africa as black "reserves" and prohibited any purchase or lease of land by blacks outside the reserves.10
5992276730Free-Trade ImperialismAcademic article by John Gallagher and Ronald Robinson which was published in The Economic History Review in 1953.11
5992276731Platt AmendmentStipulated 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
5992276732General Horatio KitchenerExpelled the Mahdi from Sudan, occupying Khartoum.13
5992276733Henry Morton StanleyWelsh-American journalist and explorer who was famous for his exploration of central Africa and his search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone.14
5992276734King Leopold IISecond King of the Belgians.15
5992276735AfrikanersAfrikaans-speaking person in South Africa.16
5992276736King CetshwayoKing of the Zulu Kingdom.17
5992276737Cecil RhodesBritish 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
5992276739MenelikEthiopian emperor who established independence from Italy and expanded Ethiopia's borders through military conquests.20
5992276740Queen LiliuokalaniLast reigning monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii.21
5992276741Emilio AguinaldoFilipino general who played an important role in the Philippine Revolution against Spain, and later led Filipino insurgent soldiers against American forces.22
5992276742Jose MartiCuban intellectual, poet, and revolutionary leader who founded El Partido Revolucionario Cubano in 1882.23
5992276743Suez CanalSea-level canal in Northeast Egypt.24
5992276744Congo Free StateLarge state in Central Africa which was in personal union with the Kingdom of Belgium under Leopold II.25
5992276745Gold CoastA section of coastal western Africa along the Gulf of Guinea roughly corresponding to present-day Ghana.26
5992276746Union of South AfricaHistoric predecessor to the present-day Republic of South Africa.27
5992276747Asante KingdomA region and former kingdom of western Africa in present-day central Ghana.28
5992276748HawaiiState located in the Pacific Ocean southwest of the mainland United States.29
5992276749Panama CanalWaterway across the Isthmus of Panama.30
5992276750Battle of OmdurmanArmy 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
5992276751South African War (Boer War)War in which Great Britain fought against the Transvaal and Orange Free State.32
5992276752Filipino InsurgencyPhilippine-American War.33
5992276753U.S. Maine incidentSecond-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
5992276754Spanish-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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