Industrialization and Imperialism
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| 314372938 | Sepoys | Indian soldiers in the British army | 0 | |
| 314372939 | Raj | The period of British rule in India, which lasted for nearly 90 years, from 1857 to 1947 | 1 | |
| 314372940 | Plassey (1757) | battle between troops of the British East India Company and an Indian army under Siraj ud-daula, ruler of Bengal; British victory resulted in control of northern India. | 2 | |
| 314372941 | Robert Clive | General of British victory at Plassey; established foundations of British Raj in northern India (18th century). | 3 | |
| 314372942 | Nabobs | Name given to British reps of the East India Company who went briefly to India to make fortunes through graft and exploitation. | 4 | |
| 314372943 | Charles Cornwallis | commander of the British forces in the American War of Independence | 5 | |
| 314372944 | Tropical Dependencies | Western European possessions in Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific where small numbers of Europeans ruled large indigenous populations. | 6 | |
| 314372945 | 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. | 7 | |
| 314372946 | Settler Colonies | Colonies in which the colonizing people settled in large numbers, rather than simply spending relatively small numbers to exploit the region | 8 | |
| 314372947 | White Racial Supremacy | Belief in the inherent superiority of whites over the rest | 9 | |
| 314372948 | Boer Republics | Independent states—Orange Free State and Transvaal—established during the 1850s in the South African interior by Afrikaners | 10 | |
| 314372949 | Cecil Rhodes | British colonial financier and statesman in South Africa made a fortune in gold and diamond mining; helped colonize the territory now known as Zimbabwe | 11 | |
| 314372950 | Boer War (1899-1902) | War between Great Britain and the Boers in South Africa over control of rich mining country. Great Britain won and created the Union of South Africa comprised of all the South African colonies. | 12 | |
| 314372951 | Great Mahele | Hawaiian edict issued in 1848 that imposed Western property concepts that resulted in much Hawaiian land passed to Western commercial interest | 13 |
