AP world ch 24 Flashcards

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19388042	Sepoys	Indian troops trained European style serving French and British	0
19388043	Raj	The British political establishment in India	1
19388044	Plassey	Battle between the troops of British East India Company and an Indian army under the ruler of Bengal ( British victory)	2
19388045	Robert Clive	Architect of British victory at Plassey	3
19388046	Presidencies	Three districts that comprised the bulk of British-ruled territories in India. ( Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay)	4
19388047	Princely states	Ruled by Indian princes allied with the Raj. Protectorite State	5
19388048	Nabobs	Name given to Britons who went to India for financial gain	6
19388049	Charles Cornwallis	British official who reformed East India Company	7
19388050	Isandhwala	Zulu defeat of British army	8
19388051	Tropical dependencies	Western European possessions in Africa, Asia, and South Pacific. ( small # of europeans ruled large # for indigenous people)	9
19388052	White dominions	settlement colony where Europeans were the majority of the population	10
19388053	Settler colonies	Colonies in south Africa, where minority European populations lived amony majority of indigenous peoples	11
19388054	White racial supremacy	Belief in the inherent superiority of whites over the rest	12
19388055	Great Trek	Migration into the south African interior of thousands of Afrikaners	13
19388056	Boer republics	Independent states of Afrikaners-- Orange Free State and Transvaal	14
19388057	Cecil Rhodes	British entrepreneur in South Africa, manipulated political situation to gain diamonds	15
19388058	Boer War	Fought between the British and Afrikaners	16
19388059	James Cook	his vogage to Hawaii opened the islands to the West	17
19388060	Kamehameha	Hawaiian Prince, promoted the entry of western ideas in commerce	18
19388061	Ram Mohum Roy	Western educated Indian leader	19
19388062	Natal	Britsh colony in South Africa, major commercial outpost	20