AP World History Chapter 24 Flashcards

52773523	Sepoys	Indian troops, trained in European style, serving the French and British	0
52773524	Raj	The British political establishment in India	1
52773525	Plassey (1757)	Battle between the troops of the British East India Company and an Indian army under Siraj-ud-daula, ruler of Bengal; British victory gave them control of Northeast India	2
52773526	Robert Clive:	Architect of British victory at Plassey; established foundations of the Raj in northern India	3
52773527	Presidencies	Three districts that comprised the bulk of British-ruled territories in India during the early 19th century; capitals at Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay	4
52773528	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
52773529	Nabobs	Name given to Britons who went to India to make fortunes through graft and exploitation; returned to Britain to live richly	6
52773530	Charles Cornwallis	British official who reformed East India Company corruption during the 1790s	7
52773531	Isandhlwana (1879)	Zulu defeat of a British army; one of the few indigenous victories over 19th-century European armies	8
52773532	Tropical dependencies	Western European possessions in Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific where small numbers of Europeans ruled large indigenous populations	9
52773533	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	10
52773534	Settler colonies	Colonies, such as those in South Africa, New Zealand, Algeria, Kenya, and Hawaii, where minority European populations lived among majority indigenous peoples	11
52773535	White racial supremacy	Belief in the inherent superiority of whites over the rest of humanity; peaked in the period before World War I	12
52773536	Great Trek	Migration into the South African interior of thousands of Afrikaners seeking to escape British control	13
52773537	Boer republics	Independent states—Orange Free State and Transvaal—established during the 1850s in the South African interior by Afrikaners	14
52773538	Cecil Rhodes	British entrepreneur in South Africa; manipulated political situation to gain entry to the diamonds and gold discovered in the Boer republics	15
52773539	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	16
52773540	James Cook	His voyages to Hawaii from 1777 to 1779 opened the islands to the West	17
52773541	Kamehameha	Hawaiian prince; with British backing he created a unified kingdom by 1810; promoted the entry of Western ideas in commerce and social relations	18
52773542	Great Mahele:	Hawaiian edict issued in 1848 that imposed Western property concepts that resulted in much Hawaiian land passed to Western commercial interests	19
52773543	Ram Mohum Roy	Western-educated Indian leader, early 19th century; cooperated with British to outlaw sati	20
52773544	Natal	British colony in South Africa; developed after Boer trek north from Cape Colony; major commercial outpost of Durban	21
52773545	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