AP World History Chapter 27 Flashcards

4078917473	What would happen if a colony was run by direct rule?	the local elites were removed and replaced with a new set of officials from the mother country	0
4078917474	What were the only free states in Africa?	Liberia and Ethiopia	1
4078917475	What was the "white man's burden"	A belief that Europeans had a moral duty to civilize primitive peoples.	2
4078917476	1.when did Muhammad Ali seize power? 2.from whom did he seize it? 3.what did he do with it?	1.1805 2.the ottomans 3.created a separate Egyptian state	3
4078917477	what led to the rebellion known as the Seapoy Mutiny?	a growing Indian distrust of the British	4
4078917478	What was the goal of the Indian National Congress?	At first the goal was to try and share power in the governing process of India	5
4078917479	What resulted from the Spanish-American War?	resulted in new territories for the U.S. (Puerto Rico)	6
4078917480	In 1800, the only societies in SE Asia that were under European control were the...	Philippines and the Dutch East Indies.	7
4078917481	How did colonial powers harm their colonies?	By keeping wages low and taxes high on their subjects	8
4078917482	what system did the French use in their colonies (Algeria and Vietnam)?	the system of "direct rule"	9
4078917483	What did steamships, better medicine, and machine guns allow Europeans to do?	allowed Europeans to dominate Africa by the end of the 19th century.	10
4078917484	In Latin America, what was based on land ownership?	Wealth and political power	11
4078917485	What do most historians argue that the U.S. practiced in Latin America?	"economic imperialism"	12
4078917486	What did the U.S. businesses have a major interest in by the early 20th century?	Railroads, copper mining, and oil in Mexico	13
4078917487	what was a key issue in both the Chinese and Mexican Revolutions in the early 20th century was based on...	land	14
4078917488	Before 1870, the European presence in Africa was based on what?	coastal ports for trade and a few settlements	15
4078917489	what was European Imperialism in Africa and China based on in the late 19th century?	competition between imperialist powers.	16
4078917490	What did the European powers decide at the Berlin Conference of 1884?	the European powers decided on how to split up Africa and no African representatives were present.	17
4078917491	what was Britain heavily invested in in South America in the 19th century? (Argentina)	railroads and beef	18
4078917492	What is the modern African country that still had the most sizeable minority of people who claim European decent?	South Africa	19
4078917493	what are examples of cash crops?	cotton, sugar, and opium	20
4078917494	what was the boxers slogan?	"destroy the foreigner"	21
4078917495	what was a result of Japan's victory over Russia in 1904?	the world was forced to recognize Japan as one of the world's great powers.	22
4078917496	why did the Tai Ping Rebellion appeal to many people in China?	Because it called for reforms like giving land to peasants and treating women as equals.	23
4078917497	What did extraterritoriality refer to?	The practice of Europeans living by their own laws while on Chinese soil.	24
4078917498	How did European traders set up spheres of influence within China?	By dealing directly with Chinese warlords for exclusive trading rights	25
4078917499	what are examples of infrastructure built by the Europeans and U.S. during Imperialism?	Railroads, canals, and bridges	26
4078917500	The Indian National Congress and the Boxer Rebellion were both influenced by the ideas of...	Nationalism	27
4078917501	what was large scale migration to the U.S. in the 19th century based on?	industrialization, better transportation, and escape from poverty and religious persecution.	28
4078917502	the United States was NOT involved in...	Imperialism in Africa	29
4078917503	what is the idea of Social Darwinism?	that human beings would dominate groups that were less fit	30
4078917504	Where were mining operations for gold and diamonds set up?	in colonial South Africa	31
4078917505	what is the worst example of European colonialism and why?	the Belgian Congo because of their brutal beatings and mutilations of workers.	32
4078917506	by the late 19th century the Ottoman Empire was weak and had...	lost North African lands to the French(Algeria) and British(Egypt)	33