AP Imperialism Flashcards

9214354873	Opium Wars	Conflicts between China and Great Britain over the British Trade in opium	0
9214357938	Treaty of Nanjing	Opened British trade in China, ended Opium War	1
9214361000	Gunboat Diplomacy	The use or threat of military force to coerce a government into economic or political agreements	2
9214362654	global mass migration	the mass movement of people from Europe in the nineteenth century	3
9214365096	nativism	policies and beliefs, often influenced by nationalism, scientific racism, and mass migration, that give preferential treatment of established inhabitants over immigrants	4
9214368202	new imperialism	late 19th C. drive by European countries to create vast political empires abroad	5
9214370277	Afrikaners	descendants of the Dutch settlers in the Cape Colony in southern Africa	6
9214371681	Berlin Conference	a meeting of European leaders held in 1884 and 1885 in order to lay down some basic rules for imperialist competition in sub-Saharan Africa	7
9214374986	white man's burden	The idea that Europeans could and should civilize more primitive nonwhite peoples and that imperialism would eventually provide nonwhites with modern achievements and higher standards of living	8
9214378389	Orientalism	a term coined by literary scholar Edward Said to describe the way Westerners misunderstood and described colonial subjects and cultures	9
9214380467	Great Rebellion	The 1857 and 1858 insurrection by Muslim and Hindu mercenaries in the British army that spread throughout northern and central India before finally being crushed	10
9214385593	Meiji Restoration	The restoration of the Japanese emperor to power in 1867, leading to the subsequent modernization of Japan	11
9214387308	hundred days of reform	A series of western-style reforms launched in 1898 by the Chinese government in an attempt to meet the foreign challenge	12
9214390541	Sino-Japanese War	Conflict between Japan and China over territory in Korea	13
9214391930	Russo-Japanese War	Conflict between Japan and Russia over territory in Korea and Manchuria	14
9214398698	Scramble for Africa	Panic to control territory in Africa after the Berlin Conference	15