AP World History- Unit 5 Review- Vocab Flashcards

6371196301	Berlin West Africa Conference	A meeting of European imperialist powers in 1884-85 to peacefully partition (divide) Africa	0
6371203575	Cecil Rhodes	British entrepreneur in South Africa who manipulated (used) the political situation to gain entry to the diamonds and gold discovered in the Boer republics	1
6371211057	Russo-Japanese War	Conflict in 1904-05 that showed the world that Japan was on the rise as an industrial power	2
6371214731	Panama Canal	It altered the speed of global trade and America's naval power after the completion of this project by the U.S. in Central America	3
6371220243	Leopold II	King of Belgium who set up a colony in the Congo to exploit workers and natural resources, specifically rubber	4
6371223011	Meiji Restoration	Movement that ended the power of the Shogunate in Japan with the return of power to the emperor and the beginning of a reform period	5
6371228028	Duma	Russian national assembly that was created as one of the reforms after the Revolution of 1905	6
6371230339	Matthew Perry	American naval officer who opened up Japan to trade in 1853 with his "black ships"	7
6371232763	Luddites	Early nineteenth-century artisans who were opposed to new machinery and industrialization	8
6371235598	Manifest Destiny	he belief that the United States was divinely ordained to expand across the North American continent, used to justify U.S. annexations	9
6371241605	Toussaint L'Ouverture	he leader of a slave rebellion on the French island of St. Domingue in 1791 that led to the creation of the independent republic of Haiti in 1804	10
6371249461	Mexican-American War	U.S. instigated war that ended in the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, which gave the United States possession of one-half of Mexico's territory	11
6371255656	Reign of Terror	An attempt to eliminate all suspected enemies of the French Revolution, best known for the use of the guillotine	12
6371260263	Zionism	A political movement that holds that the Jewish people constitute a nation and have the right to their own national homeland	13
6371266027	Henry Ford	Improved manufacturing techniques when he introduced the assembly line to automobile production	14