Unit 4 Modern World History OFL – Flashcards

A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, economically, or socially

The belief that one race is superior to others

The application if Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies - particularly as justification for imperialist expansion

A Dutch colonist in South Africa

A conflict lasting from 1899 to 1902, in which the Boers and the British fought for control of territory in South Africa

A policy of treating subject people as if they were children providing for their needs but not giving them rights

The policy in which a nation forces or encourages a subject people to adopt its institutions and customs

A military dictator of a Latin American country

A US policy of opposition to European interference in Latin America, announced by president James Monroe

An 1898 conflict between the US and Spain, in which the US supported Cubans' fight for independence

A human-made waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, built in panama by the US and opened in 1914

President Theodore Roosevelt's 1904 extension of the Monroe Doctrine in which he declared that the US had the right to exercise "police power" throughout the Western Hemisphere

They wanted more resources to fuel their industrial production. They competed for new markets for their goods. They wanted to dominate the political, economic, and social life of the weaker countries

They agreed that any European country could claim land in Africa by notifying other nations of its claims and showing other nations of its claims and showing it could control the area

Colony, protectorate, sphere of influence, and economic imperialism

Land in Southeast Asia was in a strategic location. The ottomans controlled access to the Mediterranean and the Atlantic sea trade.

Free workers were little better than slaves. Since wages were low and prices were high, workers were into debt, their debt accumulated and passed from one generation to the next

Mexico encouraged American citizens to move to the Mexican territory of Texas to help populate the country thousands of English-speaking colonists or Anglos answered the call. In return for inexpensive land they pledged to follow the laws of Mexico. As the Anglo population grew the tensions developed between the communists in Mexico over several issues, including slavery and religion. As a result many Texas colonists wanted greater self-government. But when Mexico refused to grant this, Stephen Austin, a leading Anglo, encouraged a revolt against Mexico in 1835

A Zulu chef who used highly disciplined warriors and good military organization to create a large centralized state in southern Africa

A successful British businessman and major supporter if British expansion in Africa

Hawaii's only queen and last monarch; called for a new constitution to increase her power and restore the political power of Hawaiians at the expense of wealthy American planters

A writer who had been exiled from Cuba by the Spanish; returned to launch a second war for independence

Mexican president for four terms; lost the battle for Texas; lost the war to the US giving the US Mexican land that included California and the American Southwest

Raised a poor Zapotec Indian; was elected president of Mexico in 1861; fought against French invasion; was reelected president in 1867

Mexican Indian from Oaxaca who became a noted general in the Civil War and the fight against the French; ousted Juarez from the presidency, and became president; used strong-arm methods to remain president, and created order in Mexico

Believed in democracy and wanted to strengthen its hold in Mexico; announced his candidacy for president in 1910, but Díaz had him arrested; from exile in the United States, he called for an armed revolution against Díaz

Military leader in the northern part of Mexico; had a bold Robin Hood policy of taking money from the rich and giving it to the poor

Military leader in the southern part of Mexico; determined to see that land was returned to peasants and small farmers; wanted the laws reformed to protect their rights