World Civ. Chapter 28

Japan became a major imperial power after its victory in the

Russo-Japanese War

Under British control, Ceylon became a major producer of

Tea

The Roosevelt Corollary strengthened US military and economic claims in which area of the world?

Those territories lying in the western hemisphere to the south of the United States

The Monroe Doctrine

Worked as a justification for U.S. intervention in western hemispheric affairs

The most important figures in the uprising in 1857 in India were:

disgruntled sepoy troops

The social Darwinists believed that:

powerful nations were meant to dominate weaker societies

In regard to imperialism, the Japanese and Americans

proved to be just as racist as the Europeans

Emilio Aguinaldo led an uprising in:

the Philippines against the United States

The United States occupied Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines after its victory in:

the Spanish-Cuban-American War

The Suez Canal facilitated:

the building and maintenance of empires

Cecil Rhodes was:

A leading British imperialist who founded a colony in Africa

New South Wales in Australia started as:

A settlement for convicts

the Congo Free State was established in the 1870s by:

Belgium

Who said, "we are the finest race in the world and the more of the world we inhabit, the better it is for the human race"?

Cecil Rhodes

The Boers were

Dutch settlers in South Africa

The most significant territorial loss for the Ottomans was

Egypt

Between 1859 and 1893, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos all fell under the control of

France

After the overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani in 1893, the United States took over,

Hawaii

In the nineteenth century, the majority of indentured laborers came from:

India

the Sino-Japanese War began with a dispute over:

Korea