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What is
Protectorate rule
?
A ruling country informs a lesser country what laws to enforce with out transporting their own soldiers or officals to the lesser country.
What is
Indirect rule
?
A ruling country transporting their soldiers to a lesser country to enforcing the laws of the ruling country on to the lesser country.
What is a
sepoy
?
An Indian soldier serving in an army for the French or English trade compinies.
what is the
Indian National Congress
?
A Indian party that pressed for self rule.
What is
Extraterritoriality
?
Foreigners rights to be protected by the laws of their own nation.
What is the
Roosevelt Corollary
?
A policy in wich the United States claimed international police power in the Western Hamiphere.
What is
Indochina
?
A region in Florida.
What is the
Platt Amendment
?
The Cuben amendment giving America rights to have naval bases and intervene in Cuba
What is the
Sepoy Rebellion
?
A rebllion in India in which sepoys massacred the British.
What is
Dollardiplomacy
?
Diplomacy influenced by economic considerations.
What is
Social Dawinism
?
Therory that only the strong survive.
Who was
David Livingstone
?
A missionary, doctor, and explorer who opened up Africa to missions.
What was the
Boer War
?
Britian gains Cape colines and finds a Diamond mine and the Boers start a war to win the land back.
Who was
Cecil Rhodes
?
A diamond and gold miner in Africa.
Who was
sir Henry Stanley
?
A journalist hired by king lepold ii of Belguim to track down David Livingstong after he dissapeared.
What was the
Berlin Confrence
?
A meeting in Berlin in wich countries decided how to divide Africa between them.
What was the
Amritsar Massacre
?
British killed thousands of peaceful Idian protestors.
What was the
Treaty of Nanjing
?
A treaty that ended the first Opium War.
Who was
King Lepold ii
?
King of Belgium in 1865
Author
hammy2695
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Card Set
WLDH VOCAB
Description
Vocabulary terms for unit five of world history.
Updated
2011-04-03T04:59:54Z
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