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| A result of British smuggling opium in to China, which was forbidden by the Chinese government. The Chinese government made multiple warnings to the smugglers, but they continued to traffic the drugs into the country. |
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| An artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. |
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| In 1868 the last shogun was overthrown which assumed complete control over the nation. |
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| Author of the Jungle Books and the White Man's Burden |
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| A statement of foreign policy issued by President James Monroe in 1823, declaring that the United States would not tolerate intervention by European nations in the affairs of nations in the Americas. Monroe also promised that the United States would not interfere with European colonies already established or with governments in Europe |
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| A corollary to the Monroe Doctrine asserting that the U.S. might intervene in the affairs of an American republic threatened with seizure by European country. |
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| A ship canal; crossing the Isthmus of Panama in the Canal Zone and connecting the Caribbean Sea with the Pacific Ocean. |
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| Are lands that do not "belong" to a country but are managed by it and must abide by its rules? (Puerto Rico). |
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| South African history other migration of Boer Farmers of Cape Colony to the north and east from about 1836 to 1845 to escape British authority. |
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| A military conflict between Spain and the United States. The conflict was the liberation of Cuba. The war was ended after the United States won. After they won, the signing of the Treaty of Paris gave the U.S.control of the Philippines, Cuba, Guam, and Puerto Rico. |
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| An area where a country is dominant inside another country. Spheres of influence were taken up by all the major world powers in China, when it was defeated by the British. |
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| Devotion and loyalty to one's own nation; patriotism. |
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| A war fought from 1899 to 1902 between an alliance of the Boer governments of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State on the one hand and Great Britain on the other, over the sovereignty and commercial rights in these lands. The war ended with British victory. |
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| Land belonging to a separate country who is attempting to settle in a new area, gain in wealth, or expand their influence. |
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| Was a mutiny by 850 sepoys (Indian soldiers) against the British in Singapore during the First World War, part of the 1915 Ghadar Conspiracy. The mutiny, on 15 February 1915, lasted nearly seven days and resulted in the deaths of 47 British soldiers and local civilians, before it was finally quelled by a military coalition from four countries. It was an event that not only caught the British totally off-guard but also shook the foundation of British rule in Singapore. |
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| . A violent anti-imperialism, anti-Christian movement by the "Righteous Fists of Harmony" between 1898 and 1901. |
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| Belief that the strongest and most fit in society should survive and flourish while the weak and unfit should be allowed to die. |
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