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| 1884-85 meeting in Berlin, Germany at which the major European powers negotiated and formalized their colonial claims to territory in Africa |
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| A policy or practice by which a country increases power by gaining control over other areas of the world |
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| A type of economy where products, prices, and services are determined by the market, not the government |
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| A way of organizing a society in which major industries (but not all businesses) are owned and controlled by the government rather than by individual people and businesses |
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| A way of organizing a society in which the government owns the things that are used to make and transport products (such as land, oil, factories, ships, etc.) and there no privately owned property |
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| Also called the putting-out system, a method of producing goods by giving materials to rural workers who made products at home and then returned them to their employer who paid them for each piece completed |
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| An 1898 conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in U.S. acquisition of territories in the Western Pacific and Latin America |
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| An economic system in which the things that are used to make and transport products (such as land, oil, factories, ships, etc.) are owned by private individuals and companies rather than by the government |
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| An organization of workers formed to protect the rights and interests of its members |
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| Peasant uprising in 1900 that tried to drive all foreigners from China |
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| The major social and economic changes that occurred in Britain, Europe, and the U.S. in the late 18th and early 19th centuries when new machinery, new sources of power, and new ways of manufacturing products were developed |
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| The occupation, division, and colonization of African territory by European powers during the period between 1881 and 1914 |
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| The political revolution in Japan in 1868 that ended the rule of Japan by the Shogun and returned control of the country to the emperor |
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| The process by which towns and cities are formed and become larger as more and more people began living and working in central areas |
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| To produce very large amounts of (something) usually by using machinery |
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| Two wars in the mid-19th century involving China and the British Empire over the British trade of opium and China's sovereignty |
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| U.S. policy of promoting equal opportunity for international trade and commerce in China, and respect for China's status as a sovereign nation; the official U.S. policy towards the Far East in the first half of the 20th century |
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| Unhappiness with British administration in India led to rebellions in 1857 and 1858 by native Indian troops serving in the British army; the revolt that was put down after several battles and sieges |
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| US foreign policy established in 1823 by President Monroe that states that if any foreign country tried to interfere in the Americas, it could be regarded as a hostile act against the United States |
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| When one country dominates another's territory or economy but does not actually annex it; sometimes it 'leases' territory for very long periods of time, in others, it has treaty rights that let it move in.This lets the stronger country profit from the weaker one while letting the weaker one believe it is still an independent nation |
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