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CH12 Modern World History
Made these flascards from CH12 of Modern World History textbook by McDougall Littell. Covers British and Chinese opium trade, Japan during Meiji rule. Mexican- and Spanish- American and Opium Wars.
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9th Grade
11/19/2007

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Britain began to sell opium to China in order to do what?
Definition
make money; equal balance of trade
Term
During the Meiji era, the Japanese adopted the American system of what?
Definition
public education
Term
The self-strengthening movement initiated in China in the mid 1860s failed, largely because of what?
Definition
they weren't industrialized.
Term
In the mid-1800s, the US entered a conflict with MExico due to the US actions regarding what?
Definition
Texas
Term
Which country occupied and ruled Korea in the early 1900s?
Definition
Japan
Term
Which of the following foreign powers persuaded the Japanese government to allow trade with the west?
Definition
China
Term
What product did Britain sell to China to establish a favorable balance of trade?
Definition
opium
Term
With what country did exiled Mexican conservatives join forces in order to overthrow the government and Benito Juarez?
Definition
France
Term
As part of an effort to receive the right to construct a canal across Panama, the US aided Panama's fight for independence from what country?
Definition
Columbia
Term
Japan's Meiji era is known as a period of what?
Definition
modernization
Term
The main reason of the Boxer Rebellion was to do what?
Definition
make reforms
Term
The Sino-Japanese War was fought over control of what?
Definition
Korea
Term
What were the results of the Opium War?
Definition
Britain got Hong Kong
Term
The Open Door Policy by the US was meant to do what?
Definition
protect is trade interests in China
Term
The Mexican Revolution was fought to gain Mexico's freedom from...
Definition
Spain
Term
What was the result of the Spanish-American War?
Definition
Cuba was given semi-freedom. US got Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.
Term
Who benefited the most from the granting of extraterritorial right in the 19th-century China?
Definition
foreigners
Term
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Japan was involved in wars with whom?
Definition
China
Term
The purpose of the Monroe Doctrine was to discourage European nations from attempting to establish colonies in...
Definition
the American continents
Term
What popular leader raised a powerful army to fight in the Mexican Revolution and had the battle cry "Land and Liberty?"
Definition
Emiliano Zapata
Term
Who attempted to run for Mexican presidency but was forced into exile?
Definition
Francisco Mandero
Term
In the 1840s and 1850s, who worked for acceptance of La Reforma?
Definition
Benito Juarez
Term
What caudillo came into power in Mexico in the mid-1870s and ruled until he was forced from office in 1911 by the Mexican Revolution?
Definition
Porfirio Diaz
Term
What former cowboy was immensely popular in northern Mexico for his reputation of being a Robin Hood? He murdered sixteen Americans.
Definition
Pancho Villa
Term
Who led Mexico's fight for independence from Spain and to hold on to Texas?
Definition
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
Term
In what year did Japan annex Korea?
Definition
1910
Term
China was forced out of Korea as a result of what war?
Definition
Sino-Japanese War
Term
What country did Japan model its government after during the Meiji era?
Definition
Germany
Term
What two nations signed the Treaty of Kanagawa
Definition
US and Japan
Term
This armed protest was a violent reaction to foreign influence in China? It was defeated by multinational force in August of 1900.
Definition
Boxer Rebellion
Term
This protest was finally crushed by Qing, British, and French forces. An estimated 20 million people died during the rebellion.
Definition
Taiping Rebellion
Term
What clash between the British and Chinese resulted in the Treaty of Nanjing?
Definition
Opium War
Term
What leader desired to establish a "Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace?"
Definition
Hong Xiuquan
Term
She ruled China almost continuously between 1862 and 1908.
Definition
Empress Cixi
Term
This was declared by the US in an effort to protect American trading rights in China.
Definition
Open Door Policy
Term
What island did the Treaty of Nanjing give to the British?
Definition
Hong Kong
Term
These were regions of China in which Britain, France, Germany, Japan, and Russia dominated trade investments.
Definition
spheres of influence
Term
This provided American and other foreigners with privileges and exempted them from Chinese law at several Chinese ports.
Definition
extraterritorial rights
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