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| A penal colony was a place where convicts were sent to serve their sentence. |
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| Home rule is local control over internal matters only. |
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| An unofficial military force seeking independence for Ireland, staged a series of attacks against British officials in Ireland. |
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| The idea, popular among mid 19th-century Americans, that it was the right and the duty of the United States to rule North America from the Atlantic Ocean to the Oacific Ocean. |
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| To withdraw formally from an association of alliance |
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| a conflict between Northern and Southern States of the United States over the issue of slavery, lasting from 1861 to 1865 |
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| emancipation proclamation |
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| A declaration issued by US president Abraham Lincoln in 1863 stating that all slaves in the confederate states be set free. |
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| the legal or social separation of people of different races. |
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| In a factory an arrangement in which a product is moved from worker to worker with each person performing a single task in its manufacture. |
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| the idea proposed by charles darwin in1859, that species of plants and animals arise by means of a process called natural selection. |
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| a form of energy released as atoms decay |
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| the study of the human mind and behavior |
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| the production of works of art and entertainment designed to appeal to a large audience |
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| a policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, economically, or socially |
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| the belief that one race is superior to the others. |
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| the application of charles darwin's ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies |
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| a meeting at which representatives of european nations agreed upon rules for the european colonization of Africa. |
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| a conflict lasting from 1899 to 1902 in which the boers and the british fought for control of territory in south africa |
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| a policy that treats people like there children providing their needs but not giving them rights |
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| a policy in which a nation forces a subject people to adopt its institutions and customs |
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| a foreign policy based on a consideration of the strategic locations or products of other lands |
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| a conflict lasting form 1853 to 1956, in which the ottoman empire, with the aid of britain and france, halted Russian expansion int he region of the black sea |
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| a member of a polynesian people who settled in new zealand around A.D. 800 |
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| a member of any of the native peoples of australia |
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