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| A colony which convicts are moved to instead of prison. |
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| Control over internal matters granted to the residents of a region by a ruling government. |
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| Unoffical nationalist miliarty force seeking independence for Ireland from Great Britian. |
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| The idea that it was the right and duty of the United States to rule North America from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. |
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| To withdraw formally from an association or alliance. |
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| Conflict between Northern and Southern states of the US over slavery. Lasting from 1861 to 1865. |
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| Emancipation proclamation |
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| Declaration by U.S. president Abraham Lincoln, stating that all slaves in Confederate states were free. |
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| The legal or social seperation of people with different races. |
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| In a factory, when a product is moved from worker to worker, as they perform a single task in its manufacture. |
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| Charles Darwins idea that species of plants and animals arise by means of a process of natral 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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| Production of works of art and entertainment designed to appeal to a large audience. |
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| A policy which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, economically, or socially. |
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| The belief that one race is better than the others. |
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| Application of Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution and "survial of the fittest" to human societies. |
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| A meeting in 1884-1885, when representatives of European nations agreed on rules for the European colonization of Africa. |
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| Zulu military leader, founded the Zulu Empire |
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| A 1899-1902 conflict when Boers and British fought for control of territory in South Africa. |
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| A policy of treating subject people as if they were children, providing for their needs but not giving them rights. |
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| 1. Adoption of a conqueror's culture by a conquered people. 2. Policy which a nations forces or encourages a subject people to adpot its institutions and customs. |
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| A foregin policy based on a consideration of the strategic locations or products of other lands. |
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| 1853-1856, which Ottoman Empire, with the aid of Britian and France, halted to Russian expansion in the region of the Black Sea. |
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| Member of Polynesian people who settled in New Zealand around A.D. 800. |
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| A member of any of the native people of Australia. |
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