The Age of ImperialismAcquisition: acquiring possessions through one’s actions
1.) Alliance: an agreement between countries, groups, or people to work together in doing something.
Annex: 2.) to increase a nation’s borders or land by taking control of a foreign territory, state, or nation
3.) Boxer Rebellion: a revolution started by a secret Chinese society called Boxers to chase Western nations out of China.
4.) buffer zone: region that lies between two rival countries, cutting down the threat of conflict.
Capital: wealth (money or property)
5.) cash crop: a crop grown by a farmer for sale, not personal use
Caste: an unchangeable social group into which a person is born.
6.) Colonize: to establish a settlement in a new land and maintain political control.
8.) ethnic group: a large group of people who share the same language and cultural background.
7.) Colony: a region or country that is controlled by another country.
Discriminate: to treat differently from others because of unfair prejudices.
rights of foreigners to be protected bythe laws of their own nation
9.) Extraterritoriality:
industrialized nation: a country which more goods are produced by machine than by hand.
10.) Imperialism:
The practice of establishing colonies; extending the rule of
one country over other countries or colonies.
11.) Feudalism: a system in which people owed loyalty to the wealthy landowners in exchange for protection.
Intervention: to interfere in another nation’s affairs to force or prevent action.
12.) Migrate: to go from one country, region, or place to settle in another.
Mission: a special job or task
13.) Monopoly:
the control of a product, service, or
industry by one company.
14.) Nationalism: strong support for the survival, success, and self-rule of one’s own country and culture.
15.) Open Door Policy:
An American position that made it possible for all countries to trade in China.
Oppressors: people who
control or rule by cruel or
unjust means.
16.) Panama Canal: the manmade waterway that is a shortcut from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
17.) Protectorate: country with its own government but under the control of an outside power.
18.) raw materials:
Natural goods used in the production of
goods
19.) Roosevelt corollary19.) Roosevelt corollary: President Theodore Roosevelt’s announcement that no nation but the United States could interfere in Latin American affairs; an amendment to the Monroe Doctrine.
20.) Sepoy:20.) Sepoy: an Indian soldier who served in an army set up by the French or English East India Company
21.) spheres of 21.) spheres of influence:influence:
Geographic areas controlled by a country
and used for its own benefit.
22.) Westernization:22.) Westernization:
Non-Western nations shifting towards European or Western cultureand practices.
westernization