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