Chapter16 vocab

3. cut down time to travel by ship from New York to San Francisco from 68 days to 20 days, built by the United States after Panamanian rebels declared their independence from Colombia in 1904
4. new technology development that occurred during the industrial revolution allowed for rapid spread of imperialism, the steamboat, telegraph, railroads, medicines and military technology were used to reach the interior of Africa and Asia.
6. th British placed areas of China under their exclusive economic control, cheap textiles brought in from Britain hurt local Chinese industries.
8. meeting in 1844, European powers met to divide the remaining parts of Africa, only Ethiopia, Liberia and morocco remained independent.
12. Belgian ruler, controlled the Congo in the center of Africa, treated the natives harshly, killing millions to increase production of rubber on his plantation.
13. A twenty year rapid expansion of imperialism in Africa (1870-1890), most of Africa was in control of European powers such as Britain, Germany, France, Spain, and Italy
14. British trained Indian soldiers rebelled and fought against the British, the rebellion was crushed by soldiers loyal to the British, and afterwards, the British govt. took formal control of India.

1. built by the French and completed in 1869, provided the shortest route from Europe to east Africa, Indian and Asia, was threatened by revolt in the 1880's, the British stopped the revolt and took control of Egypt.
2. began after the battleship in U.S.S Maine mysteriously blew up in Havana harbor in Cuba (1898) the us declared war on Spain an daquiref its first colonies , Puerto Rico and Guam , Cuba became independent of Spain
5. door"policy fearful that the United States would be shut out of China's profitable trade, the US proposed equal trading rights for all nations china in 1899.
7. type of imperialism in which a dominate country has influence over a region; however it does not directly control the politics or economy of the control region, was used by the United States primarily in Latin America.
9. British imperialists, planned to build a railroad from Egypt to South Africa.
10. item British were selling to the Chinese to raise money to buy tea, the Chinese govt. sentenced dealers to death, the British govt. declared war on china and easily defeated the Chinese w/ superior weaponry, the Chinese economy was damaged and china was forced to open ports for trade
11. the political and economic control of one area or country by another, vast colonial empires wee created by European powers in Africa, Asia, and in the pacific.