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- document issued by the gov. that grants specific rights to a person or company
- religious group that wanted to purify the Church of England
- king who issued the charter for Jamestown and Plymouth
- this english colonists created a high-grade tobacco and married Pocahontas
- recognition that other people have the right to different opinions
- Before building the Panama Canal, the United States helped to free Panama from its rule by
- British explorer who insisted that the African interior should be influenced by European concepts the 3 C's; Civilization, Commerce, Christianity
- Who was the powerful leader of the Zulu in South Africa, he was a brilliant military leader who battled the Boers
- The leader who wanted to undue t he special rights that American business owners had in Hawaii, it led to her overthrow by American sugarcane and fruit planters
- Who was the fruit/industry planter who became the American president of Hawaii following the overthrow of the Queen
- The _____________ were soldiers that the British East India Company used to protect their products such as ______________, as it was transported across India.
- The practice of ________ allowed a colonizing nation to follow their own laws in oversea territories, not the laws of the native people.
- The ________ policy was a _____ made proposal that called for free and equal trading rights and access by all western nations in ______.
- An Ethiopian king who embraced Western ways that protected his lands from foreign imperialism & he defeated the Italians in 1896
- What 2 controversial ideologies were used to justify imperialist policies?
- Who was the German Chancellor who hosted the conference in his capital to peacefully partition African lands among the European powers
- Rebel leader in the Philippines who battled Spanish control and then the American control in the attempt to gain independence for his nation
- King Leopold II of _______ started the European colonization of the African interior when he claimed the area that was called the ______ in the early ______.
- Who was the US naval commander who led his fleet into Tokyo bay which helped lead to the end of the Japanese isolation
- Who was the Emperor who embraced westernization and brought japan out of a 200 year isolation and into becoming a world power