| A | B |
|---|
| Matthew Perry | commodore who sailed American ships into Tokyo Bay and demanded Japanese ports be opened for trade |
| Russo-Japanese War | Japan's armies defeated Russian troops in Manchuria |
| homogenous society | society that has a common culture and language |
| Aborigines | the first settlers or natives of Australia |
| dominion | a self-governing nation |
| caudillo | military dictator in Latin America |
| Rudyard Kipling | British author who promoted imperialism |
| Treaty of Kanagawa | in 1854 the Japanese shogun agreed to open 2 ports to American ships, though not for trade |
| diet | assembly or legislature made up of one elected house and one house appointed by the emperor |
| French Indochina | French controlled lands in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia |
| indigenous | original or native inhabitants of a region or country |
| Benito Juarez | liberal who opened an era of reform in Mexico know as La Reforma |
| economic dependence | a less developed nation exports raw materials to a developed nation and imports manufactured goods, capital and technological know-how |
| Cecil Rhodes | leading promoter of British imperialism in Africa; promoted the separation of races in southern Africa |
| Meiji Restoration | period of reform and industrialization in Japan from 1868-1912 |
| zaibatsu | powerful banking and industrial families in Japan; example is Kawasaki family |
| Emilio Equinaldo | led Philippine nationalists in battle against the United States from 1899-1901 |
| confederation | unification |
| regionalism | loyalty to a local area |
| peonage | system by which workers owe labor to pay for their debts |
| Queen Liliuokalani | overthrown by American planters in 1893 |
| penal colony | Australia was originally established as a place where criminals were sent |
