APWH Unit 6 Vocabulary Review

The application of ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies - particularly as a justification for their racism and imperialist expansion

• Social Darwinism

• Imperialism

• Sphere of Influence

• Social Contract

This meeting (1884–1885) of European powers regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period

• Berlin Conference

• Council of Trent

• Geneva Conference

• Colonization Society

Conflict between the British Empire and the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, over the Empire's influence in South Africa

• Boer Wars

• Taiping Rebellion

• Boxer Rebellion

• Manifest Destiny

(1850-1864) A revolt by the people of China against the ruling Manchu Dynasty because of their failure to deal effectively with the opium problem and the interference of foreigners.

• Taiping Rebellion

• Boer Wars

• Boxer Rebellion

• Berlin Conference

1899 rebellion in Beijing, China started by a secret society of Chinese who opposed the "foreign devils". The rebellion was ended by British troops; led to decreased power and influence of the Qing Dynasty

• Boxer Rebellion

• Boer Wars

• Trail of Tears

• Manifest Destiny

The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.

• Social Contract

• Manifest Destiny

• Monroe Doctrine

• Roosevelt Corollary

This law, signed by President Andrew Jackson n 1830, authorized the president to negotiate with southern Native American tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for white settlement of their ancestral lands

• Indian Removal Act

• Monroe Doctrine

• Roosevelt Corollary

• Manifest Destiny

A worldwide movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all indigenous and ethnic groups of African descent.

• Pan-Africanism

• Social Contract

• Manifest Destiny

• Monroe Doctrine

A policy or ideology of extending the rule over peoples and other countries, for extending political and economic access, power and control, often through employing hard power, especially military force

• Imperialism

• Social Darwinism

• Settler Colony

• Sphere of Influence