Imperialism Vocab

Reformers who wanted changes like universal male suffrage; the secret ballot; and payment for members of Parliament, so that even workingmen could afford to enter politics. This group supported a document called the People's Charter.

• nationalism
• Chartists
• Spheres of Influence
• Direct Rule

a political scandal that caused deep divisions in France between Royalists and liberals and republicans; centered on the 1894 wrongful conviction of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army

• Open Door Policy
• Spheres of Influence
• Dreyfus Affair
• Matthew Perry

A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country

• nationalism
• Monroe Doctrine
• Imperialism
• refugee

This was the famine that occurred in Ireland that killed of thousands of people because the main potato crop could not grow because of bad soil that year; thousands more migrated to England and Europe to find work

• refugee
• Emancipation
• potato famine
• Spheres of Influence

American idea that the United States should stretch across the entire North American continent

• balance of trade
• John D. Rockefeller
• Manifest Destiny
• Indirect Rule

A constitutional amendment giving full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, meant to extend citizenship to African Americans after abolishing slavery

• Emancipation
• fourteenth amendment
• Open Door Policy
• refugee

A Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist who founded the Carnegie Steel Company in 1892. By 1901, his company dominated the American steel industry.

• Spheres of Influence
• nationalism
• Andrew Carnegie
• potato famine

Was an American industrialist and philanthropist. Revolutionized the petroleum industry and defined the structure of modern philanthropy.

• Manifest Destiny
• John D. Rockefeller
• Zionism
• nationalism

domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region

• Dreyfus Affair
• Imperialism
• John D. Rockefeller
• fourteenth amendment

war between Great Britain and China over restrictions to foreign trade

• Imperialism
• Zionism
• Opium War
• balance of trade