Question 1

What is the Balkan Peninsula?

Accepted Answer

Geographic area in Southeast Europe

Once controlled by the Ottomans, but slowly lost control in the 1800s after a series of rebellions

Question 2

What was the Proclamation of 1763?

Accepted Answer

An act that reserved all the land between the Appalachians and the Mississippi for Native Americans

First-time European government recognized indigenous peoples' rights

(later overrun by the US after it was formed)

Question 3

How did the Cherokee adapt to white culture?

Accepted Answer

Quickly assimilated, adopting colonial methods of farming, weaving, and building

Created an alphabet, which led to widespread literacy

Question 4

What was the Indian Removal Act?

Accepted Answer

An act passed by the US Congress that forced the Cherokee and other Native American tribes to relocate to modern Oklahoma

Question 5

What was the Ghost Dance movement?

Accepted Answer

A Native American movement that consisted of rituals and traditions meant to bring back the dead to drive out the whites

(eventually fell at the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890)

Question 6

Who was Túpac Amaru II?

Accepted Answer

An Incan hereditary chief in southern Peru, that led revolts against the Spanish rule

(received Jesuit education, but identified with Incan heritage; eventually tortured and executed)

Question 7

How did France influence Mexico?

Accepted Answer

Napoleon III made Archduke Maximilian the emperor of Mexico until he was executed a few years later

Question 8

Who was Benito Juárez?

Accepted Answer

President of Mexico that was temporarily replaced by Archduke Maximilian in 1864, until he returned to power in 1867

Question 9

What were sepoys?

Accepted Answer

Indian soldiers employed by the British that eventually rebelled in the Indian Rebellion of 1857

Question 10

What was the Indian Rebellion of 1857 / Sepoy Mutiny?

Accepted Answer

A widespread, but unsuccessful rebellion against British Rule in India

(British ended up killing thousands; marked the emergence of Indian nationalism)

Question 11

What was a religious cause of the Indian Rebellion?

Accepted Answer

British soldiers used the fat of cows and pigs in their rifle cartridges

Hindus (cows were sacred) and Muslims (did not kill pigs) took offense to this, and believed British were trying to convert them to Christianity

Question 12

What was the Raj?

Accepted Answer

A British colonial government in India, that was directly controlled by London

Question 13

What was the Indian National Congress?

Accepted Answer

An Indian political party founded in 1885 that called for independence from Britain

Question 14

Who was José Rizal?

Accepted Answer

A Filipino that started a reform movement called Liga Filipina

Question 15

How did the Spanish-American war affect the Philippines?

Accepted Answer

After the US beat the Spanish in Manila Bay, exiled Filipino revolutionaries were allowed to return

(the exiled revolutionaries were a result of the Philippine Revolution; US took control of the Philippines in the Treaty of Paris)

Question 16

What was the Philippine Revolution?

Accepted Answer

A conflict between the Philippines and the Spanish that attempted to free the Philippines from Spanish rule

Question 17

What was the Treaty of Paris of 1898?

Accepted Answer

A treaty to end the Spanish-American war, that ended up transferring control of the Philippines from Spain to the US

Question 18

What was the Philippine-American War?

Accepted Answer

A war between the Philippine government and the US, following the Treaty of Paris of 1898

(the Filipinos felt betrayed, since they expected to be freed by the US, not controlled by them; resulted in US victory)

Question 19

What makes the Aboriginal people in Australia special?

Accepted Answer

May have the oldest continuous culture on Earth

When Europeans settled, there may have been over 700 languages spoken

Question 20

How do the Maori differ from the Australian aboriginals?

Accepted Answer

The Maori arrived in New Zealand from Polynesia in the 14th century, whereas the Australian aboriginals had lived in Australia for ~50,000 years

Question 21

What is Pan-Africanism?

Accepted Answer

A shared identity and nationalism between Western-educated Africans

Question 22

What were the Maori Wars?

Accepted Answer

A series of wars between the Maori and British settlers

(caused by the British taking Maori land, despite the Treaty of Waitangi; British won)

Question 23

Who was Usman dan Fodio?

Accepted Answer

Leader of a group of Muslim intellectuals that started a drive to purify Islam among Hausa tribes

Created the Sokoto Caliphate

Question 24

What was the Sokoto Caliphate?

Accepted Answer

An Islamic Caliphate established by Usman dan Fodio

Established the slave trade as a way to grow the economy, despite British efforts to stop the slave trade

(British attempted to free enslaved people and relocate them to Sierra Leone)

Question 25

What was the Xhosa Cattle Killing Movement?

Accepted Answer

A Xhosa movement to kill their cattle, in belief it would stop them from catching disease and remove the British settlers

(resulted in famine and deaths of thousands of people; did not drive the British out)

Question 26

What was the Anglo-Zulu War?

Accepted Answer

A war between the British and Zulu Kingdom

(the Zulu were organized so the war went in their favor, but the British eventually defeated them and incorporated them into South Africa)

Question 27

Who was Samory Touré?

Accepted Answer

A Mande chieftain that led a group of warriors in West Africa to establish a powerful kingdom in Guinea

(fought many successful times against the French, but was eventually captured and exiled)

Question 28

Who was Muhammad Ahmad?

Accepted Answer

Sudanese Islamic cleric who declared himself the Mahdi ("guided one") who would restore the glory of Islam

Formed an army to fight against Egypt (Sudan resented Egypt), but was eventually defeated by the British

Question 29

Who was Yaa Asantewaa?

Accepted Answer

Mighty warrior queen of the Asante Empire who led a rebellion against the British

(British ended up winning)

6.3 - Indigenous Responses to Imperialism, AP World History: Modern Flashcards