AP World History – Chapter 19 Terms
Strayer’s Ways of the World Textbook
China 1750 - 1911
Key Concept 5.2.I, E. Industrialized states [like Britain, other European states, the U.S. and Japan] practiced economic
imperialism. An example of economic imperialism is the British and French expanding their influence in China through
Opium Wars.
1. The Gatling Gun
2. quinine
3. Emperor Qianlong
4. Opium Wars
5. Treaty of Nanjing
6. unequal treaties
7. spheres of influence
8. 1911
Key Concept 5.2.III
New racial ideologies, especially social Darwinism, and others facilitated and justified imperialism
9. “noble savage”
10. “John Chinaman”
11. Jules Ferry 1883 statement
12. Social Darwinism
Key Concept 5.1.II.C.
The global economy of the 19th century expanded dramatically from the previous period due to increased exchanges of
raw materials and finished goods in most parts of the world. Some commodities gave merchants and companies from
Europe and the U.S. a distinct economic advantage in trade. An example of this is opium produced in the Middle East
under the Ottoman Empire and in India (South Asia) that was exported to China.
13. opium
Key Concept 5.3.III. Increasing discontent with imperial rule propelled reformist and revolutionary movements. Subjects
challenged centralized imperial governments. An example of this is the Taipings who challenged the Manchus of the
Qing Dynasty.
14. The Taiping Rebellion (Uprising)
Key Concept 5.1.V. The development and spread of global capitalism led to a variety of responses. In Qing China, some
led reforms to modernize the state. An example would be the Self-Strengthening Movement in the Qing Empire.
15. Self-strengthening movement (program)
Key Concept 5.3.III.D. Increasing discontent with imperial rule propelled reformist and revolutionary movements.
Increasing questions about political authority and growing nationalism contributed to anticolonial movements. An
example of this is the Boxer Rebellion in Qing China.
16. Boxer Uprising (rebellion)
Ottoman Empire 1750 - 1900
17. “the sick man of Europe”
18. Nationalism
19. Capitulations
Key Concept 5.1.V. C.
In a small number of states, governments promoted their own state-sponsored visions of industrialization. An example
of one is Muhammad Ali’s development of a cotton textile industry in Egypt.
20. Egypt
Key Concept 5.1.V.
In the Ottoman Empire, some members of the government resisted economic change and attempted to maintain
preindustrial forms of economic production, while other members of the Ottoman governments led reforms in imperial
policies in an attempt to modernize, which they defined as adopting western ways. An example of a group that tried to
resist changes in the Ottoman Empire were the
21. Janissaries
22. Ulama
Examples of movements or groups that tried to modernize the Ottoman state were:
23. Tanzimat Reforms
24. Young Ottomans
25. Young Turks
Japan 1750 – 1900
Key Concept 5.2.II. Imperialism influenced state formation and contraction around the world. The expansion of U.S. and
European influence over Tokugawa Japan led to the emergence of Meiji Japan.
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U.S. commodore Mathew Perry’s “black ships” 1853
Tokugawa shogunate
daimyo
internal peace (1600 – 1850)
status (social) groups of Japan
merchants
peasants
unequal treaties
“foreign devils”
35.Meiji Restoration
Key Concept 5.1.V.C
In a small number of states, governments promoted their own state-sponsored visions of industrialization. One example
of a state-funded approach to industrialization was the economic reforms of Meiji Japan.
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state-guided industrialization
zaibatsu
textile industry
empire-building or Japanese Imperialism
1904-1905