Standards:

I-C.6 Describe and analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious and social structures of the civilizations of east Asia.

Previewing Main Ideas

Empire Building

During the nineteenth and early Twentieth Century, Great Britain, and other European nations, the United States, and Japan sought political and economic influence over other countries.

Cultural Interaction

Imperialism brought new religions, philosophies, and technological innovations to East Asia and Latin America. People in these areas resisted some Western ideas and adopted or adapted others.

Revolution

Both China and Japan struggled to deal with foreign influence and to modernize.. Mexico underwent a revolution that brought political and economic reforms.

Chapter Objective

Analyze the effects of imperialism, economic instability, and revolution on developing nations.

WICOR: Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization and Reading

SECTION 1 China Resists Outside Influence

Summarize China's resistance to foreigners and its internal problems, and trace the growth of foreign influence and nationalism in China.

SECTION 2 Modernization in Japan

Explain why Japan ended its isolation and developed imperialism.

SECTION 3 U.S. Economic Imperialism

Describe Latin America after independence and explain how the United States put economic and political pressure on Latin America.

SECTION 4 Turmoil and Change in Mexico

Trace the political development of Mexico, from the Mexican War, through Juárez's reform movement, to the Mexican revolution.

Vocabulary:

Access

means of getting in

Boxers

Chinese people who fought against foreign influence in China

Concentration Camps

Places where people are held, usually for being political enemies

Conservatives

People who do not want change

Constitutional Monarchy

Government in which royal power is limited by the law

Dominated

Controlled

Exports

Goods sold to another country

Humiliated

To have lost pride, dignity, or self-respect

Import

To buy a good from another country

Internal

Inside a country

Isolated

Cut off from other nations

Multinational

Made up of people from many nations

Opium

A dangerous drug that the British exported to China from India

Plotted

Made a secret plan

Shogun

Japanese military ruler

Stability

Order; freedom from constant change

Unrest

Political change and dissatisfaction

Across

• 3.Cuban poet and independence fighter (2 wrds)
• 5.Mexican cowboy and revolution leader (2 wrds)
• 6.Liberal reform movement in Mexico (2 wrds)
• 11.Transaction that ceded Hong Kong to the British (3 wrds)
• 12.Caudillo who ended era of reform
• 13.Clash between Britain and China in 1839 (2 wrds)
• 14.Waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific (2 wrds)

Down

• 1.Chinese rebels who fought against foreign privilege
• 2.Revolutionary fighting for land and liberty (2 wrds)
• 4.Roosevelt's extension to the Monroe Doctrine
• 7.Period of "enlightened rule" in Japan (2 wrds)
• 8.Emperor who began modernization of Japan
• 9.Policy protecting American trade in China (2 wrds)
• 10.Mexican freedom fighter against Spain (2 wrds)

Chapter Quiz:

Government corruption and famine in China led to

(A)the Opium War

(B)the Boxer Rebellion

(C)the Taiping Rebellion

(D)the Hundred Days of Reform

The period of reform and modernization in Japan is known as

(A)the Open Door Policy

(B)the Meiji era

(C)the self-strengthening movement

(D)the Hundred Days of Reform

U.S. concerns that European nations would try to recolonize Latin America prompted

(A)the Monroe Doctrine

(B)the Roosevelt Corollary

(C)the Spanish-American War

(D)the Mexican Revolution

The United States helped Panama secure its independence to

(A)prevent civil war

(B)obtain rights to build a canal

(C)stop Spanish brutality

(D)protect its security interests

The leader of the liberal reform movement in Mexico was

(A)Porfirio Díaz

(B)Santa Anna

(C)Benito Juárez

(D)Emiliano Zapata

On the Final:

China Isolationism

Japan Modernization