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Treaty of Kanagawa
- which opened Japan to trade with the United States, and thus the West.
- April 1860, the first Japanese diplomats to visit a foreign power reached Washington, D.C., and remained in the U.S. capital for several weeks discussing expansion of trade with the United States.
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Sepoy Rebellion
- Surprise to the British -The rebellion began as a mutiny of sepoys of the East India Company's army
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British Raj founded
-The British Raj was the rule of the British Crown in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947 -
suez canal built
-The Suez Canal, connecting the Mediterranean and the Red seas
-first digging was done by hand with picks and shovels wielded by forced laborers
-When it opened, the Suez Canal was only 25 feet deep, 72 feet wide at the bottom, and 200 to 300 feet wide at the surface -
Open Door Policy
-The Open Door policy was rooted in the desire of U.S. businesses to trade with Chinese markets
-There was an essential conflict in the policy. The U.S. announced its Open Door Policy with the dual intentions of avoiding the actual political division of China and taking financial advantage, but only in a fair way, acknowledging equal rights for all nations to trade with China. -
Boer War
- Begins in South Africa -Boers were decendents from the original Dutch settlers of southern Africa
- Transvaal and the Orange Free State were the two new republics -The two new republics lived peaceably with their British neighbors until 1867, when the discovery of diamonds and gold in the region made conflict between the Boer states and Britain inevitable. -By mid June 1900, British forces had captured most major Boer cities and formally annexed their territories
- British won
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Boxer Rebellion
-In 1900, the Boxer movement spread to the Beijing area, where the Boxers killed Chinese Christians and Christian missionaries and destroyed churches and railroad stations and other property
-The Boxer Rebellion formally ended with the signing of the Boxer Protocol on September 7, 1901
