imperialism

  • monroe doctorine

    monroe doctorine

    This doctorine said that if any other European contries that tried to take over parts of the U.S. would show aggression.
  • opium wars

    opium wars

    The chinese, British, Russians and many others fought over who gets the opium rights.
  • treaty of kanagawa

    treaty of kanagawa

    this treaty opened the doors for trade with japan and also let the U.S. consulate in Japan
  • suez canal

    suez canal

    Feedinand de Lesseps got permission from the ottoman empire to build a canal from the Egypt and to the Suez
  • berlin conference

    berlin conference

    All the different rulers from a various amount of countries got together to decide who gets what from Africa.
  • open door policy

    open door policy

    this policy just dispatched all or Europes power
  • boer war

    boer war

    The Boers were people from original Dutch decent that lived in south africa. They got tired of not living in good conditions and when the british found diamonds on their part or africa they wanted some of those diamonds but britian didn't want to give them any so they got in a war.