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Monroe Doctrine
Stated that," further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention." In other words, European nations couldn't try anymore to get South America or North America lands. -
Sepoy Rebellion
The rebellion began as a mutiny of sepoys of the East India Company's army on 10 May 1857. In the cantonment of the town of Meerut, it soon escalated into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the upper Gangetic plain and central India. This rebellion was in India rebeling against the rule of the British East India Company -
David Livingstone found
Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa. He was one of the most popular national heroes of the late-19th-century. "I assume you are David Livingstone", was said because he was the only white person in Africa. Henry Morton Stanley had been sent to find him by the New York Herald newspaper in 1869. He found Livingstone in the town of Ujiji on the shores of Lake Tanganyika. -
Queen Victoria crowned Empress of India
Her daughter Victoria was to be eventually Empress of Germany so she didn't want to be ranked behind her daughter. Title was a gesture to link the monarchy with the empire further and bind India more closely to Britain. -
Boer War
A war in which Great Britain fought against the Transvaal and Orange Free State, which happened from 1899–1902. Also been named the Transvaal Rebellion, as the Boers of the Transvaal revolted against the British annexation of 1877. -
Open door policy
The Open Door policy was rooted made in the desire of U.S. businesses wanting to trade with Chinese markets. The policy pledged to protect China's sovereignty and territorial mainly from partition. -
Panama Canal built
President Theodore Roosevelt decided he wanted to achieve the United States long term goal by building a transisthmian canal. Throughout the 1800s, American and British leaders and businessmen wanted to ship goods quickly and cheaply between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. This canal aloud all these desires to become true.
