Imperialism timeline

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    East India Company

    Treaty of Nanjing is a stock company that was both an English and later British joint.
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    Matthew C. Perry in Japan

    Matthew was a commodore of the United States Navy and he commanded ships in many wars.
  • Monroe Doctrine

    Monroe Doctrine

    the Monroe Doctrine is a United States policy that opposed European colonialism in the Americas.
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    David Livingstone missionary work

    David Livingstone was a missionary, abolitionist, and physician. He was known to go to Africa and try his best not only to help people their with what they need but to also convert them to Christianity. He loved to travel and to bring the word of God wherever he went with him to the people.
  • Treaty of Nanjing

    Treaty of Nanjing

    the Treaty of Nanjing is A peace treaty that helped end the First Opium War is the agreement between the USA and China that ended the First Opium War.
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    Great Trek

    Great Trek is when the emigrations of about 12,00 to 14,000 Boers from cape colony in southern Africa.
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    Opium Wars

    the Opium Wars were two wars fought between the years of 1839 to 1860. the foreign powers were victorious. To start off the war in 1839 Chinese government confiscated and destroyed more than 20,000 chests of opium that were being imported into their country. this obviously upset the country's benefit from selling these opiums, like Britain, which causes war.
  • Treaty of Kanagawa

    Treaty of Kanagawa

    The Monroe Doctrine was a treaty signed between the United States and the Tokugawa shogunate it ensured the safety of American castaways and established the position of an American consul in Japan.
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    Sepoy Rebellion

    the Sepoy Rebellion was a huge but unsuccessful uprising in India against the rule of the British East India Company.
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    Suez Canal built

    The Suez Canal is a man built waterway that connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean using the Red Sea.
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    Queen Victoria crowned Empress of India

    Queen Victoria crowned Empress of India was The queen of the UK from 5/1/1876 until her death, her period of rule was known as ¨the Victorian era¨
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    Boer War

    the Boer War is a war that names also means ¨first freedom war¨ some of the reasons for war are The expansion of the British Empire, Problems within the Transvaal government, The British annexation of the Transvaal, and The Boer opposition to the British rule in the Transvaal.
  • Indian National Congress formed

    Indian National Congress formed

    the Indian political party that has widespread roots, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Empire in Asia and Africa.
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    Open Door Policy

    The Open Door Policy is a policy made that would allow for a system of trade in China open to all countries equally.
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    Boxer Rebellion

    Boxer Rebellion was a china movement of an anti-imperialist, anti-foreign, and anti-Christian uprising.
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    Roosevelt Corollary

    The Roosevelt Corollary was an addition to the Monroe Doctrine stating that the USA could interview in the country's international affairs
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    Revolution of 1911

    The Revolution of 1911 was the revolution that overthrew China's last imperial dynasty, it also established the Republic of China.
  • Panama Canal built

    Panama Canal built

    the Panama Canal built was an 82km artificial waterway that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific.