Glossary

The quality or state of being self-governing; especially  the right of self-government.

War between Britain army and the Boers, or Afrikaners, over the transvaal area; British were victorious .

Patriotic uprising by Chinese nationalists against Western encroachment; fight to expel all foreigners in China.

To free from colonial status.

The policy, practice, or advocacy of extending the power and dominion of a nation especially by direct territorial acquisitions or by gaining indirect control over the political or economic life of other areas; extension or imposition of power, authority, or influence.

Leader for Indian independence from Great Britain; used civil disobedience, a form of nonviolent resistance.

The country from which the people of a colony or former colony derive their origin.

A common identity; a specific geographic area; a common language, history, destiny, culture, ethnicity, or religion; feeling of belonging.

"The Gandhi of Africa," led fight for independence of the British colony of the Gold Coast; became the prime minister of Gold Coast in 1951; first president of Ghana; led the first conference of independent African states in condemning Western colonialism and racism.

nonviolent resistance

Using peaceful means to accomplish goals.

The first strike at Indian independence; Indians soldiers refused to bite off the cartridges greased with fat because Hindus regard cows as sacred; abolished East India Company but made India a colony of Britain.

A philosophical application of Darwin's theory of natural selection; states that some races or peoples are more fit for survival than others and are therefore designed by nature to dominate inferior races.

An area under the economic and military control of one imperial power.

"Superior" Westerners had a moral responsibility to civilize ignorant peoples.