What are these, and why are these things significant?

1.New France
2.New Spain
3.The French and Indian War or Seven Years’ War
4.the Proclamation of 1763
5.The American Revolution
6.The Louisiana Purchase
7.The War of 1812
8.Westward Expansion in America
9.Frederick Jackson Turner’s Frontier Thesis
10.Texas
11.James K. Polk
12.The Oregon Territory
13.The Mexican-American War
14.Bleeding Kansas
15.The American Civil War
16.The Spanish-American War
17.Captain Cook
18.penal colonies
19.Aborigines
20.the Australian Gold Rushes
21.the Eureka Stockade
22.Maori
23.the Treaty of Waitangi
24.Dominions within the British Empire
25.Governor-General
26.the Aztec and the Inca
27.peninsulares, creoles, and mestizoes
28.Haciendas
29.Latin American Independence Movements
30.Father Miguel Hidalgo
31.François Toussaint-L’Ouverture
32.Simon Bolivar
33.Antonio Jose de Sucre
34.Jose de San Martin
35.Bernardo O’Higgins
36.Antonia Lopez de Santa Anna
37.Dom Pedro I and Dom Pedro II
38.Maximillian I
39.The War of the Triple Alliance
40.The War of the Pacific
41.caudillos and juntas
42.The Spanish-American War
43.the Platt Amendment
44.the Rise and Spread of Islam
45.the Caliph
46.the Five Pillars of Islam
47.the Ottoman Empire
48.Beys
49.the Barbary Wars
50.Stephen Decatur
51.the Crimean War
52.the Siege of Sevastopol
53.the Suez Canal
54.Persia
55.the Armenian Genocide
56.Kemal Attatürk
57.Ethiopia
58.Ghana, Mali, and Songhai
59.the Khoi-San
60.the Xhosa and the Zulu
61.Great Zimbabwe
62.Swahili
63.Boers
64.the Great Trek
65.Afrikaans
66.the Orange Free State and Transvaal
67.the Boer Wars
68.the slave trade
69.Burton and Speke; Henry Stanley
70.The Berlin Conference (and who got what)
71.Cecil Rhodes and the Cape to Cairo railroad
72.Hinduism
73.the Caste System
74.Buddhism
75.Nirvana
76.Portuguese exploration and claims in Asia
77.the Moghul Empire
78.the East India Company
79.India
80.the Sepoy Uprising
81.the Raj
82.the Khmer
83.Angkor War
84.Siam (Thailand)
85.the Dutch East Indies
86.the Philippines
87.French Indochina
88.Confucius
89.Lao-Tzu and Taoism
90.the Mongols and the Yuan Dynasty
91.the Manchu or Qing Dynasty
92.the Opium Wars
93.Spheres of Influence
94.the Boxer Rebellion
95.the Wuchang Uprising
96.Shinto
97.Shoguns
98.Matthew Perry
99.the Meiji Restoration
100.the Sino-Japanese War
101.the Russo-Japanese War

*Be prepared to identify major countries of the 19th Century world on a map.

*Be prepared to discuss Frederick Jackson Turner’s Frontier Thesis.

*Be prepared do discuss why Latin America has had so much trouble maintaining democratic governments.

*Be prepared to discuss the history of British colonial conquests.

*Be prepared to discuss Japan’s relations with the rest of the world in the 19th century.

*Be prepared to discuss China’s relations with the rest of the world in the 19th century.