ch 27 quiz

After the British prohibited slavery in _______, Ashante merchants in West Africa switched to providing commodities that were in great demand in industrializing Britain.

1807

After a revolt by the Egyptian army, a British military force occupied the Ottoman province in ________.

1882

Italy's imperialist dreams in Africa were stymied by its crushing defeat at the battle of Adowa in ________, in which one-third of its army was killed by Ethiopian forces.

1896

According to its cultivation system in Indonesia, the Dutch forced native farmers either to grow government crops on 20 percent of their land or work for _____ days per year on Dutch plantations.

60

________ was the crucial first step of a European power—in this instance France—seizing provinces of the Ottoman Empire in competition with the Russians, while officially protecting its integrity.

Algeria

The navigator James Cook, during one of his many exploratory journeys in the Pacific, landed in 1770 on the east coast of ______ and claimed it for Great Britain.

Australia

As a way to coerce African labor to produce rubber in the _________ Congo, mercenaries used mutilation, random killing, village burning, starvation, and hostage taking.

Belgian

Which colonial power could be found on every continent?

Britain

In 1900, Australia finally adopted a federal constitution and became the second fully autonomous British "dominion", after __________.

Canada

Some Europeans claimed that, according to the dictates of their "_______ mission", they had a duty to extend the benefits of European civilization to "backward" peoples.

Civilizing

Under the Dutch, Indonesia became a major exporter of all of the following except:

Cocoa

The British "Raj" was inaugurated when control by the East India Company was replaced by _________.

Direct rule

After United States and Spain made peace at the end of 1898, the US ignored the independent Philippine government led by _________.

Emilio Aguinaldo

David Livingstone's ultimate goals were not only to __________ but also to "civilize" Africans by broadcasting the blessings of Christianity and commerce.

End trafficking of slaves

The principal spokesman for _________ nationalists in the second half of the nineteenth century was José Rizal, who was executed by the government in 1896.

Filipino

In East Africa, ________ used forced labor for the growing of cotton, provoking the fierce but in the end brutally suppressed Maji Maji Rebellion of 1905-1907.

Germany

In the German colony of Southwest Africa, the German army responded to a local uprising by committing a genocidal campaign against the ______ and Nama between 1904 and 1907.

Herero

Religious scholars of the 1800s succeeded in making _______ the dominant religion of West Africa.

Islam

Charles X of France claimed that his blockade of Algiers was justified because:

It was in response to an insult by the ruler, Hussein to his consul.

The availability of a treatment for _________ allowed Christian missionaries to travel to the interiors of Africa.

Malaria

Portugal used the Berlin conference to expand its coastal footholds in Guinea, Angola and ___________.

Mozambique

The Dutch conquered the Indonesian archipelago, finally subduing the most stubborn opponents, the ________ guerillas of Aceh, in 1903.

Muslim

Some British agents of the East India Company took Indian wives, dressed as Indian princes, and wielded power as local magnates, or __________ (from an Urdu word meaning "deputy," "viceroy").

Nabobs

After suffering setbacks in Ethiopia, Italy invaded the __________ province of Tripolitania.

Ottoman

The increased British and French presence in India was aided by:

Regional leaders' desire to use the sepoy armies of European companies in their struggles.

The Belgian Congo under King Leopold II employed mass forced labor of the indigenous population to extract _______ from the jungle.

Rubber

The opening gambit of Great Britain's "Great Game" against __________ was the first Anglo-Afghan war in 1838.

Russia

The ______ for Africa was a competition among European powers to acquire African colonies that began with the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885.

Scramble

The effort to co-opt local rulers into upholding the British government as the historically destined status quo is sometimes called a(n) _________ relationship.

Subaltern

As a result of its loss of Mexico in the early 1800s, Spain began turning to its colony in ________ for agricultural and natural resource exploitation.

The Philippines

How did the British enhance their legitimacy in the eyes of the Indian people?

They linked their rule with India's historic past.

The original goal of the National Congress when it convened in 1885 was to:

Win greater autonomy for India within the structure of the British Empire.

The Great Mutiny (also known as the Sepoy Mutiny or as the First War of Indian Independence) began in _________.

1857

_______ forces dispatched a squadron that occupied the sparsely inhabited Mekong River delta in 1858-1862, annexing it as a protectorate.

French

_____ gained territory in East Africa at the expense of the Omani sultan in the late nineteenth century.

Germany

What was the largest and wealthiest commercial company in the world during the seventeenth century?

The Dutch United East India Company

E. D. Morel was able to publicize the mistreatment and exploitation of African slave labor on Belgian rubber plantations in Congo through a newspaper called the_____________.

West African Mail

Like the Chinese, Vietnam had adopted the policy of ________ in the 1840s when dealing with Western intrusion into the region.

isolationism