Chapter 26- Varieties of Imperialism in Africa, India, Southeast Asia and Latin America

Why did the slave trade end?

Slave revolts and humanitarian reform movements ended it

The primary goal of British expansion in South Asia and Southeast Asia during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was the

creation of trading posts to expand free trade in the region

Europeans controlled equatorial Africa by all of the following methods EXCEPT

offering incentives to local rulers to collect taxes and raise armies

Progress in women's rights in India was made in all of the following forms except:

outlawing prostitution

The most successful export from West Africa after British abolition of slavery was

palm oil

Social Darwinism was used to justify which of the following during the 19th century?

British colonization in India

The leader of the Filipino movement for independence against Spain, 1895-1898, was

Emilio Aguinaldo

Which African nations were able to remain independent at the end of the nineteenth century?

Ethiopia and Liberia

The South African War (1899-1902) was different from other imperialist struggled for which of the following reasons?

European colonizers fought one another

Which of the following resulted from Europe's expansion overseas in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

European countries acquired colonies and dominated world trade

Which of the following is an effect of the Berlin Conference (1885) for Africa?

European troops were sent to Africa to divide up the continent

Which of the following facilitated the creation of European empires in Africa during the late 19th century?

Europeans use of both warfare and diplomacy

What was the founding idea of the Indian National Congress when it was formed in 1885?

Expand the role of Indians in the colonial governments

Frere's speech is best understood in the context of which of the following?

Governments expanding and consolidating their empires using their increasing industrial power

The migration of Afrikaners from British-ruled Cape Colony for fertile land in the north is called the

Great Trek

The African proverb, "Until the lion have their historians, tales of hunting will always glorify the hunter", conveys which of the following?

History usually reflects the viewpoint of the victors

Which of the following later developments would most undermine the hope set fourth by Frere in the last sentence of his speech?

Improved transportation and communication in India helped develop a shared sense of identity that led to greater Indian nationalism

What is a major difference between European colonization in the period 1450 to 1750 and European colonization in era pictured above?

In the later period, Europeans had more success in Africa and Asia

Why was the Sepoy Rebellion a turning point in the history of India?

India came to be ruled directly by the British government

To protect their trading empire in India, the British East India Company used

Indian troops led by British officers

Which of the following was a major unintended effect of the publication of Charles Darwin's 1859 work On the Origin of Species?

It became the basis of various theories asserting that Europeans were natural superior to other people

The developments described in the speech regarding the lifting of traditional restrictions on Indian labor contributed most directly to which of the following global processes?

Long-distance and overseas migrations of contractual and coerced workers

Which of the following were the most important causes of Britain's growing nineteenth-century dominance in Southeast Asia and the Pacific?

Military victories, free-trade policies, and changes in shipbuilding technology

Which of the following is the best explanation for the ending of the transatlantic slave trade in the nineteenth century?

Moral opposition to slavery grew in industrialized nations, particularly Britain

What prevented the Sepoy Rebellion in 1857 from becoming a full-scale revolution?

No sense of Indian nationalism between Hindus and Muslims

Which of the following best explains Frere's characterization of the time of his speech as the "Railway Period" in British India?

Railways opened up access to interior markets and resources for British commercial interests

The largest of the new Muslim reforms movements occurred in the Hausa states of which area?

Sokoto Caliphate

British attitudes towards Africa expressed in this image are closest to their attitude toward what other region during the same time period?

South Asia

Victory in this conflict turned the United States into an imperial power as it gained Puerto Rico, Guam. and the Philippines

Spanish-American War

Which of the following nineteenth- century developments would best support this contention?

The decline of the Indian textile industry's share of global manufacturing

Besides gaining access to raw materials, what was another reason nations like Britain and France colonized Africa during the nineteenth century?

To establish settler colonies

Which of the following countries had the greatest political and economic influence on both Hawaii and the Philippines at the end of the 1800s?

United States

The Mexican Revolution sparked in 1910 resulted in which of the following in 1917?

a constitutional government

Nineteenth-century modernization in Egypt and Ethiopia began with

building modern militaries with European weapons

The deadliest disease in India was kala mari (black death), also known as

cholera

This recollection, by Baby of Karo, A Nigerian women, suggests that Europeans

ended slavery in Nigeria

The first British settlers in Australia were

exiled convicts

Africans wanted European manufactured goods, so when the slave trade ended, they

expanded their "legitimate" trade by developing new exports

The EIC transformed the Indian economy by exporting raw cotton to Britain,

expanding agricultural production and decreasing industrial output

The Zulu Empire emerged in the early nineteenth century out of a conflict over

grazing and farming land in southern Africa

By the end of the nineteenth century Southeast Asia

had been colonized by European powers with the exception of Siam (Thailand)

Most indentured servants left their homes because they

hoped to better their economic and social position

The Zulu Kingdom arose primarily because of

internal conflicts over grazing and farm lands

The opinion expressed in the passage above in most consistent with which of the following?

redistributing one-third of the land controlled by large landholders to landless peasants

The Ethiopian victory over the Italian invasion in 1896

showed that an African military force could resist Europeans

"Recaptives" were

slaves who were taken off illicit trade ships by the British navy and restored to free status in Sierra Leone

All of the following were characteristics of New imperialism EXCEPT

the desires to increase the slave trade

All of the following reasons were causes that led to the migration of increasing numbers of indentured servants from Asia in the nineteenth century EXCEPT

the increase in the number of slaves brought from East Africa

The Indian Civil Service

theoretically open to all, but actually excluded Indians.

Cape Colony was initially important to the British because it

was a strategic supply station for the lengthy India route