Chapter 28 (history)
Which region provided the majority of indentured laborers that formed one strand of global migration generated by nineteenth-century imperialism?
India
Colonial rule dramatically altered the environment in which of the following places?
India, due to tea production
How did imperialism influence relations between Europeans and other peoples?
It encouraged a sense of European cultural and racial superiority.
Why did the kingdom of Siam, in southeast Asia, remain free from colonial annexation during the late nineteenth century?
It served as a buffer state between European colonial territories.
Which European power controlled Libya?
Italy
In the early nineteenth century, which U.S. president issued a proclamation that later served as justification for U.S. intervention across the western hemisphere?
James Monroe
Which foreign power gained control of Taiwan in 1895?
Japan
Which region in the middle east was lost to the Ottomans after 1878?
Kuwait
belief by French colonial rulers in the duty to bring Western civilization to colonized subjects
Mission Civilisatrice
peoples indigenous to the interior region of South Africa
Ndebele
1898 battle in the Sudan in which a British and Egyptian force defeated the Sudanese
Omdurman
rebellion that sought extreme social reforms and raged throughout most of China, bringing the Qing dynasty to the brink of collapse
Taiping Rebellion
The "capitulations" were humiliating concessions to the west that
held European citizens exempt from Ottoman laws and taxes.
Under the British imperial system in India, what mechanism financed colonial rule?
land taxes
During what time period did colonial powers begin to establish formal control over smaller Pacific island colonies?
late nineteenth century
One social goal of the British authorities in India was to
suppress Indian customs that conflicted with European law or values.
Which two commodities were central to British imperial aims across south and southeast Asia?
tea and rubber
leader of the nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion
Hong Xiuquan
Which of the following statements comparing European imperialism in Africa and Asia is true?
Imperialism was more formal in Africa than in Asia.
Ethiopia retained its independence by defeating the armies of which European power?
Italy
Which country controlled the railway from Manchuria to Port Arthur after 1905?
Japan
Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Treaty of Nanjing in 1842?
Japan gained control of the island of Taiwan.
Which power controlled East Timor?
Portugal
What term was coined to describe the process of domination of trade, investment, and business that enabled imperial powers to profit from subject societies without exercising direct political control?
informal imperialism
Which of the following nations was actively imperialistic in the Pacific but not in Africa?
the United States
Which year saw the foundation of the city of Singapore?
1819
By 1914, which city lay farthest to the south in the Ottoman empire?
Aden
a protectorate established in 1885 by the British in southern Africa
Bechuanaland Protectorate
The colonizing actions of which of the following nations touched off the "scramble for Africa" in the 1870s?
Belgium
Which power claimed power in New Zealand?
Britain
Which of the following is NOT true about the settlement of Australia?
British domination was briefly challenged by a well-organized Maori resistance.
By 1878, which city lay farthest to the west in the Ottoman empire?
By 1878, which city lay farthest to the west in the Ottoman empire?
Germany controlled which of these central African colonies?
Cameroons
British financier and statesman in Southern Africa who made his fortune in gold and diamonds; he believed British imperial expansion to be a duty to humankind
Cecil Rhodes
Which of the following states was subject to the informal imperial power of European nations?
China
Loss of which region fatally undermined the power of the Ottoman empire by the mid-nineteenth century?
Egypt
Filipino independence leader who fought for independence from Spain and then the United States
Emilio Aguinaldo
The Taiping rebellion was defeated when
European advisors and weaponry were used by Qing rulers.
The Battle of Omdurman clearly demonstrated that
European troops with modern weapons could subdue a vast native army.
Madagascar was controlled by which European power?
France
Which foreign power gained control of Indochina after 1884?
France
Which power claimed rights over New Caledonia?
France
Which power controlled the Loyalty Islands
France
Which northeastern region of the Ottoman empire became fully independent after 1878?
Georgia
Besides Britain and the Netherlands, which other power claimed territory in Papua and New Guinea?
Germany
Which two powers both claimed parts of Samoa?
Germany and United States
tenth Qing emperor who initiated the Hundred Days' Reform in 1898, but was removed from power by the Empress Dowager Cixi
Guangzu
Which of the following was a consequence of the Russo-Japanese War?
Japan was transformed into a major imperial power.
Which region became part of the British Indian empire in 1846?
Kashmir
a peninsula in northeastern China that extends into the Yellow Sea
Liaodong
Ottoman sultan famous for instituting extensive military and legal reforms
Mahmud II
indigenous people of New Zealand
Maori
Chinese dynasty that came to an end in 1911
Qing
Which of these treaty ports was controlled by Germany?
Qingdao
Which of these cities is located in Burma?
Rangoon
In 1800, which of these regions marked the northern limit of the Ottoman empire?
Romania
Indian practice of a widow throwing herself on the funeral pyre of her husband
Sati
Which southeast Asian kingdom remained independent from foreign control?
Siam
Victory in which conflict demonstrated the arrival of the Japanese as a modern imperial power?
Sino-Japanese War
a period of reform in the Ottoman Empire between 1845 and 1876
Tanzimat
Which of these cities experienced the Boxer rebellion?
Tianjin
Which of the following was not among the reforms of the Young Turks?
Turkish as the official language of the empire
What was the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine designed to protect?
U.S. investments in Latin America
Which of the following describes Cecil Rhodes?
a leading British imperialist active in south Africa
The United States acquired Hawai`i by
annexing the islands after American planters had overthrown the monarchy.
The colonization of the Belgian Congo is noted for the
brutal treatment of the Congolese people by King Leopold II.
How did the United States acquire the agreement to build the Panama Canal?
by supporting a rebellion that brought Panamanian independence from Colombia
One of the most significant achievements of Sultan Mahmud II was the
creation of a modern army.
Unlike the British in India, the French in Indochina
encouraged conversion to Christianity.
Which weapons systems gave European armies a huge advantage in military encounters against non-European adversaries?
firearms
The Berlin West Africa Conference in 1884-1885 established
that any European state could establish African colonies after notifying the others of its intentions and occupying previously unclaimed territory.
One striking difference between the British and the French imperial models in Africa is that
the British preferred to use local institutions to control subject populations.
Which nation was the initial colonial power in southeast Asia?
the Netherlands
Which industrial technology, monopolized by European states in the late nineteenth century, allowed them to control and manage their global colonial empires?
the telegraph
On what did English philosopher Herbert Spencer rely when explaining the differences in strength of various cultures?
theories of evolution
Which of these African regions were mainly under French colonial authority?
west
Under British imperial rule, India was governed
with British bureaucrats and officers overseeing Indian civil servants.
Tanzimat legal reforms included all of the following rights EXCEPT
women's right to sue for divorce.