History final

How did Japanese conquests in East Asia compare to European and American conquests in Asia and Africa?

Both denied their subjects political equality because of perceived racial inferiority.

What did Bismarck of Germany and Cavour of Italy have in common?

Both were conservative prime ministers who exploited liberal national sentiment to promote unification

Which of the following was an important unintended consequence of the European partition of Africa in the late nineteenth century?

Boundary lines drawn by Europeans divided existing African ethnic, linguistic, cultural and commercial units among several different colonies

What motivation drove Canada's nineteenth-century policy toward its indigenous population?

Canadians wished to avoid bloodshed and conflict with indigenous peoples that might drive off settlers

Which of the following was often cited by Western imperialists as evidence for the improvement of women's lives under colonial rule?

Colonial laws prohibited sati and female genital mutilation.

The Egyptian government in 1923 passed a new law affecting marriage

Established a minimum marriage age of 16 for girls and 18 for boys

The Urabi Revolt of 1882 was an act of rebellion against

European control of the Egyptian economy and the Ottoman leadership that led to it

Why was electricity the most important power source for the second industrial revolution?

Factories could be located near concentrations of workers and production costs were lower

Which of the following was a similarity between Russian and Japanese attempts to modernize in the late nineteenth century?

For both, key aspects of industrialization were state-sponsored

Why did Henry Ford pay his automobile factory workers more than double the usual industrial wage?

Ford understood that consumers drove production and wanted his workers to be able to consume.

The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium of 1899 in Sudan

Gave Sudan separate political status under the joint sovereignty of Egypt and Great Britain

In which of the following situations were factors like a shared language insufficient to create a national bond?

Great Britain's relationship with Ireland

What helps to explains Irish antipathy to integration into Great Britain?

Grievances against England's laissez-faire response to the 1840s Famine

What allowed King Menelik II of Ethiopia to defeat Italian forces?

He was able to equip his loyal, united armies with European weapons.

Which of the following contributed to the end of Brazil's rubber boom?

Increased production outside of Brazil led to more competition and lowered prices

Which British colony served as a model for later European endeavors by developing the colony's infrastructure to maximize profits from trade?

India

At the turn of the twentieth century, "modernism" reflected which of the following?

Intellectuals, artists, and scientists sensed that traditional answers were no longer adequate to explain the changes in society.

How did the Franco-Prussian War encourage the growth of French nationalism in the late nineteenth century?

It encouraged the French to unify around their antipathy toward the Germans

According to Sun Yat-sen, what was demonstrated by the existence of different racial or ethnic groups in China?

It showed incomplete assimilation into Han culture.

In what way was American imperialism in the 1890s different from earlier forms of U.S. expansionism?

It took control of new territories without seeking to incorporate them or their people into the national political body.

How did the United States' understanding of itself change after the Civil War?

Its sense of national identity, and the strength of the national government, grew stronger.

Which of the following best describes the beliefs of a social Darwinist in the late nineteenth century?

Modern culture was created by white Europeans and Americans, who were more fully evolved that the darker peoples of the world

How did industrialization influence the course of imperialism?

New machines facilitated European conquest of new territories.

Which of the following contributed to the Qing dynasty's downfall?

Peasants and laborers resented the high cost of reform

Which of the following reflects Charles Darwin's key scientific theory?

Species evolved under the pressures of natural selection

Which of the following caused some Americans to fear the loss of their pioneering individualism?

The 1890 census announcement about the closing of the American frontier

Which of the following was an exception to the general rule of unrestricted migration during the late nineteenth century?

The Chinese Exclusion Act in the United States

Which of the following is an example of the foreign pressure that led to the decline of Qing dynastic authority?

The Sino-Japanese War

In the late nineteenth century, which of the following was an important initiative of the Chinese Self-Strengthening movement?

The development of coal mines and shipyards

Which of the following was a common response to class conflict in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Western Europe?

The growth of labor parties to participate in electoral politics

Which of the following models of political modernity was accepted most often in Western Europe and the Americas by the 1930s?

The liberal democratic model

Advocates for imperialism reacted to news of the turmoil in the Belgian and German African colonies with sentiments reflected by which statement below?

The specific situation that had led to the unrest was an exception to the enlightened rule of most European countries.

What role did the Red Lanterns play in the Boxer Uprising?

Their purity and loyalty to the Boxers' cause seemed to counteract the threat posed by Christianity.

In response to Commodore Perry's arrival in Edo Bay, how did young Japanese elites plan to modernize?

They planned to adopt Western technology, while maintaining Japanese culture

How did conservative Chinese leaders react to the first railroads built in China?

They saw the railroads as a threat to Chinese social harmony and had them torn up

Which of the following contributed to Canada's difficulties in forming a robust national identity during the late nineteenth century?

They were sharp cultural divisions between French-and-English speaking Canadians

How did social Darwinists use the idea of "survival of the fittest"?

To justify strong nations' domination of weaker ones

Which of the following was a consequence of the mass mobilizations required by World War I?

Traditional gender boundaries were undermined.

By the end of the nineteenth century, how did European and American nationalist and racial ideas compare to those of the rest of the world?

Westerners were increasingly concerned with protecting their national and racial purity, while discussions of identity in other parts of the world were part of the opposition to Western domination.

Which of the following was an unintended consequence of the British Raj in India?

a new Indian identity emerged, despite the lack of a common language or political sovereignty

During the second half of the nineteenth century, the widespread circulation of which of the following advanced imperialism?

enlightenment ideas

European and Middle Eastern leaders collaborated in shaping the geopolitics of the post-World War I Middle East.

false

In both Brazil and America, the abolition of slavery quickly led to expansion of voting rights

false

In both Brazil and America, the abolition of slavery quickly led to expansion of voting rights.

false

In contrast to Western Europe at the turn of the twentieth century, East Asian economic sectors were not dominated by major companies.

false

Peasants in the Soviet Union eagerly relinquished their small plots of land in order to work in large state collectives.

false

What new economic development permitted the accumulation of capital needed to invest in new industries?

he limited-liability, joint-stock company

Which of the following is NOT one of the "Four Reserved Points"

requirement to drink tea with milk rather than sugar

Saad Zaghlul is the leader of which political party

the wafd

Imperial expansion often met resistance from communities being incorporated into new empires

true

Qing officials were more worried about internal turmoil than they were about European attempts to carve China up into spheres of influence

true

The United States proposed the "open door" policy in China to enable both its commercial and religious aspirations there.

true

The 1919 Revolution

were mass demonstrations so that Egyptian representatives could attend the Versailles Peace Treaty

Place these in chronological order in terms of Occupation and control of Egypt

Arabs, Turks, French, English

The idea that a nation was composed of its entire population replaced what earlier definition of a nation?

A nation was composed of kings, clergymen, and nobles.

Saad Zaghlul regarded the Declaration of Egypt's independence in 1922 as:

A national humiliation

What was Satyagraha?

A philosophy of nonviolent resistance

The relationship between members of the Wafd and Liberal Constitutionalists was

All of these

Which of the following is a similarity among European states' response to World War I?

All states, even democracies, suspended many democratic rights and intervened in both production and consumption.

What did American nation-states do with territories taken from indigenous peoples?

American nation-states turned these territories into new provinces by sending settlers to the hinterlands