History (Mass Politics and Imperial Domination)

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Beginning in which decade did the stream of European immigrants coming to the United States reach mass proportions, with people from north, south, and eastern Europe?

1870s

Which of the following was a result of the Sepoy Rebellion?

Britain began to rule India directly

At the Battle of Omdurman in the Sudan in 1898,

British machine guns cut down 11,000 Muslim tribes' men, while only 28 British soldiers died.

The colonization of the Belgian Congo is noted for the

Brutal treatment of the Congolese people by Leopold II's men

The leader of the Women's Social and Political Union, which had reached the conclusion that being polite would not win women the right to vote, was

Emmeline Pankhurst

Unlike the British in India, the french in Indochina

Encouraged conversion to christianity

The Indian Nation congress wanted...

Eventual self-rule for India

How did the industrial revolution encourage imperialism?

It created a need for raw materials and markets

Ethiopia was able to resist the Europeans because...

It had modern weapons and a well-trained army

in the 1890's in Britain, unions and socialists formed the successful

Labour Party

The "white man's burden" proposed by Rudyard Kipling referred to the...

Moral duty of the west to work to "civilize" the world

In 1904, Japan became the dominant power in Manchuria by defeating

Russia

The Great Game refers to the

Russian contest with Britain for Afghanistan

Which of the following was NOT an economic motivation for Imperialism?

The colonies produced too many manufactured good

Which of the following was NOT one of the driving forces of imperialism?

a longing to expand European cultural horizons

Emperor Menelik of Ethiopia

got modern arms from the European powers by playing them off of each other

Bismarck supported universal male suffrage in Germany because

he believed the masses would back his conservative policies

After Alexander II turned from reform to a more conservative course, in 1881 the People's Will

murdered him with a bomb

the newly discovered drug that protected Europeans against malaria was

quinine

In France, Alfred Dreyfus's innocence was supported by

socialists and republicans

Until the Sepoy Mutiny in 1857, ______________ governed India

the British East India Company

after 1869, the British were most interested in Egypt because

the Suez Canal was vital for securing their link to India

At the Berlin Conference of 1885

the ground rules for European territorial acquisition in Africa were set

Which of the following improved communication between India and britain...

Laying of submarine cable Completion of the Suez Canal Invention of the telegraph

While chancellor, Bismarck's main domestic crusade was fought against

Socialists

The paris Commune formed in 1871

as the Parisian lower classes took over positions of authority when the rich fled the city under German attack.

In 1906, the Labour Party managed to get the Liberal government to agree to establish accident, sickness, old-age and unemployment insurance for the working classes of Britain. How were these new programs paid for?

by a graduated income tax, which was heaviest on the rich

According to Marx, the owners of the means of production are the

capitalists

According to the terms of the treaty of Nanking which ended Britain's Opium War with China, the latter

ceded Hong Kong to Britain

The Reform Bill of 1867, which doubled the electorate and gave lower-middle-class men the right to vote for the first time, was passed by

the Conservative Party

After war with Spain in 1898, the US managed to join the imperialist frenzy by gaining control over

the Philippine Islands

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the Western world, more and more groups who had previously been without political power began to exercise it in the new, more inclusive democratic politics of the period. Which of the following groups, however, was still deprived of a political voice before 1918?

women


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