Module 8

Whose scientific theory was used to promote social racism in Africa?

Charles Darwin

Which of the following provinces was NOT part of the Dominion of Canada by 1900?

Alberta

Colonial rule dramatically altered the environment in all the following places EXCEPT:

Australia, due to rubber production

The Taiping rebellion was defeated when

Nanjing was defeated by a combined force of imperial and European soldiers.

Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Meiji constitution?

The lower classes were represented in the lower chamber of the Diet.

The Scramble finally ended in the early 1900s with the French declaration of a protectorate over _________.

Algeria

Leopold II was king of which nation during the Scramble for Africa?

Belgium

The Boxers wanted to eliminate everything from China EXCEPT:

Buddhism

All the following were affected by imperialism EXCEPT

Chile

Which African country was left independent after the Scramble for Africa?

Ethiopia

British Canada gained a large French population as a result of

France's loss of its Canadian colonies in the Seven Years' War.

Which of the following would NOT be typical of labor migration patterns in the age of empire?

German migrants to plantations in the Congo

All of the following had control of Egypt during the age of imperialism EXCEPT

Germany

Which of the following pairs of political leaders used terror in their respective nations as a nation- building strategy?

Juan Manuel de Rosas and Maximillian Robespierre

What did the Open Door Policy do?

The United States and Europe had equal trade accessibility with China.

All the following were effects of the Sepoy Mutiny EXCEPT:

The sepoys were put into positions of power.

Panama was supported in its uprising against Colombia by U.S. president

Theodore Roosevelt.

The United States acquired Hawaii 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.

Which of the following did NOT improve communication between India and Britain?

completion of the Panama Canal

The scramble for Pacific island colonies in the late nineteenth century was motivated by all the following EXCEPT:

concerns about Chinese expansion to nearby islands.

Pressure for reform in British India came from

educated Indians seeking self-rule.

Unlike the British in India, the French in Indochina

encouraged conversion to Christianity.

By 1900, Latin American women had achieved

expanded educational opportunities.

The term "manifest destiny" was used to describe the

inevitability of American dominion over all of North America.

What type of company was the British East India Company?

joint-stock

All the following contributed to American economic development in the nineteenth century EXCEPT:

lack of competition from Europe.

The United States gained western territory by all the following means EXCEPT

purchase from indigenous people.

The National Policy for economic development of Canada included all the following EXCEPT:

rejection of immigrants.

After Reconstruction, former slaves in the southern states of the U.S.

remained free but lost many of their civil rights.

Japanese imperial expansion in the late nineteenth century was primarily motivated by

resentment at the unequal treaties forced on them by the United States.

The Berlin Conference was responsible for all of the following EXCEPT

set the stage for World War II

In Latin America, the road to a stable state was hindered by

sharp divisions among the creole classes.

The Berlin West Africa Conference in 1884-1885 established

that, if a European power indicated its intention to colonize and then proceeded to occupy an African territory, it could claim that colony.

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.

The Tokugawa Shogunate was overthrown because

the Japanese were outraged by the unequal treaty forced on them by Commodore Perry.

The Afrikaners, or Boers, were European settlers from

the Netherlands and Switzerland

The constitutional issue at the center of the U.S. Civil War was

the balance of power between the state governments and the federal government.

The success of the Meiji restoration depended on destroying the power of

the daimyo and samurai classes.

The Northwest Rebellion in Canada in 1885 was sparked by

the loss of land and trading rights by Métis and natives because of western expansion.

What theory was used to excuse racist pogroms by imperial powers?

theory of evolution

British rule undermined the Indian cotton industry by

undercutting the cost of Indian cloth with cheap British textiles.