APWH Chapter 32 Multiple Choice Stem Question Study Guide
Who was Ram Mohan Roy?
(ANSWER CHOICE: all of the above).
Submarine cables linked all parts of the British empire throughout the world by
1902.
The Congo Free State was established in the 1870s by
Belgium.
The Suez Canal was essential for
British control over India.
Who were the Boers?
Dutch settlers in South Africa.
Between 1859 and 1893, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos all fell under the control of ___________________, and by 1900, the only part of southeast Asia not under European imperial rule was _____________________.
France; Siam.
After the overthrow of Queen Lili`uokalani in 1893, the United States took over
Hawaii.
The Roosevelt Corollary strengthened U.S. military and economic claims in which area of the world?
In territories lying in the western hemisphere to the south of the United States.
The Sino-Japanese War began with a dispute over
Korea.
In 1824, Thomas Stamford Raffles founded the port of
Singapore.
In 1770, Captain James Cook anchored his fleet at Botany Bay, near what modern city?
Sydney.
The Maji Maji rebellion occurred in
Tanganyika against the Germans.
Which matching of imperial power and colonial area is NOT correct?
The United States & Fiji.
How did the Japanese and Americans compare to European nations in regards to imperialism?
They proved to be just as racist.
Cecil Rhodes, who said, "We are the finest race in the world and the more of the world we inhabit, the better it is for the human race", was
a leading British imperialist who founded a colony in Africa.
New South Wales was originally settled by about one thousand people, most of them convicted criminals, _____________________________________.
but voluntary migrants outnumber convicts within fifty years.
The Berlin Conference
devised the ground rule for the Europen colonization of Africa.
The most important figures in the uprising in 1857 in India were
disgruntled Sepoy troops.
Between 1800 and 1914, ____________ million Europeans migrated overseas, and the majority of indentured laborers came from ______________________.
fifty; India.
Count Joseph Arthur de Gobineau, author of the Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races, viewed Europeans as
intelligent and morally superior to all other peoples in the world.
In 1916, the Indian National Congress
joined forces with the All-Indian Muslim League.
The battle of Omdurman
opened the door for British colonial rule in Sudan.
Social Darwinists, a term associated with Herbert Spencer, believed that
powerful nations were meant to dominate weaker societies.
"Concessionary companies" refers to a system of colonial rule that employed
private companies that granted territory and control over agricultural products.
Under British control, Ceylon became a major producer of
tea.
Emilio Aguinaldo led an uprising in
the Philippines against the United States.
Rudyard Kipling's poem, "The White Man's Burden," was actually meant to inspire the Americans to colonize
the Philippines.
The United States occupied Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines after its victory in
the Spanish-Cuban-American War.
The Monroe Doctrine
worked as a justification for the U.S. intervention in western hemispheric affairs.