APWH Chapter 33 Test Questions

The author of The White Man's Burden was

Rudyard Kipling

Japan became a major imperial power after its victory in the

Russo-Japanese War

By 1900, the only part of southeast Asia not under European imperial rule was

Siam

The Maji Maji rebellion occurred in

Tanganyika against the Germans

Which of the following was not one of the core beliefs of Ram Mohan Roy?

The sati must remain as a symbol of India's long history and spiritual priority

Which matching of imperial power and colony is not correct?

US and Fiji

Cecil Rhodes was

a leading British imperialist who founded a colony in Africa

New South Wales in Australia started as

a settlement for convicts (a penal colony)

In response to Indian resistance, the British in 1909

allowed wealthy Indians to elect representatives to local legislative councils

The Berlin Conference

devised the ground rules for the European colonization of Africa

The most important figures in the uprising in 1857 in India were

disgruntled sepoy troops

Between 1800 and 1914, how many Europeans migrated overseas?

fifty million

Count Joseph Arthur de Gobineau viewed Europeans as

intelligent and morally superior to all other peoples in the world

In 1906, the Indian National Congress

joined forces with the All-India Muslim League

The Battle of Omdurman

opened the door for British colonial rule in Sudan

The Treaty of Waitangi

placed the Maori under British protection

The social Darwinists believed that

powerful nations were meant to dominate weaker societies ("survival of the fittest")

In regard to imperialism, the Japanese and Americans

proved to be just as racist as the Europeans

Under British control, Ceylon became a major producer of

tea

Rudyard Kipling's poem, The White Man's Burden, was actually meant to inspire the Americans to colonize

the Philippines

Emilio Aguinaldo led an uprising in

the Philippines against the US

The term Great Game refers to

the Russian push into Central Asia

The US occupied Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines after its victory in

the Spanish-American War

The "Roosevelt Corollary" strengthened US military and economic claims in which area of the world?

those territories lying in the western hemisphere to the south of the US

Ram Mohan Roy was responsible for

trying to create a society based on European science and devotional Hinduism

The Monroe Doctrine

worked as a justification for US intervention in western hemispheric affairs

Submarine cables linked all parts of the British empire throughout the world by

1902

The chief victim of the late 19th-century European imperialistic expansion was

Africa

The Congo Free State was established in the 1870s by

Belgium

Which of the following reasons account for the large number of languages that have become extinct during the period from 1500 to 2000?

Both b. and d. are correct (b. increased contact among formerly isolated groups) (d. increased human migrations into already populated areas of the earth)

The Suez Canal was essential for

British control over India

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"?

Cecil Rhodes

The Scottish minister who, while searching for suitable missionary posts, traveled through much of central and southern Africa was

David Livingstone

The Boers were

Dutch settlers in South Africa

Between 1859 and 1893, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos all fell under the control of

France

After the overthrow of Queen Lili'uokalani in 1893, the US took over

Hawai'i

By the late 19th century, the world's leading producer of cotton was

India

The most important Indian reform group, founded in 1885, was the

Indian National Congress

In 1876, Korea was forced to accept an unequal trading treaty by

Japan

The Sino-Japanese War began with a dispute over

Korea