Chapter 32 Multiple Choice Questions

Under British imperial rule, India was governed . . .

with British bureaucrats and officers overseeing Indian civil servants.

Which of the following is NOT true about the settlement of Australia?

Australia became a multicultural society, drawing settlers from all over the Pacific.

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

European and American industry needed more sources of coal.

The Battle of Omdurman clearly demonstrated that . . .

European troops with modern weapons could subdue a vast native army.

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

German migrants to plantations in the Congo

Colonial rule dramatically altered the environment in which of the following places?

India, due to tea production; Ceylon, due to tea production; Malaya, due to rubber production; and Sumatra, due to rubber production

The "Great Game" refers to the . . .

Russian contest with Britain for central Asia.

Why had most European governments abandoned concessionary companies in Africa by the early twentieth century . . .

The brutal use of forced African labor by companies provoked a public outcry in Europe.

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

Theodore Roosevelt.

Cecil Rhodes was . . .

a leading British imperialist active in south Africa.

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 improved communication between India and Britain?

completion of the Suez Canal, use of steamships, invention of the telegraph, and laying of submarine cables

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.

One social goal of the British authorities in India was to . . .

establish English-style schools for children of Indian elites.

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

moral duty of the west to work to "civilize" the rest of the world.

Proponents of "scientific racism" argued that . . .

race could be biologically defined and characterized, western dominance was justified on the basis on racial superiority, the theories of Charles Darwin supported world dominance by the "fittest" races, and people of European descent were morally superior to other races.

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 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 scramble for Pacific island colonies in the late nineteenth century was motivated by . . .

the desire for tropical produce, the need to defend the whaling industry, concerns about Japanese expansion to nearby islands, and the desire for strategic ports and refueling stations in the Pacific Ocean.

The Mughal dynasty fell primarily because . . .

the state had been weakened by conflicts during the reign of Aurangzeb, and the East India Company established powerful, coastal trading forts, and British merchants gained access to interior territories, and the sepoy mutiny failed to drive the British out of India.

British rule undermined the Indian cotton industry by . . .

undercutting the cost of Indian cloth with cheap British textiles.