History (Mass Politics and Imperial Domination)
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