WHAP Chapter 32

Ram Mohan Roy was a

--prominent Bengali intellectual sometimes referred to as the "father of modern India" --member of the Indian elite and a newspaper publisher --Hindu reformer who tried to bring spirituality to bear on the problems of his time --member of the Indian elite who worked with Christian social reformers

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 said, "We are the finest race in the world and he more of the world we inhabit, the better it is for the human race"?

Cecil Rhodes

The author of the Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races was

Count Joseph Arthur de Gobineau

The Boers were

Dutch settlers in South Africa

T/F The Dutch East India Company took advantage of the Mughal weakness to strengthen and expand its trading posts in the eighteenth century.

False

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

France

After the overthrow of Queen Lili'uokalani in 1983, the United States took over

Hawai'i

The term "social Darwinism" is associated with

Herbert Spencer

In the nineteenth century, the majority of indentured laborers came from

India

The Sino-Japanese War began with a dispute over

Korea

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

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

T/F During the second half of the nineteenth century, many Europeans believed that imperial expansion and colonial domination were crucial for the survival of their states.

True

T/F English writer Rudyard Kipling defined the "white man's burden" as the duty of European and Euro-American peoples to bring order and enlightenment to distant lands.

True

T/F The Berlin West Africa Conference, which included delegates from fourteen European states and the United States, devised the ground rules for the colonization for Africa.

True

Cecil Rhodes 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 outnumbered convicts within 50 years

The Berlin Conference

devised the ground rule for the European colonization of Africa

The most important figure 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

The social Darwinists believed that

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

"Concessionary companies" refers to a system of colonial rule that employed

private companies granted territory and control over taxation and labor for mining, construction, or agricultural projects

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

Emilio Aguinalda 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 Pilippines

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

the Spanish-Cuban-American War

Which matching of imperial power and colony is NOT correct?

the United States and Fiji

The Roosevelt Corollary strengthened U.S. military and economic claims in which area of the world?

those territories lying in the western hemisphere to the south of the United States

The Monroe Doctrine

worked as a justification for U.S. intervention in western hemispheric affairs