World World Civilization Chapter 28
Submarine cables linked all parts of the British empire throughout the world by
1902.
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 author of Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races was
Count Joseph Arthur de Gobineau.
The most significant territorial loss for the Ottomans was
Egypt
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 United States took over
Hawai`i.
The term social Darwinism is associated with
Herbert Spencer.
The leader of the Taiping rebellion was
Hong Xiuquan.
In the nineteenth century, the majority of indentured laborers came from
India.
The Sino-Japanese War began with a dispute over
Korea.
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 1770, Captain James Cook anchored his fleet near what modern city?
Sydney
The colony of New South Wales was originally settled by about one thousand people, most of them
convicted criminals.
The Berlin West Africa Conference
devised the ground rules for the European colonization of Africa.
The key figures behind the uprising in 1857 in India were
disgruntled sepoy troops.
The Maji Maji rebellion occurred in
east Africa against the Germans.
Between 1800 and 1914, how many Europeans migrated overseas?
fifty million
Muhammad Ali was the
leader who ended effective (if not nominal) Ottoman control in Egypt.
The battle of Omdurman
opened the door for British colonial rule in Sudan.
The social Darwinists believed that
powerful nations were meant to dominate weaker societies.
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 Aguinaldo led an uprising in
the Philippines against the United States.
The United States occupied Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines after its victory in
the Spanish-Cuban-American War.
The Suez Canal facilitated
the building and maintenance of empires.
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 Abyssinian campaign of 1862 is an example of what phenomenon?
use of a foreign event by a local party to whip up domestic nationalism and gain politically from it
The Monroe Doctrine
worked as a justification for U.S. intervention in western hemispheric affairs
