Ch 18

The Boxer Rebellion was similar to the earlier Taiping Rebellion in which of the following ways?

Both responded to hardship and poor economic conditions in China.

How did German chancellor Otto von Bismarck seek to defuse socialist activism in his country?

By enacting social welfare measures

In what way did pan-Germanism differ from German nationalism?

Pan-Germanism motivated people to define their identity by race or blood instead of national boundaries.

In the period from 1845 to 1900, what factors in China led large numbers of people to emigrate to the Americas and Oceania?

Population pressure and a shortage of cultivatable land

Which of the following is an example of the foreign pressure that led to the decline of Qing dynastic authority?

The Sino-Japanese War

In Latin America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which of the following upset traditional racial hierarchies?

The arrival to the region of large numbers of poor immigrants from Europe

Advocates for imperialism reacted to news of the turmoil in the Belgian and German African colonies with sentiments reflected by which statement below?

The specific situation that had led to the unrest was an exception to the enlightened rule of most European countries.

One result of the emergence of popular culture was:

the use of cultural choices to assert social or class identity.

As large banks and huge industrial corporations gained control of the international economy, most critics called for a return to free market capitalism.

False

Red Lantern women lived and fought alongside their male counterparts in the Boxer Rebellion in order to prevent the Boxers being swayed by Christian women.

False

On what was Sun Yat-sen's version of Chinese nationhood based?

Han Chinese nationalism

Which of the following questions challenged Chinese intellectuals at the turn of the twentieth century?

How to balance Western thought and traditional Chinese culture

Of the many factors that contributed to the unsettled nature of the turn-of-the-twentieth-century world, which of the following led most directly to the Maji-Maji Revolt?

Increasing anticolonial sentiments

According to Sun Yat-sen, what was demonstrated by the existence of different racial or ethnic groups in China?

It showed incomplete assimilation into Han culture.

Progressive reformers' goals included which of the following?

Creating a more efficient society and correcting the undesirable outcomes of urbanization and industrialization

What did Pan-Islamism ask of Muslims?

To put aside differences between Shiite and Sunni and work against European aggression

Most governments imposed few restrictions on immigration before 1914.

True