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Proponents of "scientific racism" argued that
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The scramble for Pacific island colonies in the late nineteenth century was motivated by
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Which of the following improved communication between India and Britain?
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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
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 Hawai`i by
annexing the islands after American planters had overthrown the monarchy.
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.
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.
British rule undermined the Indian cotton industry by
undercutting the cost of Indian cloth with cheap British textiles.
Under British imperial rule, India was governed
with British bureaucrats and officers overseeing Indian civil servants.
Colonial rule dramatically altered the environment in which of the following places?
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The Mughal dynasty fell primarily because
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The colonization of the Belgian Congo is noted for the
brutal treatment of the Congolese people by King Leopold II.
Japanese imperial expansion in the late nineteenth century was primarily motivated by
resentment at the unequal treaties forced on them by the United States.
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