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Which of the following best describes the excerpt above?

A liberal nationalist response to colonialism

Which of the following best characterizes Western imperialist expansion in the late nineteenth century?

An unprecedented amount of territory colonized in a short period of time

In the passage above, Lin Zexu is asking that the British do which of the following?

Ban the sale of opium by British merchants in China

Which of the following best summarizes the two plans for improving nutrition in Britain's colonies?

Both sources emphasize the need to enlist the cooperation of Africans in implementing colonial policies.

Which of the following is a similarity between European and Asian immigrants to the Americas during the nineteenth century?

Both were attracted by employment opportunities.

Social Darwinism was used to justify which of the following during the nineteenth century?

British colonization of India

The trade patterns shown on the map above depict (2)

British imports of raw cotton and exports of finished cotton in the 1850s (2)

The trade patterns shown on the map above depict

British imports of raw materials and exports of finished goods during the nineteenth century

As illustrated by the passage, which of the following best explains the persistence of slavery in some parts of the Americas into the late nineteenth century?

Cash-crop plantation agriculture remained an important part of some nations' economies.

A historian researching international migration patterns of the nineteenth century would find which of the following sources most useful?

Census records from New York and Buenos Aires detailing the birthplaces of individuals

Which of the following nineteenth-century processes most directly contributed to the migration of Indian laborers to Fiji as described in the passage?

Colonial states in Asia and the Pacific relied on coerced labor to work on plantations.

The division of islands such as Borneo, New Guinea, and Timor on both maps best reflects which of the following?

Conquest by and competition between colonial empires

Based on the third paragraph, Stanley's vision of the future of the Congo River basin can best be seen as part of which of the following late-nineteenth-century developments?

Economic imperialism

Which of the following resulted from Europe's expansion overseas in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

European countries acquired colonies and dominated world trade.

The commodities listed by Stanley in the second paragraph can best be understood in the context of

Europeans' need for resources to be used in industrial production

The developments depicted in Map 2 most directly emerged from which of the following developments in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

Government-sponsored industrialization as part of the Meiji reforms

Which of the following historical developments in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century would have been most likely to undermine the author's vision of Nigerian society as expressed in Source 1 ?

Greater global integration resulted in the spread of ideas based on social equality.

The author's statement that descendants of Italian emigrants "ended up forgetting the language of their fathers and forefathers" most directly refers to which of the following aspects of nineteenth-century migration?

Immigrants often adopted the dominant culture of the state in receiving societies.

The sentiments expressed in the quotation above are most supportive of which of the following concepts?

Imperialism

Which of the following was among the first results of the European Industrial Revolution in other parts of the world?

Increased demand for commodities such as cotton and palm oil

Which of the following countries or regions led the world in the production of cotton cloth in 1700?

India

Which of the following best explains why spices, such as cloves, became a LESS important component of colonial trade during the nineteenth century?

Industrialization increased the demand for manufactured goods relative to the demand for spices.

Between 1750 and 1900, which of the following industrializing states created an empire?

Japan

Which of the following was the most direct political consequence of Japan's attempts to sustain the economic trend shown in the table for the period 1930-1938 ?

Japan engaged in imperial expansion to acquire access to raw materials.

Which of the following developments in the late 1800s and early 1900s most directly challenges the author's argument regarding the role of Japan in Asia?

Japanese imperial expansion into Asian territories such as Taiwan and Korea

In the Japanese print above of the war between China and Japan (1894-1895), the artist suggests that the

Japanese showed their mastery of Western technology, dress and military bearing

In the mid-twentieth century, the presence of Chinese and Japanese populations in North America and of South Asian populations in the Caribbean and South Africa is best explained by which of the following?

Labor migrations during the nineteenth century

Which of the following best explains all of the migration movements shown on the map above?

Labor shortages in plantation agriculture, the mineral extraction industry, and transportation projects

Which of the following likely contributed the most to the population changes shown in the table for Latin American states such as Argentina and Brazil in the period 1800-1900 ?

Large increases in immigration from Europe

Which of the following processes most directly contributed to the tensions in Fiji described in the first paragraph?

Migrant groups often created relatively isolated ethnic enclaves, while receiving societies responded to them through ethnic prejudice.

Which of the following is an accurate description of relations between European states and the Ottoman Empire in the period 1815 to 1914 ?

Russian, English, and French expansion came at the expense of the Ottomans.

Which of the following was the most significant change in Latin American labor systems between the time the document was produced and 1900 ?

Slavery was abolished in all Latin American countries.

The quotation above by an early-twentieth-century Chinese revolutionary illustrates the influence of

Social Darwinism

Based on the passage, it can be inferred that in the late nineteenth century international relations were increasingly perceived as being governed by

Social Darwinism and international power politics

The primary rationale for Japan's territorial acquisitions in Southeast Asia during the period 1933-1942, as reflected in Map 2, was most similar to the primary rationale for which of the following?

The British East India Company's takeover of other European states' colonial possessions in India

In Poem 1, the sentiments regarding education and politics are best understood in the context of which of the following?

The British failure to provide mass education in India, for fear that doing so would encourage resistance against imperial rule

Based on an analysis of the Japanese currency used during the Meiji period (1868—1912) shown above, which of the following is the primary message conveyed by the engraving?

The Japanese government saw itself as a major Pacific power.

During the nineteenth century, which of the following engaged in a territorial expansion most similar to the one depicted in Map 1 ?

The United States

The declaration can best be understood as a rejection of which of the following ideals?

The belief that some groups of people are inherently superior to others

Which of the following best accounts for the circumstances of Indian workers alluded to in Poem 1 ?

The coerced migration of Indian indentured servants

The two passages best represent which of the following justifications for European imperialism?

The concept of the European mission to civilize colonized peoples

In its description of the condition of the Crimean Tatars, the second paragraph most directly provides evidence of the influence of which of the following?

The concept of the civilizing mission

During the nineteenth century, which of the following most directly motivated the major expansion of imperial territories in Southeast Asia as shown in Map 1 ?

The desire to extract resources and raw materials

A historian interpreting the policies advocated for in the passage would most likely argue that they are best explained in the context of which of the following?

The importance of raw materials to the development of industrial economies

The spread of the liberal ideas discussed in the passage was most directly a result of which of the following?

The influence of European political and educational institutions facilitated by British imperial policies in India

The changing relationship between Portugal and Brazil described in the passage can best be understood in the context of which of the following developments after 1750 ?

The onset of Latin American independence movements

Which of the following best explains Kartini's familiarity with the ideas regarding social roles that she discusses in her letter?

The spread of Enlightenment thought as empires consolidated control over their territories

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Social Darwinists made which of the following arguments?

Theories of natural selection could be applied to nations, races, and social classes.

As described in the passage, Anna da Trindade's life differed from the typical experience of newly arrived slaves in colonial Latin America in that she was

able to purchase her freedom

On a global scale, the implementation of the types of policies that Rivett-Carnac advocated for in the passage is most significant in that it directly led to the

growth of nationalist movements in colonial societies against imperial rule

Stanley's description of the riches of the Congo in the first two paragraphs can best be seen as an attempt to

place European expansion in the Congo in the context of other imperial ventures that had seemed difficult at first but have subsequently turned out to be highly valuable

Martini's argument in the second paragraph most clearly refers to the late-nineteenth-century belief that imperialism was a useful way to

relieve overcrowding and land shortages in European countries

Darwin's theories were interpreted by Social Darwinists to indicate that

select human groups would dominate those less fit

Rivett-Carnac's point of view is directly relevant in understanding all of the following features of the report EXCEPT

the fact that the report states the railroad would lead to a reduction in the area of Berar covered by jungle

All of the following developments in the nineteenth century directly contributed to the political situation in Africa as depicted on Map 1 EXCEPT

the global spread of radical Marxist ideologies

Italian and German imperial presence in Africa were similar in that both countries

were newly unified nations that began colonizing later than other European powers