Chapter 26 Review

Which of the following events occurred first? A) Perry opens Japan. B) The United States takes over the Philippines. C) The Suez Canal is completed. D) Conrad publishes Heart of Darkness. E) The Meiji Restoration establishes a new government in Japan.

A) Perry opens Japan.

Which of the following societies responded most successfully to Western imperialism before World War I? A) China. B) Japan. C) Egypt. D) Sudan. E) India.

B) Japan.

German chancellor Otto von Bismarck A) at first disdained the acquisition of colonies as a waste of effort and funds, but later took several African colonies for Germany. B) rejected the acquisition of colonies as a waste of effort and funds. C) consistently advocated German acquisition of a global empire. D) criticized the British and French colonial empires on humanitarian grounds. E) sought to establish German colonies in Latin America

A) at first disdained the acquisition of colonies as a waste of effort and funds, but later took several African colonies for Germany.

In his book Imperalism, J. A. Hobson maintained all of the following except that A) imperialism was justified by Darwin's theory of natural selection. B) imperialism diverted attention from much-needed domestic reform. C) imperialism resulted from capitalists' search for profitable investments. D) imperialism benefited only a small number of private interests. E) imperial possessions did not pay off for the imperial country as a whole

A) imperialism was justified by Darwin's theory of natural selection.

In 1750 the average standard of living in Europe as a whole was A) no higher than the rest of the world. B) twice as high as the rest of the world. C) 25 percent higher than the rest of the world. D) 25 percent lower than the rest of the world. E) 50 percent lower than the rest of the world.

A) no higher than the rest of the world.

Jews made up the immigrant group least likely to return to their native land, primarily because of A) the violent anti-Semitism in eastern Europe. B) the success they enjoyed in their new homes. C) laws against such repatriation. D) the high cost of travel back to Europe. E) the strength of Jewish traditional culture.

A) the violent anti-Semitism in eastern Europe.

Ahmed Arabi exemplifies A) collaborationist response to Western imperialism. B) armed resistance to Western imperialism. C) cooperative, but uncommitted, response to Western imperialism. D) westernization as a response to Western imperialism. E) nonviolent resistance to Western imperialism.

B) armed resistance to Western imperialism.

Japan opened its shores to Western trade A) because it wanted to enter the world economy. B) in response to U.S. military pressure. C) as a result of the Meiji Restoration. D) under the influence of Dutch missionaries there. E) to reduce its dependence on China.

B) in response to U.S. military pressure.

The largest share of European foreign investment went to A) sub-Saharan Africa. B) Asia. C) European states and North America D) the Third World. E) Latin America.

C) European states and North America

The typical European immigrant was often A) a middle-class professional. B) an urban factory worker. C) a small farmer or rural craftsperson. D) a landless peasant. E) an aristocrat.

C) a small farmer or rural craftsperson.

The principle by which the European powers established their claim to an African territory was known as A) extraterritoriality. B) annexation. C) effective occupation D) military subjugation. E) the "white man's burden.

C) effective occupation

The most striking difference between the new imperialism of 1880-1914 and European expansion earlier in the 1800s was the new imperialism's A) violence. B) economic domination. C) formal political control. D) efforts to "civilize" native peoples. E) capitalism.

C) formal political control.

Which of the following events occurred last? A) Perry opens Japan. B) The United States takes over the Philippines. C) The Suez Canal is completed. D) Conrad publishes Heart of Darkness. E) The Meiji Restoration establishes new government in Japan.

D) Conrad publishes Heart of Darkness.

Rudyard Kipling's "white man's burden" referred to A) the social costs of industrialization. B) the difficulties of reaching consensus in a democratic society. C) the supposed innate inferiority of the white race. D) the white race's supposed duty to "civilize" inferior, non-white races. E) the high costs of maintaining colonial rule.

D) the white race's supposed duty to "civilize" inferior, non-white races.

The Sino-British war, which ended with the Treaty of Nanking in 1842, was caused by A) British attempts to break the Chinese monopoly on the tea trade. B) the brutal massacre of Christian missionaries by the Chinese army units. C) British attempts to intimidate the Manchu emperor. D) the Chinese seizure of Hong Kong. E) Chinese attempts to stop the British-controlled opium trade

E) Chinese attempts to stop the British-controlled opium trade

According to the text, the British intervention in Egypt that began in 1876 and culminated with a military takeover in 1882 was a dramatic break with earlier nineteenth-century European expansion because A) the British forced Egypt to open its ports to European trade. B) the British intervened as part of a humanitarian effort to aid flood victims. C) the British aimed to offer the Egyptians full citizenship. D) the British hoped to convert the Egyptians to Christianity. E) the British took direct political control of Egypt.

E) the British took direct political control of Egypt.