chapter 28 quiz
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 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
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 1824, Thomas Stamford Raffles founded the port of
Singapore
In 1770, Captain James Cook anchored his fleet near what modern city?
Sydney
Cecil Rhodes was
a leading British imperialist who founded a colony in Africa
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.
Count Joseph Arthur de Gobineau viewed Europeans as
intelligent and morally superior to all other peoples in the world
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.
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 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.
