Module 7 Quiz
Italy's imperialistic dreams in Africa were stymied by its crushing defeat at the battle of ______, in which one-third of its army was killed by Ethiopian forces.
Adowa
______ was the crucial first step of a European power---in this instance France--- seizing provinces of the Ottoman Empire in competition with the Russians, while officially protecting its integrity.
Algeria
_______ was the crucial first step of a European power--in this instance France-- seizing provinces of the Ottoman Empire in competition with the Russians, while officially protecting its integrity.
Algeria
In 1900, Australia finally adopted a federal constitution and became the second fully autonomous British dominion, after __________
Canada
Following the Napoleonic Wars, the Dutch pursued a colonial policy referred to as the _______ in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) whereby native subsistence farmers were forced to grow government crops on Dutch plantations.
Cultivation Systems
In East Africa, ______ used forced labor for the growing of cotton, provoking the fierce but in the end brutally suppressed Maji Maji Rebellion of 1905-1907.
Germany
French imperial and colonial involvement in Indochina became entrenched in 1858 under ______.
Napoleon III
The 1757 battle of ____ effectively eliminated the French threat in the subcontinent and consolidated Great Britain's supremacy in India following the treaty that ended the Seven Years' War in 1763.
Plassey
The opening gambit of Great Britain's "Great Game" against ______ was the first Anglo-Afghan war in 1838.
Russia
As a result of its loss of Mexico in the early 1800s, Spain began turning to its colony in ______ for agricultural and natural resource exploitation.
The Philippines
The original goal of the National Congress when it convened in 1885 was to:
Win greater autonomy for India within the structure of the British Empire.
The British "Raj" was inaugurated when control by the East India Company was replaced by_______.
direct rule
Australia was very similar to independent Latin America in that it was Labor-poor but_____ region, seeking its wealth through export led growth.
socialistic
The effort to co-opt local rulers into upholding the British government as the historically destined status quo is sometimes called a(n) _____ relationship
subaltern
European colonialism on the coast of West Africa after 1885 was an outgrowth of the traditional_____.
trade fort system