World Civic Chapter 28: The Building of Global Empires

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The Congo Free State was established in the 1870s by

Belgium.

The Boers were

Dutch settlers in the southern tip of Africa.

Loss of which region fatally undermined the power of the Ottoman empire by the mid-nineteenth century?

Egypt

The Taiping rebellion was defeated when

European advisors and weaponry were used by Qing rulers.

The Dutch East India Company took advantage of Mughal weakness to strengthen and expand its trading posts in the eighteenth century.

False

Which region provided the majority of indentured laborers that formed one strand of global migration generated bynineteenth-century imperialism?

India

How did imperialism influence relations between Europeans and other peoples?

It encouraged a sense of European cultural and racial superiority.

In the early nineteenth century, which U.S. president issued a proclamation that later served as justification for U.S.intervention across the western hemisphere?

James Monroe

Both the Suez Canal and Panama Canal facilitated the building and maintenance of empires by enabling naval vessels to travel rapidly between the world's oceans.

True

The United States acquired Hawai`i by

annexing the islands after American planters had overthrown the monarchy.

Under the British imperial system in India, what mechanism financed colonial rule?

land taxes

Emilio Aguinaldo led an uprising in

the Philippines against the United States.

The Roosevelt Corollary strengthened U.S. military and economic claims in which area of the world?

those territories lying in the western hemisphere to the south of the United States

Under British imperial rule, India was governed

with British bureaucrats and officers overseeing Indian civil servants.

The Monroe Doctrine

worked as a justification for U.S. intervention in western hemispheric affairs.


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