Ch 33&34 Review
Proponents of "scientific racism" argued that
All of the above
The Mughal dynasty fell primarily because
All of the above
Which of the following could not be considered a contributing cause of the Russian Revolution of 1905?
All of the above are factors in the Revolution of 1905
By 1913, all of the following provinces gained either independence or autonomy from Ottoman control except
Anatolia
Which of the following is not true about the settlement of Australia?
Australia became a multicultural society, drawing settlers from all over the Pacific
The Russian empire was defeated in the Crimean War because
Britain and France joined forces to prevent Russian expansion into the Ottoman empire
Which of the following was not an economic motivation for imperialism?
European and American industry needed more sources of coal
The battle of Omdurman clearly demonstrated that
European troops with modern weapons could subdue a vast native army
Which of the following would not be typical of labor migration patterns in the age of empire?
German migrants to plantations in the Congo
Which of the following was not a provision of the treaty of Nanjing in 1842?
Japan gained control of the island of Taiwan
The Taiping rebellion was defeated when
Nanjing was defeated by a combined force of imperial and European soldiers
Why had most European governments abandoned concessionary companies in Africa by the early twentieth century?
The brutal use of forced African labor by companies provoked a public outcry in Europe
Which of the following was not a provision of the Meiji constitution?
The lower classes were represented in the lower chamber of the Diet
Which of the Young Turk proposals caused the most dissension in the empire?
Turkish as the official language of the empire
In China, a "sphere of influence" was
a district in which a foreign power had exclusive trade, transportation, and mineral rights
By 1800, the Dutch Afrikaners in South Africa had established
a settler colony based on slavery and white supremacy
One social goal of the British authorities in India was to
abolish the custom of burning widows with their husbands' bodies
Colonial rule dramatically altered the environment in which of the following places?
all of the above
The Ottoman military had declined by the nineteenth century because
all of the above
The emancipation of Russian serfs in 1861 did
all of the above
The United States acquired Hawaii by
annexing the islands after American planters had overthrown the monarchy
The most significant achievement of the sultan Mahmud II was
creation of a modern army
Under British imperial rule, India was governed
directly, with British bureaucrats and officers overseeing Indian civil servants and soldiers
Pressure for reform in British India came from
educated Indians seeking self-rule
Unlike the British in India, the French in Indochina
encouraged conversion to Christianity
The "capitulations" were humiliating concessions to the west that
held European citizens exempt from Ottoman laws and taxes
The British insisted on their right to trade opium with China because
it was the only trade good that they could sell in China at a profit
The capital for the early industrialization of Meiji Japan came primarily from
land taxes
Nineteenth-century empires differed from earlier empires because
modern empires were able to thoroughly dominate the economies of their colonies
Which of the following was not part of Count Witte's policy of industrialization?
nationalization of key industries such as coal and steel
Japanese imperial expansion in the late nineteenth century was primarily motivated by
resentment at the unequal treaties forced on them by the United States
The Berlin Conference in 1884-1885 established
that, if a European power indicated its intention to colonize and then proceeded to occupy an African territory, it could claim that colony
One striking difference between the British and the French imperial models in Africa is that
the British preferred to use local institutions to control subject populations
The Tokugawa shogunate was overthrown because
the Japanese were outraged by the unequal treaty forced on them by Commodore Perry
The colonization of the Belgian Congo is noted for
the brutal treatment of the Congolese people by King Leopold II
All of the following improved communication between India and Britain except
the completion of the Panama Canal
The success of the Meiji restoration depended on destroying the power of
the daimyo and samurai classes
The scramble for Pacific island colonies in the late nineteenth century was motivated by
the desire for strategic ports and refueling stations in the Pacific Ocean
The "white man's burden" proposed by Rudyard Kipling refers to
the moral duty of the west to work to "civilize" the rest of the world
The Russian intelligentsia promoted terrorism as a strategy for political reform because
their attempts at more peaceful reform were crushed by the tsarist authorities
At the end of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman empire, Russian empire, Qing dynasty, and Tokugawa Japan were "societies at crossroads" because
they discovered through wars and confrontations that they were militarily much weaker than the western powers
In the early twentieth century the United States frequently sent troops into Central America
to protect American business interests there
British rule undermined the Indian cotton industry by
undercutting the cost of Indian cloth with cheap British textiles
Tanzimat legal reforms included all of the following rights except
women's right to sue for divorce