Chapter 26- Varieties of Imperialism in Africa, India, Southeast Asia and Latin America
Why did the slave trade end?
Slave revolts and humanitarian reform movements ended it
The primary goal of British expansion in South Asia and Southeast Asia during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was the
creation of trading posts to expand free trade in the region
Europeans controlled equatorial Africa by all of the following methods EXCEPT
offering incentives to local rulers to collect taxes and raise armies
Progress in women's rights in India was made in all of the following forms except:
outlawing prostitution
The most successful export from West Africa after British abolition of slavery was
palm oil
Social Darwinism was used to justify which of the following during the 19th century?
British colonization in India
The leader of the Filipino movement for independence against Spain, 1895-1898, was
Emilio Aguinaldo
Which African nations were able to remain independent at the end of the nineteenth century?
Ethiopia and Liberia
The South African War (1899-1902) was different from other imperialist struggled for which of the following reasons?
European colonizers fought one another
Which of the following resulted from Europe's expansion overseas in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
European countries acquired colonies and dominated world trade
Which of the following is an effect of the Berlin Conference (1885) for Africa?
European troops were sent to Africa to divide up the continent
Which of the following facilitated the creation of European empires in Africa during the late 19th century?
Europeans use of both warfare and diplomacy
What was the founding idea of the Indian National Congress when it was formed in 1885?
Expand the role of Indians in the colonial governments
Frere's speech is best understood in the context of which of the following?
Governments expanding and consolidating their empires using their increasing industrial power
The migration of Afrikaners from British-ruled Cape Colony for fertile land in the north is called the
Great Trek
The African proverb, "Until the lion have their historians, tales of hunting will always glorify the hunter", conveys which of the following?
History usually reflects the viewpoint of the victors
Which of the following later developments would most undermine the hope set fourth by Frere in the last sentence of his speech?
Improved transportation and communication in India helped develop a shared sense of identity that led to greater Indian nationalism
What is a major difference between European colonization in the period 1450 to 1750 and European colonization in era pictured above?
In the later period, Europeans had more success in Africa and Asia
Why was the Sepoy Rebellion a turning point in the history of India?
India came to be ruled directly by the British government
To protect their trading empire in India, the British East India Company used
Indian troops led by British officers
Which of the following was a major unintended effect of the publication of Charles Darwin's 1859 work On the Origin of Species?
It became the basis of various theories asserting that Europeans were natural superior to other people
The developments described in the speech regarding the lifting of traditional restrictions on Indian labor contributed most directly to which of the following global processes?
Long-distance and overseas migrations of contractual and coerced workers
Which of the following were the most important causes of Britain's growing nineteenth-century dominance in Southeast Asia and the Pacific?
Military victories, free-trade policies, and changes in shipbuilding technology
Which of the following is the best explanation for the ending of the transatlantic slave trade in the nineteenth century?
Moral opposition to slavery grew in industrialized nations, particularly Britain
What prevented the Sepoy Rebellion in 1857 from becoming a full-scale revolution?
No sense of Indian nationalism between Hindus and Muslims
Which of the following best explains Frere's characterization of the time of his speech as the "Railway Period" in British India?
Railways opened up access to interior markets and resources for British commercial interests
The largest of the new Muslim reforms movements occurred in the Hausa states of which area?
Sokoto Caliphate
British attitudes towards Africa expressed in this image are closest to their attitude toward what other region during the same time period?
South Asia
Victory in this conflict turned the United States into an imperial power as it gained Puerto Rico, Guam. and the Philippines
Spanish-American War
Which of the following nineteenth- century developments would best support this contention?
The decline of the Indian textile industry's share of global manufacturing
Besides gaining access to raw materials, what was another reason nations like Britain and France colonized Africa during the nineteenth century?
To establish settler colonies
Which of the following countries had the greatest political and economic influence on both Hawaii and the Philippines at the end of the 1800s?
United States
The Mexican Revolution sparked in 1910 resulted in which of the following in 1917?
a constitutional government
Nineteenth-century modernization in Egypt and Ethiopia began with
building modern militaries with European weapons
The deadliest disease in India was kala mari (black death), also known as
cholera
This recollection, by Baby of Karo, A Nigerian women, suggests that Europeans
ended slavery in Nigeria
The first British settlers in Australia were
exiled convicts
Africans wanted European manufactured goods, so when the slave trade ended, they
expanded their "legitimate" trade by developing new exports
The EIC transformed the Indian economy by exporting raw cotton to Britain,
expanding agricultural production and decreasing industrial output
The Zulu Empire emerged in the early nineteenth century out of a conflict over
grazing and farming land in southern Africa
By the end of the nineteenth century Southeast Asia
had been colonized by European powers with the exception of Siam (Thailand)
Most indentured servants left their homes because they
hoped to better their economic and social position
The Zulu Kingdom arose primarily because of
internal conflicts over grazing and farm lands
The opinion expressed in the passage above in most consistent with which of the following?
redistributing one-third of the land controlled by large landholders to landless peasants
The Ethiopian victory over the Italian invasion in 1896
showed that an African military force could resist Europeans
"Recaptives" were
slaves who were taken off illicit trade ships by the British navy and restored to free status in Sierra Leone
All of the following were characteristics of New imperialism EXCEPT
the desires to increase the slave trade
All of the following reasons were causes that led to the migration of increasing numbers of indentured servants from Asia in the nineteenth century EXCEPT
the increase in the number of slaves brought from East Africa
The Indian Civil Service
theoretically open to all, but actually excluded Indians.
Cape Colony was initially important to the British because it
was a strategic supply station for the lengthy India route