AP World Chapter 32-33 Study Guide
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
Britain
Britain possessed much of India and Burma as well as some of modern day Thailand and Malaysia.
What 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.
France
France controlled what was known as the French Indochina, modern day Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
Which of the following would not be typical of labor migration patterns in the age of empire?
German migrants to plantations in the Congo.
The capitulations were humiliating concessions to the west that...
Held European citizens exempt from Ottoman laws and taxes.
Colonial rule dramatically altered the environment in which of the following places?
India, due to tea production, Ceylon, due to tea production, Malaya, due to rubber production and Sumatra, due to rubber production.
Which of the following was not a provision of the Treaty of Nanjing in 1842?
Japan gained control of the island of Taiwan.
The capital for the early industrialization of Meiji Japan came primarily from...
Land taxes.
The Taiping Rebellion was defeated when
Nanjing was defeated by a combined force of imperial and European soldiers.
Which of the following was not part of Count Witte's policy of industrialization?
Nationalization of key industries such as coal and steel.
Portugal
Portugal was in possession of a small piece of Indonesia on the island of Timor.
Russia
Russia was in control of Mongolia, Manchuria and the land above the Korean Peninsula as well as the land surrounding the Caspian sea above Persia and the land above the Black sea.
The Ottoman military had declined by the nineteenth century because
The Janissary Corps was more interested in palace intrigues than in military training, the Janissaries resisted all efforts to modernize the army, many provincial rulers had private mercenary armies and Ottoman forces carried outmoded equipment.
The Tokugawa shogunate was overthrown because...
The Japanese were outraged by the unequal treaty forced on them by Commodore Perry.
Netherlands
The Netherlands possessed modern day Singapore, half of New Guinea and a lot of Indonesia.
USA
The USA controlled the Philippine Islands.
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.
The most significant achievement of the sultan Mahmud II was
The creation of a modern army.
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 the tropical produce, the need to defend the whaling industry, concerns about the Japanese expansion to nearby islands and the desire for strategic ports and refueling stations in the Pacific Ocean.
What were the four causes for the decline of the Ottoman Empire? Who were the 'Young Turks'? How will they gain power?
The four causes of the decline of the Ottoman Empire was the deterioration of the military, economic difficulties, the capitulations and territorial losses.
Which of the following could not be considered a contributing cause of the Russian Revolution of 1905?
The lack of a representative legislative body, the defeat of Russia in the Russo-Japanese war, the Bloody Sunday massacre and the government's failure to address the inequities of land ownership.
What was not a provision of the Meiji constitution?
The lower classes were represented in the lower chamber of the Diet.
The Russian intelligentsia promoted terrorism as a strategy for political reform because...
Their attempts at more peaceful reform were crushed by the Tsarist authorities.
Panama was supported in its uprising against Colombia by U.S. president...
Theodore Roosevelt.
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.
Which of the Young Turk proposals caused the most dissension in the Empire?
Turkish as the official language of the empire.
The emancipation of Russian serfs in 1861...
Was achieved at the Tsar's insistence, intended to avert a revolution, brought freedom but few political rights for serfs and did not significantly increase agricultural production.
Tanzimat legal reforms included all of the following rights except
Women's right to sue for divorce.
In China, a "sphere of influence" was
a district in which a foreign power had exclusive trade, transportation, and mineral rights.
Cecil Rhodes was...
a leading British imperialist active in South Africa.
One social goal of the British authorities in India was to...
abolish the custom of burning widows with their husbands' bodies.
The United States acquired Hawaii by...
annexing the islands after American planters had overthrown the monarchy.
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 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.
Proponents of "scientific racism" argued that...
race could be biologically defined and characterized, western dominance was justified on the basis on racial superiority, the theories of Charles Darwin supported world dominance by the "fittest" races and people of European descent were morally superior to other races.
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 West Africa 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 term "Great Game" refers to...
the Russian contest with Britain for central Asia.
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 Suez Canal.
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 Mughal dynasty fell primarily because...
the state had been weakened by conflicts during the reign of Aurangzeb, the East India Company established powerful, coastal trading forts, British merchants gained access to interior territories and the Sepoy Mutiny failed to drive the British out of India.
British rule undermined the Indian cotton industry by...
undercutting the cost of Indian cloth with cheap British textiles.
Under British imperial rule, India was governed...
with British bureaucrats and officers overseeing Indian civil servants.