Chapter 27
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. Answers: A. Algeria. B. Lebanon. C. Libya. D. Egypt.
A. Algeria.
The navigator James Cook, during one of his many exploratory journeys in the Pacific, landed in 1770 on the east coast of ______ and claimed it for Great Britain. Answers: A. Australia. B. Cook Island. C. New Zealand. D. New Guinea.
A. Australia.
The British Raj's showpiece capital of New Delhi was built under the aegis of the British resident Lord _______. Answers: A. Curzon. B. Halifax. C. Londonderry. D. Balfour.
A. Curzon.
The British "Raj" was inaugurated when control by the East India Company was replaced by _________. Answers: A. Direct rule. B. The Duke of York. C. The West Indies Company. D. A local government in Rajput.
A. Direct rule.
The Belgian Congo under King Leopold II employed mass forced labor of the indigenous population to extract _______ from the jungle. Answers: A. Rubber. B. Bauxite. C. Bananas. D. Cacao.
A. Rubber.
The Great Mutiny (also known as the Sepoy Mutiny or as the First War of Indian Independence) began in _________. Answers: A. 1901. B. 1857. C. 1763. D. 1835.
B. 1857.
Italy's imperialist dreams in Africa were stymied by its crushing defeat at the battle of Adowa in ________, in which one-third of its army was killed by Ethiopian forces. Answers: A. 1911. B. 1896. C. 1935. D. 1870.
B. 1896.
Some Europeans claimed that, according to the dictates of their "_______ mission", they had a duty to extend the benefits of European civilization to "backward" peoples. Answers: A. White man's. B. Civilizing. C. Progressive. D. Burdensome.
B. Civilizing.
The principal spokesman for _________ nationalists in the second half of the nineteenth century was José Rizal, whose novels responded to the Spanish justification of colonialism. Answers: A. Moroccan. B. Filipino. C. Hawaiian. D. Cuban.
B. Filipino.
In 1900, Australia finally adopted a federal constitution and became the second fully autonomous British "dominion", after __________. Answers: A. Ireland. B. New Zealand. C. Canada. D. South Africa.
C. Canada.
forces dispatched a squadron that occupied the sparsely inhabited Mekong River delta in 1858-1862, annexing it as a protectorate. Answers: A. Chinese. B. American. C. French. D. Dutch.
C. French.
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. Answers: A. Great Britain. B. Portugal. C. Germany. D. Italy.
C. Germany.
Portugal used the Berlin conference to expand its coastal footholds in Guinea, Angola and ___________. Answers: A. Gabon. B. Malawi. C. Kenya. D. Mozambique.
C. Kenya.
Some British agents of the East India Company took Indian wives, dressed as Indian princes, and wielded power as local magnates, or __________ (from an Urdu word meaning "viceroy"). Answers: A. Sahibs. B. Moguls. C. Nabobs. D. Poobahs.
C. Nabobs.
The opening gambit of Great Britain's "Great Game" against __________ was the first Anglo-Afghan war in 1838. Answers: A. The Ottoman Empire. B. Persia. C. Russia. D. France.
C. Russia.
By the 1890s, a young British-trained lawyer named Mohandas K. Gandhi was actively campaigning for the rights of Indians in British-controlled ________. Answers: A. Uganda. B. Trinidad. C. South Africa. D. CeylonC.
C. South Africa.
Samuel Adjai Crowther ultimately became: Answers: A. The crowned king of Yorubaland (in modern Nigeria). B. An armed resistor to French colonial rule in the Ivory Coast. C. The first president of Liberia. D. An Anglican bishop.
D. An Anglican bishop.
By the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the Mughal emperor's lands had been reduced to the region immediately surrounding _________ and Agra. Answers: A. Calcutta. B. Bombay. C. Madras. D. Delhi
D. Delhi
The Dutch conquered the Indonesian archipelago, finally subduing the most stubborn opponents, the ________ guerillas of Aceh, in 1903. Answers: A. Portuguese. B. Chinese. C. Buddhist. D. Muslim.
D. Muslim.
The ______ for Africa was a competition among European powers to acquire African colonies that began with the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885. Answers: A. Mission. B. Dash. C. Race. D. Scramble.
D. Scramble
