Modern World History Chapter 28

By 1913, all of the following provinces gained either independence or autonomy from Ottoman control EXCEPT

Anatolia.

The battle of Omdurman clearly demonstrated that

European troops with modern weapons could subdue a vast native army.

Which of the following is NOT true about the settlement of Australia?

Indigenous peoples were difficult to uproot because of their established agrarian societies.

Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Treaty of Nanjing in 1842?

Japan gained control of the island of Taiwan.

Which of the following would NOT be typical of labor migration patterns in the age of empire

Russian migrants to Singapore

Panama was supported in its uprising against Colombia by U.S. president

Theodore Roosevelt.

Cecil Rhodes was

a leading British imperialist active in south Africa.

The United States acquired Hawaii by

annexing the islands after American planters had overthrown the monarchy.

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.

Of the following, the most significant achievement of sultan Mahmud II was the

creation of a modern army.

Unlike the British in India, the French in Indochina

encouraged conversion to Christianity.

The Boxer Rebellion sought to

end foreign control of China.

The Self-Strengthening Movement did all of the following EXCEPT

end foreign domination of China.

The "capitulations" were humiliating concessions to the west that

held European citizens exempt from Ottoman laws and taxes.

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.

Which of the following was/were characteristic of or associated with indirect rule?

the maintenance of indigenous institutions such as "tribal" authorities

Under British imperial rule, India was governed

through an elite Indian civil service staffed by the English and headed by a viceroy.

French colonies in Africa

were ruled directly by the French.