UNIT SIX
(Edward D. Morel, The Black Man's Burden, 1920) While the exploitation of Africa by the Europeans was generally offensive, Morel was particularly outraged by the cruelties against the Africans in which of the following regions?
Belgian Congo
(The Treaty of Nanjing, 1842) What event resulted in the creation of this treaty in 1842?
British success against China in the Opium War
(Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum) Which economic theorist would have vehemently disagreed with Pope Leo XIII's analysis in this selection from the Rerum Novarum?
Robert Owen
(Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum) What was the political impact of the ideology advocated by Pope Leo XIII in Rerum Novarum?
Socialist ideology gained strength in most western European nations, since the Pope seemed to be supporting the fundamental ideas of socialism.
(Dadabhai Naoroji, The Benefits of British Rule in India, 1871) What shift in British Indian colonial policies does Dababhai Naoroji note in his observations in The Benefits of British Rule in India?
The British expanded their mission from purely economic to also include cultural reforms.
(Letter from Lin Tse-hsu (Chinese official) to Queen Victoria of England, 1839) What was the British response to this request by the Chinese government?
The British instigated a war using free trade as the justification.
Theodor Herzl
called for a separate Jewish state in which Jewish rights and liberties would be protected
Darwin's Descent of Man
contended that neither the origin of humans nor human character required the existence of a god
After 1848, the middle classes' interest in revolutions ________.
declined in favor of protecting their status
(Letter from Lin Tse-hsu (Chinese official) to Queen Victoria of England, 1839) What motivated the British trade discussed by Lin Tse-hsu?
desire of merchants to use goods secured in India to improve their trade position in China
The factor that caused the greatest loss of faith in Christianity among literate Europeans was ________.
doubt about the historical validity of the Bible
One of the main legacies of the missionary movements of the eighteenth century is the ________.
establishment of Christianity a genuinely worldwide religion
Friedrich Nietzsche portrayed Christianity as a religion that
glorified human weaknesses
During the second half of the nineteenth century, the middle classes ________.
grew increasingly diverse
Bismarck attempted to persuade German workers to oppose socialism by ________.
implementing programs that offered a paternalistic alternative to socialism
(Emile Zola, Letter to the President of the Republic, 1898) What did the Dreyfus affair help convince Theodor Herzl to do?
launch the European Zionist movement
The Manet painting A Bar at the Folies-Bergère shows how ________.
leisure activities in modern urban life allowed people from different classes to mix
(Emile Zola, Letter to the President of the Republic, 1898) What had the victim in this newspaper article been falsely accused of?
passing French military secrets to the Germans
The name given to the practice by Russian police and right-wing groups of conducting riots against the Jews was ________.
pogrom
In his Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races, Count Arthur de Gobineau
portrayed Western troubles as springing from racial mixing
Auguste Comte developed the theory of ________.
positivism
When a European power placed one of its officials in a foreign government to remotely control that government a _________ was created.
protectorate
The most important political development in Europe between 1848 and 1914 was ________.
German unification
(Emile Zola, Letter to the President of the Republic, 1898) Why had evidence proving Dreyfus' innocence been suppressed, resulting in a false conviction?
Dreyfus was a victim of anti-Semitic attitudes in both society and the government.
(Edward D. Morel, The Black Man's Burden, 1920) All of the following places carried The Black Man's Burden as Morel described it except
Ethiopia
Until the mid-nineteenth century, European colonists were largely confined to coastal outposts in Asia and Africa for which of the following reasons?
Europeans were highly vulnerable to the tropical diseases in these regions.
(Letter from Lin Tse-hsu (Chinese official) to Queen Victoria of England, 1839) What nineteenth century liberal idea about free trade was challenged by this disagreement with China?
Free trade led to peaceful relationships with other countries.
(Carl Peters, A Manifesto for German Colonization, 1884) How economically valuable were the places that Carl Peters and the Germans colonized?
German colonies failed to provide much strategic or economic benefit for Germany.
(Carl Peters, A Manifesto for German Colonization, 1884) According to Carl Peters, what is the greatest disadvantage the German nation experienced because they had not developed a colonial empire?
German economic power benefitted other states, rather than Germany, because they did not have any colonies they could economically develop.
(Edward D. Morel, The Black Man's Burden, 1920) Morel's piece The Black Man's Burden is a reference to Rudyard Kipling's The White Man's Burden. What is the fundamental difference between these two pieces?
Kipling generally defended imperialism, while Morel criticized it.
(Emmeline Pankhurst, My Own Story, 1914) What British writer advocated for women's rights at the end of the eighteenth century and laid the groundwork for early twentieth century feminists like Emmeline Pankhurst?
Mary Wollstonecraft
(Emmeline Pankhurst, My Own Story, 1914) How were the tactics of Millicent Fawcett and the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies different than those of Emmeline Pankhurst as shown in the document above?
Millicent Fawcett believed the goals of the movement would only be accomplished if the protestors acted respectable and responsibly.
(Emmeline Pankhurst, My Own Story, 1914) What was the British government's response to the tactics and demands of Emmeline Pankhurst and her followers?
Parliament continued to refuse to extend the franchise to women and instead arrested and imprisoned many of the demonstrators.
(Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum) Which idea found in Rerum Novarum would nineteenth century socialists have agreed with?
Workers should be permitted to join labor unions in order to ensure fair treatment by employers.
The Boxer Rebellion ended when ________.
an international army occupied Beijing
By the start of World War I, most major nations of Europe ________.
began providing free public education for the masses
European migration ________ Europe because ________.
benefited; it relieved social and population pressures
Which of the following was an outcome of British imperial policies in the first half of the nineteenth century?
war with China over forced importation of opium
(Edwin Chadwick, Summary from the Poor Law Commissioners) What specific type of reform did Chadwick's Summary from the Poor Law Commissioners help promote?
sanitation reform
(Letter from Lin Tse-hsu (Chinese official) to Queen Victoria of England, 1839) As a result of this disagreement with China, Great Britain ultimately received all of the following from China EXCEPT
tax-free access to Chinese silk and tea.
The Europeans' power attempt to maximize their strategic control of African territory, markets, and raw materials was known as ________.
the Scramble for Africa
(Dadabhai Naoroji, The Benefits of British Rule in India, 1871) What event occurred in the decade prior to this document that reflected the Indian idea of "Sakar ki Churi"?
the Sepoy rebellion against the British
(Edwin Chadwick, Summary from the Poor Law Commissioners) What specific reforms were introduced in England in response to Chadwick's Summary from the Poor Law Commissioners?
the building of new water and sewer systems
(Emmeline Pankhurst, My Own Story, 1914) What was the goal that Emmeline Pankhurst and her followers hoped to achieve through the tactics outlined in the document selection above?
the extension of the franchise to the women of Great Britain
The single most important weapon in colonial warfare by 1900 was
the machine gun
