WHAP Chapter 32
Ram Mohan Roy was a
--prominent Bengali intellectual sometimes referred to as the "father of modern India" --member of the Indian elite and a newspaper publisher --Hindu reformer who tried to bring spirituality to bear on the problems of his time --member of the Indian elite who worked with Christian social reformers
Submarine cables linked all parts of the British empire throughout the world by
1902
The Congo Free State was established in the 1870s by
Belgium
The Suez Canal was essential for
British control over India
Who said, "We are the finest race in the world and he more of the world we inhabit, the better it is for the human race"?
Cecil Rhodes
The author of the Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races was
Count Joseph Arthur de Gobineau
The Boers were
Dutch settlers in South Africa
T/F The Dutch East India Company took advantage of the Mughal weakness to strengthen and expand its trading posts in the eighteenth century.
False
Between 1859 and 1893, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos all fell under the control of
France
After the overthrow of Queen Lili'uokalani in 1983, the United States took over
Hawai'i
The term "social Darwinism" is associated with
Herbert Spencer
In the nineteenth century, the majority of indentured laborers came from
India
The Sino-Japanese War began with a dispute over
Korea
The author of "The White Man's Burden" was
Rudyard Kipling
Japan became a major imperial power after its victory in the
Russo-Japanese War
By 1900, the only part of Southeast Asia not under European imperial rule was
Siam
in 1824, Thomas Stamford Raffles founded the port of
Singapore
In 1770, Captain James Cook anchored his fleet at Botany Bay, near what modern city?
Sydney
The Maji Maji rebellion occurred in
Tanganyika against the Germans
T/F During the second half of the nineteenth century, many Europeans believed that imperial expansion and colonial domination were crucial for the survival of their states.
True
T/F English writer Rudyard Kipling defined the "white man's burden" as the duty of European and Euro-American peoples to bring order and enlightenment to distant lands.
True
T/F The Berlin West Africa Conference, which included delegates from fourteen European states and the United States, devised the ground rules for the colonization for Africa.
True
Cecil Rhodes was
a leading British imperialist who founded a colony in Africa
New South Wales was originally settled by about one thousand people, most of them convicted criminals,
but voluntary migrants outnumbered convicts within 50 years
The Berlin Conference
devised the ground rule for the European colonization of Africa
The most important figure in the uprising in 1857 in India were
disgruntled sepoy troops
Between 1800 and 1914, how many Europeans migrated overseas?
fifty million
Count Joseph Arthur de Gobineau viewed Europeans as
intelligent and morally superior to all other peoples in the world
The social Darwinists believed that
intelligent and morally superior to all other peoples in the world
In 1916 the Indian National Congress
joined forces with the All-Indian Muslim League
The battle of Omdurman
opened the door for British colonial rule in Sudan
"Concessionary companies" refers to a system of colonial rule that employed
private companies granted territory and control over taxation and labor for mining, construction, or agricultural projects
In regard to imperialism, the Japanese and Americans
proved to be just as racist as the Europeans
Under British control, Ceylon became a major producer of
tea
Emilio Aguinalda led an uprising in
the Philippines against the United States
Rudyard Kipling's poem "The White Man's Burden," was actually meant to inspire the Americans to colonize
the Pilippines
The United States occupied Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines after its victory in
the Spanish-Cuban-American War
Which matching of imperial power and colony is NOT correct?
the United States and Fiji
The Roosevelt Corollary strengthened U.S. military and economic claims in which area of the world?
those territories lying in the western hemisphere to the south of the United States
The Monroe Doctrine
worked as a justification for U.S. intervention in western hemispheric affairs
