Question 1

Japan became a major imperial power after its victory in the

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A)   Sino-Japanese War.
B)   Crimean War.
C)   Korean War.
D)   Russo-Japanese War.
E)   Opium War.F) A) and B)
G) A) and D)

Question 2

When Rudyard Kipling suggested that Americans "Take up the White Man's burden," what did he mean? How does this phrase express the goals of imperialism? Did the Americans have to be encouraged to become imperialistic?

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When Rudyard Kipling suggested that Amer...

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What role did technology play in the expanding European hegemony? Why weren't other nations able to gain equal technological footing?

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Technology played a crucial role in the ...

Question 4

Examine imperialism in Africa.What were the major goals of the Europeans? Why was Africa treated differently than other colonies? How did the carving up of Africa lead to tension among the European nations?

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Imperialism in Africa was a period of in...

Question 5

How did the British establish control over India in the early nineteenth century? How did the sepoy rebellion contribute to this process?

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In the early nineteenth century, the Bri...

Question 6

What were the legacies of nineteenth-century imperialism? What was anticolonialism? In what ways is the world today shaped by the actions of nineteenth-century imperialists?

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The legacies of nineteenth-century imper...

Question 7

What were the principal "tools of empire"-the various technologies that gave the Europeans such an advantage?

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The principal "tools of empire" that gav...

Question 8

In 1824,Thomas Stamford Raffles founded the port of

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A)   Sydney.
B)   Rangoon.
C)   Manila.
D)   Singapore.
E)   Hong Kong.F) A) and E)
G) None of the above

Question 9

The Berlin West Africa Conference,which included delegates from twelve European states and the United States,devised the ground rules for the colonization of Africa.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

The Maji Maji rebellion occurred in

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A)   Hawai`i against the Americans.
B)   Vietnam against the French.
C)   Fiji against the British.
D)   Indonesia against the Dutch.
E)   east Africa against the Germans.F) B) and E)
G) D) and E)

Question 11

The term "social Darwinism" is associated with

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A)   Cecil Rhodes.
B)   Josiah Clark Nott.
C)   Herbert Spencer.
D)   Count Joseph Arthur de Gobineau.
E)   Otto von Bismarck.F) A) and E)
G) A) and C)

Question 12

Between 1859 and 1893,Vietnam,Cambodia,and Laos all fell under the control of

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A)   England.
B)   France.
C)   the Dutch.
D)   Germany.
E)   the United States.F) C) and D)
G) A) and B)

Question 13

Cecil Rhodes was

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A)   the British military leader who was responsible for a boom in naval expansion.
B)   the American politician who articulated the belief in manifest destiny.
C)   responsible for the philosophy that we know as social Darwinism.
D)   the first leader of an independent Canada.
E)   a leading British imperialist who founded a colony in Africa.F) B) and E)
G) A) and D)

Question 14

In 1916 the Indian National Congress

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A)   was granted financial support by the British colonial government.
B)   joined forces with the All-India Muslim League.
C)   demanded the establishment of "concessionary companies."
D)   represented about 25 percent of the Indian population.
E)   All these answers are correct.F) C) and D)
G) B) and C)

Question 15

The author of Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races was

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A)   Josiah Clark Nott.
B)   Count Joseph Arthur de Gobineau.
C)   Charles Darwin.
D)   Herbert Spencer.
E)   Ram Mohan Roy.F) None of the above
G) D) and E)

Question 16

After the overthrow of Queen Lili`uokalani in 1893,the United States took over

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A)   the Philippines.
B)   Cuba.
C)   Hawai`i.
D)   Guam.
E)   Puerto Rico.F) B) and C)
G) B) and E)

Question 17

Both the Suez Canal and Panama Canal facilitated the building and maintenance of empires by enabling naval vessels to travel rapidly between the world's oceans.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

The social Darwinists believed that

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A)   a sharp distinction had to be made between the biological and social worlds.
B)   only a socialist political and social structure would keep humans from destroying themselves.
C)   more powerful nations had to protect weaker nations.
D)   powerful nations were meant to dominate weaker societies.
E)   human beings had reached the point at which competition among nations was no longer necessary.F) A) and C)
G) None of the above

Question 19

Because the nomadic peoples of Australia did not occupy lands permanently,British settlers considered the continent terra nullius,"land belonging to no one," and one that they could seize and put to their own uses.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

The key figures behind the uprising in 1857 in India were

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A)   Russian military officials looking for an advantage in the Great Game.
B)   disgruntled sepoy troops.
C)   French agents working to cause unrest in an important British colony.
D)   the representatives of the Indian National Congress.
E)   American soldiers looking for an excuse to pry India away from British control.F) None of the above
G) A) and B)

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