Age of New Imperialism 2/3

Question 1

What type of colonial rule did Britain set up in India?

Answer 1

A colonial rule

Question 2

What was Britain’s mail objective of the colonization of India?

Answer 2

Economic

Question 3

How did British officials feel as they were helping India modernize?

Answer 3

By adopting western technology and culture

Question 4

Did all Indians want these changes opposed on them? If so, what did they do?

Answer 4

No. In 1885, the Indian National Congress was formed, who wanted greater democracy and later self-rule. By the early 1900s, protests and resistance to British rule increased. Indians wanted independence.

Question 5

Who did Britain encourage rivalry and competition between?

Answer 5

Indian princes

Question 6

What did Britain use to take over?

Answer 6

Superior weapons

Question 7

What was forced upon Hindu and Muslim Indians?

Answer 7

Christianity

Question 8

What did the British ban?

Answer 8

Sati

Question 9

Who was forced to go overseas?

Answer 9

Sepoys (soldiers)

Question 10

What action went against the Indians’ religion?

Answer 10

Biting the tip of cartridge off, which was greased with animal fat

Question 11

How did the British ruin India’s local hand-weaving industry?

Answer 11

By flooding India with machine-made textile

Question 12

Who in India could write and read?

Answer 12

The top classes (10%)

Question 13

What did the zaminders (tax collectors) do?

Answer 13

Raised taxes and took land from peasants

Question 14

What did the British use the Taj Mahal for?

Answer 14

Weddings and parties

Question 15

How did the Chinese emperor react to the Opium War?

Answer 15

He attempted to place a ban on the import of opium and seized Chinese ports that carried opium

Question 16

How did the British react to the Chinese emperor’s actions?

Answer 16

By invading China, in which British warships won over the Chinese. Five Chinese ports opened, and Britain seized Hong Kong.

Question 17

What did countries (Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Russia) do to China?

Answer 17

Carved a sphere of influence

Question 18

What was the Taiping Revolution caused by?

Answer 18

Poverty and misery, extravagant court, corruption, bribery, rich not taxed. People wanted land, equality, and to end the Qing dynasty.

Question 19

Who seized land in Northern China?

Answer 19

Russia

Question 20

Why was Korea so appealing to Japan?

Answer 20

Strategic location opposite Japan and natural resources of coal and iron

Question 21

What did Japan force Korea to do?

Answer 21

To open to foreign trade, especially to Japan, and to declare independence from China

Question 22

Who did Japan win over?

Answer 22

Taiwan

Question 23

What did other European countries do once seeing China’s weaknesses?

Answer 23

Carving spheres of influence and making trade in China open to everyone

Question 24

Who were the Boxers?

Answer 24

A secret society whose goal was to drive “foreign devils” out of China

Question 25

With the teamwork of peasants, students, local workers, and politicians, what did they accomplish?

Answer 25

Toppling the Qing Dynasty

Question 26

What type of government did Sun Xixian rule over?

Answer 26

A republic

Question 27

What was the motto of the Meiji Restoration?

Answer 27

“Enrich the county and strengthen the military”

Question 28

What was the Japanese cabinet’s largest concern?

Answer 28

That Japan wouldn’t be able to regain its sovereignty if it didn’t modernize

Question 29

What were many of Japan’s reforms influenced by? Provide one example.

Answer 29

The West. One example of the abolition of the social hierarchy.

Question 30

Why did many Meiji reformers believe that such reforms were necessary?

Answer 30

To achieve diplomatic equality and military strength and to begin building a path towards democracy

Question 31

How did Emperor Meiji reflect Western values?

Answer 31

By wearing Western style military clothes, styling his hair in a Western matter, growing a kaiser mustache, correcting Japanese culture, and civilizing the nation

Question 32

What are oligarchs?

Answer 32

The emperor’s advisors

Question 33

What were some reforms that the Japanese emperor and his oligarchs made?

Answer 33

Tax, military, education, banks and railroads, modern printing press

Question 34

How was the Japanese military reformed?

Answer 34

They adopted Western style military uniforms and took steps toward new models of military education

Question 35

What did the Prussian and Austrian constitutions influence the Japanese to do?

Answer 35

Establish the Meiji Constitution in 1881, which defined the roles and responsibilities of the emperor, the rights and obligations of citizens, and government