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Question 1

What supported China’s rising population during the 1700s

Answer 1

Crops such as rice, peanuts, and tea.

Question 2

What port did imported goods go through?

Answer 2

Guangzhou port.

Question 3

Who introduced opium to Chinese market?

Answer 3

The British.

Question 4

This Chinese dynasty wrote to this British monarch demanding the end of opium transport to China because of the ill-effects to it’s people.

Answer 4

Qing Dynasty, and Victoria.

Question 5

What was the first use of opium?

Answer 5

Used by Chinese doctors to relieve the pain of their patients?

Question 6

T/F The British agreed to stop sending opium to China.

Answer 6

False, the British disagreed and caused the Great Opium War.

Question 7

What allowed the British to win the war against China?

Answer 7

Steam-powered gunboats

Question 8

What was the Treaty of Nanjing?

Answer 8

Gave Hong Kong to British Kingdom

Question 9

What caused the Chinese to revolt against the Qing Dynasty?

Answer 9

Food production could not sustain the Chinese population which resulted to widespread hunger.

Question 10

Who was Hong Xiuquan?

Answer 10

Young Chinese leader, formed the Taiping Rebellion

Question 11

What does Taiping mean?

Answer 11

“Great peace”

Question 12

What was the principle of the Taiping rebellion?

Answer 12

All Chinese people would share China’s vast wealth and no one should live in poverty.

Question 13

Who was the Dowager Empress that ruled China by the end of the 1800s?

Answer 13

Cixi.

Question 14

What is the Open Door Policy?

Answer 14

Gives all foreign nations equal opportunities and access to Chinese markets.

Question 15

T/F Emperor Guangxu was Cixi’s son.

Answer 15

False, it was her nephew.

Question 16

What was the other name for the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists?

Answer 16

Boxers.

Question 17

Who was the U.S Commodore that enter Japanese waters with modern steamships?

Answer 17

Commodore Matthew Perry

Question 18

Who was the Emperor that overthrew the shogun?

Answer 18

Emperor Mutsuhito.

Question 18

What is the Treaty of Kanagawa?

Answer 18

Allowed two Japanese ports to be opened for the U.S to trade with Japan.

Question 19

What was the period of the Emperor called?

Answer 19

Meiji Period

Question 20

What country was the Japanese government modeled after?

Answer 20

Germany.

Question 21

How many ports did Japan open in Korea?

Answer 21

Three

Question 22

What caused the Sino-Japanese war?

Answer 22

After China violated their agreement with Japan to not send their troops to Korea.

Question 23

What caused the Russo-Japanese war?

Answer 23

When Japan attacked Russian ships on Manchuria

Question 24

Which U.S president mediated the Treaty of Portsmouth?

Answer 24

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 25

What is the Treaty of Portsmouth?

Answer 25

It stipulated the retreat of Russian forces in Manchuria.

Question 25

When did Korea become a protectorate of Japan?

Answer 25

1905.

Question 25

Why was the Panama Canal built?

Answer 25

United States intervening in Latin America for maritime trade.

Question 25

The Panama Canal provided a shorter route between which two oceans?

Answer 25

Pacific
and Carribean.

Question 26

What were military dictators called who controlled most of the new nations in Latin America?

Answer 26

Caudillos.

Question 26

Who ruled Venezuela for three decades?

Answer 26

Juan Vicente Gomez

Question 26

Who led Argentina?

Answer 26

Domingo Sarmiento.

Question 27

What gave birth to economic colonialism in Latin America?

Answer 27

Borrowed money at high-interest rates from Britain, France, Germany, and the U.S. They were not able to pay it back.

Question 28

What did the Monroe Doctrine state?

Answer 28

The American continents are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European Powers.

Question 29

What country was the first one that America extended the doctrine to?

Answer 29

Cuba

Question 30

What is the Roosevelt Corollary?

Answer 30

Extension of the Monroe Doctrine giving rights to the U.S as the “international police power” in Latin America.