Chapter 26 Flashcards
All of the following technological innovations were crucial to European imperialistic expansion except
c.the airplane
The most striking difference between the new imperialism and the old was the new imperialism’s
c.formal political control.
The Sino-Japanese War led to
d.a fresh round of imperialistic activity in China.
4.The United States’s imperial acquisitions included all of the following except
China
Rudyard Kipling’s works were indicative of the
c.civilizing mission of imperialism.
All of the following were decided on at the Berlin Conference except
b.internationalization of the Suez and Panama canals.
In the Open Door policy, the United States argued that
d.Chinese territory should not be annexed by the European powers.
By 1900, the only areas of Africa not controlled by European states were
c.Liberia and Ethiopia.
The principle by which the European powers established their claim to an African territory was known as
b.effective occupation.
Japan opened its shores to Western trade
b.in response to U.S. military pressure
Anti-imperialist leaders in Africa and Asia
b.used Western ideologies to shape their movements.
All of the following were products of British rule in India except
b.social equality.
The Meiji Restoration featured all of the following except
a.a democratic political system.
Japan’s arrival as world-class power was signaled by its
d.victory in the Russo-Japanese War.
All of the following were characteristics of the new imperialism except
d.racial equality.
Ahmed Arabi exemplifies
B) armed resistance to Western imperialism.
The most striking difference between the new imperialism of 1880-1914 and European expansion earlier in the 1800s was the new imperialism’s
C) formal political control
of the following societies responded most successfully to Western imperialism before World War I?
B) Japan.
The typical European immigrant was often
C) a small farmer or rural craftsperson
The largest share of European foreign investment went to
C) European states and North America
Jews made up the immigrant group least likely to return to their native land, primarily because of
A) the violent anti-Semitism in eastern Europe.
The large new colony acquired by the U.S. in Asia in the Spanish-American War of 1898 was
E) the Philippines.
Rudyard Kipling’s “white man’s burden” referred to
D) the white race’s supposed duty to “civilize” inferior, nonwhite races.
The Berlin Conference of 1884-1885
D) set up the terms for the division of most of Africa among European colonial
The Boxer Rebellion was
B) a rebellion of traditionalist Chinese patriots
Europeans migrated for a variety of reasons, most did so
A) for economic reasons.
The Sino-British war, which ended with the Treaty of Nanking in 1842, was caused by
E) Chinese attempts to stop the British-controlled opium trade
Between 1750 and 1913, average income in the Third World
A) was stagnant.
German chancellor Otto von Bismarck
A) at first disdained the acquisition of colonies as a waste of effort and funds, but later took several African colonies for Germany.
Which of the following events occurred first?
A) Perry “opens” Japan.
Which of the following events occurred last?
D) Conrad publishes Heart of Darkness.
The writings of Heinrich von Treitschke reflected the
B) nationalist drive for colonies.
The principle by which the European powers established their claim to an African territory known as
C) effective occupation
The primary factor that influenced whether European immigrants returned to their native lands was
D) the possibility of buying land in the home country.
China’s __________ government’s efforts to stamp out the opium trade were opposed by the British
A) Qing
In his book Imperalism, J. A. Hobson maintained all of the following except that
A) imperialism was justified by Darwin’s theory of natural selection.
Japan opened its shores to Western trade
B) in response to U.S. military pressure.
In the Treaty of ___________, China was forced to cede Hong Kong to the British.
D) Nanking
All of the following were European critics of imperialism except
E) Jules Ferry.
The Meiji Restoration featured all of the following except
C) overthrow of the emperor.
In 1910 Korea became a colony of
D) Japan.
Sun Yat-sen
C) advocated overthrow of the Qing dynasty and the establishment of a Chinese republic.
Thirty-four percent of European emigrants between 1851 and 1960 came from
C) Great Britain and Ireland.
In the Battle of Omdurman, the British lost twentyeight troops, while Sudanese forces lost
D) 11,000.
Ismail Ali ruled for sixteen years as Egypt’s ___________, or prince
A) khedive
By 1913, world trade had
D) grown twenty-five times that of 1800.
_________ led the United States’ effort to gain access to Japanese markets
E) Matthew Perry
After shattering military defeat, one reason for the initial acceptance of European imperial rule by the great majority of Asians and Africans was
A) that political participation in Asia and Africa had generally been limited to small elites.
How did the Union of South Africa function differently than any other territory in Africa?
a. It functioned as a largely “self-governing” colony.
Which of the following best characterizes the economic gains of the new imperialism?
The gains were limited because the new colonies were too poor to buy European goods and offered few immediately profitable investments.
In the nineteenth century, the three-thousand-mile archipelago that is today Indonesia came under the domination of?
c. Netherlands
Why did Great Britain choose to seize land in Africa and Asia in the late nineteenth century
c. Great Britain feared that France and Germany would seal off their empires with high tariffs, and Great Britain would lose future economic opportunities.
Ismail transformed Egypt in all of the following ways except?
a. He refused to borrow money from Western banks.
Which of the following best characterizes the new imperialism?
a. It resembled the old European colonial empires of the seventeenth century.
How did the British have access to the opium that they smuggled into China?
e. Opium was grown legally in British-occupied India.
How was the flow of goods directed around the globe?
b. By new communication systems, such as the telegraph, that could direct ships from port to port
How did the building of railroads in Latin America, Asia, and Africa facilitate Western economic interests as opposed to regional economic interests?
a. Railroad lines connected cities to seaports to facilitate Western trade but did not link inland cities to each other.
In most European countries, how was out-migration related to population growth in the late nineteenth century?
d. Out-migration increased about twenty years after rapid population growth, as land became scarce.
How did Muhammad Ali finance his modernization of Egyptian society?
a. He forced farmers to become tenants of large, private landowners who adopted commercial agriculture.
What was Britain’s decisive advantage in its war with China?
e. Britain had control of the seas.
