Chapter 26

Question 0

All of the following technological innovations were crucial to European imperialistic expansion except

Answer 0

​c.​the airplane

Question 1

The most striking difference between the new imperialism and the old was the new imperialism’s

Answer 1

c.​formal political control.

Question 2

The Sino-Japanese War led to

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d.​a fresh round of imperialistic activity in China.

Question 3

4.​The United States’s imperial acquisitions included all of the following except

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China

Question 4

Rudyard Kipling’s works were indicative of the

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​c.​civilizing mission of imperialism.

Question 5

All of the following were decided on at the Berlin Conference except

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​b.​internationalization of the Suez and Panama canals.

Question 6

In the Open Door policy, the United States argued that

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​d.​Chinese territory should not be annexed by the European powers.

Question 7

By 1900, the only areas of Africa not controlled by European states were

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​c.​Liberia and Ethiopia.

Question 8

The principle by which the European powers established their claim to an African territory was known as

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b.​effective occupation.

Question 9

Japan opened its shores to Western trade

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b.​in response to U.S. military pressure

Question 10

Anti-imperialist leaders in Africa and Asia

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​b.​used Western ideologies to shape their movements.

Question 11

All of the following were products of British rule in India except

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b.​social equality.

Question 12

The Meiji Restoration featured all of the following except

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​a.​a democratic political system.

Question 13

Japan’s arrival as world-class power was signaled by its

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​d.​victory in the Russo-Japanese War.

Question 14

All of the following were characteristics of the new imperialism except

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​d.​racial equality.

Question 15

Ahmed Arabi exemplifies

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B) armed resistance to Western imperialism.

Question 16

The most striking difference between the new imperialism of 1880-1914 and European expansion earlier in the 1800s was the new imperialism’s

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C) formal political control

Question 17

of the following societies responded most successfully to Western imperialism before World War I?

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B) Japan.

Question 18

The typical European immigrant was often

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C) a small farmer or rural craftsperson

Question 19

The largest share of European foreign investment went to

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C) European states and North America

Question 20

Jews made up the immigrant group least likely to return to their native land, primarily because of

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A) the violent anti-Semitism in eastern Europe.

Question 21

The large new colony acquired by the U.S. in Asia in the Spanish-American War of 1898 was

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E) the Philippines.

Question 22

Rudyard Kipling’s “white man’s burden” referred to

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D) the white race’s supposed duty to “civilize” inferior, nonwhite races.

Question 23

The Berlin Conference of 1884-1885

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D) set up the terms for the division of most of Africa among European colonial

Question 24

The Boxer Rebellion was

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B) a rebellion of traditionalist Chinese patriots

Question 25

Europeans migrated for a variety of reasons, most did so

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A) for economic reasons.

Question 26

The Sino-British war, which ended with the Treaty of Nanking in 1842, was caused by

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E) Chinese attempts to stop the British-controlled opium trade

Question 27

Between 1750 and 1913, average income in the Third World

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A) was stagnant.

Question 28

German chancellor Otto von Bismarck

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A) at first disdained the acquisition of colonies as a waste of effort and funds, but later took several African colonies for Germany.

Question 29

Which of the following events occurred first?

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A) Perry “opens” Japan.

Question 30

Which of the following events occurred last?

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D) Conrad publishes Heart of Darkness.

Question 31

The writings of Heinrich von Treitschke reflected the

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B) nationalist drive for colonies.

Question 32

The principle by which the European powers established their claim to an African territory known as

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C) effective occupation

Question 33

The primary factor that influenced whether European immigrants returned to their native lands was

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D) the possibility of buying land in the home country.

Question 34

China’s __________ government’s efforts to stamp out the opium trade were opposed by the British

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A) Qing

Question 35

In his book Imperalism, J. A. Hobson maintained all of the following except that

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A) imperialism was justified by Darwin’s theory of natural selection.

Question 36

Japan opened its shores to Western trade

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B) in response to U.S. military pressure.

Question 37

In the Treaty of ___________, China was forced to cede Hong Kong to the British.

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D) Nanking

Question 38

All of the following were European critics of imperialism except

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E) Jules Ferry.

Question 39

The Meiji Restoration featured all of the following except

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C) overthrow of the emperor.

Question 40

In 1910 Korea became a colony of

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D) Japan.

Question 41

Sun Yat-sen

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C) advocated overthrow of the Qing dynasty and the establishment of a Chinese republic.

Question 42

Thirty-four percent of European emigrants between 1851 and 1960 came from

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C) Great Britain and Ireland.

Question 43

In the Battle of Omdurman, the British lost twentyeight troops, while Sudanese forces lost

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D) 11,000.

Question 44

Ismail Ali ruled for sixteen years as Egypt’s ___________, or prince

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A) khedive

Question 45

By 1913, world trade had

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D) grown twenty-five times that of 1800.

Question 46

_________ led the United States’ effort to gain access to Japanese markets

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E) Matthew Perry

Question 47

After shattering military defeat, one reason for the initial acceptance of European imperial rule by the great majority of Asians and Africans was

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A) that political participation in Asia and Africa had generally been limited to small elites.

Question 48

How did the Union of South Africa function differently than any other territory in Africa?

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a. It functioned as a largely “self-governing” colony.

Question 49

Which of the following best characterizes the economic gains of the new imperialism?

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The gains were limited because the new colonies were too poor to buy European goods and offered few immediately profitable investments.

Question 50

In the nineteenth century, the three-thousand-mile archipelago that is today Indonesia came under the domination of?

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c. Netherlands

Question 51

Why did Great Britain choose to seize land in Africa and Asia in the late nineteenth century

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c. Great Britain feared that France and Germany would seal off their empires with high tariffs, and Great Britain would lose future economic opportunities.

Question 52

Ismail transformed Egypt in all of the following ways except?

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a. He refused to borrow money from Western banks.

Question 53

Which of the following best characterizes the new imperialism?

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a. It resembled the old European colonial empires of the seventeenth century.

Question 54

How did the British have access to the opium that they smuggled into China?

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e. Opium was grown legally in British-occupied India.

Question 55

How was the flow of goods directed around the globe?

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b. By new communication systems, such as the telegraph, that could direct ships from port to port

Question 56

How did the building of railroads in Latin America, Asia, and Africa facilitate Western economic interests as opposed to regional economic interests?

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a. Railroad lines connected cities to seaports to facilitate Western trade but did not link inland cities to each other.

Question 57

In most European countries, how was out-migration related to population growth in the late nineteenth century?

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d. Out-migration increased about twenty years after rapid population growth, as land became scarce.

Question 58

How did Muhammad Ali finance his modernization of Egyptian society?

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a. He forced farmers to become tenants of large, private landowners who adopted commercial agriculture.

Question 59

What was Britain’s decisive advantage in its war with China?

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e. Britain had control of the seas.