Imperialism Quiz #2

Question 1

White man’s burden

Answer 1

a poem that is an attempt to justify imperialism

Question 2

Who is the author of white man’s burden

Answer 2

Rudyard Kipling

Question 3

What does the author imply is the “white man’s burden”

Answer 3

It implied that white imperialists had a moral duty to educate less developed people

Question 4

What is a colony

Answer 4

Governed internally by a foreign power

Question 5

What is a protectorate

Answer 5

Own internal government but under control of an absolute power

Question 6

What is a sphere of influence

Answer 6

Outside power claims exclusive investment or trading jobs

Question 7

What are some issues that imperialist ran into in Africa?

Answer 7

The rivers were hard to navigate and there was a lot of disease

Question 8

What were the materials that imperialist countries found in Africa

Answer 8

Gold and ivory

Question 9

What was the opium war

Answer 9

Fight between Britain and china over the British shipping lots of opium to china

Question 10

What was the first opium war?

Answer 10

1839-1842

Question 11

When was the second opium war?

Answer 11

1856-1860

Question 12

What is the Treaty of Nanjing

Answer 12

Signed by china after the opium war. China opened more ports and pay for cost of war, gave Britain Hong Kong, granted foreigners extraterritoriality

Question 13

What is the Open Door Policy

Answer 13

policy that the U.S. proposed that allowed all powers in china equal access to Chinese merchants

Question 14

What is the Boxer Rebellion

Answer 14

Rebellion in 1900 where a secret society of boxers rose up against foreign powers. European, American, and Japanese power crushes revolt. Chinese gov conceding more to foreign powers

Question 15

What is the Meiji Restoration

Answer 15

Tokugawa Shogunate was overthrown; restored power of the emperor( strong centralized govt with constitution, industrialized japan, built up military power and infrastructure and economy) Modernized Japan and made it competitive with the west.

Question 16

What is Tokugawa Shogunate

Answer 16

Feudal system led by warrior class that brought stability to japan and banned all contact with outside world (isolationism)

Question 17

What is the Russo-Japanese War

Answer 17

Conflict between Japan and Russia over control of korea. The Treaty of Portsmouth ends the war. Japan wins and gains territory in Manchuria. Japan annexes Korea in 1910