Vhapter 32 Flashcards
Rudyard Kipling’s poem, “The White Man’s Burden,” was actually meant to inspire the Americans to colonize?
The Philippines
The Suez Canal was essential for?
British control over India
The battle of Omdurman?
Opened the door for British colonial rule in Sudan
Submarine cables linked all parts of the British empire throughout the world by?
1902
The most important figures in the uprising in 1857 in India were?
Disgruntled sepoy troops
In 1824, Thomas Stamford Raffles rounded the port of?
Singapore
Between 1859 and 1893, Vietnam, combodia, and laos all fell under the control of ____ and by 1900, the only part of Southeast Asia not under European imperial rule was________.
France ; Siam
The Congo free state was established in the 1870s by?
Belgium
The Berlin conference ?
Decided the ground rule for the Europeans colonization of Africa.
Who were the Boers?
Dutch settlers in South Africa
Cecil Rhodes, who said, “We are the finest race in the world and the more of the world we inhabit, the better it is for the human race”, was?
A leading British imperialist who founded a colony in Africa.
“Concessionaire companies” refers to a system of colonial rule that employed?
Private companies granted territory and control over taxation and labor for mining construction and or agricultural projects
In 1770, Captin James Cook anchored his fleet at Botany Bat, near what modern city?
Sydney
New South Wales was originally settled by about one thousand people, most of them convicted criminals?
But voluntary migrants outnumbered convicts within 50 years.
Which matching of imperial power and colonial area is NOT correct?
The United States and Fiji
After the overthrow of queen lulu Uokalani in 1893, the United States took over?
Hawaii
The Monroe doctrine?
Worked as a justification for U.S. Intervention in western hemispheric affairs
The United States occupied Cuba Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines after its victory in?
The Spanish Cuban American war
Emilio aguinaldo led an uprising in?
The Philippines against the United States
The Roosevelt corollary strengthened the U.S. Military can economic claims in which area of the world?
In territories lying in the Western Hemisphere to the south of the United States
The Sino-Japanese war began with a dispute over?
Korea
Under British control, Ceylon became a major producer of ?
Tea
Between 1800- and 1914, ______ million Europeans migrated overseas, and the majority of indentured laborers came from _____.
Fifty million. India
The maji maji rebellion occurred in?
Tanganyika against the Germans
