Imperialism

Question 1

What is imperialism?

Answer 1

One nations control of the political, economic, and social territory.

Question 2

Who was not represented in the Berlin conference?

Answer 2

Africans

Question 3

Define sphere of influence.

Answer 3

When European country demanded exclusive trading rights in a territory.

Question 4

What European country first colonized Southern Africa?

Answer 4

The Netherlands

Question 5

Who were the Boers?

Answer 5

The Dutch settlers in Southern Africa.

Question 6

What two states did the Boers create in Southern Africa?

Answer 6

Orange free state and South African republic/Transvaal

Question 7

What was Apartheid?

Answer 7

Legal system of racial separation in S Africa.

Question 8

Why did Britain make Egypt a British protectorate?

Answer 8

To protect British control of Suez Canal

Question 9

Who was the Beligian king who owned the Congo Free state?

Answer 9

Leopold II

Question 10

Who were the pied noir?

Answer 10

French settlers in Algeria

Question 11

Who fought at the Battle of Adowa in 1896?

Answer 11

Ethopia and Italians

Question 12

What African country was unofficially an American colony?

Answer 12

Liberia

Question 13

Which European country first colonized part of India?

Answer 13

Portugal

Question 14

What empire ruled India at this time?

Answer 14

Mughal Empire

Question 15

Who were sepoys?

Answer 15

Indians serving in the British army.

Question 16

What caused the Sepoy Mutiny?

Answer 16

The introduction of the new Enfield rifle

Question 17

What is a viceroy?

Answer 17

Representative of the king or queen

Question 18

Which dynasty ruled China in the 1800s?

Answer 18

Qing

Question 19

Europeans were only allowed to trade in which Chinese port city?

Answer 19

Canton

Question 20

What product did the English discover that the Chinese would buy from them?

Answer 20

Opium

Question 21

Name four results of the Treaty of Nanjing 1842?

Answer 21

China payed for destroyed opium, British gained extra territorial rights, Opium trade didn’t end, and British allowed to trade in more ports.

Question 22

What happened at the Berlin Conference?

Answer 22

Established rules for European conquest of Africa

Question 23

What language did Boers speak?

Answer 23

Afrikaans

Question 24

What was the Great Trek?

Answer 24

Boers headed North and East

Question 25

Why did Boers set of on the Great Trek?

Answer 25

Preserve Dutch heritage

Question 26

Who was the British Prime minister of the Cape colony who wanted Britain to control territory from Cairo to Cape Town?

Answer 26

Cecil Rhodes

Question 27

What ethnic group in Southern Africa did Britain go to war with?

Answer 27

Boers

Question 28

Who United the Boers into one state?

Answer 28

Beligian government

Question 29

The Battle of Plassey was part of what war?

Answer 29

Seven years war

Question 30

Who won battle of plassey?

Answer 30

British

Question 31

What did British do that angered the Indians?

Answer 31

The Indians ordered them to stop military preparations but they refused

Question 32

Who was the British monarch during this time?

Answer 32

Queen Victoria

Question 33

Why were the Chinese not interested in buying European goods?

Answer 33

They looked down on them

Question 34

Name five countries that carved spheres of influence in China.

Answer 34

Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and Japan

Question 35

What was the Open door policy and who suggested it?

Answer 35

Any nation should be free to trade anywhere in China. The USA suggested it.

Question 36

What happened during the Taiping Rebellion?

Answer 36

The religious revolt against the Qing dynasty failed with 20 million deaths.

Question 37

Who was the dowager empress of China who opposed foreign involvement in China?

Answer 37

Ci Xi

Question 38

Who fought the Second Opium war and what was the result?

Answer 38

British and French against the Chinese and China was forced to open to foreigners.

Question 39

What happened during the Boxer Rebellion?

Answer 39

Chinese attacked foreigners and killed many Chinese Christians

Question 40

Who was Sun Yat-sen?

Answer 40

Founded nationalist Party

Question 41

Who was Pu Yi?

Answer 41

2 year old emperor of China

Question 42

What Chinese political party pushed for the creation of a republic in China?

Answer 42

Nationalist Party

Question 43

What was the Meiji Restoration in Japan?

Answer 43

The uprising of samurai that defeated the shogun

Question 44

What was surprising about the Russio-Japanese war?

Answer 44

Japan was the first non European country to defeat a European country in war.

Question 45

What non European country did Europeans view as an equal going into World War I?

Answer 45

Japan