Vhapter 32

Question 1

Rudyard Kipling’s poem, “The White Man’s Burden,” was actually meant to inspire the Americans to colonize?

Answer 1

The Philippines

Question 2

The Suez Canal was essential for?

Answer 2

British control over India

Question 3

The battle of Omdurman?

Answer 3

Opened the door for British colonial rule in Sudan

Question 4

Submarine cables linked all parts of the British empire throughout the world by?

Answer 4

1902

Question 5

The most important figures in the uprising in 1857 in India were?

Answer 5

Disgruntled sepoy troops

Question 6

In 1824, Thomas Stamford Raffles rounded the port of?

Answer 6

Singapore

Question 7

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________.

Answer 7

France ; Siam

Question 8

The Congo free state was established in the 1870s by?

Answer 8

Belgium

Question 9

The Berlin conference ?

Answer 9

Decided the ground rule for the Europeans colonization of Africa.

Question 10

Who were the Boers?

Answer 10

Dutch settlers in South Africa

Question 11

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?

Answer 11

A leading British imperialist who founded a colony in Africa.

Question 12

“Concessionaire companies” refers to a system of colonial rule that employed?

Answer 12

Private companies granted territory and control over taxation and labor for mining construction and or agricultural projects

Question 13

In 1770, Captin James Cook anchored his fleet at Botany Bat, near what modern city?

Answer 13

Sydney

Question 14

New South Wales was originally settled by about one thousand people, most of them convicted criminals?

Answer 14

But voluntary migrants outnumbered convicts within 50 years.

Question 15

Which matching of imperial power and colonial area is NOT correct?

Answer 15

The United States and Fiji

Question 16

After the overthrow of queen lulu Uokalani in 1893, the United States took over?

Answer 16

Hawaii

Question 17

The Monroe doctrine?

Answer 17

Worked as a justification for U.S. Intervention in western hemispheric affairs

Question 18

The United States occupied Cuba Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines after its victory in?

Answer 18

The Spanish Cuban American war

Question 19

Emilio aguinaldo led an uprising in?

Answer 19

The Philippines against the United States

Question 20

The Roosevelt corollary strengthened the U.S. Military can economic claims in which area of the world?

Answer 20

In territories lying in the Western Hemisphere to the south of the United States

Question 21

The Sino-Japanese war began with a dispute over?

Answer 21

Korea

Question 22

Under British control, Ceylon became a major producer of ?

Answer 22

Tea

Question 23

Between 1800- and 1914, ______ million Europeans migrated overseas, and the majority of indentured laborers came from _____.

Answer 23

Fifty million. India

Question 24

The maji maji rebellion occurred in?

Answer 24

Tanganyika against the Germans

Question 25

Count Joseph Arthur de govineau, author of the essay of the inequality of the human races, viewed Europeans as?

Answer 25

Intelligent and morally superior to all other people’s in the world

Question 26

Social Darwinists, a term associated with Herbert spencer, believed that?

Answer 26

Powerful nations were meant to dominate weaker societies

Question 27

How did the Japanese and Americans compare to European nations in regards to imperialism?

Answer 27

Proved to be as racist as the Europeans

Question 28

Who was Ram Mohan Roy?

Answer 28

All of the above

Question 29

In 1916, the Indian national congress?

Answer 29

Joined forces with the all-Indian Muslim league