Deck 21: The High Tide of Imperialism

Question 1

How, and why, did the policies of European imperialists in West Africa and Southeast Asia differ? To what degree did economic motives explain these differences, and why?

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Question 2

"The Boer War was a precursor and a paradigm of later twentieth century wars." Discuss, pro and con.

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Question 3

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"might makes right"

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Question 4

What made Africa so desirable to imperialist European nations? Be specific.

Question 5

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new imperialism

Question 6

"Western imperialism was an inevitable consequence of the West's Scientific and Industrial Revolutions." Discuss, pro and con.

Question 7

Discuss some of the non-economic motives for Western imperialism. In your opinion, were the economic or non-economic motives of primary importance, and why?

Question 8

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Japan, Thailand, Afghanistan, Persia, and Ethiopia

Question 9

How did nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europeans justify their imperialism?

Question 10

What does the text mean when it says, "modern nationalism, then, was a product of colonialism and, in a sense, a reaction to it"?

Question 11

"The Sepoy Rebellion was the major turning point in modern Indian history." Discuss, pro and con.

Question 12

Compare and contrast the strategies of European colonialism and neo-colonialism.

Question 13

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Cecil Rhodes

Question 14

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direct rule

Question 15

Was Western imperialism an inevitable result of the advance of the Industrial Revolution? Why or why not?

Question 16

"On balance, Western imperialism benefited the colonial peoples." Discuss, pro and con.

Question 17

Describe the institutionalization of European colonialism in terms of its philosophical underpinnings and the actual practices and policies that its practitioners employed.

Question 18

What strategies did African and Asian peoples employ to cope with or resist European imperialism? To what degree were they successful?

Question 19

Describe the strategies of resistance employed by colonized peoples. Where were they successful? Where did they fall short and why?

Question 20

Compare and contrast eighteenth century colonialism with late nineteenth century imperialism. What are the differences, if any, and why?

Question 21

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Zanzibar and the slave trade

Question 22

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Thailand's King Mongkut and King Chulalongkorn

Question 23

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raj

Question 24

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Commodore George Dewey

Question 25

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"modernizing elite"

Question 26

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Sierra Leone, Senegal, and the Gold Coast

Question 27

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Ferdinand de Lesseps and the Suez Canal

Question 28

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Indochinese Union

Question 29

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zamindar system

Question 30

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Thomas Babington Macaulay

Question 31

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association

Question 32

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indirect rule

Question 33

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slave trade vs. "legitimate trade"

Question 34

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assimilation

Question 35

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the Mahdi and Charles Gordon

Question 36

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Emilio Aguinaldo

Question 37

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David Livingstone

Question 38

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Muhammad Ali, the pasha

Question 39

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Liberia

Question 40

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Rudyard Kipling's The White Man's Burden

Question 41

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Kenya's central highlands

Question 42

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social Darwinism

Question 43

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King Leopold II of Belgium

Question 44

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the Great Trek

Question 45

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Shaka and the Zulus

Question 46

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"white man's burden"

Question 47

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Cape Colony

Question 48

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"missionary factor"

Question 49

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Boers/Afrikaners

Question 50

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Basutoland, Bechuanaland, and Swaziland

Question 51

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the "three Cs"

Question 52

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the "scramble for Africa"

Question 53

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Union of South Africa

Question 54

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informal empire

Question 55

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"shanghaied"

Question 56

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Orange Free State and South African Republic/Transvaal

Question 57

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matrilineal

Question 58

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high colonialism

Question 59

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Fashoda

Question 60

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Boer War

Question 61

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Neocolonialism

Question 62

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resistance strategies

Question 63

In the nineteenth century, European nations exploited areas of Asia and Africa for the following EXCEPT

A) raw materials, which could be used in European factories.
B) markets these regions provided for European manufactured goods.
C) opportunities that exploitation presented for European cultural expansion.
D) manufactured goods to be sent from Asia to Europe.
E) possible fields for missionary activities.

Question 64

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Ram Mohan Roy's Brahmo Samaj

Question 65

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'Old' and 'New' Imperialism

Question 66

"New" products that European nations sought to obtain from colonies in Africa and Asia in the nineteenth century included

A) gold and silver.
B) cloves and pepper.
C) oil, tin and rubber.
D) tea, silk, and porcelain.
E) ivory and rayon.

Question 67

Thailand

A) was the only country in southwest Asia to avoid a takeover by the German Empire.
B) was the only predominantly Christian country in its region.
C) was able to remain independent because France and Britain preferred that it remain so in order to serve as a buffer between their colonial territories.
D) had its province of Burma seized by the British in 1894.
E) was occupied for a long period of time by Britain, much to France's disgust and anger.

Question 68

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clitoridectomy

Question 69

In his famous poem "The White Man's Burden," Rudyard Kipling expressed the idea that whites

A) greatly suffered from the cruelty of African native tribes when they were captured.
B) were never really recompensed for the loss of their colonies after the end of colonialism.
C) were more susceptible to native African diseases and therefore experienced greater mortality.
D) carried the economic cost of infrastructure development in their former colonies.
E) had a moral responsibility to lift Africans from a state of lower societal development.

Question 70

Who asserted that British colonialism had a moral purpose to promote Christianity and build a better world?

A) John A. Hobson
B) Edmund Morel
C) Charles Gordon
D) Henry Curzon
E) Jules Ferry

Question 71

What was the general idea of Thomas Babington Macaulay's educational policy for Britain's Indian subjects?

A) We should produce a class that is Indian in blood and color but English in taste and intellect.
B) If you lift up the poor, they become better manual laborers.
C) Do not try to educate poor Indians, for it is an impossible task.
D) Education beyond the basics will serve to incite rebellion.
E) We need English-educated Indian soldiers to help us fight insurrection in Africa.

Question 72

Whose last will and testament left a massive estate to be used to create a worldwide British Empire?

A) Albert Sarraut
B) Cecil Rhodes
C) Muhammad Ali Jinna
D) David Livingstone
E) Paul Kruger

Question 73

Who described colonialism as a redistribution of wealth that would result in a better life for the colonizers and those they colonized?

A) Laurent Valère
B) Eduard Douwes Dekker
C) the East India Company
D) David Livingstone
E) Albert Sarraut

Question 74

One of the worst incidents of the Middle Passage happened at

A) the ports of Liberia.
B) Barbados.
C) Taino.
D) Caffard Cove.
E) the Bahamas.

Question 75

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anticolonialism

Question 76

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sepoys

Question 77

In the nineteenth century, imperialism

A) motivated Russia to seize Afghanistan and Burma in the 1860s.
B) was motivated by a desire to control markets as well as raw materials.
C) was denounced by all major European powers until 1874.
D) was notable for Britain's advocacy of its practice of assimilation.
E) was confined, in practice, to East Asia and western South America.

Question 78

The individual who said that "My ruling purpose is the extension of the British empire throughout the world" was

A) Queen Victoria.
B) General Gordon
C) David Livingstone.
D) Cecil Rhodes
E) Rudyard Kipling.

Question 79

The term 'neocolonialism' refers to European colonial tactics

A) after the 16^th century.
B) in all parts of the world except Africa.
C) after the abolition of the slave trade.
D) in Africa only.
E) after former European colonies were replaced by independent nation-states.

Question 80

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Enfield rifles