Deck 9: Globalization and Its Discontents: 1878-1910

Question 1

One of the key characteristics of the "new imperialism" of the late nineteenth century was that:

A) imperial powers asked permission before entering into colonial relationships.
B) imperial powers had more resources with which to control their colonies.
C) indigenous populations were less likely to resist imperial powers.
D) Great Britain pledged to withdraw any colonial possessions within twenty years of taking control.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which of the following was a target of Japanese imperial aggression in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

A) The Philippine Islands.
B) Indonesia.
C) Korea.
D) Hawaii.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

During the rubber boom of the late nineteenth century, the French established rubber plantations in:

A) The Philippine Islands.
B) Indochina.
C) Korea.
D) Hawaii.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which of the following was annexed to the United States at the end of the Spanish-American War?

A) The Philippine Islands.
B) Indonesia.
C) Korea.
D) Hawaii.
E) Hong Kong.

Question 5

Which of the following territories was NOT controlled by the British in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

A) India
B) Hong Kong
C) Burma
D) Ethiopia

Question 6

Which of the following did NOT have colonial claims in Africa in the early twentieth century?

A) Portugal
B) France
C) Belgium
D) Japan

Question 7

European authors and politicians justified imperialism with the argument that:

A) they needed access to new markets
B) they were engaged in a competition for survival
C) they were obliged to help civilize other societies
D) A and B only
E) All of the above

Question 8

Anarcho-syndicalism was a resistance movement of

A) radical laborers and intellectuals in industrial states
B) indigenous resistance movements to new imperialists
C) Japanese reformers leading the Meiji Revolution
D) South African diamond miners who thought the wealth should stay in Africa.

Question 9

Belgian imperialism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries focused on:

A) South Africa.
B) Morocco
C) Congo.
D) Angola.

Question 10

The Congo Free State was under the control of :

A) Queen Victoria.
B) Otto von Bismarck.
C) King Leopold II
D) Giuseppe Mazzini

Question 11

The Ghost Dancers, Maji-Maji, and Boxers:

A) employed local customs and traditions as part of their resistance movements.
B) received military support from Germany.
C) defied the Geneva Conventions.
D) supported the Congo Free State.

Question 12

At the turn of the twentieth century, _____________________ provided more than half of the foreign investment in Latin America.

A) the United States.
B) Spain.
C) Great Britain.
D) domestic sources.

Question 13

In the 1870s and 1880s, Otto von Bismarck invited other leaders to Berlin to discuss:

A) Africa and China.
B) Africa and Southeastern Europe.
C) China and Japan.
D) the freedom of the seas.

Question 14

Recent research on the Sino-Japanese War:

A) disputes the idea that China lost because Japan was more modern.
B) questions whether Japan really won the war.
C) exposes Russia's clandestine support of China.
D) reveals the importance of Korean neutrality.

Question 15

The theories of Charles Darwin and Sigmund Freud:

A) reinforced beliefs in the perfectability of human rationality.
B) challenged notions of humans' unique place in the world.
C) undermined global capitalism.
D) were warmly embraced by religious leaders.

Question 16

During the second half of the nineteenth century, the economies of Latin America:

A) achieved stability through industrialization.
B) benefitted from increased direct trade with independent African countries.
C) received little investment from outside.
D) experienced wild fluctuations between boom and bust.

Question 17

The self-strengthening movement:

A) was begun by Emma Goldman.
B) merged practical Western ideas with traditional Chinese values.
C) helped Menelik II maintain Ethiopian independence.
D) overturned three hundred years of Ming orthodoxy.

Question 18

Menelik II, ruler of _______________, was able to preserve one of the few autonomous states in Africa through the end of the nineteenth century.

A) Siam
B) Angola
C) Morocco
D) Ethiopia

Question 19

Social Darwinists argued that ______________________ was a demonstration of survival of

A) self-strengthening
B) imperialism
C) anarchosyndicalism
D) industrialization

Question 20

The Congo Reform Association:

A) presented photographs and other evidence of atrocities in the Belgian Congo.
B) supported the Berlin Conference of 1884.
C) opposed efforts to import Brazilian rubber to Belgium.
D) financed the first investments in rubber plantations in central Africa.

Question 21

Using examples from different regions, describe movements against the trends of "modernization" as they were practiced in the second half of the nineteenth century, In your answer, please consider movements in colonial settings as well as those within more industrialized areas.

Question 22

Compare and contrast imperial incursions in Asia with those mounted in Africa in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Question 23

How were the ideas of "order and progress" challenged by events and ideas of this era? From where do the challenges emerge? What, if any, long term consequences ensued from those challenges?