Deck 21: The High Tide of Imperialism

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Answer not provided.

Question 2

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?

Answer 2

Answer not provided.

Question 3

What caused the renewal of European imperialism in the late-nineteenth century? What were the dominant influences at work? Did they change over time and/or in relation to the actions of other imperialistic societies?

Answer 3

Answer not provided.

Question 4

Identify the following terms.
association v.assimilation

Question 5

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

Question 6

Identify the following terms.

-Japan,Thailand,Afghanistan,Persia,and Ethiopia

Question 7

Identify the following terms.
Cecil Rhodes

Question 8

Compare and contrast British and French imperialism as to governing philosophies,impact upon the colonial populations,and imperial successes,however measured.

Question 9

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

Question 10

Identify the following terms.
imperialism

Question 11

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

Question 12

What factors were behind the "scramble for Africa," and what impact did it have on the continent? What was the purpose of the Berlin Conference of 1884,and how successful was it at achieving that purpose? What was the conference's impact for the European powers and Africa?

Question 13

What types of administrative systems did the various colonial powers establish in their colonies,and how did these systems reflect the general philosophy of colonialism? 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?

Question 14

Identify the following terms.
Rudyard Kipling's The White Man's Burden

Question 15

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 16

Identify the following terms.
direct v.indirect rule

Question 17

Identify the following terms.
"might makes right"

Question 18

What arguments have been advanced to justify the European takeover of colonies in Asia and Africa during the latter part of the nineteenth century? To what degree are such arguments justified?

Question 19

The colonial powers adopted two basic philosophies in seeking to govern their conquered territories in Asia and Africa-assimilation and association.What were the principles behind these philosophies,and how did they work in practice? Which do you believe was more successful?

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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Boers/Afrikaners

Question 22

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"modernizing elite"

Question 23

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the "raj"

Question 24

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zamindar system

Question 25

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Muhammad Ali

Question 26

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"informal empire"

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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Zanzibar and the slave trade

Question 30

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E.M.Forster

Question 31

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nuoc mam

Question 32

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David Livingstone

Question 33

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the Mahdi and Charles "Chinese" Gordon

Question 34

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Emilio Aguinaldo

Question 35

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Commodore George Dewey

Question 36

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Liberia

Question 37

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slave trade vs."legitimate trade"

Question 38

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Cape Colony

Question 39

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Thomas Babington Macaulay

Question 40

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Thailand's King Mongkut and King Chulalongkorn

Question 41

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Can Vuong

Question 42

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Tipu Sultan

Question 43

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King Leopold II of Belgium

Question 44

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"high colonialism"

Question 45

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the "three C's"

Question 46

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Fashoda

Question 47

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Shaka and the Zulus

Question 48

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the Great Trek

Question 49

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the VOC

Question 50

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Orange Free State and South African Republic/Transvaal

Question 51

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Kenya's central highlands

Question 52

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"white man's burden"

Question 53

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Berlin Conference,1884

Question 54

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the "scramble for Africa"

Question 55

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"shanghaied"

Question 56

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clitoridectomy

Question 57

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Boer War

Question 58

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"missionary factor"

Question 59

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social Darwinism

Question 60

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-Basutoland,Bechuanaland,and Swaziland

Question 61

All of the following are correct about the slave trade except it

A) was in decline by the early 1800s.
B) was ended in Denmark in 1803.
C) led Britain to establish settlements in Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast on which to settle freed slaves.
D) essentially ended when the slave trade in the United States, Cuba, and Brazil was abolished.
E) revived in East Asia because of the opium trade.

Question 62

All of the following statements about Zanzibar are true except that it was

A) the first capital of South Africa after the Boer War.
B) the location of substantial clove plantations.
C) the main African port in the early nineteenth century.
D) the African capital of the Sultan of Oman.
E) situated in East Africa.

Question 63

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 64

Which of the following is not a true statement about nineteenth-century Western expansion in Southeast Asia?

A) The British established their control over Burma.
B) Burma retained its independence.
C) The French forcibly created their Indochinese Union.
D) Thailand remained independent, as a result of mutual British and French interests.
E) The Philippines became an American spoil of war with Spain, in spite of efforts by local insurgents to change that outcome.

Question 65

Within the context of Western economic expansion into the regions of Africa and Asia during the nineteenth century,the term imperialism means the forceful appropriation of all except

A) people to buy manufactured goods.
B) low-priced raw materials with which to manufacture goods.
C) advantageous opportunities in which to make highly profitable financial investments.
D) a substitution of African and Asia cultural norms in place of traditional European culture.
E) areas for investments in European-based construction companies.

Question 66

Muhammad Ali

A) was a native-born Egyptian who came to rule his homeland.
B) modernized Egypt and extended its hegemony over neighboring regions.
C) overthrew the Ottoman power in the Middle East.
D) reaped great rewards from the construction of the Suez Canal.
E) was the first Christian ruler of Egypt since the seventh century.

Question 67

In the nineteenth century,European nations exploited areas of Asia and Africa for all 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 such exploitation presented for European cultural expansion.
D) manufactured good to be sent from Asia to Europe.
E) possible fields for missionary activities.

Question 68

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 69

The individual who left a massive estate to create a worldwide British Empire to "civilize" the world was

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

Question 70

A rising non-western nation that avoided colonial subjugation by pursuing a concerted strategy of political and economic reform was

A) Algeria.
B) Vietnam.
C) Burma.
D) Japan.
E) Ceylon.

Question 71

Identify the following terms.
Sepoy Rebellion

Question 72

The Philippine guerrilla leader who failed to thwart the United States conquest was

A) Antonio Celino.
B) Antonio Barbosa.
C) Emilio Aguinaldo.
D) Ferdinand Marcos.
E) Mongkut Chulalongkorn.

Question 73

In the second half of the nineteenth century,

A) a Frenchman built the Suez Canal, but it ultimately came under British control.
B) British General Charles Gordon restored Egyptian rule in Sudan with his Sikh-Gurkha army.
C) Tunisia came under the total domination of Berber rebels.
D) the Turks took control of Tripoli from the Italians.
E) France occupied the island of Taiwan.

Question 74

What factor spurred the rise in Christian missionary work in East Africa in the nineteenth century?

A) The spread of Islam in the region.
B) The rising native interest in monotheism.
C) The positive native reception to church establishment.
D) The persistence of the slave trade in East Africa.
E) The need to dispel the local pagan practices.

Question 75

Among the first British colonies in West Africa was

A) Libya.
B) Gold Coast.
C) Senegal.
D) Liberia.
E) Zanzibar.

Question 76

Identify the following terms.
Enfield rifles

Question 77

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 78

Identify the following terms.
Ram Mohan Roy's Brahmo Samaj

Question 79

Though originally a lucrative target for the new imperialists,by the end of the nineteenth century this country was actively seeking colonies of its own.

A) Ethiopia.
B) Afghanistan.
C) Japan.
D) Kenya.
E) Persia

Question 80

"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.