Deck 29: New Connections and Challenges in Eastern and Southern Asia, 1800-1912

Question 1

Where was the Taiping Rebellion centered?

A) Mongolia
B) Manchuria
C) eastern China
D) in southwestern China

Answer 1

eastern China

Question 2

The sepoys were British-trained

A) Chinese soldiers.
B) Japanese samurai.
C) Indian soldiers.
D) Korean soldiers.

Answer 2

Indian soldiers.

Question 3

"Coolies" was a disparaging term used for poor

A) Japanese workers sent abroad.
B) Chinese workers sent abroad.
C) Vietnamese workers sent abroad.
D) European workers sent abroad.

Answer 3

Chinese workers sent abroad.

Question 4

In China, local officials often charged peasants extra taxes that they kept for themselves. This practice was aptly called the

A) squeeze.
B) draining.
C) milking.
D) fleecing.

Question 5

Which of these was NOT a tributary of China around 1800?

A) Korea
B) Vietnam
C) Japan
D) Laos

Question 6

How did the Sepoy Mutiny affect British rule in India?

A) British rule was withdrawn to only southern India.
B) British citizens were withdrawn from India.
C) Britain took over direct rule in India.
D) The British East India Company was placed in charge of India.

Question 7

Which man called for greater Indian autonomy within the British Empire?

A) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
C) Mohandas Gandhi
D) Sun Yat-sen

Question 8

How did China reply to the Macartney Mission?

A) The Chinese agreed to increase trade with Britain.
B) Britain offered no goods that the Chinese wanted.
C) China declared war on Britain.
D) China demanded all British leave Chinese soil.

Question 9

Hakka was

A) an oppressed Chinese minority.
B) a type of Chinese poetry.
C) the name for the Manchu government.
D) a new Chinese dynasty.

Question 10

What inspired Hong Xiuquan in leading the Taiping Rebellion?

A) his conversion to Islam
B) hostility to the Manchu rulers and Westerners
C) the McCartney mission
D) defeat by Japan

Question 11

Britain dominated most of India by about what date?

A) 1800
B) 1850
C) 1900
D) 1950

Question 12

The Macartney Mission was designed to

A) convince Japan to open ports to U.S. goods.
B) convince China to open ports to British goods.
C) convince Japan to open ports to British goods.
D) convince China to open ports to U.S. goods.

Question 13

The Qing dynasty was able to suppressrevolts in the 1860s with the aid of

A) Japanese mercenaries.
B) the British army.
C) regional Chinese armies.
D) Korean armies.

Question 14

What event triggered the rebellion known as the Sepoy Mutiny?

A) British disregard of Indian religious beliefs
B) trade policies that favored British cloth
C) invasion by the Chinese
D) the looting of an Indian village

Question 15

Which of these catastrophes did NOT occur in China in the 1850s?

A) the Taiping Rebellion
B) the fall of the Qing dynasty
C) widespread famine
D) the Opium Wars

Question 16

The Treaty of Nanjing did all of the following EXCEPT

A) end the Opium War.
B) cede Hong Kong.
C) close all Chinese mainland ports to the British.
D) abolish the Cohong monopoly.

Question 17

Which man first called for total Indian independence?

A) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
C) Mohandas Gandhi
D) Sun Yat-sen

Question 18

What dynasty ruled China in the 1800s?

A) Ming
B) Qing
C) Zhou
D) Tang

Question 19

Why did Britain force the opium trade on China?

A) because Britain had suffered from a trade imbalance with China
B) so its debilitating effects would open China to invasion
C) because the Chinese government demanded opium in exchange for silk and tea
D) because Britain had no other export commodity

Question 20

What was the "Cohong"?

A) China's parliament
B) a government department
C) Guangzhou's merchant guild
D) a seaport where trade with Britain was allowed

Question 21

Which southeast Asian territory maintained its independence?

A) Laos
B) Cambodia
C) Thailand
D) Taiwan

Question 22

Why did Britain conquer Burma?

A) to protect shipping routes
B) to prevent French expansion towards India
C) because of its strategic location near Hong Kong
D) because it was ideal for growing rubber trees

Question 23

Thailand avoided conquest by Europe by

A) exploiting Western rivalries.
B) modernizing.
C) creating of a huge military.
D) allying with China.

Question 24

What was restored in the Meiji Restoration?

A) the role of the shogun as head of the Japanese government
B) the emperor as effective ruler of Japan
C) Chinese dominance in Japan
D) daimyo rule

Question 25

Who brought a letter from the American president insisting on an opening of relations between Japan and the United States?

A) John Hay
B) Millard Fillmore
C) Matthew Perry
D) George Macartney

Question 26

What was the goal of the rebellion led by Yoshida Shoin?

A) restoring the emperor
B) ridding Japan of barbarians
C) deposing the emperor
D) bringing back the shogun

Question 27

Who came to the aid of Nguyen Anh in Vietnam?

A) China
B) France
C) Britain
D) Japan

Question 28

Which of these stood between French and British possessions in Southeast Asia?

A) Burma
B) Thailand
C) Borneo
D) French Indochina

Question 29

From 1883 to 1885, the Franco-Chinese War was fought over control of

A) Korea.
B) Vietnam.
C) Cambodia.
D) Thailand.

Question 30

As Western powers colonized much of Asia, Japan avoided conquest by

A) exploiting Western rivalries.
B) modernizing.
C) forming an alliance with the United States.
D) allying with China.

Question 31

Until the 1800s, the only western traders allowed in Japan were from what nation?

A) the Netherlands
B) Britain
C) Portugal
D) Spain

Question 32

Which Asian country most closely emulated Western customs and adopted Western practices?

A) Japan
B) China
C) Korea
D) Vietnam

Question 33

Who was known as the Meiji Emperor?

A) Mutsuhito
B) Yoshida
C) Yamamoto
D) Hirohito

Question 34

Burma is today known as

A) Siam.
B) Cambodia.
C) Myanmar.
D) Taiwan.

Question 35

Who held real power as leader of Japan by 1850?

A) the emperor
B) the shogun
C) the samurai
D) the daimyo

Question 36

Mutsuhito's reign was given the title "Meiji," meaning

A) modern rule.
B) imperial Japan.
C) death of shogun.
D) enlightened rule.

Question 37

Edo replaced Kyoto as Japan's imperial capital. It was then renamed

A) Nagasaki.
B) Hiroshima.
C) Osaka.
D) Tokyo.

Question 38

In the 1700s, most Southeast Asian states were

A) controlled by western powers.
B) independent nations.
C) Chinese tributaries.
D) controlled by Japan.

Question 39

Japan agreed to open ports to American trade because

A) the samurai insisted on trade with American merchants.
B) Japan's isolationist policies were destroying the economy.
C) the Americans had military and navy technology that Japan lacked.
D) China was already trading with the United States, and Japan was afraid of falling behind.

Question 40

The Nguyen dynasty made what concession to the French after the Tay-Song Rebellion?

A) granting use of the port at Singapore
B) accepting the sale of opium
C) setting up ziabatsu in Vietnam
D) allowing missionaries to preach Catholicism

Question 41

Who was given military command under Empress Dowager Cixi, and then became president of the Chinese Republic?

A) Mao Zedong
B) Sun Yixian
C) Yuan Shikai
D) Puyi

Question 42

The Sepoy Mutiny was sparked by Hindus and Muslims concerned about breaking dietary restrictions when using new weaponry.

Question 43

The Chinese revolutionary movement aimed at replacing the Qing regime with a parliamentary republic was led by

A) Mao Zedong.
B) Chiang Kai-shek.
C) Sun Yixian.
D) Yuan Shikai.

Question 44

In the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries, Indonesia's commerce was controlled by the

A) British.
B) French.
C) Chinese.
D) Dutch.

Question 45

Russia built the Trans-Siberian Railway in an effort to create a new trade route linking East and West.

Question 46

The Russo-Japanese war sent the message that

A) Western powers were not unbeatable.
B) Japan intended to become the next imperial power.
C) Russia was an imperial power to be feared.
D) the period of Japanese imperialism was over.

Question 47

Which of these nations allied with Japan against Russia in 1902?

A) Britain
B) France
C) Germany
D) China

Question 48

The Sino-Japanese War was mainly a dispute over control of

A) Manchuria.
B) Korea.
C) Taiwan.
D) Thailand.

Question 49

What was the Empress Dowager Cixi's response to the Boxer Uprising?

A) She opposed the movement but was unable to stop it.
B) She arrested its leaders and successfully stopped it.
C) She supported the movement.
D) She refused to take any notice of the movement.

Question 50

The largest of the Ryukyu Islands is

A) Okinawa.
B) Iwo Jima.
C) Nagasaki.
D) Honshu.

Question 51

The "scramble for concessions" was centered on a desire for privileges in the Asian nation of

A) China.
B) Japan.
C) Korea.
D) Vietnam.

Question 52

The Japanese eagerly embraced an open-door policy designed to promote free trade in Japan in the 1850s.

Question 53

How did the reign of the last Chinese emperor end?

A) with Puyi's abdication
B) with Empress Dowager Cixi's death
C) in the assassination of the last emperor
D) with the election of Yuan Shikai

Question 54

The Boxer Uprising was an attempt to rid China of

A) the emperor.
B) Western influence.
C) religious zealots.
D) Japanese influence.

Question 55

The open-door policy was

A) an American policy calling for free and equal trade in China.
B) an American policy calling for free and equal trade in Japan.
C) a British policy calling for free and equal trade in China.
D) a British policy calling for free and equal trade in Japan.

Question 56

What was Japan's major goal in Korea and Manchuria?

A) challenging China's regional hegemony
B) obtaining natural resources necessary for industrialization
C) proving the superiority of Japan's navy
D) providing a new outlet for the samurai

Question 57

The Russo-Japanese war broke out over control of

A) Mongolia.
B) Manchuria.
C) Vietnam.
D) Korea.

Question 58

Japan avoided being conquered by Europeans by modernizing and becoming imperialists themselves.

Question 59

Who built the Trans-Siberian Railway as a trade route linking East and West?

A) China
B) Japan
C) Russia
D) India

Question 60

Bal Gangadhar Tilak advocated Indian autonomy within the British Empire.

Question 61

Evaluate the process by which Britain came to rule India. Was this a deliberate development?

Question 62

Which man hid on Perry's ships in an attempt to learn about the Americans?

Question 63

Evaluate the role of Indian professionals in the Indian nationalist movements.

Question 64

The professionals leading the Indian nationalist movement were largely educated in Europe.

Question 65

What was Canton's merchant guild called?

Question 66

The Meiji Restoration industrialized and modernized the nation of Japan.

Question 67

What Japanese term means "enlightened rule"?

Question 68

Discuss the Boxer Rebellion.

Question 69

How did Empress Dowager Cixi crush the Boxer Rebellion?

Question 70

Which nation controlled Indonesia from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries?

Question 71

Japan claimed the Ryukyu Islands as the first stage in imperialist expansion in Southeast Asia.

Question 72

What was the body that embodied the Indian nationalist movement in the late 1800s?

Question 73

The Boxers believed that they would be unharmed by European bullets.

Question 74

What were the most important developments in the Meiji Restoration?

Question 75

The Chinese regained control of Hong Kong after the First Opium War.

Question 76

Evaluate the role of the samurai in the overthrow of the Japanese shogunate.

Question 77

What new title was given to Britain's Queen Victoria in 1876?

Question 78

Under the terms of the Treaty of Nanjing, what territory was ceded to Britain?

Question 79

Who trained the Indian sepoys?

Question 80

Until the 1800s, which were the only merchants allowed to trade in Japan?