Deck 26: Varieties of Imperialism in Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and Latin America

Question 1

Abd al-Qadir waged a sixteen-year revolt against French imperialism in what country?

A)Egypt
B)Algeria
C)Morocco
D)Tunisia
E)Libya

Answer 1

Algeria

Question 2

Western African nations saw cultural influence from the west in which of the following areas?

A)Christian conversion
B)expansion of education
C)architectural motifs
D)outlawing slavery
E)All of these are correct.

Answer 2

All of these are correct.

Question 3

Ironically, the British were the world's greatest slave traders and later

A)became the most aggressive abolitionists.
B)reopened the slave trade with the Asante.
C)interfered with the French treatment of their slaves in Saint Domingue.
D)replaced factory workers with African slaves.
E)conspired to operate an illegal slave-trading operation out of Barbados.

Answer 3

became the most aggressive abolitionists.

Question 4

A significant difference in Ethiopian identification compared to other African nations was:

A)It was predominantly Christian.
B)It was predominantly Muslim since the seventh century CE.
C)It followed indigenous religious practices but remained tolerant of monotheism.
D)It was predominantly Buddhist since trade missions with China in the sixteenth century.
E)It was religiously tolerant and multicultural with virtually no religious policy.

Question 5

The kingdoms of Lesotho and Swazi were created by attracting refugees

A)to labor camps to benefit the British.
B)to protect their peoples from the Dutch.
C)to strongholds in the southern African mountains.
D)originally as "paper" states that did not exist.
E)to fight the Europeans.

Question 6

Who created the Zulu kingdom?

A)Muhammad Ali
B)Cetshwayo
C)Shaka
D)Cecil Rhodes
E)Usuman dan Fodio

Question 7

As a result of Shaka's leadership, the Zulu succeeded in creating a new

A)national identity.
B)system of writing.
C)economic system based on cowrie shells.
D)national education system.
E)state that lasted until the twentieth century.

Question 8

"Recaptives" were

A)slaves repatriated to Madagascar.
B)U.S. slaves who wanted to return to Africa.
C)slaves who were taken off illicit trade ships by the British navy and restored to free status in Sierra Leone.
D)escaped slaves who were resold into slavery by the East Africans when the Atlantic slave trade stopped.
E)Africans who had gone to Europe for education but returned to Africa to recapture their traditional heritage.

Question 9

Egypt was able to build a modern state based on cotton exports until the market for Egyptian cotton collapsed after

A)the British switched their preference to Indian cotton.
B)King Jaja instituted peasant economies based on hand weaving that undercut Ali's labor forces.
C)the American cotton market resumed after the Civil War.
D)new work on irrigation canals caused a decrease in flooding of the Nile, and cotton crops failed for five years successively.
E)France occupied Egypt and prevented it from exporting cotton to Britain.

Question 10

Which of the following individuals was not directly involved in colonization on either side of the Congo River?

A)King Leopold III
B)Henry Morgan Stanley
C)Savorgnan de Brazza
D)Dr. David Livingston
E)None of these are correct.

Question 11

Which of the following was not one of Ismail's modernization projects in Egypt?

A)Suez Canal
B)Postal service
C)Railroads
D)Irrigation canals
E)Aswan Dam

Question 12

One of the chief attractions in the Sokoto Caliphate was

A)the slave market.
B)the Great Library.
C)an international port of trade.
D)an international Islamic university.
E)the first African railroad depot.

Question 13

The life of what former slave demonstrated how radically the social structure of the coastal trading communities was altered by palm-oil exports

A)Shaka.
B)Jaja.
C)Samuel Adjai Crowther.
D)James Africanus Horton.
E)Emma White.

Question 14

What gathering led to the division of Africa among colonial powers, at least on paper?

A)Berlin Conference
B)Congress of Vienna
C)Jihad Junta
D)Treaty of Paris
E)Congo Convention

Question 15

The Nguni peoples of southeastern Africa traditionally had pursued a life based on

A)the Atlantic slave trade.
B)mining and mineral wealth.
C)cattle and agriculture.
D)hunting and raiding.
E)the gold and ivory trade.

Question 16

Cape Colony was initially important to the British because it

A)was Britain's first foothold in Africa.
B)had great mineral wealth.
C)was a strategic supply station for the lengthy India route.
D)showed that the French could be defeated overseas.
E)was Britain's source for rubber.

Question 17

Africans wanted European manufactured goods, so when the slave trade ended, they

A)satisfied their demand for goods by developing indigenous manufacturing.
B)expanded their "legitimate" trade by developing new exports.
C)learned to manage without European goods.
D)were never able to afford European goods.
E)hired European consultants to develop factories.

Question 18

The largest of the new Muslim reform movements occurred in the Hausa states of which area?

A)Swazi lands
B)The Lesotho kingdom
C)Northern Nigeria
D)Sokoto Caliphate
E)Southern Egypt

Question 19

The most successful export from West Africa after British abolition of slavery was

A)palm oil.
B)gold.
C)ivory.
D)lumber.
E)illicit slaves.

Question 20

Ethiopia defeated the army of what nation at Adowa in 1896?

A)France
B)Great Britain
C)Egypt
D)Italy
E)Belgium

Question 21

The "Bombay Presidency" was

A)a British puppet government with a local Bombay nawab named as the legitimate leader.
B)a temporary rebellion centered in Bombay and carried out by supporters of Tipu Sultan.
C)territory taken over in 1818 by the East India Company.
D)the stronghold of resistance against the British by the Maratha Confederation.
E)the last territory held by the Mughal Empire.

Question 22

The Indian National Congress initially sought

A)ethnic and religious unity.
B)more rights for Indians.
C)more access to the Civil Service.
D)reductions in military expenditures.
E)All of these are correct.

Question 23

The Dutch fought a ferocious forty-year-long war against the rulers of

A)Ceylon.
B)Acheh.
C)Malay.
D)Indochina.
E)Assam.

Question 24

The bureaucracy that controlled India was called the

A)Raj Squad.
B)Viceroy Vanguard
C)Indian Civil Service
D)Durbar Department
E)National Public Service

Question 25

Sepoys were Indian troops who

A)fought against the nawabs.
B)were hired and trained to protect European trading posts.
C)fought for Hindu India against the Muslims.
D)fought against the British in India.
E)fought to end French occupation of Bengal.

Question 26

Fragmentation made it easier for the British to establish themselves in India. The power of India was divided by which of the following?

A)Iranian forces
B)the Maratha Confederation
C)Nawabs
D)European forces
E)All of these are correct.

Question 27

One of the critical features for Britain's control of India at the local level was with the use of Muslim princes called

A)nawabs.
B)sepoys.
C)client patron relations.
D)company men.
E)rajput royalty.

Question 28

Competition from British industrial mills decimated what Indian industry?

A)tea
B)opium
C)coffee
D)textile
E)porcelain

Question 29

Which of the following did not help spark the Revolution of 1857?

A)recruiting Sikhs into the British army
B)greasing ammunition cartridges with animal fat
C)requiring recruits to be available for overseas deployment
D)forcing different classes to ride the same railroad lines
E)None of these are correct.

Question 30

One of the most significant reasons for the expansion of India's trade was

A)an Indian unification movement.
B)public works and infrastructure projects.
C)British extension of manufacturing technology to local populations.
D)utilizing the mechanization system of division of labor to improve productivity.
E)urbanization.

Question 31

Many Indians considered the spread of this, also known as kala mari, to be divine punishment for the failure to prevent the British takeover.

A)Calcutta fever
B)bubonic plague
C)scarlet fever
D)smallpox
E)cholera

Question 32

Although the East India Company was founded in 1600, the British gradually colonized India by

A)defeating the French and picking apart the decaying Mughal Empire.
B)making alliances with Persian traders to establish trading posts.
C)enslaving Indians on sugar plantations.
D)paying the Dutch enormous amounts of money to abandon their Indian economic interests and trade only in Java.
E)getting the population addicted to opium.

Question 33

Why was the Sepoy Rebellion a turning point in the history of India?

A)The British were finally rebuffed and withdrew from India.
B)The sepoys successfully pushed the British out of Bengal.
C)India came to be ruled directly by the British government.
D)It inspired the development of new weapons that did not require gunpowder.
E)All of these are correct.

Question 34

Progress in women's rights in India was made in all of the following forms EXCEPT

A)restricting child marriages.
B)outlawing widow burning
C)revocation of laws prohibiting widows from remarrying.
D)criminalizing female infanticide.
E)outlawing prostitution.

Question 35

The changes in the wake of the Sepoy Rebellion included which of the following?

A)a law guaranteeing all Indians equal protection of the law
B)a law requiring freedom of religion and social custom
C)the placement of a viceroy governor-general in Delhi
D)respect for the rights of Indian princes loyal to the Crown
E)All of these are correct.

Question 36

What was the British raj?

A)British tea
B)British school
C)British clothes
D)a British game
E)British rule of South Asia

Question 37

The first secular school for Indian women was called

A)Calcutta College.
B)Hindu College.
C)Bombay University.
D)Bethune College.
E)Jaipur Academy.

Question 38

The British invoked "tradition" in India to

A)enhance and benefit their supporters in British-ruled India.
B)endow religious leaders with power to maintain control over the population.
C)enforce the image of Britain's monarchy and wealth.
D)provide a justification to keep control over the population in the absence of a regular, established colonial policy.
E)All of these are correct.

Question 39

The first reformer to advocate Pan-Indian nationalism was

A)Mohandas K. Gandhi.
B)Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
C)Martin Luther King, Jr.
D)Indira Gandhi.
E)Rammohun Roy.

Question 40

Deaths in the "Black Hole of Calcutta" led the East India Company to depose the nawab of what Indian region?

A)Bengal
B)Goa.
C)Mughal
D)Mysore
E)Kashmir

Question 41

The leader of the Filipino independence movement against Spain and later America was

A)Emilio Aguinaldo.
B)Pancho Villa.
C)Emile Zapata.
D)Porfirio Diaz.
E)None of these are correct.

Question 42

By encouraging self-government in the South Pacific settler colonies, Britain

A)satisfied settlers' desires for greater control.
B)muted potential demands for independence.
C)made colonial governments pay their own expenses.
D)avoided the same conflicts that led to the American Revolution.
E)All of these are correct.

Question 43

What impact did industrialization have on the process of colonization in Africa and Asia?

Question 44

The first British settlers in Australia were

A)soldiers who had been mustered out.
B)exiled convicts.
C)homesteaders who received grants of land.
D)recruited from settlements in India.
E)indentured servants.

Question 45

How did West Africans react to the end of the Atlantic slave trade?

Question 46

What were the outcomes of the Berlin Conference on Africa in 1884 and 1885?

A)"Effective occupation" replaced former trading relationships.
B)European countries had to send troops to assist in the division of Africa.
C)King Leopold of Belgium obtained a personal "domain" in the Congo.
D)It led to a scramble to partition Africa.
E)All of these are correct.

Question 47

What support is there for the argument presented in your text that the South Asian people were more affected by Europeanization in this time period than were the Africans?

Question 48

Explain the major aims of British raj policy in India.

Question 49

What was the nature of the "secondary empires" in eastern Africa in the nineteenth century? Be as specific as you can be in your answer.

Question 50

What were the significant factors involved in the Sepoy Rebellion, or the Revolution of 1857, as Indian historians refer to it?

Question 51

The underlying goal of most British imperialism between 1792 and 1870 was to

A)territory.
B)trad.
C)war.
D)science.
E)settlement.

Question 52

Plantation workers served contracts of indenture that usually lasted

A)one to two years.
B)two to four years.
C)five to seven years.
D)eight to ten years.
E)ten to twelve years.

Question 53

What were the primary results of the Spanish-American War of 1898?

A)the U.S. won.
B)the U.S. Secretary of State John Hay called it "a splendid war."
C)the U.S. purchased the Philippines from Spain.
D)the United States took over Puerto Rico and Cuba.
E)All of these are correct.

Question 54

Having "liberated" Cuba from Spain after 1898, U.S. troops also went on to occupy

A)the Dominican Republic, 1904-1907.
B)Nicaragua, 1912.
C)Honduras, 1912.
D)Haiti, 1915.
E)All of these are correct.

Question 55

The Mexican Revolution spark in 1910 resulted in which of the following in 1917?

A)a constitution
B)a monarchy
C)a communist state
D)a failed state
E)None of these are correct.

Question 56

After British slave emancipation in 1834, new plantation workers came from

A)Africa.
B)the Pacific islands.
C)British India.
D)China.
E)All of these are correct.

Question 57

Instructions: Answer the following question(s).
Discuss the process by which the Zulu kingdom and the Sokoto Caliphate were created. How typical were these examples of African state-building in this era?

Question 58

Most indentured servants left their homes because they

A)were sold by their parents.
B)hoped to better their economic and social position.
C)were pressured by their governments to leave.
D)were tricked and did not know where they were going.
E)wanted religious freedom.

Question 59

To what extent were the peoples of Africa and Asia "victims" or "losers" in the story of imperialism?

Question 60

Describe British settlement of Australia and New Zealand and its impact on the indigenous population. Include Australia and New Zealand in your answer, and explain why those colonies were unusual in this period.

Question 61

What was the "splendid little war"? To what extent did it live up to the name?

Question 62

Who led two Filipino independence movements, first against Spain, and then against the United States?

Question 63

After slaves were freed, how did British and other plantation colonies fill their needs for labor? Where did the laborers come from? Be as specific as possible.

Question 64

What ruler declared, "My country is no longer in Africa, it is in Europe"?

Question 65

Which company came to rule the "Bombay Presidency"?