Traditions and Encounters Ch. 32 Test Review AP World History

Who was Cecil Rhodes?

an 18 year old student at Oxford university and served as prime minister of the British Cape Colony

Who said, "We are the finest race in the world and the more of the world we inhabit, the better it is for the human race"?

Cecil Rhodes

The author of "The White Man's Burden" was...

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling's poem, "The White Man's Burden," was actually meant to inspire the Americans to colonize...

the Philippines

The Suez Canal was essential for...

facilitating the building and maintenance of empires by enabling naval vessels to travel rapidly between the world's seas. They also lowered the costs of trade between imperial powers and subject lands.

The battle of Omdurman...

opened the door for British colonial rule in Sudan.

Submarine cables linked all parts of the British empire throughout the world by...

1902

The most important figures in the uprising in 1857 in India were...

Hindu sepoys

In 1824, Thomas Stamford Raffles founded the port of...

Singapore

Between 1859 and 1893, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos all fell under the control of...

French Indochina

By 1900, the only part of southeast Asia not under European imperial rule was...

the Kingdom of Siam

The Congo Free State was established in the 1870s by...

Henry Morton Stanley

The Berlin Conference

produced agreement for future claims on African lands

The Boers were...

farmers

"Concessionary companies" refers to a system of colonial rule that employed...

forced labor

In 1770, Captain James Cook anchored his fleet at Botany Bay, near what modern city?

Sydney

New South Wales was originally settled by about one thousand people, most of them convicted criminals...

and voluntary migrants

List as many imperial powers to their colony

After the overthrow of Queen Lili'uokalani in 1893, the United States took over...

Hawai'i

The Monroe Doctrine...

served as a justification for later U.S. intervention in hemispheric affairs

The United States occupied Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines after its victory in...

The Spanish-Cuban-American War

Emilio Aguinaldo led an uprising in...

the Philippines against the Americans

The Roosevelt Corollary strengthened U.S. military and economic claims in which area of the world?

The hemisphere

The Sino-Japanese War began with a dispute over...

the status of Korea

Japan became a major imperial power after its victory in the...

Russo-Japanese War

Under British control, Ceylon became a major producer of...

tea bushes

Between 1800 and 1914, how many Europeans migrated overseas?

50 million

In the nineteenth century, the majority of indentured laborers came from...

India

The Maji Maji rebellion occurred in...

Tanganyika

The author of the Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races was...

Count Joseph Arthur de Gobineau

Count Joseph Arthur de Gobineau viewed Europeans as...

intelligent, noble, and morally superior to others

The social Darwinists believed that...

successful individuals and races had competed better in the natural world and consequently evolved to higher states than did other, less fit peoples.

The term "social Darwinism" is associated with...

the domination of European imperialists over subject peoples as the inevitable result of natural scientific principles

In regard to imperialism, the Japanese and Americans...

developed a sense of superiority over the peoples they conquered and ruled

Ram Mohan Roy was a...

a prominent Bengali intellectual

In 1916 the Indian National Congress...

joined forces with the All-India Muslim League to advance the political and social interests of Muslims