Unit 6 Multiple Choice Test Retake

In addition to Japan, which non-European state created an empire in the Asia-Pacific region in the late nineteenth century?

United States

Witbooi’s point of view is historically significant because it illustrates how

Interethnic conflict weakened African resistance

Witbooi’s resistance most directly reflects which rationale?

Preserve traditional political authority

The instructions to Lugard in articles (d) and (f) best reflect which of the following regarding the purpose of the letter?

The company wanted raw materials and markets

The economic statistics cited by Wesseling in the first paragraph are most likely intended to illustrate which aspect of the nineteenth-century global context?

Imperial policies destroying Indian industry

Which of the following best explains why transoceanic migration increased significantly in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

Steam-powered ships

Which of the following best explains a difference between European and South Asian migration during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

South Asians were often indentured

Which of the following nineteenth-century processes most directly contributed to the migration of Indian laborers to Fiji as described in the passage?

Coerced plantation labor

As outlined in the second paragraph, the changes in Rabuka’s political rhetoric between 1987 and 1997 were most likely a result of which of the following?

Globalization and democratization

The ability of the French colonial government in Algeria to establish schools for the native Algerian population can best be seen as part of which of the following broader developments in European colonialism in the late nineteenth century?

Strengthened colonial control

The rapid expansion of European empire in Africa in the late nineteenth century is best explained in the context of which of the following?

Political rivalries