Question 1

Whom did Europeans turn to in order to support European administrators in governing their African and Asian colonies

Accepted Answer

They frequently relied on local elites

Question 2

What did the British use in India to bring order to the immenesly complex Indian social hierarchy?

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They drew in part on the classical Indian texts which desceibed an idealized description of the caste system

Question 3

What could local elites who did not openly rebel against European overlords hope for?

Accepted Answer

The could hope to maintain much of their social status and privileges by serving as an intermediary between their community and the colonial power.

Question 4

Which of the following was a significant outcome of the Indian rebellion against British rule in 1857 and 1858?

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The British goverment assumed direct rule over India

Question 5

By the end of the 19th century what position could a member of a colonial society hope to aspire to with a western education?

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He could become a teacher himself

Question 6

What was a distinctive feature of the 19th century European colonial empires?

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European empires penetrated the societies the governened to an unprecedented extent.

Question 7

Cultural reactions of indigenous peoples to European rule included?

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Cooperation with the imperial power by the many members of the indigenous ruiling classes

Question 8

Over time on whom did the Europeans increasingly depend to rule their colonies often at the expense of traditional elites?

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They depended on Western-educated members of the local society

Question 9

What was a distinctive feature of 19th century European colonial empires?

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Europeans displayed an unprecedented interest in classifying their subject peoples.

Question 10

Which of the following best characterizes the response of most Asian and African societies to European conquestes in the 19th century?

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The responses covered a wide range from active resistance to accommodation

Question 11

How were such small numbers of Europeans able to govern such huge and populous territories?

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By reinforcing the power of local rulers and thus earning their loyalty

Question 12

What about the European colonial empires of the 19th century reflected earlier European imperial creations of the 16th and 17th century?

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They enlisted the cooperation of subject peoples.

Question 13

How did European powers govern at the local level?

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The frequently relied on local elites

Question 14

What role did gender play in European imperialism during the 19th century?

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Traditional European ideas about the inferiority of women were assicated with male people of color

Question 15

Which of the following statements is true about gender attitudes with regard to 19th century imperialism?

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European colonizers took pride in their Ã¤ctive masculinity\" and defined subject peoples as soft and effeminate

Question 16

Which of the following reflects a European colonial policy in the late 19th century that ran counter to their practices at home?

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European reluctance to encourage urban growth industrialization individual values and religous skeptcism in their colonies

Question 17

In what way was the 19th century European notion of empire distinctive from earlier empires in world history?

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It included much greater penetration into the daily lives of subject peoples

Question 18

Which of the following statements accurately describes the realationship between European colonial policies and core political values at home?

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Europeans did not spread their political values in any meaningful way to their colonies

Question 19

What short term trigger rather than long standing grievance helped spark the Indian rebellion (1857-1858) against the british colonial presence?

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The use of animal fat on ammunition cartridges

Question 20

With whom did British forces fight the Boer War a bitter 3 year struggle to secure South Africa?

Accepted Answer

White descendats of Dutch settlers

Question 21

The european takover of most of Africa is known as

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the scramble for Africa

Question 22

Which of the following regions was integrated into European colonial empires in the 2nd half of the 19th century?

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Much of Africa

Question 23

Which of the following is a good example of a settler colony in the 19th century?

Accepted Answer

Australia

Question 24

Who was the African political leader whose empire took the French 16 years to conquer?

Accepted Answer

Samori Toure

Question 25

What role did Spain and Portugal play in the 2nd wave of European imperialism in the 19th century?

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They continued to possess colonies but were relatively minor players in the new imperial enterprise

Question 26

How did European imperialism from 1750 to 1914 differ from earlier European overseas expansion?

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Germany and Belgium played more prominet roles

Question 27

Which East Adian country joined the imperialist club in the 19th century by seizing control of colonies?

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Japan

Question 28

Which of the following occured in the late 19th century as imperialist colonial regimes expanded?

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Ethiopia considerably expanded its empire and defeated an Italian invasion force.

Question 29

Which of the folwing occured in the late 19th century as imperalist colonial regimes expanded?

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Japan took over Taiwan and Korea

Question 30

What was the Boer war (1899-1902)

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A South African war between Britian and the descendants of Dutch settlers

Question 31

What is a Maxim gun?

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Automatic machine gun

Question 32

Which of the following was a development during the western expansion of the US?

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Native American children were remoced to boarding schools where they could be civilized

Question 33

What was a critical feature of European military superiority in 1750?

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The chief European military advantage lay n organization

Question 34

What was generally the preferred way for European powers to control colonial regions?

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European preferred informal control which operated through economic penetration and occasional military intervention but without a wholesale colonial takeover

Question 35

What facilitated the Dutch acquisition of Indonesia?

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The fact that Indonesia was made up of many small states

Question 36

Which of the following regions was integrated into European colonial empires on the 2nd half of the 19th century?

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The Pacific Islands

Question 37

Which of the following regions experienced a takeover that was most similar to the Britians earlier colonization of North America?

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Australia

Question 38

Which of the following states made important gains in the 2nd wave of European conquests?

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Belgium

Question 39

What was the long term plan of the British for taking over contral of India?

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There was no long term plan

Question 40

Which of the following was a development during the western expansion of the US?

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The US went to war with Mexico

Question 41

Why did Australia New Zealand and Hawaii become settler colonies in which Europeans became the cast majority of the population?

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The native population in these places had been largely destroyed by European disease.

Question 42

When European imperialists attacked what was the fate of decentralized societies that did not have a strong ruler or government such as the small kingdoms and chiefdoms of West Africa?

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They faced prtracted brutal warfare and mass destruction village by village

Question 43

Which of the following was a feature of the cultivation system imposed in the Netherlands East Indies during the 19th century?

Accepted Answer

It enriched and strengthened the position of traditional local authorities that worked for the Dutch

Question 44

Who presided over the cruel forced labor system in the Congo Free State at the opening of the 20th century?

Accepted Answer

King Leopold II

Question 45

Which colony can be described as suffering from a reign of terror in which millions of natives were killed and mutilated to force them to produce for a European market?

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Congo Free State

Question 46

Which of the following is true of Chinese wage laborers in the 19th century?

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They were unwelcome in European colonial possessions in Southeast Asia because they were seen as subversive

Question 47

What was a distinctive feature of cash crop cocoa production in West Africa under European colonial rule?

Accepted Answer

Africian farmers not their colonial rulers took the initiative to develop cocoa production

Question 48

Where did local opposition to the forced cultivation of cash crops succeed in bringing an end to the system by the early 20th century?

Accepted Answer

Cotton production in East Africa

Question 49

Which of the following was a development that shaped the lives of women in West Africa during the 19th century?

Accepted Answer

Many women sought closer relation with their famalies of birth

Question 50

How were the lives of African women altered by colonial economies?

Accepted Answer

Women were forced to take on traditionally male tasks in addition to their normal responsibilities

Question 51

Which of the following is a valid comparison of rice production in Burma and Vietnam under colonial rule?

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In both Burma and Vietnam dikes and irrigation canals built for rice production ultimatley depleted the sold by inhibiting the deposit of upstream silt in deltas

Question 52

Which of the following was a distinguishing characteristic of wage labor in Africa as compared to Asia?

Accepted Answer

More so than in Asia Africans migrated to European farms or plantations for work

Question 53

What effect did 19th century imperialism have on migration in colonized lands?

Accepted Answer

Imperialism led to the migration of millions of indigenous workers to work in mines or on European financed plantations

Question 54

In what way did colonial rule change the working lives of subject peoples?

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Artisans suffered as they were unable to compete with cheaper merchandise peoduced in mechanized factories

Question 55

By the end of the 19th century in the African and Asian colonies of European powers

Accepted Answer

far more land and labor were devoted to production for the global market that before

Question 56

What was an important outcome in terms of development for the colonies of European empires during the 19th century?

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Elements of the European modernizing process were conveyed to their colonies

Question 57

How were the lives of African women altered by colonial economies?

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Colonial economies sometimes offered women a measure of oppotunity particularly in small scale trade and marketing that could on occasion give them considerable economic autonomy

Question 58

How did colonial economies in Africa change the role of women?

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New colonial economies led to a great increase in women workload in providing subsistence for their famalies

Question 59

How were the lives of African women altered by colonial economies?

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Women were forced to take on traditionally male tasks but were able to drop many of their traditional responsibilities

Question 60

Which is true of cash crop agriculture in European colonial empires during the 19th century?

Accepted Answer

Cash crop agriculture sometimes led to environmental problems

Question 61

How did nationalism drive imperialism in the last quarter to the 19th century?

Accepted Answer

Colonial spheres of influence conferred Great Power status on a nation

Question 62

What new developments facilitated overseas expansion in the late 19th century?

Accepted Answer

Inderwater telegraph cables and steam driven ships significantly improved communication

Question 63

What made European racism in the 19th century distinct from earlier periods?

Accepted Answer

It was expressed in terms of modern science

Question 64

Which innovation in 1869 made it much easier and quicker for Europeans to reach Asia?

Accepted Answer

Completion of Suez Canal

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