Ch. 18 Learning Curve Quiz – Flashcards
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Which of the following were used to underpin European racism in the nineteenth century?
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"Scientific" methods that appeared to prove that European brains are larger than those of people in other parts of the world
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What was the long-term plan of the British for taking over control of India?
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There was no long-term plan.
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How did European powers govern at the local level?
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They frequently relied on local elites.
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Which of the following was a feature of the cultivation system imposed in the Netherlands East Indies during the nineteenth century?
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It enriched and strengthened the position of traditional local authorities that worked for the Dutch.
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How did the Gikuyu people of colonial Kenya react to the success of European missionaries in securing a ban on female circumcision in 1929?
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They created independent Christian churches and schools beyond the control of missionaries.
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What made imperialism so broadly popular in Europe in the last quarter of the nineteenth century?
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Europe needed the raw materials of its colonies to fuel its factories.
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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
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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's workload in providing subsistence for their families.
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How did European colonial administrations help to promote and strengthen ideas of tribe in Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries?
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They required people to identify their tribe on applications for jobs or admittance to a school.
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What made imperialism so broadly popular in Europe in the last quarter of the nineteenth century?
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Europe needed markets for its industrial goods.
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What role did gender play in European imperialism during the nineteenth century?
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Traditional European ideas about the inferiority of women were associated with male people of color.
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What effect did nineteenth-century imperialism have on migration in colonized lands?
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Imperialism led to the migration of millions of indigenous workers to work in mines or on European-financed plantations.
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Which of the following was a significant challenge to the spread of Christianity in Europe's colonies?
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There was resistance to attempts to impose Christian cultural attitudes, including in matters of sexuality.
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What made imperialism so broadly popular in Europe in the last quarter of the nineteenth century?
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Imperialism promised to solve the class conflicts of an industrializing society.
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Why did Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii become settler colonies, in which Europeans became the vast majority of the population?
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The native population in these places had been largely destroyed by European disease.
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What about the European colonial empires of the nineteenth century reflected earlier European imperial creations of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?
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They enlisted the cooperation of subject peoples.
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By the end of the nineteenth century in the African and Asian colonies of European powers
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far more land and labor were devoted to production for the global market than before.
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Which of the following was a reason for the increasing sense of "African identity" that had developed by the end of the nineteenth century?
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Africans from many states increasingly felt a sense of common experience in the face of colonial oppression.
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Which of the following regions experienced a takeover that was most similar to Britain's earlier colonization of North America?
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Australia
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What could local elites who did not openly rebel against European overlords hope for?
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The could hope to maintain much of their social status and privileges by serving as an intermediary between their community and the colonial power.
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What was an important outcome of Western education systems in European colonies during the nineteenth century?
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New cultural divide between those who possessed a Western education and those who did not
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What made imperialism so broadly popular in Europe in the last quarter of the nineteenth century?
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Imperialism promised to solve the class conflicts of an industrializing society.
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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 protracted, brutal warfare and mass destruction, village by village.
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Cultural reactions of indigenous peoples to European rule included
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cooperation with the imperial power by many members of the indigenous ruling classes.
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What was a distinctive feature of nineteenth-century European colonial empires?
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Europeans displayed an unprecedented interest in classifying their subject peoples.
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What made European racism in the nineteenth century distinct from earlier periods?
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It was expressed in terms of modern science.
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In what way could imperialism solve class conflicts within industrializing Europe?
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Class conflicts could be solved by providing markets for European manufactured goods and thus keeping workers within Europe fully employed.
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By the end of the nineteenth 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.
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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.
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Which of the following was a reason for Europe's colonial expansion in the long nineteenth century?
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The need for markets to sell European manufactured products
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What made imperialism so broadly popular in Europe in the last quarter of the nineteenth century?
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The growth of nationalism in Europe made the acquisition of empires popular
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Which of the following were used to underpin European racism in the nineteenth century?
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"Scientific" methods that appeared to prove that European brains are larger than those of people in other parts of the world
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Which of the following statements is true about European imperialism?
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It led to European secular arrogance, as Europeans grew to despise the peoples they dominated.
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Which of the following statements is true about gender attitudes with regard to nineteenth-century imperialism?
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European colonizers took pride in their "active masculinity" and defined subject peoples as soft and effeminate.
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What contributed to changing European views of Africans and Asians in the nineteenth century?
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Europeans developed a new secular arrogance based on their economic accomplishments associated with industrialization.
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In what way was the nineteenth-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.
