WHAP Chapter 18 Learning Curve – Flashcards
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How did nationalism drive imperialism in the last quarter of the nineteenth century?
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Colonial spheres of influence conferred "Great Power" status on a nation.
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What is a Maxim gun?
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Automatic machine gun
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Which of the following was a significant outcome of the Indian rebellion against British rule in 1857 and 1858?
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It greatly widened the racial divide in colonial India.
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Who presided over the cruel forced labor system in the Congo Free State at the opening of the twentieth century?
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King Leopold II
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Which colonial region experienced the least conversion to Christianity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries?
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Muslim regions of Africa
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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 role did Spain and Portugal play in the second wave of European imperialism in the nineteenth century?
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They continued to possess colonies but were relatively minor players in the new imperial enterprise.
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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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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
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What was an advantage that those colonial subjects who secured a Western education enjoyed?
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They had access to better paying positions in European mission organizations.
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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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Which of the following occurred in the late nineteenth century as imperialist colonial regimes expanded?
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Japan took over Taiwan and Korea.
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Which of the following statements accurately describes the relationship 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.
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Which of the following was a development that shaped the lives of women in West Africa during the nineteenth century?
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Many women sought closer relations with their families of birth.
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What separated African society from European society according to Edward Blyden, the West African born in the West Indies and educated in the United States who later became a political official in Liberia?
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That African societies possessed profound religious sensibilities, whereas European societies had lost such sensibilities over previous centuries in their pursuit of material gain.
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Which of the following is true of "social Darwinism"?
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Social Darwinism suggested that European dominance inevitably involved the displacement or destruction of "unfit" races.
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With whom did British forces fight the Boer War, a bitter three-year struggle to secure South Africa?
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White descendants of Dutch settlers
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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.
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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 ultimately depleted the soil by inhibiting the deposit of upstream silt in deltas.
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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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Which of the following was a development during the western expansion of the United States?
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Native American children were removed to boarding schools where they could be "civilized."
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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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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 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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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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Where did local opposition to the forced cultivation of cash crops succeed in bringing an end to the system by the early twentieth century?
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Cotton production in East Africa
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Which of the following was a way that African intellectuals sought to promote the concept of "African identity"?
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They drew on a common experience of colonial oppression to think in broader African terms.
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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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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.
