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Originally sent to Africa to find Dr.David Livingstone, Henry Stanley was

• killing going down the Congo River
• hired by King Leopold II of Belgium
• unable to locate Dr. Livingstone
• the author of many cartoons

The only free states remaining in Africa by 1914 were

• Liberia and Ethiopia
• Nigeria and Ethiopia
• Liberia and Algeria
• Egypt and Morocco

British Lord Macaulay designed a new school system in India to 

• better educate Indians to take control over the governing of the country
• westernize the Indian population with the hopes of eliminating Hinduism
• civilize the population
• train Indian children to serve in the colonial government & army

What is the "white man's burden"?

• bigger, stronger Europeans
• the belief that Europeans had a moral responsibility to civilize primitive peoples
• the overcrowding of the cities due to the 2nd Industrial Revolution
• the unpopular belief that Europeans were responsible for the mass destruction of many African culture

Who seized power in Egypt in 1805 & established a separate Egyptian state? (Not really the boxer)

• Muhammad Ali

• Ferdinand de Lesseps

• Muhammad Ahmad

• General Gordon

The Boers were descendants of 

• the indigenous Zulu of South Africa
• Watsui nomads, who had been driven south by Germans colonists
• the original Dutch settlers of Cape Town & the surrounding areas
• German colonists who pushed the Zulu peoples out of Northern Africa 

In 1857, a growing Indian distrust of the British led to

• the British replacing indirect rule with divine rule
• a treaty between Great Britain & India to restore India's independence 
• the British establishing a fort at Kanpur
• the First War of Independence also known as the Sepoy Mutiny

Who was the Indian author who was also a spiritual leader, social reformer, educator, philosopher, singer, & painter?

• Rabindranath Tagore
• Keshub Chunder sen 
• Mohandas Gandhi
• Mumbai Gujarat

The conservatives elites in Mexico chose ___ to lead a revolt against Spanish rule. Hint: Not the first person that started the revolution!!!

• Sancho Panza
• Miguel Hidalgo
• Agustin de Iturbide
• Simon Bolivar

The son of Native American peasants, Benito Juarez

• misused state funds, stopped reforms,& created chaos (trouble/confusion) as ruler of Mexico
• ruled by military force & was supported by the landed elites
• fought San Salvador & lost almost half of Mexico
• brought liberal reforms to Mexico that included land distribution to the poor