APWH Chapter 32

Cecil Rhodes was

• the British military leader who was responsible for a boom in naval expansion.
• the American politician who articulated the belief in manifest destiny.
• a leading British imperialist active in south Africa.
• responsible for the philosophy known as social Darwinism.

Which of the following was NOT an economic motivation for imperialism?

• Cheap raw materials from overseas colonies were needed to sustain industrialization.
• Overseas colonies offered markets for manufactured goods.
• Overseas colonies offered a haven for the settlement of surplus populations.
• European and American industry needed more sources of coal.

The "white man's burden" proposed by Rudyard Kipling referred to the

• cost of creating and supporting an empire.
• moral duty of the west to work to "civilize" the rest of the world.
• need for Christian missionaries to undermine Islam in Africa and Asia.
• cost of abolishing slavery in Africa.

Which of the following improved communication between India and Britain?

• completion of the Suez Canal
   (correct)
• use of steamships (correct)
• invention of the telegraph (correct)  
• laying of submarine  cables (correct)

The Battle of Omdurman clearly demonstrated that

• Europeans were morally superior to Africans.
• Japan had become a major world power
• European troops with modern weapons could subdue a vast native army.
• Britain had fallen behind Germany by the end of the nineteenth century.

The Mughal dynasty fell primarily because

• the state had been weakened by conflicts during the reign of Aurangzeb (correct)
• the East India Company  established  powerful, coastal  trading forts. (correct)
• British merchants gained access to interior territories. (correct)
• the sepoy mutiny failed to drive the British out of India (correct)

Under British imperial rule, India was governed

• as an independent sovereign state, but subject to British authority in foreign affairs.
• as the private domain of the East India Company.
• by a viceroy working in collaboration with Indian princes.
• with British bureaucrats and officers overseeing Indian civil servants.

One social goal of the British authorities in India was to

• abolish the caste system
• ensure Indians drank tea so that they could profit from its export.
• convert the local population to Christianity.
• establish English-style schools for children of Indian elites.

Unlike the British in India, the French in Indochina

• encouraged conversion to Christianity.
• recruited local peoples into their colonial army
• worked closely with local elites.
• promoted domestic industries

The colonization of the Belgian Congo is noted for the

• spirited resistance of the Congolese people.
• brutal treatment of the Congolese people by King Leopold II.
• policy of free trade that encouraged merchants from all countries.
• humane policies of the Belgian government toward the Congolese people.