The "New" Imperialism

The rule of the British East India Company in India was terminated as a result of?

• The Congress of Berlin in 1885
• the Sepoy Mutiny
• the ambitions of Queen Victoria
• the Crimean War

Great Britain exported opium to China in order to?

• find a means of paying for imports from China.
• overcome other European trade rivals
• increase profits for British merchants in Egypt
• demoralize Chinese resistance to conquest

n arguing for the positive effects of her imperialist rule in India, Britain could point to all of the following EXCEPT?

• development of the Indian infrastructure
• a competant civil service which generally served well in India
• eradication of discrimination based on caste
• control of hostilities among diverse Indian religious groups

Which of the following is the BEST reason for the beginnings of late 19c imperialism?:

• he acquisition of territories promising strategic benefit
• national security and the need for an international balance of power.
• missionary activities to proselytize and convert the heathens.
• the global competition of European nations for claims to less developed areas.

Extraterritoriality and treaty ports were?:

• features of the "unequal treaties" China was forced to accept
• concessions made by the United States to the Hawaiians in the 1880s.
• imposed on Russia after her defeat in the Crimean War.
• rights granted by the East India Company to native Indians.

Colonial rivalries that helped to increase international tensions before World War I included?

• British and French conflicts with Germany over Morocco
• Serbian hostility to Russia.
• German-Russian conflicts in Africa
• Dutch-British clashes in the East Indies

A unique feature of the "new imperialism" was the?

• establishment of direct political control over colonies through elaborate imperial bureaucracies.
• all of these choices are correct
• decline in number of Western countries building empires
• establishment of European control over Latin America.

Which of the following did NOT occur at the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885?:

• The conference laid the ground rules for all further acquisitions in Africa
• The Congo was yielded to Leopold of Belgium as the Congo Free State.
• The conference divided all of Africa among the major European powers

One striking difference between the British and the French imperial models in Africa is that?

• the French preferred to employ local rulers to govern their colonies
• the British preferred to use local institutions to control subject populations.
• the British actively sought to convert Africans to Christianity while the French did not.
• the British established schools and academies to train African civil servants to run their colonies, while the French did not

Which of the following are considered causes for the "new imperialism"?

• missionary zeal.
• European racism
• All of the above
• acquisition of colonies for prestige and national security