Imperialism - Chapter 1

The Zulu War, the Sepoy Rebellion, and the Boxer Rebellion were all conflicts that were caused MOST directly by

• Communism
• World War I
• The Enlightenment
• Imperialism

Who did Japan defeat in 1905 after having its territory threatened the previous year?

• China
• United States
• Great Britain
• Russia

How did 18th- and 19th-Century European imperialism help to cause nationalism in Asian and African countries?

• It promoted free trade among the imperial colonies.
• It established Christianity as the common religion.
• It inadvertently united people there to oppose foreign domination.
• It caused intense patriotic feelings toward the imperial country.

If you were a soldier in colonial India in the mid-1800s, in which conflict might you have fought?

• Zulu War
• Boer War
• Sepoy Rebellion
• Boxer Rebellion

"The Chinese blamed “foreign devils”... for causing northern China's drought and famine, [causing] economic hardships by building railroads and telegraph lines, infecting and killing Chinese children with Christian prayers, and for various other real and imagined infamies. The murderous _______ _________ came as a sudden thunderstorm; all foreigners were to be killed not in the sudden merciful death of a bullet but sliced to death by big, old rusty knives and swords...."

Henry Hart, Lost in the Gobi Desert
What conflict can be inserted in the blanks in this passage?

• Zulu War
• Boer War
• Boxer Rebellion
• Sepoy Rebellion

Japan FIRST rose to become a modern world power during the ____.

• Edo period
• Meiji period
• Ming dynasty
• Tokugawa Shogunate

Why did Japan expand into Korea and Manchuria during the early 1900s?

• To get revenge for previous military losses
• To claim these territories before Britain or France did
• To secure much needed raw materials for their factories and military
• To unify ethnic groups in these nations who were descendant from the Japanese

Which of these factors was a primary cause of the 1857 Sepoy Rebellion in India?

• Segregation of Indian soldiers from British soldiers.
• Desire for revenge for British abuses of Indian civilians.
• Religious and cultural conflicts between Indian soldiers and their British commanders.
• Mohatmas Ghandi's imprisonment for speaking out against British rule.