Ch 12 Section 1 Quiz

How did the Industrial Revolution contribute to imperialism?

• Industrialized countries sought new markets.

• Industrialism created many protectorates around the world.

• Industrialized countries wanted to build factories in Asia and Africa

• Non-Western nations needed natural resources from Europe.

Many Western leaders felt they needed colonies and global empire to

• prevent Social Darwinism

• strengthen national security

• supply manufactured goods

• create strong nation states

Most Westerners felt their culture was

• equal to non-Western cultures

• inferior to non-Western cultures

• better than non-Western cultures

• not to be compared to others

In the 1800s, empires in the Middle East, India, Africa, and China had

• advanced technologically

• stayed the same mostly

• grown weak and disorganized

• grown stronger

Western critics of imperialism complained that

• Western countries were greedy

• Western education was inferior

• slavery would increase

• colonialism was immoral

The method used by France to rule colonies was

• designed to improse French culture on the colonies

• the same as that used by the British

• called a system of indirect rule

• designed to avoid military involvement

The British governed their colonies by

• using local rulers

• hiring military advisors

• sending local rulers to Britain

• holding elections