Imperialism Review 2021

Colonizer’s Logic

These natives are unintelligent —

We can’t understand their language.

^{— Voices from Twentieth-Century Africa:}

^{Griots and Town criers}

The “logic” of the colonizers described in this Nigerian poem reflects their...

• utopian plan

• militaristic behavior

• ethnocentric attitude

• educational goals

One major reason European countries engaged in imperialism in the late 19th century was to...

• ease tensions with their rivals

• develop treatments for diseases

• obtain markets for their manufactured goods

• gain a better understanding of unknown

  territories

Japan began an aggressive policy of imperialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries because Japan...

• hoped to spread Shinto

• needed raw materials for its factories

• sought Western technology

• wanted revenge for the Opium Wars

The terms spheres of influence, extraterritoriality, and mandates are most closely associated with...

• collective security

• self-sufficiency

• militarism

• imperialism

The 19th-century ideas of Social Darwinism and the “White Man’s Burden” were often used to justify...

• imperialism

• disarmament

• isolationism

• appeasement

Some of the ethnic strife in Africa today can be traced back to the European division of Africa resulting from the...

• Treaty of Tordesillas

• Congress of Vienna

• Berlin Conference

• Yalta Conference

What was a major reason European nations competed for control of Africa during the second half of the 1800s?

• Africa had a wealth of natural resources.

• Slave labor was needed in the Americas.

• African nations offered religious and political

  freedom.

• Europeans needed land for their excess population

Commodore Matthew Perry is best known for taking which action?

• leading the British East India Company

• justifying European spheres of influence in

  China

• opening Japan to American and European Influences

• rescuing Europeans during the Boxer Rebellion

Location of the Boxer Rebellion

• A

• B

• C

• D

• E

Became industrial

• A

• B

• C

• D

• E