Imperialism Review II

___14 62015 28 Commodore Matthew Perry is best known for taking which action?

• leading the British East India Company

• opening Japan to American and European Influences

• (3) justifying European spheres of influence in

  China

• rescuing Europeans during the Boxer Rebellion

___15 62015 49 One way in which the rule of Peter the Great in Russia and the rule of Emperor Meiji in Japan are similar is that both leaders...

• encouraged modernization

• emancipated serfs

• ruled according to a constitution

• granted equality to women

___16 12012 28 Japan began an aggressive policy of imperialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries because Japan...

• needed raw materials for its factories

• hoped to spread Shinto

• wanted revenge for the Opium Wars

• sought Western technology

___17 62013 29 The terms spheres of influence, extraterritoriality, and mandates are most closely associated with...

• collective security

• militarism

• imperialism

• self-sufficiency

___18 12013 26 The 19th-century ideas of Social Darwinism and the “White Man’s Burden” were often used to justify...

• isolationism

• appeasement

• disarmament

• imperialism

82015 49 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

___20 62013 26 What was a major reason European nations competed for control of Africa during the second half of the 1800s?

• African nations offered religious and political

  freedom.

• Slave labor was needed in the Americas.

• Africa had a wealth of natural resources.

• Europeans needed land for their excess

  population