Imperialism

The Berlin Conference is most closely associated with the colonialization of

• (1) South Asia

• (2) East Asia

• (3) Latin America

• (4) Africa

A major goal of both the Sepoy Rebellion and the Boxer Rebellion was to

• (1) establish a democratic republic

• (2) remove foreign interference

• (3) gain religious freedom

• (4) lower the tax burden for the peasants

After 1880, European colonization was motivated by the

• (1) urge to acquire African technology

• (2) need for an increase in the production of sugar

• (3) desire for new markets

• (4) demand for labor in the Americas

The Haitian Revolution and the Sepoy Rebellion happened in response to

• (1) European colonial and imperial policies

• (2) indigenous ethnic rivalries

• (3) urban development

• (4) religious divisions

The poem “White Man’s Burden” is most directly associated with the concept of

• (1) neutrality

• (2) appeasement

• (3) reparations

• (4) imperialism

Which factor most influenced Japan’s expansion efforts in the 1930s and 1940s?

• (1) competition with Russia for territory

• (2) limited amount of resources on Japan’s home islands

• (3) revenge for the bombings of Tokyo

• (4) a desire to reclaim territory that historically had been Japanese

One result of the Treaty of Nanjing in China was the

• (1) establishment of a British sphere of influence in China

• (2) creation of a parliamentary democracy in China modeled on Great Britain

• (3) granting of Chinese citizenship to the British living in China

• (4) formation of a Chinese protectorate in Great Britain

A goal of the Sepoy Rebellion in India and of the Zulu Resistance in South Africa was to

• (1) divide their country

• (2) establish theocratic governments

• (3) oppose nationalist movements

• (4) end foreign control

… The Opium War of 1839–42 was short and one-sided, due to the superiority of European weapons, which came as a complete surprise to the Chinese. In the first skirmish alone, in July 1839, two British warships defeated twenty-nine Chinese ships. On land, the Chinese and their medieval weapons were no match for British

troops armed with state-of-the-art muskets. By the middle of 1842 British troops had seized Hong Kong, taken control of the key river deltas, and occupied Shanghai and several other cities. The Chinese were forced to sign a peace treaty that granted Hong Kong to the British, opened five ports for the free trade of all goods, and required the payment of reparations to the British in silver, including compensation for the opium that had been destroyed by Commissioner Lin.…

— Tom Standage

Which term best characterizes the events described in this passage?

• (1) industrialization

• (2) imperialism

• (3) containment

• (4) cultural diffusion