Global 10 Imperialism Review

In the 19^th century, a major reason the British wanted to control the Suez Canal region was to

• ensure easier access to India

• facilitate the slave trade in eastern Africa

• promote nationalism in Egypt

• improve farming in the Middle East

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

• establish a democratic republic

• remove foreign interference

• gain religious freedom

• lower the tax burden for the peasants

Base your answer to the question on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies.

… During the five years beginning in 1914, industrial production grew five times; exports, more than three times. The deficit in international accounts, opened in the midnineteenth century, was replaced by a comfortable surplus. The industry that showed the most remarkable growth was shipbuilding; barely started in the latter part of the nineteenth century, in 1919 600,000 tons were built, putting Japan in third place after Great Britain and the United States….

The developments in Japanese history described in this passage are most closely associated with

• making reparation payments

• implementing modernization

• guaranteeing self-sufficiency

• enacting economic sanctions

One result of the Treaty of Nanjing was the

• establishment of a British sphere of influence in China

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

• granting of Chinese citizenship to the British living in China

• formation of a Chinese protectorate in Great Britain

Base your answer to the question on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies.

…As late as the 1870s, only 10% of the continent was under direct European control, with Algeria held by France, the Cape Colony and Natal (both in modern South Africa) by Britain, and Angola by Portugal. And yet by 1900, European nations had added almost 10 million square miles of Africa—one-fifth of the land mass of the globe—to their overseas colonial possessions. Europeans ruled more than 90% of the African continent….

— Saul David, “Slavery and the ‘Scramble for Africa,’ ” BBC British History in depth

Which event most directly influenced the change referred to in this passage?

• outbreak of the Boxer Rebellion

• meeting of the Berlin Conference

• signing of the Munich Pact

• collapse of the Ottoman Empire

Social Darwinism and the ideas expressed in the “White Man’s Burden” were used by Europeans to justify their policies of

• pacifism

• communism

• isolationism

• imperialism

After 1880, European colonization was motivated by the

• urge to acquire African technology

• need for an increase in the production of sugar

• desire for new markets

• demand for labor in the Americas

Base your answer to the question on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies.

… 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 of the choices was a reaction to the event described in this excerpt?

• Boxer Rebellion

• World War I

• World War II

• Four Modernizations

Japan fights China. (1894) Japan defeats Russia. (1905) Japan annexes Korea. (1910)

These events reflect the growing power of Japan and its desire to

• spread Shinto

• acquire warm-water ports

• obtain natural resources

• suppress the Boxer Rebellion

Commodore Matthew Perry is best known for taking which action?

• leading the British East India Company

• rescuing Europeans during the Boxer Rebellion

• justifying European spheres of influence in China

• opening Japan to American and European influences