Chapter 21, Review

If a colony was run by ____, local elites were removed from power and replaced with a new set of officials from the mother country.

• divine rule

• colonial rule

• direct rule

• Queensbury rule

Originally sent to Africa to find David Livingstone, Henry Stanley was

• killed going down the Congo River.

• hired by King Leopold II of Belgium.

• a liar and a thief.

• the author of many cartoons.

The only free states remaining in Africa by 1914 were

• Liberia and Ethiopia.

• Nigeria and Rhodesia.

• Egypt and Morocco.

• Rhodesia and Algeria.

__________ set up a nonviolent movement with the aim to force the British to aid the poor and grant independence to India.

• Rabindranath Tagore

• The Indian National Congress

• Mohandas Gandhi

• Lord Thomas Macaulay

In the Latin American colonial system, who were the mestizos?

• top of the social classes; held all the important positions

• the largest group; worked as servants and laborers

• controlled land and business; regarded as second class citizens

• the native peoples; enslaved by the African colonists

________ joined José de San Martín’s forces to complete the liberation of Peru.

• Agustín de Iturbide

• Miguel Hidalgo

• Montezuma

• Simón Bolívar

What was the “white man’s burden”?

• bigger, stronger Europeans could carry more baggage

• the belief that Europeans had a moral responsibility to civilize primitive peoples

• the crowded urban living conditions created by the Second Industrial Revolution

• the unpopular belief that Europeans were responsible for the mass destruction of many African cultures

Who seized power in Egypt in 1805 and established a separate Egyptian state?

• Muhammad Ali

• Ferdinand de Lesseps

• Muhammad Ahmad

• General Charles Gordon

The Boers were descendants of

• the indigenous Zulu peoples of South Africa.

• Watusi nomads, who had been driven south by German colonists.

• the original Dutch settlers of Cape Town and the surrounding areas.

• German colonists who pushed the Zulu peoples out of Nigeria.

In 1857, a growing Indian distrust of the British led to

• the British replacing indirect rule with divine rule.

• a treaty between Great Britain and India, restoring independence to India.

• the British establishing a fort at Kanpur.

• the First War of Independence, which the British called the Sepoy Mutiny.