H4 QUIZ 1 SPRING 2021

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

To begin with, there are the exporters and manufacturers of certain goods used in the colonies. The makers of cotton and iron goods have been very much interested in imperialism. Their business interests demand that colonial markets should be opened and developed and that foreign competitors should be shut out. Such aims require political control and imperialism. Finally, the most powerful of all business groups are the bankers. Banks make loans to colonies and backward countries for building railways and steamship lines. They also make loans to colonial plantation owners, importers, and exporters. The imperialist business interests have powerful allies. Military and naval leaders believe strongly in extending the white man's rule over the inferior races,' To this company may be added another element—the missionary. Missionaries went forth to preach a kingdom beyond this world. But they often found themselves the builders of very earthly empires...Last, but by no means least, let us add politicians to our list of empire builders.

– Parker T. Moore, excerpt from Imperialism and World Politics, 1926

The political and economic system described in this passage most directly resulted from

• the plan for reparations in the Treaty of Versailles

• the sale of indulgences by the Catholic Church

• a belief in self-determination for all nations

• a desire for new markets and natural resources by industrialized countries

The White Man's Burden.

"Take up the White Man's burden—

Send forth the best ye breed—

Go, bind your sons to exile

To serve your captives' need;

To wait, in heavy harness,

On fluttered folk and wild—

Your new-caught sullen peoples,

Half devil and half child. . . ."

— Rudyard Kipling, 1899

This stanza from Kipling's poem is most closely associated with the belief that it was the duty of Western colonial powers to

• learn from the people they conquered

• teach their colonies how to produce manufactured

  goods

• civilize the people they controlled

• welcome less developed countries as equals

The theory of Social Darwinism was sometimes used to justify

• the establishment of communist governments in Asia

• Latin American revolutions in the early 19th century

• the independence movement in India

• European imperialism in the late 19th century

Which statement best expresses the Western perspective regarding Rudyard Kipling's "white man's burden"?

• Europeans should preserve traditional cultures in Africa and Asia.

• Europeans must protect existing African and Asian economies.

• Europeans suffered great hardships in exploring new trade routes to Asia.

• Europeans had a duty to introduce the benefits of their civilization to non-European.

Base your answer to the question on the passage 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. . . . "

Source: 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

Why were European nations able to conquer large sections of Africa in the 19th and early 20th centuries?

• Europeans easily adapted to African climate and topography.

• Europeans possessed more advanced military technology.

• Europeans wanted to learn about African cultures.

• Africans wanted to trade with European nations.

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

Which of the following events could a historian study in order to better understand how some Chinese responded to the situation shown in this cartoon?

• construction of the Great Wall of China

• accomplishments of the Tang dynasty

• the Boxer Rebellion

• Treaty of Nanking

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

The cartoon depicts the

• ethnocentrism of the Chinese during the Manchu Ch'ing dynasty of the 17th century

• separation of China into spheres of influence by 19th-century imperialist nations

• military aid given to the Chinese revolutionaries by the Soviet Union during the 1940's

• favored trading-partner status awarded to China by many Western European countries in the1980's

A similarity between the Sepoy Rebellion in India and the Boxer Rebellion in China is that both were

• attempts to remove foreign influence

• movements to establish communist governments

• efforts to restore trade monopolies

• struggles to westernize culture

The government of Great Britain built railroads, schools, and irrigation systems in colonial India primarily to

• prepare India for independence

• strengthen its political and economic control in India

• secure favorable trading arrangements with different Indian leaders

• help India maintain its traditional cultural systems