Imperialism in the Far East: China and Japan

European Great Power nation that easily defeated the Chinese in the 1839-1842 Opium Wars:

• Russia

• Italy

• Britain

• Prussia

In the 1842 Treaty of Nanking concluding the Opium Wars, China had to concede to European merchants in China ________________ rights, allowing them to get away with breaking many of China's laws.

• natural

• civil

• human

• extraterritorial

Chinese mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who guided Chinese peasants in a great rebellion against the ruling Qing Dynasty in the 1850s:

• Hong Xiuquan

• Mao Zedong

• Sun Yat-sen

• Guangxu

One of the following was not a reform movement of the late Qing Emperors to bring modernity to China:

• self-strengthening movement, 1860s

• constitutional monarchy, 1917-

• Guangxu's reforms of 1898

• Boxer revolt of 1900

Type of Imperialism practiced by the Great Power nations in China, wherein the Imperialists took increasing control over Chinese trade and investments:

• colony

• sphere of influence

• protectorate

• vassal state

The Boxer Rebellion of 1900 was a Chinese nationalist uprising directed against European foreigners and

• Buddhists

• Muslims

• Hindus

• Christians

Japanese Emperor restored to the throne as ruler in 1867, leading his nation on a path that followed Western industrialization, technological development, and military restructuring:

• Tokugawa Ieyasu

• Hirohito

• Mutsuhito

• Hideki Tojo

U.S. president who commissioned Commodore Matthew Perry to sail his squadron of black steamships to Tokyo in 1853 to establish trade relations with Japan:

• Andrew Jackson

• Martin Van Buren

• Millard Fillmore

• Abraham Lincoln

Japan obtained control of this East Asian nation in 1905 following its defeat of Imperial Russia at war:

• Philippines

• Korea

• Indonesia

• Vietnam

Popular Japanese printing method developed in the 1700s:

• linotype printing

• metal type printing

• xerox printing

• woodblock printing