Nationalism and Imperialism Unit Test

1. Nationalism can best be described as

• people identifying themselves as part of a community defined by a distinctive language, common institutions, and customs.
• a movement of people who think they are culturally superior to other people
• a group of people forced to support a government representing their culture

7. Which of the following terms relates to the hatred of Jews?

• Jew phobia
• Anti-Israeli
• Anti-Semitism

8. One of the main reasons Jews were being persecuted was Zionism. What is Zionism?

• the movement for a Jewish homeland
• a calculated attempt by the Jews to control the banking industry
• the movement of Jewish people to certain areas of towns

9. Imperialism can best be described as

• acquiring new lands by stealing it from its people
• acquiring new lands because of the need for raw materials and new markets
• acquiring new lands out of pure greed

12. How did resources play a part in European countries wanting to colonize parts of Africa

• They wanted them so that they could use them to trade with the US
• They wanted to bring them back to their country so that they could use them to make goods to sell to their citizens and also to the colonies they came from
• They wanted to bring them back to their country so that they could increase their wealth

14. One way in which European imperialism impacted Africa was

• some tribes were split up into multiple colonial powers
• tribes were kept completely intact
• the Europeans made sure not to combine rival tribes into one colonial powers' territory

15. Which was the only successful African resistance to European imperialism?

• Ethiopian
• Zulu
• Ashanti

22. The spreading of one's culture to different parts of the world best describes

• Cultural diffusion
• Cross cultural contamination
• Cultural transformation