REVIEW QUESTIONS: Imperialism

The term imperialism can best be described as:

• Giving a weaker nation aide to help make it stronger

• Trading freely across all nations

• Taking over a weaker nation for its resources, markets, and money

• Spreading a religion to new areas and people

The Berlin Conference in 1884 was significant because it

• promoted Belgium as a world power

• established rules for the European division of Africa

• called for a war against England

• ensured ethnic harmony in the Middle East

What was a major factor that allowed imperialist powers to dominate large parts of Asia and Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries?

• The desire of Asians and Africans to convert to Christianity

• The willingness of imperialists to respect local traditions and customs

• The spread of nationalism among native people in colonial areas

• Their technological and military superiority

What is the role of a colony under MERCANTILISM?

• to serve the mother country all the food it could eat

• to supply the mother country with resources

• to control the resources of their own country

• to supply people to fight in the army

Many of the political divisions shown on this map were directly related to the

• Meiji Restoration

• Opium Wars

• Berlin Conference

• Boer War

What was the PRIMARY reason European countries were interested in colonizing Africa

• Africa was not affected by imperialism.

• Europeans wanted to spread Christianity in Africa.

• European countries colonized Africa for natural resources.

• African people welcomed European colonists.

The Scramble for Africa was the 30-year period where

• Africa was conquered by Europeans

• Africa gained its independence

• Africans successfully improved their economies

• Africa ran out of eggs

Which African colony is most closely associated with this political cartoon?

• British South Africa

• Belgian Congo

• German East Africa

• French West Africa

Rudyard Kipling's poem, The White Man's Burden, 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

Which of the following was a Social Darwinist argument in favor of imperialism?

• Western nations needed outlets for their growing populations

• Increased trade would benefit all peoples

• Colonies would bring wealth and prestige to the home country

• Westerners thought they had a duty to bring civilization to inferior races