APWH 6.1 Reading Quiz

According to the quote from Rudyard Kipling in the beginning of the AMSCO text, imperializing countries believed the people in the countries that were being imperialized were…

• equal to the white Western Europeans

• superior to the white Western Europeans

• inferior to the white Western Europeans

• indifferent to the white Western Europeans

Which of the following was NOT a justification of European colonization?

• Belief in nationalism

• Desire for economic wealth

• Belief they were biologically superior

• Desire to benefit foreign countries

Which of the following countries was NOT imperializing African and Asian countries?

• Great Britain

• Spain

• France

• Germany

Which theory is the “survival of the fittest” theory to justify their colonization of other countries?

• Darwinism

• Social Darwinism

• Formosa

• Imperialism

What philosophy did Theodore Roosevelt believe in?

• Communism

• Socialism

• Collectivism

• Social Darwinism

“The yellow and white races which are to be found on the globe have been endowed by nature with intelligence and fighting capacity. They are fundamentally incapable of giving way to each other. Hence, glowering and poised for a fight, they have engaged in battle in the world of evolution, the great arena where strength and intelligence have clashed since earliest times, the great theater where for so long natural selection and progress have been played out.”

The quotation above by an early-twentieth-century Chinese revolutionary illustrates the influence of

• Social Darwinism

• Communism

• National Socialism

• Anarchism

CHARLES GUSTAVE SPITZ, FRENCH PHOTOGRAPHER, CELEBRATING BASTILLE DAY* IN TAHITI,** PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN FOR PUBLICATION IN THE FRENCH PRESS, 1889 Mark and Carolyn Blackburn Collection of Polynesian Art/Bridgeman Images

*French national holiday celebrating the 1789 French Revolution

**French colonial territory in Polynesia, the South Pacific

Which of the following best describes the likely purpose of the photograph?

• To document the changes in Polynesian political hierarchies and gender roles brought about by imperialism

• To illustrate the photographer’s belief that Tahitians were racially inferior to Europeans

• To record the rapidly vanishing customs and institutions of native Polynesians

• To reassure the French public of the civilizing effects of colonial rule and the loyalty of colonial populations

Which of the following scientific concepts had the greatest role in providing a justification for imperialism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

• Louis Pasteur’s germ theory of disease

• Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution

• Adam Smith's theory of free market economics

• Marie Curie’s theory of radioactivity

Based on the passage, the author would most likely have agreed with which of the following statements?

• Britain’s founding of Australia followed God’s command to convert non-Whites.

• All peoples of the world have the right to determine their own government.

• Britain had contributed to human progress by taking over new colonies in Africa.

• Nations go to war with each other mainly to gain precious metals.

True or False: Colonizing powers believed they were inherently superior to those they colonized.

• True
• False