AP World History 6.2

What were two reasons for why countries began to imperialize?

• natural resources and new markets

• gold and glory

• new machinery and labor force

What was the name of the meeting of European countries where they decided on how to divide up Africa?

• Conference of Paris

• Treaty of Versailles

• Berlin Conference

This Indian lawyer inspired nationalists to seek independence in Inia through nonviolent protests

• Panama Canal

• Mohandas Gandhi

• indirect rule

• direct rule

The United States backed a rebellion to secure construction of this Central American waterway, which opened in 1914

• Panama Canal

• Mohandas Gandhi

• indirect rule

• direct rule

France established this type of colonial rule, in which local officials are replaced by officials from the colonizing country, in southern Vietnam.

• direct rule

• indirect rule

• Panama Canal

• none of these

Under this policy, the United States claimed the right to intervene in Latin American countries considered guilty of misconduct

• Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

• direct rule

• indirect rule

• none of these

European nations began to search for new overseas colonies after 1880 to

• find who would work in European factories for low wages

• promote a free exchange of ideas between Eastern and Western cultures

• bring the economic benefits of industrialization to underdeveloped nations

• obtain raw materials for their industries and open new markets for their products

Why did Europeans want to colonize West Africa?

• Europeans needed a ready source of labor

• West Africa had many useful natural resources

• Britain and France had invested in scientific expeditions there

• Several African nations were on the verge of civil war

The colonial takeover of Southeast Asia grew largely out of economic and political rivalry between which two nations?

• Japan and China

• France and Britain

• Vietnam and Burma

• United States and Spain

What challenge did the British face in their colonization of South Africa?

• resistance from the Boers in Transvaal

• religious conflict among different indigenous groups

• widespread efforts among urban workers to organize labor unions

• geographic barriers that made the region largely inaccessible.