AP World History 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8

Argentina’s main railway lines were owned by British companies during this period.

Question: The British ownership of most of Argentina’s main railway lines can best be described as an example of which of the following late-nineteenth-century developments?

• Gunboat diplomacy

• The Great Game

• Economic imperialism

• Social Darwinism

Argentina’s main railway lines were owned by British companies during this period.

Question: The freight transported on the railways to the ports of Buenos Aires and La Plata most likely consisted largely of

• Argentinian meat and raw materials for export to Great Britain and Europe

• Argentinian precision machinery for export to Great Britain and Europe

• Brazilian coffee and rubber for export to Great Britain and Europe

• British and European industrial imports arriving in Argentina via Chile

The trade described in the passage is best seen as an early example of which of the following?

• The economic decline of Asian states resulting from the importation of cheap consumer goods from Europe

• The growing economic influence of European immigrants in China

• The declining political power of European joint-stock companies in Asia because of states assuming direct imperial control

• The use of economic imperialism by European merchants and states

A historian might argue that the trade described in the passage reflected a turning point in world history primarily because the opium trade

• shifted the pattern of historic European trade imbalances with China

• marked the transition from mercantilist trade toward capitalist free trade

• was the first time that Europeans used migrant labor to grow crops for global distribution

• relied upon industrial techniques of production and modern consumer marketing

Free Women of Color with Their Children and Servants in a Landscape, 1770-1796 (oil on canvas) , Brunias, Agostino (1728-96) / Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, USA

Question: Which of the following best describes the artist’s likely purpose in painting this particular subject?

• To advocate for violent rebellion against British colonial authorities

• To demonstrate the racial oppression suffered by free people of color in the West Indies

• To argue for the respectability of free people of color

• To call for greater emigration by Europeans to the West Indies

Free Women of Color with Their Children and Servants in a Landscape, 1770-1796 (oil on canvas) , Brunias, Agostino (1728-96) / Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, USA

Question: The artist’s perspective on the subject of the painting was most likely influenced by which of the following?

• The Enlightenment

• Nationalism

• Social Darwinism

• Haitian Revolution

China was not interested in trading their silk, tea, and porcelain to Great Britain for British goods. As a result, what drug did Britain force India to grow so they could illegally sell it to Chinese citizens?

• Marijuana

• Cocaine

• Aspirin

• Opium

True or False: One result of the 1st and 2nd Opium Wars was China being forced to open up their ports for Western trade

• True
• False

True or False: The "Spheres of Influence" was a policy that allowed the United States exclusive trading rights with China.

• True
• False

European imperial countries traded all of the following to their colonies in Africa for cash crops/raw materials EXCEPT:

• Alcohol

• Cotton textiles

• Guns

• Canned food