Imperialism

Who said, "We are the finest race in the world and the more of the world we inhabit, the better it is for the human race"?

• Simón Bolívar

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Cecil Rhodes

• Otto von Bismarck

Which of the following describes Cecil Rhodes?

• a leading British imperialist active in south Africa

• the American politician who coined the term manifest destiny.

• He was responsible for the philosophy known as social Darwinism

• the first leader of an independent Canada

The completion of the Suez Canal dramatically advanced

• British control over India.

• Spanish control over the Philippines.

• French control over Vietnam.

• the maintenance of the Ottoman empire.

Submarine cables linked all parts of the British empire throughout the world by

• 1815.

• 1853.

• 1902.

• 1945.

The key figures behind the uprising in 1857 in India were

• Russian military officials looking for an advantage in the Great Game.

• disgruntled sepoy troops.

• French agents working to cause unrest in an important British colony.

• the representatives of the Indian National Congress.

Between 1859 and 1893, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos all fell under the control of

• England.

• France.

• Netherlands.

• United States.

The Berlin Conference

• set up a timetable for decolonization in Africa.

• devised the ground rules for the European colonization of Africa.

• established the Triple Alliance.

• legitimized the German colonization of the Marshall Islands.

The Boers were

• east African coastal merchants.

• Indians who served as soldiers for the British.

• Australian aborigines.

• Dutch settlers in the southern tip of Africa.

In 1770, Captain James Cook anchored his fleet at Botany Bay, near what modern city?

• Melbourne

• Sydney

• Cape Town

• Wellington

The Monroe Doctrine

• worked as a justification for U.S. intervention in western hemispheric affairs.

• opened Japan to U.S. trade.

• handed the Philippines over to the United States.

• gave the British an inroad into New Zealand.