3.2 Study Guide | Imperialism

Which statement best describes the relationship between imperialist powers?

• Countries competed with each other for land and resources.

• Countries staked land far from colonies of other nations.

What prompted the British Parliament to take direct control over India from the British East India Company?

• Indian soldiers rebelled against the British.

• Russia threatened its sphere of influence in South Asia.

European powers competed intensely for China mostly because they wanted

• to sell goods to the huge Chinese population.

• to control to China's vast natural resources.

What was the outcome of the Russo-Japanese War?

• Japan gained control over Korea and hegemony over Manchuria.

• Russia took over Japan's colonies and territories.

The U.S. victory in the Spanish-American War in 1898 led the United States to

• become an imperial power with territory in the Pacific and Caribbean Sea.

• try to prevent European powers from gaining influence in Latin America.

The early settlers of Cape Colony were known as

• Afrikaners.

• Sino-Africans.

What did the European powers do to partition Africa into colonies?

• They established fixed borders regardless of changing tribal regions.

• They carved out spheres of influence over key ports and in the interior.

Informal imperialism is when a dominant country

• influences a country politically but not economically.

• exerts pressure on or influences a country without physical conquest.

Why did many Latin American countries fail to industrialize in the 19th century?

• They depended on industrialized nations to buy their cash crops and raw materials.

• They accumulated too much debt to support local manufacturing.

Britain was able to exercise control over Latin American countries in part by

• providing loans for capital expansion.

• making restrictive trade agreements.