WH Imperialism Test

Which of the following describes the situation that led to the start of the Taiping Rebellion?

• Regional warlords kept large standing armies that they maintained by taxing the peasants.
• Economic problems led to deteriorating conditions that culminated in a peasant revolt.
• Revolutionaries had attempted unsuccessfully to install a democratic government.
• Chinese citizens revolted when leaders began adopting Western values and institutions.

How did advances in medicine impact imperialism?

• They allowed Southeast Asians to gain resistance to diseases brought by colonists.
• They allowed Europeans to stay healthy in climates where they could not before.
• They allowed Europeans to use their innovations to impress the Southeast Asians.
• They allowed Southeast Asians to work in healthier conditions.

Why did Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata become allies against Venustiano Carranza?

• Their goals to help the working-class Mexicans were similar.
• They both supported a return to the old order and end reforms.
• They were both supported by the United States and other investors.
• They sought to ease suffering while maintaining landowners’ rights.

Which political reform did the Mexican Revolution achieve?

• a dictatorship run by a general
• stable democratic government
• an oligarchy of the rich elite
• universal suffrage to all citizens

When the British government took control of India from the East India Company, what group of people carried out British policy in India?

• British civil servants
• local Indian princes
• Mogul rulers
• upper-class Indians

Why did the United States invest in the development of Latin American countries?

• to control the raw materials in those countries
• to collect the debts owed to other nations
• to help them become economically independent
• to set up truly representative governments

Which of the following was an economic consequence of imperialism in Southeast Asia?

• the destruction of infrastructure
• the increase of wages for workers
• the industrialization of the region
• the development of plantation economies

The British ultimately created class and ethnic tensions in Africa through

• its military presence.
• its conversion efforts.
• its educational programs.
• its policy of indirect rule.

How did Cecil Rhodes contribute to the start of the Boer War?

• He backed a raid meant to start a British uprising in Transvaal.
• He backed policies meant to separate Africans from whites.
• He forced Africans to work on plantations or risk mutilation.
• He forced the Boers to go northward on the Great Trek.

How did the expansion of the rail system impact Indian culture?

• It began a cultural revival to counteract British influence.
• It created uniformity in religious traditions of the various regions of India.
• It spread religious traditions from once-isolated regions.
• It allowed farmers to switch to cash crops such as cotton.