1011 pt1

Based on the passage, the author would most likely have agreed with which of the following statements?

• Britin's founding of Australia followed God's command to convert non-Whites

• All peoples of the world have the right to determine their own government.

• Britain had contributed to human progress by taking over new colonies in Africa.

• Nations go to war with each other mainly to gain precious metals

The founding of “the Australian nation,” as alluded to in the passage, was part of which of the following processes?

• The creation of mercantilist empires to extract natural resources

• European states’ establishment of settler colonies

• European companies’ establishment of overseas trading posts

• Japan’s creation of its own empire in Asia

In the late 1800s, attitudes such as the one expressed in the passage had contributed most directly to which of the following?

• European states’ competition to acquire overseas colonies

• The abolitionist movement to end slavery

• The creation of industrialized economies in Europe

• Efforts by European missionaries to convert non-Europeans to Christianity for their spiritual salvation

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

As described in the second paragraph, the arguments made by the supporters of the opium trade were most similar to the arguments made in the early nineteenth century by supporters of the continued use of

• artisanal and craft production, as opposed to the factory system

• mercantilist trade practices, as opposed to free trade

• African slave labor on sugar plantations in the Americas

• women’s and children’s labor in the production of luxury goods in Chinese households

CHARLES GUSTAVE SPITZ, FRENCH PHOTOGRAPHER, CELEBRATING BASTILLE DAY IN TAHITI,* PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN FOR PUBLICATION IN THE FRENCH PRESS, 1889Mark and Carolyn Blackburn Collection of Polynesian Art/Bridgeman Images*French national holiday celebrating the 1789 French Revolution**French colonial territory in Polynesia, the South Pacific

Which of the following best describes the likely purpose of the photograph?

• To document the changes in Polynesian political hierarchies and gender roles brought about by imperialism

• To illustrate the photographer's belief that Tahitians were racially inferior to Europeans

• to record the rapidly vanishing customs and institutions of native Polynesians

• to reassure the french public of the civilizing effects of colonial rule and the loyalty of colonial populations.

CHARLES GUSTAVE SPITZ, FRENCH PHOTOGRAPHER, CELEBRATING BASTILLE DAY IN TAHITI,* PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN FOR PUBLICATION IN THE FRENCH PRESS, 1889Mark and Carolyn Blackburn Collection of Polynesian Art/Bridgeman Images*French national holiday celebrating the 1789 French Revolution**French colonial territory in Polynesia, the South Pacific

The photograph best supports which of the following inferences about French colonial rule in Tahiti in the 1880s?

• Colonial authorities attempted to impart a sense of French national identity to native Tahitians.

• Tahiti provided France with valuable sources of raw materials as well as with markets for French manufactured goods.

• The spread of enlightenment of ideas and anticolonial movements led many Tahitians to demand independence from France.

• French control of Tahiti was under threat from expanding rival colonial empires in the Pacific, such as Great Britain, Japan, and the United States

CHARLES GUSTAVE SPITZ, FRENCH PHOTOGRAPHER, CELEBRATING BASTILLE DAY IN TAHITI,* PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN FOR PUBLICATION IN THE FRENCH PRESS, 1889Mark and Carolyn Blackburn Collection of Polynesian Art/Bridgeman Images*French national holiday celebrating the 1789 French Revolution**French colonial territory in Polynesia, the South Pacific

Which of the following events would have been most likely to produce a cultural context similar to the one depicted in the image?

• The spread of Marxist ideas

• the Taiping Rebellion in China

• The scramble for Africa

• The unification of Germany

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