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DL Chapter 25 (Industrialization and Imperialism - Europe)

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who ruled Java in the early 1600s?

a)

the Dutch

b)

the Portuguese

c)

China

d)

the sultans of Mataram

2.

Who controlled Java by 1800?

a)

the Dutch

b)

Britain

c)

the sultans of Mataram

d)

the Portuguese

3.

Sepoys were ________.

a)

south Asian troops in the armies of the British East India Company

b)

south Asian kingdoms

c)

rebels against British rule in south Asia

d)

the directors of the British East India Company

4.

The British Raj was ________.

a)

the governor of the British East India Company

b)

British rule in south Asia

c)

the British governor of south Asia

d)

petty south Asian kingdoms under British rule

5.

At the battle of Plassey, the ruler of Bengal fought ________.

a)

a rival south Asian ruler

b)

the French

c)

the British

d)

the Mughal emperor

6.

The Presidencies were created to ________.

a)

control trade with south Asia

b)

rule south Asia

c)

placate south Asian rulers

d)

suppress Indian uprisings

7.

The Princely States were ________ under British rule.

a)

the lands of the British East India Company

b)

the Presidencies

c)

Muslim territories

d)

autonomous Indian states

8.

The nabobs were ________.

a)

British sepoys

b)

employees of the British East India Company

c)

south Asian rulers

d)

the rajputs

9.

Who undertook the reform of British administration in south Asia?

a)

Charles Cornwallis

b)

James Cook

c)

Robert Clive

d)

Thomas Babington Macaulay

10.

Jeremy Bentham was a proponent of ________.

a)

Marxism

b)

decolonization

c)

Utilitarianism

d)

romanticism

11.

Ram Mohun Roy was a south Asian ________.

a)

rebel

b)

reformer

c)

prince

d)

merchant

12.

Which of these was victorious at Isandhlwana?

a)

the British

b)

the French

c)

the Zulus

d)

the Boers

13.

Which of these were colonies with a small proportion of Europeans?

a)

settler colonies

b)

factories

c)

White Dominions

d)

tropical dependencies

14.

In settlement colonies, ________.

a)

mineral resources were the main attraction

b)

native peoples outnumbered Europeans

c)

Europeans outnumbered local peoples

d)

Europeans ruled directly

15.

Which of these was a White Dominion?

a)

Kongo

b)

Java

c)

Australia

d)

Mexico

16.

Who was the author of Prester John?

a)

Robert Clive

b)

Cecil Rhodes

c)

John Buchan

d)

James Mill

17.

Which nation ruled the Congo in the late 1800s?

a)

France

b)

Belgium

c)

Britain

d)

Portugal

18.

The Boers in South Africa were ________ in origin.

a)

British

b)

Spanish

c)

Khoikhoi

d)

Dutch

19.

The Great Trek brought the Boers into conflict with ________.

a)

Zulus

b)

the British

c)

the Mwene Mutapa

d)

the Yoruba

20.

Natal was a ________ colony in South Africa.

a)

Boer

b)

Portuguese

c)

British

d)

French

21.

Which of these was a Boer Republic?

a)

Natal

b)

the Orange Free State

c)

the Cape Colony

d)

Rhodesia

22.

Which of these was found in South Africa in 1867?

a)

diamonds

b)

gold

c)

silver

d)

platinum

23.

Which of these men led the British against the Boers in South Africa?

a)

Charles Cornwallis

b)

John Buchan

c)

Robert Clive

d)

Cecil Rhodes

24.

The first Europeans who arrived in New Zealand were ________.

a)

farmers

b)

ranchers and merchants

c)

whalers and timber merchants

d)

miners

25.

Which of these men reached the Hawaiian Islands in the 1770s, preparing the way for European colonization?

a)

James Cook

b)

Cecil Rhodes

c)

Charles Cornwallis

d)

Jeremy Bentham

26.

Map 25.2 on p. 591, “The Stages of Dutch Expansion in Java,” illustrates the ________ nature of Dutch colonization on the island.

a)

rapid

b)

piecemeal

c)

partial

d)

aggressive

27.

Dutch activities on Java in the 1800s were typical of the period, ending in ________.

a)

the establishment of factories

b)

a settler colony

c)

indirect rule

d)

outright control

28.

British colonization of south Asia can be characterized as ________.

a)

gradual and unplanned

b)

well coordinated

c)

violent

d)

the result of British planters’ actions

29.

Map 25.3 on p. 593, “The Growth of the British Empire in India,” shows that British control of south Asia ________.

a)

moved from south to north

b)

began in Bombay and spread from there

c)

moved roughly from the coasts inland

d)

followed no pattern

30.

Which of these made India vulnerable to British rule?

a)

religious hostilities

b)

lack of stable governments

c)

centuries of political division

d)

the region’s small size

31.

India played a key role in the British Empire, largely because of its ________.

a)

geographic position

b)

mineral resources

c)

proximity to China

d)

tea plantations

32.

European borrowing from the customs of those they colonized can be characterized as ________

a)

minimal

b)

growing steadily in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

c)

especially heavy in the settler colonies

d)

heavier in the 1700s than in the 1800s

33.

In “Western Education and the Rise of an African and Asian Middle Class,” the authors argue that Western schooling ________ in the European colonies.

a)

was only for Europeans

b)

created new dependencies

c)

was centered on religious education

d)

had unintended consequences

34.

In general, in the 1800s Europeans agreed that ________.

a)

Europeans should not interfere in local culture

b)

their culture was superior to those of Asia

c)

south Asians should rule themselves

d)

the greatest British contribution to south Asia was infrastructure

35.

Industrialization tended to ________ imperialism.

a)

put an end to

b)

follow

c)

encourage

d)

create new arguments against

36.

Which of these groups played little or no role in European imperialism of the 1800s?

a)

missionaries

b)

government officials

c)

farmers

d)

individual conquerors

37.

Which of these was a key element in the successful scrambles for Asian and African territory in the late 1800s?

a)

waves of European diseases that hit these regions

b)

crumbling states in Asia and Africa

c)

lack of Asian and African resistance

d)

Europe’s growing technological advantage

38.

According to Map 25.5 on p. 600, “The Partition of Southeast Asia and the Pacific to 1914,” ________ dominated in this region by World War I.

a)

Britain

b)

France

c)

the Dutch

d)

Germany

39.

What was exceptional about the battle of Isandhlwana in 1879?

a)

It took place in Africa.

b)

It led to high African casualties.

c)

It was an unusual victory of conventional fighting over European firepower.

d)

The Zulus had more troops than the British.

40.

Which of these played an important role in the distinctive development of tropical dependencies and settlement colonies?

a)

natural resources

b)

climate

c)

distance from Europe

d)

date of colonization

41.

The idea of white racial superiority ________.

a)

became most popular when European intervention in other nations peaked

b)

developed to justify colonization, after the fact

c)

was the main driving force for the imperialism of the 1800s

d)

led to greater interaction between Europeans and those they ruled

42.

Across Africa and Asia, more direct European rule meant also that colonized nations ________.

a)

became economically dependent on Europe

b)

developed infrastructure that would make decolonization easier

c)

experienced impressive growth in literacy

d)

began to prepare for independence

43.

In the table on p. 605, “British Investment Abroad” in “Capitalism and Colonialism,” which of these patterns is clear?

a)

The White Dominions furnished Britain with manufactured goods.

b)

The United States was the largest market for British manufactures.

c)

Britain depended on South Africa for textiles.

d)

Britain primarily imported raw materials and exported manufactured goods.

44.

Colonization in South Africa was unusual in the history of nineteenth-century colonization because it saw ________.

a)

involved the dispossession of local peoples

b)

warfare between two European nations

c)

was spurred by the discovery of mineral resources

d)

it led to British control

45.

The discovery of diamonds in South Africa in the 1800s ________.

a)

led to the first hostilities between colonists

b)

led directly to British-Zulu fighting

c)

heightened preexisting tension

d)

brought the British to the region

46.

In the face of British encroachment, the Maori were ________.

a)

successful in maintaining their culture

b)

reduced to a tiny proportion of their original population

c)

driven to abandon their traditional culture

d)

aggressive leading to British oppression

47.

Which of these summarizes American annexation of Hawaii?

a)

Hawaii was annexed as a convenient military base.

b)

Hawaii was colonized and then annexed following a period of territorial rule.

c)

The U.S. government was pressured into annexation when planters staged a coup.

d)

War broke out between King Kamehameha and the United States, leading to annexation.

48.

Looking at Map 25.1 on p. 590, “European Colonial Territories, Before and After 1800,” which of these regions saw the greatest changes?

a)

Asia

b)

the Americas

c)

Africa

d)

the Middle East

49.

Which of these long-established patterns is visible in Map 25.4 on p. 599, “The Partition of Africa Between c. 1870 and 1914”?

a)

Britain controlled most of southern Africa.

b)

Kenya was tied to the Nile Valley.

c)

The Sudanic states were able to resist European encroachment.

d)

Ethiopia usually followed a different path from the rest of the continent.

50.

In the context of European colonization in Africa, conditions like those found in the Belgian Congo were ________.

a)

typical

b)

an extreme example

c)

an anomaly

d)

ubiquitous