WorksheetsWH Unit 9 Test #1 (9.1-9.4): The Age of Imperialism (1800-1914)
Total questions: 44
Worksheet time: 23mins
The policy of one country’s political, economic, or cultural domination over other lands & territories.
Diplomacy
Imperialism
Concessions
Alliance
A European country conquers an African country to harvest its raw materials so that they can use them to supply factories. They then sell the manufactured goods back to the country they got the raw materials from.
This is a(an) _______ motive for imperialism.
Political
Humanitarian
Economic
Military
Which of the following scenarios best describes a political or military motive for imperialism by a European country.
The need to secure oil.
The need to establish bases to refuel merchant ships & warships.
The need to establish churches and government offices as a benevolent gesture.
The need for a place for European political leaders to vacation.
Which of the following were the "blessings of Western Civilization" that missionaries and other humanitarians wanted to spread in the Asian, African, and Indian colonies?
Check all that apply:
Christianity
Bread
Social Darwinism
Law & Order
Medicine
Why was West Africa relatively easy to conquer for the European imperialists?
All of the European colonies banded together to conquer them.
They surrendered immediately with no war at all.
They were already loyal to the Europeans.
The slave trade had weakened them and divided the kingdoms.
Advantages of Western Countries that allowed them to colonize.
Select all that apply.
Strong economies
Better Weapons
Better technology
Better medical knowledge
Well organized governments
Which of these people was a notable critic of imperialism?
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
Benjamin Disraeli
King Leopold II
The parent country sends officials & soldiers to run a colony.
What type of rule is this, and what parent country used it?
Indirect Rule; France
Direct Rule; Britain
Direct Rule; France
None of these.
The parent country has a governor & council who make laws for the colony, while training local rulers to work as agents for the parent country and enforce the laws.
What type of rule is this, and what country used it?
Indirect Rule; Britain
Indirect Rule; France
Direct Rule; Britain
Direct Rule; France
Local rulers are left in place but expected to follow advice of European advisors; European power defends in crisis.
What type of Imperial Rule is this?
Direct Rule
Indirect Rule
Sphere of Influence
Protectorate
An outside power claims exclusive investment or trading privileges.
What type of Imperial Rule is this?
Direct Rule
Indirect Rule
Sphere of Influence
Protectorate
Which of these was a major issue that sprung up from Europeans redrawing the map of Africa?
They drew the map with little regard for the claims of other European nations.
They drew the map according to where the local tribes lived, ignoring where the resources were.
They divided Africa based on natural boundaries & resources, but ignored ethnic & tribal boundaries.
They divided Africa based on the metric system, but Africans spoke Swahili and used imperial system instead.
Which of the following were results of Europeans having farmers switch to cash crops, and flooding the market with cheap manufactured goods?
Famine and death of local cottage industries.
Famine and uptick in local manufacturing to compete.
More cash, more food, less local cottage industry.
People changed their diet to eat cash crops only, and they used manufactured goods to make the new food.
Before colonization, most of the economies in India, Africa, and Asia were based on ______. After, they were _____ based.
bartering; cash
cash; bartering
mining; shipping
tourism; industrial
Which of the following were social & cultural changes resulting from imperialism?
Select all that apply:
Close knit villages faltered as men left to work for cash.
Many of the local religions gave way to Christianity.
People shifted from subsistence to working for cash to earn profit.
Slavery expanded throughout Africa in the late 1800s.
More cottage industries sprung up to compete with manufactured goods.
What nation colonized and dominated much of North and West Africa?
Italy
France
Britain
Belgium
Why were Europeans able to easily conquer West Africa?
The kingdoms had grown weak because of no trade with other countries.
The kingdoms had no guns.
The kingdoms had no unity with neighboring tribes, because they had sold them into slavery for a century.
This is a trick question....West Africa was NOT easy to conquer.
Which of the following groups had to fight against the Zulu to gain control of South Africa/Cape Colony?
Select all that appy:
Boers
Germans
British
French
Italians
The two countries that were created as homes for the freed slaves of the U.S. and Britain.
Sierra Leone & Liberia
Nigeria & Liberia
Congo & Sierra Leone
United African Emirates & British Guiana
Most Europeans had a ______ attitude toward the African people, which meant that they looked at them as children in need of guidance.
negative
paternalistic
freudian
futuristic
British explorer who discovered Victoria Falls; was very sympathetic to the native Africans, and disappeared to live among them for years in Tanzania before another explorer found him.
Henry Stanley
Henry Jones, Jr.
David Livingstone
Davey Crockett
Country that controlled the Congo, sparking the Europeans to scramble for African lands. Their king oppressed the people of the Congo in search of mineral resources like gold & diamonds.
Britain
Belgium
Germany
France
What were the terms of the Berlin Conference in 1884?
Select all that apply:
Belgium owns the Congo Free State.
Free trade on the Niger & Congo rivers.
No European power can lay claim to any part of Africa without setting up a government office there first.
No European power can lay claim to any part of Africa without calling a meeting in Berlin first.
Gave France control of the Congo.
France held lands in Africa ____.
as large as Texas
as large as all of Europe & Asia combined
as large as the continental U.S.
for only 12 years.
Cecil Rhodes made a fortune in South African mining, and worked to build a "Cape to Cairo" railroad. What empire would the Cape to Cairo railroad connect? Cape Town is in South Africa, Cairo is in Egypt.
German
British
French
Belgian
What caused the Boer War?
The Boers attempted to take the lands of the British republic in South Africa.
The British found gold & diamonds on lands controlled by the Boers, so they wanted the land.
The Boers were in trouble with the Zulu, and the British allied with the Zulu to defeat the Boers.
The Boers wanted segregation, the British did not.
Why was Ethiopia able to remain independent of European colonization?
They had nothing desirable in their land, so they were not worth the trouble.
They had modernized with European weapons, training, schools, roads, & bridges.
They were rich enough to pay off the Europeans with gold and diamonds.
The Europeans never attacked them because they were Christians.
What opened the door to European contact with the Muslim world leading into the 1800s?
The Peloponnesian War
Napoleon invaded Egypt
The Ottoman Empire imploded.
Britain invaded Egypt
_____ pushed to gain control of Bosporus & the Dardanelles from the Ottomans, the straits allowing them access to the Mediterranean near Turkey. This caused the Crimean War.
Britain
France
Russia
Germany
_____ (rulers of the Ottoman Empire) rejected the reforms and push for westernization of the Ottoman Empire; they wanted to keep the empire an autocracy.
Ayatollahs
Sultans
Shahs
Jews
______ overthrew the sultan, but were soon engulfed in WWI before they could enact any meaningful changes in the Ottoman Empire.
The Shah
The Jews
The Young Turks
The Egyptians
A Christian group that the Ottomans accused of allying with Russia.
Over a 25 year period, the Ottomans killed more than a million of them in mass genocide & starvation.
Jews
Lebanese
Armenians
Greeks
The "father of modern Egypt," who rid Egypt of the French, made the country successful, and introduced a lot of reforms. When he died, no Egyptian leader could compare, and they eventually ended up under British control.
Prince Ali-Ali-A-See-Aliababa
Muhammad Ali
Manute Bol
Sadaam Alibaba
1875: The leader of Egypt unable to repay loans he contracted to invest in building the Suez Canal & sold his shares to....
The French Premier
The British PM
The US President
The Shah of Iran
Persian shahs granted concessions to foreign companies to raise money to spend on modernizing their country. What did they spend the money on?
modernization
their palaces & courts
creating jobs for the middle class
land speculation
Controlled 3/5 of India by the mid-1800s, until they had to relinquish control after the Sepoy Rebellion.
The British East India Company
The Mughal Empire
The Ottoman Empire
The British Goverment
The British Government & East India Company did all but one of the following options in India. Which did they NOT do?
Banned Sati
Banned the Caste System
Improved Roads
Allowed widows to remarry
In 1857, the British East India Company issued new rifles to the sepoys, and it led to a rebellion because something about the rifles was deeply offensive to the sepoys. What offended them?
They were VERY attached to their old rifles.
They knew that the new rifles meant that there was no pay increase coming for them.
The cartridges were lubricated with animal fat from pigs (forbidden to Muslims) and cows (sacred to Hindus)
The cartridges were lubricated with the palm oil, which both Hindus and Muslims were forbidden to touch unless they ate pork, which was a 50/50 chance of a death sentence back then due to dysentery.
What development in another country led to Britain being able to control India more tightly than before?
The fall of the Shah.
The Fall of the Ottoman Empire
The Cape to Cairo Railroad
The Suez Canal
Which choice best describes the outcomes of allowing Indians to study at British universities?
It made the Indians more loyal to the British, and stabilized the empire.
It instilled enlightenment ideas in people like Gandhi, the eventual leaders of the Indian National Congress, and the Muslim league
It instilled enlightenment ideals in people like Muhammad Ali, who gave up leading India to become a boxer & change his name to Cassius Clay.
It made the Indians less loyal to the British, because none of them wanted to go the universities; they just wanted to farm peacefully in their own country & sell spices to the British.
Why did European nations engage in imperialism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
a desire to expand markets and secure raw materials
a desire to seek knowledge and explore uncharted lands
a desire to share advanced technology with other nations
a desire to help with the economic development of other countries
How did Western imperialism affect the culture of the colonies?
Colonized people were encouraged to adopt Christianity, while maintaining their own political and social traditions
Colonized people were encouraged to teach their languages and traditions to their Western rulers, which strengthened relations between the groups
Colonized people were encouraged to maintain their own religions, while adopting European languages and ideals.
Colonized people were encouraged to adopt Christianity and European culture, and local traditions weakened.
Which of the following BEST summarizes the causes of imperialism in the late 1800s?
Westerners wanted to spread their religion, sell manufactured goods, and gain territory to compete with other countries
Westerners wanted markets for their goods and to attract non-Western workers for their factories
Westerners wanted to spread their religion and education people
Westerners wanted to conquer as much land as they could because they needed more territory
European imperialists redrew the map of Africa with little regard for _______.
trade agreements
ethnic boundaries
mining rights
the slave trade
