The World Succumbs to Western Domination
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- The Chinese gave Hong Kong to Great Britain as a result of the
- Opium War.
- Extraterritorialism refers to the
- right of a foreign power to try its own subjects for crimes committed in a foreign country.
- The confrontation between Japan and Western powers in the 1850s led to the
- abolition of the Tokugawa shoguns.
- The main reason Japan agreed so quickly to the terms offered by Matthew Perry was
- they lacked the technology to defeat the United States.
- Because foreigners were excluded from Japan and Japanese citizens were forbidden to return from abroad during the seventeenth century, we can conclude that the
- Japanese wanted to avoid foreign influence.
- The British appointed the first governor-general of India in the late 1700s
- after the British East India Company gained control of India.
- A major factor in the success that European imperialists experienced in gaining colonies during the 1800s was the
- level of technology the Europeans possessed.
- What eighteenth-century colony sought recognition and equality at the same time as Australia and New Zealand?
- Canada
- Because world markets that created a need for resources from far-off places also created an immigration of Europeans to these lands, the typical immigrant was a(n)
- farmer or an artisan.
- The quality that imperialists most sought in a colony was a(n)
- source of profit.
- The end of Asian supremacy in Asian seas during the 1800s was caused by the
- development of steam engines and steel ships
- The development of a world market was aided by all of the following except
- the decline of imperialism.
- The French entry into North Africa in 1830 was triggered by
- . a dispute over money.
- The late-nineteenth-century scramble for African territories was sparked by the
- involvement of Belgium and Germany in Africa
- The purpose of the Berlin Conference was to
- lay down rules for the division of Africa between the colonial nations.
- The two African peoples that succeeded in remaining free from foreign rule into the twentieth century were the Liberians and the
- Ethiopians.
- The Fashoda incident concerned the
- British and the French.
- The Great Trek was a nineteenth-century
- emigration movement
- African colonies were expected to be profitable. Which one of the following methods was not a way to obtain wealth from the African colonies?
- construction of heavy industry
- A similarity between British rule in India and its rule in South Africa during the nineteenth century was that the British
- treated the native inhabitants as inferiors.
- The Indian National Congress was
- an organization that worked for changes in British policy.
- When the Europeans arrived in India during the 1500s, the Mogul Empire had conquered most of
- northern India.
- In the nineteenth century, foreign powers were mainly interested in China
- as a source of trade and an investment opportunity.
- Russia took advantage of China's weakness in 1911 and gained control over a vast area of __________ China.
- northern.
- A ten-year treaty of alliance between an Asian nation and a Western power linked
- Japan and Britain.
- The diffusion of Western culture into Asian and African cultures has not
- lowered their health standards
- The first European settlers to have a major impact on Africa were
- missionaries.
- Colonial rule set in motion the modernization of much of Africa. When local inhabitants began to receive a European education, they began to desire a change because
- as they became more educated, the Africans began to question their treatment.
- Gideon Lang sought better treatment for the Australian aborigines by appealing for help from the
- government.
- Both Joseph Chamberlain and Leonard Woolf were members of the British government. Their feelings regarding imperialism indicate that the British
- were split over the value of British imperialism.