2424591134 | Whom did Europeans turn to in order to support European administrators in governing their African and Asian colonies | They frequently relied on local elites | 0 | |
2424604853 | What did the British use in India to bring order to the immenesly complex Indian social hierarchy? | They drew in part on the classical Indian texts which desceibed an idealized description of the caste system | 1 | |
2424627884 | What could local elites who did not openly rebel against European overlords hope for? | The could hope to maintain much of their social status and privileges by serving as an intermediary between their community and the colonial power. | 2 | |
2424638535 | Which of the following was a significant outcome of the Indian rebellion against British rule in 1857 and 1858? | The British goverment assumed direct rule over India | 3 | |
2424645618 | By the end of the 19th century what position could a member of a colonial society hope to aspire to with a western education? | He could become a teacher himself | 4 | |
2424651416 | What was a distinctive feature of the 19th century European colonial empires? | European empires penetrated the societies the governened to an unprecedented extent. | 5 | |
2424696897 | Cultural reactions of indigenous peoples to European rule included? | Cooperation with the imperial power by the many members of the indigenous ruiling classes | 6 | |
2424716710 | Over time on whom did the Europeans increasingly depend to rule their colonies often at the expense of traditional elites? | They depended on Western-educated members of the local society | 7 | |
2424723888 | What was a distinctive feature of 19th century European colonial empires? | Europeans displayed an unprecedented interest in classifying their subject peoples. | 8 | |
2424731486 | Which of the following best characterizes the response of most Asian and African societies to European conquestes in the 19th century? | The responses covered a wide range from active resistance to accommodation | 9 | |
2424746265 | How were such small numbers of Europeans able to govern such huge and populous territories? | By reinforcing the power of local rulers and thus earning their loyalty | 10 | |
2424754036 | What about the European colonial empires of the 19th century reflected earlier European imperial creations of the 16th and 17th century? | They enlisted the cooperation of subject peoples. | 11 | |
2424758245 | How did European powers govern at the local level? | The frequently relied on local elites | 12 | |
2424763376 | What role did gender play in European imperialism during the 19th century? | Traditional European ideas about the inferiority of women were assicated with male people of color | 13 | |
2424776657 | Which of the following statements is true about gender attitudes with regard to 19th century imperialism? | European colonizers took pride in their äctive masculinity" and defined subject peoples as soft and effeminate | 14 | |
2424797103 | Which of the following reflects a European colonial policy in the late 19th century that ran counter to their practices at home? | European reluctance to encourage urban growth industrialization individual values and religous skeptcism in their colonies | 15 | |
2424807348 | In what way was the 19th century European notion of empire distinctive from earlier empires in world history? | It included much greater penetration into the daily lives of subject peoples | 16 | |
2424816646 | Which of the following statements accurately describes the realationship between European colonial policies and core political values at home? | Europeans did not spread their political values in any meaningful way to their colonies | 17 | |
2424828325 | What short term trigger rather than long standing grievance helped spark the Indian rebellion (1857-1858) against the british colonial presence? | The use of animal fat on ammunition cartridges | 18 | |
2424843576 | With whom did British forces fight the Boer War a bitter 3 year struggle to secure South Africa? | White descendats of Dutch settlers | 19 | |
2424846062 | The european takover of most of Africa is known as | the scramble for Africa | 20 | |
2424853465 | Which of the following regions was integrated into European colonial empires in the 2nd half of the 19th century? | Much of Africa | 21 | |
2424858325 | Which of the following is a good example of a settler colony in the 19th century? | Australia | 22 | |
2424862217 | Who was the African political leader whose empire took the French 16 years to conquer? | Samori Toure | 23 | |
2424866498 | What role did Spain and Portugal play in the 2nd wave of European imperialism in the 19th century? | They continued to possess colonies but were relatively minor players in the new imperial enterprise | 24 | |
2424872255 | How did European imperialism from 1750 to 1914 differ from earlier European overseas expansion? | Germany and Belgium played more prominet roles | 25 | |
2424878745 | Which East Adian country joined the imperialist club in the 19th century by seizing control of colonies? | Japan | 26 | |
2424881532 | Which of the following occured in the late 19th century as imperialist colonial regimes expanded? | Ethiopia considerably expanded its empire and defeated an Italian invasion force. | 27 | |
2424890411 | Which of the folwing occured in the late 19th century as imperalist colonial regimes expanded? | Japan took over Taiwan and Korea | 28 | |
2424893959 | What was the Boer war (1899-1902) | A South African war between Britian and the descendants of Dutch settlers | 29 | |
2424898462 | What is a Maxim gun? | Automatic machine gun | 30 | |
2424904941 | Which of the following was a development during the western expansion of the US? | Native American children were remoced to boarding schools where they could be civilized | 31 | |
2424910721 | What was a critical feature of European military superiority in 1750? | The chief European military advantage lay n organization | 32 | |
2424916338 | What was generally the preferred way for European powers to control colonial regions? | European preferred informal control which operated through economic penetration and occasional military intervention but without a wholesale colonial takeover | 33 | |
2424931042 | What facilitated the Dutch acquisition of Indonesia? | The fact that Indonesia was made up of many small states | 34 | |
2424937765 | Which of the following regions was integrated into European colonial empires on the 2nd half of the 19th century? | The Pacific Islands | 35 | |
2424946148 | Which of the following regions experienced a takeover that was most similar to the Britians earlier colonization of North America? | Australia | 36 | |
2424949908 | Which of the following states made important gains in the 2nd wave of European conquests? | Belgium | 37 | |
2424952272 | What was the long term plan of the British for taking over contral of India? | There was no long term plan | 38 | |
2424955725 | Which of the following was a development during the western expansion of the US? | The US went to war with Mexico | 39 | |
2424961257 | Why did Australia New Zealand and Hawaii become settler colonies in which Europeans became the cast majority of the population? | The native population in these places had been largely destroyed by European disease. | 40 | |
2424975196 | When European imperialists attacked what was the fate of decentralized societies that did not have a strong ruler or government such as the small kingdoms and chiefdoms of West Africa? | They faced prtracted brutal warfare and mass destruction village by village | 41 | |
2424985184 | Which of the following was a feature of the cultivation system imposed in the Netherlands East Indies during the 19th century? | It enriched and strengthened the position of traditional local authorities that worked for the Dutch | 42 | |
2424992120 | Who presided over the cruel forced labor system in the Congo Free State at the opening of the 20th century? | King Leopold II | 43 | |
2425001101 | Which colony can be described as suffering from a reign of terror in which millions of natives were killed and mutilated to force them to produce for a European market? | Congo Free State | 44 | |
2425008326 | Which of the following is true of Chinese wage laborers in the 19th century? | They were unwelcome in European colonial possessions in Southeast Asia because they were seen as subversive | 45 | |
2425023711 | What was a distinctive feature of cash crop cocoa production in West Africa under European colonial rule? | Africian farmers not their colonial rulers took the initiative to develop cocoa production | 46 | |
2425041966 | Where did local opposition to the forced cultivation of cash crops succeed in bringing an end to the system by the early 20th century? | Cotton production in East Africa | 47 | |
2425050790 | Which of the following was a development that shaped the lives of women in West Africa during the 19th century? | Many women sought closer relation with their famalies of birth | 48 | |
2425054564 | How were the lives of African women altered by colonial economies? | Women were forced to take on traditionally male tasks in addition to their normal responsibilities | 49 | |
2425063809 | Which of the following is a valid comparison of rice production in Burma and Vietnam under colonial rule? | In both Burma and Vietnam dikes and irrigation canals built for rice production ultimatley depleted the sold by inhibiting the deposit of upstream silt in deltas | 50 | |
2425079258 | Which of the following was a distinguishing characteristic of wage labor in Africa as compared to Asia? | More so than in Asia Africans migrated to European farms or plantations for work | 51 | |
2425084759 | What effect did 19th century imperialism have on migration in colonized lands? | Imperialism led to the migration of millions of indigenous workers to work in mines or on European financed plantations | 52 | |
2425091299 | In what way did colonial rule change the working lives of subject peoples? | Artisans suffered as they were unable to compete with cheaper merchandise peoduced in mechanized factories | 53 | |
2425101486 | By the end of the 19th century in the African and Asian colonies of European powers | far more land and labor were devoted to production for the global market that before | 54 | |
2425107547 | What was an important outcome in terms of development for the colonies of European empires during the 19th century? | Elements of the European modernizing process were conveyed to their colonies | 55 | |
2425126306 | How were the lives of African women altered by colonial economies? | Colonial economies sometimes offered women a measure of oppotunity particularly in small scale trade and marketing that could on occasion give them considerable economic autonomy | 56 | |
2425142982 | How did colonial economies in Africa change the role of women? | New colonial economies led to a great increase in women workload in providing subsistence for their famalies | 57 | |
2425154922 | How were the lives of African women altered by colonial economies? | Women were forced to take on traditionally male tasks but were able to drop many of their traditional responsibilities | 58 | |
2425164205 | Which is true of cash crop agriculture in European colonial empires during the 19th century? | Cash crop agriculture sometimes led to environmental problems | 59 | |
2425172818 | How did nationalism drive imperialism in the last quarter to the 19th century? | Colonial spheres of influence conferred Great Power status on a nation | 60 | |
2425176851 | What new developments facilitated overseas expansion in the late 19th century? | Inderwater telegraph cables and steam driven ships significantly improved communication | 61 | |
2425183712 | What made European racism in the 19th century distinct from earlier periods? | It was expressed in terms of modern science | 62 | |
2425187235 | Which innovation in 1869 made it much easier and quicker for Europeans to reach Asia? | Completion of Suez Canal | 63 | |
2425200068 | What made imperialism so broadly popular in Europe in the last quarter of the 19th century? | Europeans often found it more profitable to invest their capital abroad than in Europe | 64 | |
2425204987 | Which of the following is true of Social Darwinism? | Social Darwinism suggested that European dominance inevitably involved the displacement or destruction of unfil races | 65 | |
2425213259 | What made imperialism so broadly popular in Europe in the last quarter of the 19th century? | Europe needed the raw material of its colonies to fuel its factories | 66 | |
2425218345 | What contributed to changing European views of Africans and Asians in the 19th century? | Europenas developed a new secual arrogance based on their economic accomplishments associated with industrialization | 67 | |
2425229764 | What made imperialism so broadly popular in the last quarter of the 19th century? | Imperialism promised to solve the clss conflicts of an industrializing society | 68 | |
2425235388 | Which of the follwing were used to underpin European racism in the 19th century? | Scientific methods that appeared to prove that European brains are larger than those of people in other parts of the world | 69 | |
2425245199 | How did nationalism drive imperialism in the last quarter of the 19th century? | Colonial spheres of influence conferred Great Power status on a nation | 70 | |
2425250320 | What did ordinary Europeans come to care whether their country gained new territories around the globe? | Many Europeans became swept up in the mass nationalism | 71 | |
2425264314 | In what was could imperialism solve class conflicts within industrializing Europe? | Class conflicts could be solved by providing markets for European manufactured goods and thus keeping workers withing Europe fully employed | 72 | |
2425272813 | What made imperialism so broadly popular in Europe in the last quarter of the 19th century? | The growth of nationalism in Europe made the acquistion of empires popular | 73 | |
2425278940 | Which of the following was a reason for Europes colonial expansion in the long 19th century? | The need for markets to sell European manufactured products | 74 | |
2425284823 | What made imperialism so broadly popular in Europe in the last quarter of the 19th century? | Europe needed markets for its industrial goods | 75 | |
2425289405 | Which of the following statements is true about European imperialism? | It led European secular arrogance as Europeans grew to despise the peoples they dominated | 76 | |
2425299616 | What made imperialism so broadly popular in Europe in the last quarter of the 19th century? | Europeans often found it more profitable to invest their capital abroad that in Europe | 77 | |
2428587681 | What was an advantage that those colonial subjects who secured a Western education enjoyed? | They had access to better paying positions in European mission organization. | 78 | |
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