Exam 13: Imperialism and Colonialism, 1870-1914

Mohandas Gandhi was representative of a large number of Indians who left India to serve as indentured servants or work as professionals in other areas of the British Empire.

The early colonial success Italy realized with Eritrea and parts of Somalia encouraged it to invade:

The crises of Western empires that developed by the turn of the twentieth century created tensions:

How was imperialism reflected in the popular culture of Europe?

The Treaty of Nanking in1842 between the Chinese and the British set a precedent for other countries to demand similar rights and economic opportunities.

How did ideas of race serve as justification for imperial conquest in the nineteenth century?

The British were especially interested in controlling the Suez Canal because it:

Nineteen century French business concerns in Algeria included the commodities below except:

The Taiping Rebellion was a conflict between:

What were the causes of new imperialism?

Who coined the term eugenics to describe the science of improving racial qualities?

The correct chronological sequence of Great Britain's grant of self-government was:

"Imperialism" is the process of extending one state's control over another.

In what way was nineteenth-century Russian imperialism different from that of other European countries?

Rudyard Kipling's phrase "the white man's burden" referred to the:

The "Scramble for Africa" included the actions of European powers except:

During the Boer War:

Lord Curzon,a prominent nineteenth-century British conservative politician and proponent of empire,believed that the premier colony in the British Empire was:

The London Pan-African Conference of 1900:

The most strenuous opposition to the operations of the International Association for the Exploration and Civilization of the Congo came from: