Name: Imperialism Practice

A) gain a better understanding of unknown territoriesB) ease tensions with their rivalsC) develop treatments for diseasesD) obtain markets for their manufactured goods

1. One major reason European countries engaged inimperialism in the late 19th century was to

A) Africa had a wealth of natural resources.B) Slave labor was needed in the Americas.C) African nations offered religious and political

freedom.D) Europeans needed land for their excess population.

2. What was a major reason European nations competed forcontrol of Africa during the second half of the 1800s?

A) isolationism B) appeasementC) imperialism D) disarmament

3. The 19th-century ideas of Social Darwinism and the“White Man’s Burden” were often used to justify

A) collectivization B) free tradeC) socialism D) imperialism

4. During the late 19th century, Japan's lack of naturalresources was one reason for implementing a policy of

A) Europeans should preserve traditional cultures inAfrica and Asia.

B) Europeans must protect existing African and Asianeconomies.

C) Europeans suffered great hardships in exploringnew trade routes to Asia.

D) Europeans had a duty to introduce the benefits oftheir civilization to non-European.

5. Which statement best expresses the Western perspectiveregarding Rudyard Kipling’s “white man’s burden”?

A) learn from the people they conqueredB) teach their colonies how to produce manufactured

goodsC) civilize the people they controlledD) welcome less developed countries as equals

6. The White Man's Burden."Take up the White Man's burden—Send forth the best ye breed—Go, bind your sons to exileTo serve your captives' need;To wait, in heavy harness,On fluttered folk and wild—Your new-caught sullen peoples,Half devil and half child. . . ."— Rudyard Kipling, 1899

This stanza from Kipling's poem is most closelyassociated with the belief that it was the duty of Westerncolonial powers to

A) the establishment of communist governments inAsia

B) Latin American revolutions in the early 19thcentury

C) the independence movement in IndiaD) European imperialism in the late 19th century

7. The theory of Social Darwinism was sometimes used tojustify

A) raw materials used in industryB) religious inspirationC) free labor for the AmericasD) technologically innovative practices

8. One of the most important motives for the European“Scramble for Africa” in the late 1800s was that Africaprovided a source of

A) desire to establish democratic governmentsthroughout the world

B) emergence of Marxism as an economic systemC) desire for cheap raw materials and expanded

marketsD) religious conflict between European nations

9. In the 1800's, a major cause of European imperialismwas the

A) the use of trans-Saharan trade routes by earlyAfrican empires

B) the invasion of Korea and Manchuria by JapanC) European imperialism in Southeast AsiaD) Russian expansion into Siberia

10. The location of seaports and the abundance of naturalresources such as hardwoods, rubber, and spices werefactors that led to

11. Base your answer to the following question on thestatement below and on your knowledge of socialstudies.

In the past, European nations have conquered otherlands, made them into colonies, and controlled theireconomies.

A) industrialization of Europe and the need for rawmaterials

B) desire of Europeans to spread communismthroughout the world

C) European belief in human rights for all peopleD) requests of developing nations for modern

machines and technology

This statement describes a situation that resulted fromthe

A) Egypt had control of the spice trade.B) Egypt had an industrial-based economy.C) Egypt had vital mineral resources.D) Egypt had a strategic location.

12. Why were the French and British interested incontrolling Egypt in the mid-19th century?

13. Base your answer to the following question on the mapbelow and on your knowledge of social studies.

A) ethnocentrism B) socialismC) containment D) imperialism

This map illustrates the concept of

A) Middle AgesB) Protestant ReformationC) Age of ImperialismD) Glorious Revolution

14. To which period does the slogan "The Sun never setson the British Empire" refer?

A) technological and military superiority of Europeannations

B) acceptance of Christianity by many Asians andAfricans

C) desire of Asians and Africans for European rawmaterials

D) refusal of Asians and Africans to fight againstEuropean imperialism

15. The major factor that enabled Western Europe todominate large parts of Asia and Africa in the 19th andearly 20th centuries was the

A) promoted Belgium as a world powerB) established rules for the European division of

AfricaC) called for a war against EnglandD) ensured ethnic harmony in the Middle East

16. The Berlin Conference in 1884 was significant becauseit

A) Japan B) Southwest AsiaC) Africa D) Latin America

17. Much of which area of the world came under Europeancolonial control in the 19th century?

A) Rival tribal groups fought wars.B) The Berlin Conference of 1884 influenced colonial

boundaries.C) Traditional territories and culture groups were

permanently fragmented.D) African economies became dependent on the sale

of cash crops and raw materials.

18. Which of these developments in Africa was a cause ofthe other three?

19. Base your answer to the following question on the map below and on your knowledge of social studies.

A) Meiji Restoration B) Opium WarsC) Berlin Conference D) Boer War

Many of the political divisions shown on this map were directly related to the

Base your answers to questions 20 and 21 on the map below and on your knowledge of social studies.

A) European Imperialism B) African NationalismC) The Growth of Islam D) Cold War Politics

20. The best title for this map would be

A) Germany B) France C) Great Britain D) Italy

21. According to the information provided by the map, which European nation controlled the Union of SouthAfrica?

A) New nations were based on old tribal boundaries.B) The cultural and ethnic diversity of the African

people was disregarded.C) The continent was divided equally among the

colonial powers.D) African unity was encouraged.

22. Which is an accurate statement about the partitioning ofAfrica by European imperialist nations during the1800's?

Base your answers to questions 23 and 24 on the poembelow and on your knowledge of social studies.

. . . you, African, suffered like a beast Your ashes strewn to the wind that roams the desert,Your tyrants built the lustrous, magic templesTo preserve your soul, preserve your suffering. Barbaric right of fist and the white right to whip, You had the right to die, you could also weep. –Patrice Lumumba, "Dawn in the Heart of Africa"

A) communist revolutionaries who took over thenewly independent African governments

B) the European governments that had divided thecontinent of Africa into colonies

C) tribal chieftains who fought each other to controlAfrican lands

D) merchants who sought to expand the drug trade incolonial Africa

23. The tyrants referred to in the poem were

A) imperialism B) communismC) nationalism D) regionalism

24. This African poem is discussing the evils of

A) a lack of natural resourcesB) a plan to end unequal treatiesC) the need to increase cultural diffusionD) the desire to spread communism

25. Japan's policy of expansion in the early 20th centurywas motivated by

A) repress dissent B) accept criticismC) favor change D) go into exile

26. . . . As early as the struggle for the steppe he had spreadthe claim that Heaven had destined him as ruler;members of Mongol trading caravans spread storiesintended to cause panic among the local populace;forged letters were fed to Sultan Muhammad whichstrengthened his mistrust of his Turkic units; freedomof religion was proclaimed; those who offered noresistance were promised that life and property wouldbe spared; terrible destruction was threatened in theevent of resistance; bloody examples were designed tospread fear and reduce the populace's will to resist. . . .— Paul Ratchnevsky, Genghis Khan: His Life andLegacy, Blackwell Publishing

Based on this passage, the protestors were surprisedbecause they had expected the government to

27. Base your answer to the following question on theinformation below and on your knowledge of socialstudies.

Edict of 1635 Ordering the Closing of Japan• Japanese ships are strictly forbidden to leave forforeign countries.• No Japanese is permitted to go abroad. If there isanyone who attempts to do so secretly, he must beexecuted. The ship so involved must be impounded andits owner arrested, and the matter must be reported tothe higher authority.• If any Japanese returns from overseas after residingthere, he must be put to death. . . .• Any informer revealing the whereabouts of thefollowers of padres (Christians) must be rewardedaccordingly. If anyone reveals the whereabouts of ahigh ranking padre, he must be given one hundredpieces of silver. For those of lower ranks, depending onthe deed, the reward must be set accordingly. . . .Source: David John Lu, Sources of Japanese History,McGraw-Hill

A) totalitarianism B) appeasementC) interdependence D) isolationism

These rules reflect the Japanese policy of

A) need to maintain a traditional societyB) desire for a modern industrialized societyC) colonization by Western nationsD) encouragement of foreign investment

28. Japan’s increased foreign trade during the MeijiRestoration was closely related to its

A) an alliance between Japan and RussiaB) the development of trade between Japan and the

WestC) a war between Japan and the United StatesD) the continued isolation of Japan

29. An immediate result of Commodore Matthew Perry'svisit to Japan in 1853 was

A) cultural contacts with the WestB) policies of isolationismC) militarism in Southeast AsiaD) trade relations with the United States

30. The arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry in Japan in1853 signaled the end of Japanese

A) crushed secessionist movementsB) worked to modernize their nationsC) conquered eastern neighboring territoriesD) protested against economic sanctions

31. One way in which Emperor Meiji of Japan and KemalAtatürk of Turkey are similar is that they both

32. Base your answer to the following question on the mapbelow.

A) Opium WarB) Meiji RestorationC) Chinese Nationalist RevolutionD) rise of the Soviet Union

Which event is associated with the changes shown onthis map?