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The moral justification for New World colonies in the early period of European colonies was found in |
| | A) | the idea that colonization brought the expanding world trade network to people who had never experienced it.. |
| | B) | the idea that colonization brought technology and science to the "dark" areas of the world. |
| | C) | the idea that colonization brought culture to "heathens." |
| | D) | the idea that colonization brought jobs. |
| | E) | the idea that colonization brought religious missions which were saving the souls of "heathens." |
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In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, threats to the mercantile colonial system outside Europe came from |
| | A) | independence movements and slave revolts. |
| | B) | the rise of the market economy. |
| | C) | the cultural revolution sparked by the Enlightenment. |
| | D) | the growing popularity of communism and various forms of socialism. |
| | E) | the growing power of the trade union movement, which threatened to interrupt global trade. |
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The strongest and most effective abolition movement was found in |
| | A) | North Africa. |
| | B) | the United States. |
| | C) | the Netherlands. |
| | D) | France. |
| | E) | Britain. |
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The first European country to outlaw the Atlantic slave trade was |
| | A) | Britain. |
| | B) | Demark. |
| | C) | the United States. |
| | D) | Spain. |
| | E) | Portugal. |
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In Captain James Cook's expeditions to the South Pacific, he was searching for |
| | A) | a mythological people described in Classical texts. |
| | B) | a safer path around the Cape of Good Hope. |
| | C) | the missing continent, known as Terra Australis. |
| | D) | the Hawaiian Islands. |
| | E) | the Aleutian Islands. |
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One of the most controversial British reforms in India was |
| | A) | the prohibition of wearing the veil. |
| | B) | the prohibition of sati. |
| | C) | mandatory elementary school education. |
| | D) | making Sunday the official "day of rest." |
| | E) | instituting centralized government in Delhi. |
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"Factories" in European-Asian trade were |
| | A) | areas of neutral territory in which European and Asian officials could meet to discuss trade terms. |
| | B) | places in which laborers could find employers through a kind of auction system. |
| | C) | business headquarters established for various European countries to centralize their overseas operations. |
| | D) | trading posts along the coasts of India, Java, the Philippines, and China. |
| | E) | sweatshops set up in Asian countries to more quickly turn raw materials into finished goods. |
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The British East India company became dominant among Asian trading companies after |
| | A) | the expulsion of the Arabs from India. |
| | B) | the Battle of Plassey. |
| | C) | the bankruptcy of the French East India Company. |
| | D) | the French Revolution disrupted French colonialism in India. |
| | E) | the relaxation of Indian tariff laws and customs duties. |
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The "Sick Man of the East" was |
| | A) | the Choson dynasty. |
| | B) | the Russian Empire. |
| | C) | Mughal India. |
| | D) | Qing China. |
| | E) | the Ottoman Empire. |
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Latin America seemed to show that Europe's age of empire was past for all of the following reasons EXCEPT |
| | A) | from 1804 to 1824 France and Spain lost virtually all of their colonies. |
| | B) | during subsequent conflicts, France and England made no moves to take over. |
| | C) | Muhammad Ali's revolt against the Ottomans led to modernizing internal reforms |
| | D) | independence did not destroy Europe's cultural influence or profitable trade. |
| | E) | the hemisphere was dominated by a new power, the United States |
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Europe's presence around the world was increased informally by all of the following EXCEPT |
| | A) | explorers and missionaries. |
| | B) | bureaucrats and planners. |
| | C) | merchants and bankers. |
| | D) | local officials and emigrants. |
| | E) | the market economy. |
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In the late nineteenth century, imperialism referred to |
| | A) | the legacy of the Roman Empire. |
| | B) | Europe's mid-century informal influence overseas. |
| | C) | Europe's direct rule over much of the non-European world. |
| | D) | economic and cultural domination with or without political rule. |
| | E) | state ownership of the means of production. |
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Imperialism was connected to the development of capitalism by |
| | A) | the division of the world into a wealthy and powerful economic core and a poor and powerless periphery. |
| | B) | the growth of a world market from which all continents and peoples profited equally. |
| | C) | the advances which Europe first learned from non-Europeans, but then used against them. |
| | D) | the spread of free trade as the concept of the free market was adopted throughout the world. |
| | E) | the emergence of a benign social welfare system in the colonial world. |
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Early theorists of imperialism focused on |
| | A) | militarism. |
| | B) | economic interests. |
| | C) | nationalism. |
| | D) | sociological factors. |
| | E) | strategic interests. |
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More recent theories about imperialism have focused on all of the following EXCEPT |
| | A) | the machinations of great financiers. |
| | B) | the growth of the popular press. |
| | C) | explorers and missionaries. |
| | D) | ambitious soldiers and local officials. |
| | E) | the symbolic importance of empire to the consolidation to the nation-state system. |
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Economic and technological developments that fostered imperialism include all of the following EXCEPT |
| | A) | the growing demand for a wide range of raw materials. |
| | B) | the need for telegraph posts and naval coaling stations. |
| | C) | modern weapons and tropical medicines. |
| | D) | the radio and the airplane. |
| | E) | dynamite used in the construction of roads and other infrastructure. |
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Historians today study imperialism for the light it sheds on all of the following issues in European culture EXCEPT |
| | A) | regionalism. |
| | B) | class. |
| | C) | race. |
| | D) | gender. |
| | E) | military affairs. |
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All of the following social groups in Europe particularly encouraged imperialism EXCEPT |
| | A) | the aristocracy, which wanted subject peoples to lord over. |
| | B) | religious societies, which wanted to convert heathen souls. |
| | C) | peasants, who saw colonies as more land available to farm. |
| | D) | merchants, who wanted to increase their business activities. |
| | E) | military leaders, who saw colonies as a means to maintaining influence. |
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Imperialism was popular among Europeans for all of the following reasons EXCEPT |
| | A) | it offered opportunities for heroic initiative and noble self-sacrifice. |
| | B) | it gave even lower-class Europeans people they could feel superior to. |
| | C) | it served as a national unifier, aligning conservative groups, businessmen, and the common people. |
| | D) | it encouraged social reforms at home in order to mobilize public support for expansion abroad. |
| | E) | it induced the citizenry to transfer primary loyalties from their local communities to the "imagined" community of the nation. |
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Europeans established direct rule or substantial control in all of the following regions EXCEPT |
| | A) | Africa. |
| | B) | Southeast Asia. |
| | C) | Latin America. |
| | D) | China. |
| | E) | South Asia. |
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