Didonato Self-Check Exam Questions With
Correct And Revised Answers
Which of the following helped make Great Britain the starting place for the Industrial
Revolution? - answer✔✔improved transportation
Enclosure movement laws caused - answer✔✔many peasants to move to towns.
Why were Britain's entrepreneurs successful in starting businesses, and thus the Industrial
Revolution? - answer✔✔Entrepreneurs had money to invest in new businesses.
One of the first important products for Britain's manufacturers was - answer✔✔cotton cloth.
How did the steam engine change the entire factory system when textiles were being produced? -
answer✔✔Factories spread all over the country, close to workers.
What did the spinning jenny produce? - answer✔✔more thread than weavers could use
The iron industry expanded during the Industrial Revolution because - answer✔✔iron was used
to build trains and railroads
How did factories change society in order to make the Industrial Revolution a success? -
answer✔✔Factories created a new labor class and a system of shift work that kept the machines
running nonstop.
Governments encouraged industrialization in Europe by - answer✔✔providing money to build
the necessary means of transportation.
What was one result of extreme urbanization? - answer✔✔a need for urban reform
Western nations wanted to gain colonies in the late 1800s to improve their own -
answer✔✔economies.
Which of the following statements shows how imperialist nations justified racism toward nations
they wanted to control? - answer✔✔Western nations improved the lives of the non-Western
nations.
In Burma, the British - answer✔✔caused the collapse of the Burmese monarchy.
Who was Great Britain's rival in taking over nations in Southeast Asia? - answer✔✔France
France's motives for invading Vietnam included - answer✔✔competing with Britain.
The Spanish-American War resulted in - answer✔✔a new territory for the United States.
What was direct rule of colonies? - answer✔✔replacing local rulers with officials from the
foreign conqueror
Colonial powers profited from their colonies by instituting - answer✔✔plantation agriculture
owned by the foreign power.
Why did early attempts at resistance to Western control in Southeast Asia fail? - answer✔✔The
Western nations overpowered those who protested.
Why were later attempts at resistance by the conquered nations focused on the idea of national
independence? - answer✔✔More of their citizens had been educated in Western ideas.
Some European nations were interested in West Africa because of its - answer✔✔raw materials.
By 1900, West Africa was mostly controlled by - answer✔✔France.
Who led the initial fight for nationalism in African nations? - answer✔✔Africans educated in
Western ways
What significance would the Suez Canal ultimately have for the British? - answer✔✔connect
them to a sea route to India
Why was the Boer War fought? - answer✔✔The British wanted to control South Africa.
An Egyptian army revolted when Britain bought its share in the Suez Canal because the army
wanted to - answer✔✔remove a foreign influence.
The Boers in South Africa were - answer✔✔descendants of early Dutch settlers from the 1600s.
David Livingstone explored Central Africa because he wanted to - answer✔✔spread
Christianity.
Why did German chancellor Otto von Bismarck call for the Berlin conference? - answer✔✔to
make rules for taking over land in Africa
King Leopold II of Belgium rushed enthusiastically into the pursuit of an empire in Africa,
which caused - answer✔✔competition from other European countries.
The British imprisoned sepoy guards because they - answer✔✔refused to load their guns with
cartridges rumored to be greased with cow and pig fat.
After the battle, Queen Victoria assumed the title of - answer✔✔empress of India
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