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Slavery in Africa continued well after it had been abolished by European nations. - ✔✔t
Afrikaners were black African opponents of the Dutch Boers in South Africa. - ✔✔f
The opening of the Suez Canal preceded the Berlin Conference over Africa. - ✔✔t
In order to avoid violence and to gain the popular support of colonial peoples, the Europeans
generally quickly introduced democratic institutions in their colonies. - ✔✔f
In Southeast Asia, the European emphasis on cash crops led in many areas to the replacement
of subsistence agriculture by the growth of large plantations. - ✔✔t
In general, the British preferred direct rule, while the French usually implemented indirect rule
in their African colonies. - ✔✔f
n most of East Asia, such as in Japan, imperialism did not result in the establishment of formal
Western colonial control. - ✔✔t
Lord Macartney's trip to Beijing in 1793 - ✔✔failed, as the Chinese government did not want
additional trade with Britain.
To try to increase trade profits in China, the Britis - ✔✔shipped large amounts of opium into
China at a massive profit.
, Which of the following statements accurately characterizes the nature of the Opium War? -
✔✔The British used Chinese objections to opium importation as a pretext to unilaterally
invade China and forcibly open it to Western trade
The Opium War - ✔✔gave Britain control of Hong Kong.
Which of the following was not a feature of the treaty that ended the Opium War? - ✔✔The
British agreed to stop exporting opium to China.
the taiping rebellion - ✔✔"peaked" with the rebel capture of the old Ming capital of Nanjing.
Hong Xiuquan - ✔✔was the Christian leader of the Taiping Rebellion.
the "spheres of influence" - ✔✔were in part the result of local chinese strongmen to sell
exclusive economic priveleges to foreign governments and merchants
In 1894, the Qing went to war with Japan over - ✔✔Korea
The Open Door Policy - ✔✔served to calm the increasingly frantic pace of Western
imperialism in China.
The Boxer Rebellion - ✔✔b. was an uprising against foreigners by a secret society opposed to
foreign imperialism.
The medical doctor who formed the Chinese nationalist organization known as the Revive China
Society was - ✔✔Sun Y at-sen.
The Chinese revolution of 1911 - ✔✔eft a power vacuum in the country due to the collapse
of the Manchu Dynasty.
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