Transcript Ch 25 Version B Quiz

Chapter 25 p. 716-731
Quiz
AP World History
1. Sepoys were Indian troops who
A) fought against the nawabs.
B) were hired and trained to protect European
companies' warehouses.
C) fought for Hindu India against the Muslims.
D) fought against the British in India.
E) fought to end French occupation of Bengal.
2. What was the British raj?
A) British tea
B) British school
C) British clothes
D) A British game
E) British rule of India
3. Why was the Sepoy Rebellion a turning point in the
history of India?
A) The British were finally rebuffed and withdrew
from India.
B) The sepoys successfully pushed the British out of
Bengal.
C) India came to be ruled directly by the British
government.
D) It inspired the development of new weapons that
did not require gunpowder.
E) All of these
4. The first reformer to advocate Pan-Indian
nationalism was
A) Mohandas K. Gandhi.
B) Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
C) Martin Luther King, Jr.
D) Indira Gandhi.
E) Rammohun Roy.
5. The Indian National Congress initially sought
more rights for Indians
A) by promoting ethnic and religious unity.
B) through armed revolt.
C) through hunger strikes.
D) through sabotage and subversion.
E) All of these
6. A significant method of instilling nationalism was
A) declaring an official dialect of India, Hindi.
B) establishing schools and universities.
C) running railroads, which mixed all members of
caste systems together.
D) trying to streamline the Hindu and Parsi religions.
E) enacting public performances of the Mahabharata.
7. Cape Colony was initially important to the British
because it
A) was Britain's first foothold in Africa.
B) had great mineral wealth.
C) was a supply station for the lengthy India route.
D) showed that the French could be defeated overseas.
E) was Britain's source for rubber.
8. The migration of Afrikaners from British-ruled
Cape Colony for fertile land in the north is
called the
A) Great Escape.
B) Great Trek.
C) Long March.
D) Death March.
E) Great March.
9. The underlying goal of British imperialism in the
mid-nineteenth century was to
A) control foreign territory.
B) promote British trade overseas.
C) beat other nations to new territories.
D) protect British citizens overseas.
E) find a place to send convicts and other
“undesirables.”
10. A significant impetus to increasing global commercial
expansion in the nineteenth century included
A) clipper ships.
B) chemical use of quicksilver to preserve cargo.
C) the realization that scurvy could be prevented with
citrus fruits.
D) learning from Native American tribes that salt cod
could provide food on long hauls.
E) a decrease of piracy because of an increased
presence of the British navy.
11. The first British settlers in Australia were
A) soldiers who had been mustered out.
B) exiled convicts.
C) homesteaders who received grants of land.
D) recruited from settlements in India.
E) indentured servants.
12. By encouraging self-government in the South Pacific
settler colonies, Britain
A) satisfied settlers' desires for greater control.
B) muted potential demands for independence.
C) made colonial governments pay their own
expenses.
D) avoided the same conflicts that led to the American
Revolution.
E) All of these
13. After British slave emancipation in 1834, new
plantation workers came from
A) Africa.
B) the Pacific islands.
C) British India.
D) China.
E) all of these.
14. Plantation workers served contracts of
indenture that usually lasted
A) one to two years.
B) two to four years.
C) five to seven years.
D) eight to ten years.
E) ten to twelve years.
15. Most indentured servants left their homes because
they
A) were sold by their parents.
B) hoped to better their economic and social position.
C) were pressured by their governments to leave.
D) were tricked and did not know where they were
going.
E) wanted religious freedom.
• 16. This company held a
monopoly on BritishIndian trade from the
17th to the early 19th
centuries, and for a time
controlled India on
behalf of the British
government.
• 17. These Indian troops
helped oversee India
under the auspices of
British rule. In 1857 the
_______ mounted a
rebellion that led to
direct British imperial
control of the country.
• 18. This revolt occurred
when Indian troops
rebelled against British
authorities upon receiving
weapons greased with
animal fat, which offended
both Hindu and Muslim
religious sensibilities. As a
result of the rebellion,
Britain imposed direct
imperial rule on India in
1858.
19. The Zulu kingdom arose primarily because of
A) centralized African defense against the British.
B) internal conflicts over grazing and farm lands.
C) individuals brought to power by the Portuguese.
D) conflicts over hunting lands and the gold rush.
E) the spread of epidemic disease from the Americas.
20. The creation of a unified kingdom in southeastern Africa under Shaka
Zulu was intended to
A) quell unrest over pastoral lands among tribal chiefdoms.
B) organize a massive army to expel German colonists from the
region.
C) organize a nation-state along European lines and challenge British
hegemony of industry.
D) build a structured state and an organized economy.
E) assert African rights of home rule.
21. The African slave trade was perpetuated by
A) the Sokoto Caliphate.
B) the Madagascar Empire.
C) the Hausa states.
D) Egypt and Sudan.
E) Liberia.
22. Egypt was able to build a modern state based on cotton exports until
A) the British switched their preference to Indian cotton.
B) King Jaja instituted peasant economies based on hand weaving
that undercut Ali's labor forces.
C) the American cotton market resumed after the Civil War.
D) new work on irrigation canals caused a decrease in flooding of the
Nile, and cotton crops failed for five years successively.
E) France occupied Egypt and prevented it from exporting cotton to
Britain.
23. The French invasion of Algeria was originally the result of
A) a Frenchman slapping the Algerian ambassador.
B) Algerians taking French officials hostage.
C) the French wanting to plunder Algerian wealth.
D) a dispute over the French government not repaying Algerian
loans.
E) the accidental killing of an Algerian woman by French troops.
24. Who was David Livingstone?
A) A Scottish missionary and explorer
B) The writer of the first journal of British imperialism
C) The first mariner around the Cape of Good Hope
D) The British general responsible for defeating the
French in Bengal
E) The leader of the movement for independence in
Trinidad
25. Why did the slave trade end?
A) Slave revolts and humanitarian reform movements
ended it.
B) Africa refused to sell slaves to Europeans anymore—
even for guns.
C) The plantation system became self-sufficient.
D) The soil could no longer support sugar crops.
E) Too many slaves died on the voyages to make slave
trading profitable anymore.
26. Ironically, the British were the world's greatest slave
traders and later
A) became the most aggressive suppressers of the slave
trade.
B) reopened the slave trade with the Asante.
C) interfered with the French treatment of their slaves in
Saint Domingue.
D) replaced factory workers with African slaves.
E) conspired to operate an illegal slave-trading operation
out of Barbados.
27. The most successful export from West Africa
after abolition was
A) palm oil.
B) gold.
C) ivory.
D) lumber.
E) illicit slaves.
28. ”Recaptives” were
A) slaves repatriated to Madagascar.
B) U.S. slaves who wanted to return to Africa.
C) slaves who were taken off illicit trade ships by the British and
stationed in Sierra Leone.
D) escaped slaves who were resold into slavery by the East Africans
when the Atlantic slave trade stopped.
E) Africans who had gone to Europe for education but returned to
Africa to recapture their traditional heritage.
29. Eastern African states are referred to as “secondary
empires” because they were
A) not directly controlled by Europeans but were
supplied with European weapons.
B) much smaller than ordinary empires.
C) not run as efficiently as most empires.
D) developed in the second era of European
imperialism.
E) based on trade and not agriculture.
30. Africans wanted European manufactured goods, so
when the slave trade ended, they
A) satisfied their demand for goods by developing
indigenous manufacturing.
B) expanded their “legitimate” trade by developing new
exports.
C) learned to manage without European goods.
D) were never able to afford European goods.
E) hired European consultants to develop factories.
• 31. These colonies were
established around the
globe by European
powers. Examples of
_______ colonies include
the British in southern
Africa, Australia, and New
Zealand, and the French in
Algeria.
• 32. This kingdom formed
in 1817 on the edges of
British-controlled African
territories, one of many
new states that developed
as a result of imperialist
influences around the
world. This kingdom came
to dominate much of
southern Africa by the late
19th century.
• 33. This system places
one country under the
rule of another.
Colonized territories
often serve as sources of
raw materials and
markets for
manufactured goods for
the mother country.