Chapter 9 Multiple Choice Self-Quiz

. More than half of of all private foreign investment in Latin America at the turn of the 20th century came from:

. During the Sino-Japanese War, China and Japan:

. As Japan increased its political, economic, and military influence in Asia, _________ became a formal Japanese colony in 1910.

. Representatives of the European powers met at the second Berlin Conference (1884) to discuss spheres of influence in:

. The product that drove a rapid increase of population and wealth in Manaus, Brazil was:

. The British crown took direct control over __________ in 1858.

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Rudyard Kipling's 1899 poem "The White Man's Burden" was directed towards inhabitants of:

. Jamal al-Din al-Afghani argued that the British and other European colonial powers primarily _________ their colonies

. The economies of Latin America achieved remarkable stability in the second half of the nineteenth century.

. Edmund Morel publilicized the imperialist atrocities occuring in:

. Evidence to support accusations of atrocities against Congolese men and women include photographs and the sworn testimony of victims and witnesses.

. In Southeast Asia, successive rulers of ____________ balanced their kingdom between the ambitions of France and Britain, retaining sovereign status by conceding limited territory.

. Menelik II managed to preserve Ethiopia (Abyssinia) as an independent state, primarily as the result of his military victory against ____________ in 1896.

. Both the Wehehe and Maji Maji rebellions in Africa were followed by:

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The "self-strengtening movement" took place in:

. During the second half of the nineteenth century, indigenous autonomy on the Great Plains of North America:

. The Boxer Uprising emerged from:

. Emma Goldman's political acts, such as her participation in the Homestead Strike against the Pittsburgh steel refineries of Andrew Carnegie, were motivated by her __________ political philosphy.

. Social Darwinists argued that:

. Large numbers of migrants to the southern cone of Latin America in the late nineteentch century came from __________.

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