The foundation for European territorial imperialism in Asia often began with
a. policymakers.
b. military successes.
c. control of the opium trade.
d. company employees who asserted greater local autonomy.
e. the need to suppress local uprisings and damaging rebel attacks.
d
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Which of the following statements is true about the beginnings of European slavery?
A) The Portuguese who traded with African kingdoms bartered for African slaves and carried them back to Portugal as living novelties. B) Slavery was a prominent form of labor and was based on one's race throughout the fifteenth century. C) The first modern economy dependent primarily on race-based slavery was established by the English in the late 1300s. D) The preoccupation with race-based slavery declined in the late sixteenth century. E) Most of the slaves used by the Portuguese were free laborers who came from different professions.
One leading abolitionist who was murdered for his activism was
A. Frederick Douglass. B. Elijah Lovejoy. C. Benjamin Lundy. D. William Lloyd Garrison. E. Sojourner Truth.
How did the end of the Spanish-American War establish the United States as a world power?
A) It gave the United States lands beyond its borders, making it an imperial power like Europe. B) It marked the first U.S. major military victory against a world power and on behalf of another country. C) It opened the Caribbean to the United States, giving it protectorates like European countries. D) It led to the annexation of the Philippines, giving the United States a stronghold in the Pacific and access to all of Asia. E) It showed the rest of the world that the United States was militarily powerful and diplomatically weak, like most other world powers.
In France, immigration in recent decades is an indirect result of ________
A) colonization B) industrialization C) modernization D) World War II