2151. The building of the Suez Canal resulted from the economic and political involvement in Egypt of:
A. France and Italy
B. Russia and France
C. Britain and France
D. Britain
✅ The correct answer is option C.
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2152. The Boxer Rebellion in 1900 was ferociously repressed by the forces of:
A. the United States
B. Britain, France and Italy
C. Japan, Russia and Germany
D. All of the above
✅ The correct answer is option D.
2153. Why did the Europeans control such a small portion in Africa in the 1800s?
A. Africa had no natural resources that the Europeans needed
B. Europeans did not need new markets
C. Europeans were focused on building empires through acquisition of other European territories
D. Africa had powerful armies, rivers were hard to navigate, and Europe
✅ The correct answer is option C.
2154. In general late nineteenth-century imperialism:
A. involved complete independent entrepreneurial activity by merchant and traders
B. was built entirely on trade in opium
C. gave rise new patterns of settlement and social discipline
D. was very little different from the imperialism of the past
✅ The correct answer is option C.
2155. During the Boer War the British first insinuated:
A. firing squads
B. concentration camps
C. barbed wire
D. None of the above
✅ The correct answer is option B.
2156. Zollverein / custom unions was:
A. a protection policy followed by Japan
B. establishment of free trade among the German states advocated by Prussia
C. a good example of industrial advancement in Britain
D. none of the above
✅ The correct answer is option B.
2157. By 1902, what percentage of Africa had succumbed to the European “Scramble for Africa”
A. 11 percent
B. 30 Percent
C. 50 percent
D. 90 percent
✅ The correct answer is option D.
2158. Zollverein was a:
A. Diplomatic Constitution
B. Custom Union
C. Administrative Union
D. Trade Union
✅ The correct answer is option B.
2159. The London Pan-African Congress of 1900:
A. was funded and organized by the British government
B. grew out of an international tradition of anti-slavery movements
C. decided that slavery was not incompatible with European imperialist endeavors
D. never met
✅ The correct answer is option B.
2160. Which of the following was a nineteenth century system of thought and a response in large measure to the visible problems ushered in by industrialization?
A. Capitalism
B. Liberalism
C. Socialism
D. Federalism
✅ The correct answer is option C.