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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT WORLD HISTORY CH 25
EXAM QUESTIONS
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Question 1: What demand did the United States make on Japan in 1853?
Answer:
to open its ports to trade and diplomatic contacts Question 2: Australia was first settled by the British in the 1700s as a:
Answer:
penal colony
Question 3: Japan's long period of rapid modernization
Answer:
Meiji Restoration
Question 4: One result of the Act of Union of 1840?
Answer:
Upper and Lower Canada were joined into one province
Question 5: Mongkut
Answer:
THE KING OF SIAM FROM 1851 TO 1868
Question 6: In 1867, Canada became a self-governing nation, or _____.
Answer:
dominion Question 7: Which issues presented the biggest challenges to Canada in the 1900s?
Answer:
The influence of the United States; creating a single national identity
Question 8: The Japanese legislature
Answer:
Diet Question 9: Why did European powers want to establish colonies in Southeast Asia?
Answer:
To gain raw materials and new markets
Question 10: French Indochina
Answer:
VIETNAM, LAOS, CAMBODIA, CONTROLLED BY THE FRENCH
Question 11: People who share a common culture and language
Answer:
homogeneous society Question 12: A place, usually isolated, where criminals were sent to be punished
Answer:
penal colony
Question 13: People of mixed Native American and French Canadian descent are called
Answer:
metis
Question 14: Siam remained independent partly because its rulers
Answer:
understood Western power
Question 15: Powerful banking and business families
Answer:
zaibatsu
Question 16: What was one cause of discontent in Tokugawa Japan?
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The shoguns had reimposed centralized feudalism Question 17: By 1900, U.S. possessions in the Pacific included:
Answer:
Hawaii and Samoa Question 18: The Meiji reformers wanted to:
Answer:
strengthen Japan
Question 19: A war in which an Asian power defeated a European nation
Answer:
Russo-Japanese War
Question 20: Description of Japan in the early 1900s?
Answer:
The strongest power in Asia
Question 21: One reason Japan became an imperialist power was to:
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obtain basic resources Question 22: The original, or ____ people of Australia were called "Aborigines" by Europeans
Answer:
indigenous
Question 23: What role did the Phillippines play in the Spanish-American War?
Answer:
Filipino rebels supported the United States against Spain
Question 24: Spanish-American War
Answer:
WAR THAT STARTED IN 1898 BETWEEN THE U.S. AND SPAIN OVER CUBA'S ATTEMPTS TO WIN
INDEPENDENCE.
Question 25: Why were many Filipinos resistant to Spanish rule?
Answer:
Because they believed the Catholic Church was abusing its power Question 26: Why were Filipinos disappointed at the end of the Spanish-American War?
Answer:
The United States took control of the Philippines Question 27: Unlike the Aborigines of Australia, the Maori of New Zealand:
Answer:
were settled farmers, concentrated in a small area