Unit 6 Exam

In 1803, the United States doubled in size, after the Louisiana territory was purchased from

• Mexico

• Spain

• Canada

• France

The capitulations were unfair agreements between the western Europeans and the _________ that gave Europeans extraterritoriality and exempted them from local law.

• Qing Dynasty

• Tokugawa Bakufu

• Latin American nations

• Ottomans

Japanese were forcibly opened to foreign trade in 1853 by the

• Americans

• British

• Chinese

• French

"Concessionary Companies" refers to a system of colonial rule that employed

• private companies granted territory and control over taxation and labor for mining, construction, or agricultural projects

• military forces tasked specifically with protecting trade operations

• private companies that gave up substantial control over their operations to a sponsoring European government in order to participate in colonial expansion

• government owned competition that controlled taxation and labor in the colony

Between 1750-1900, which of the following industrializing states created an empire?

• Japan

• Brazil

• China

• Argentina

Extraterritoriality can best be described as which of the following?

• Exemption of foreigners from the laws of the country in which they live

• Expansion of a country's international borders to natural boundaries

• Extension of dual citizenship to immigrants

• Establishment of a government in exile

During the nineteenth century, Asian and African rulers usually desired transfer of which of the following western technologies most?

• Medicines

• Weapons

• Navigational instruments

• Textile manufacturing equipment

Which of the following facilitated European expansion in Asia in the nineteenth century?

• The popularity of democratic values among Asians

• The general easing of tensions and cooperative expeditions among European powers

• Europe's development of new military technologies

• Europe's ability to send numerically superior armies to Asia

Based on your knowledge of world history, which of the following factors contributed most directly to the migration patterns from East Asia to the Americas in the 19th century?

• new modes and method of transportation

• Medical discoveries and inoculations

• The emergence of the communist government

• Population displacement due to redrawing of colonial boundaries