Answer the Following Questions

question 32

Multiple Choice

Answer the following questions:
-white man's burden

• A)A term coined by literary scholar Edward Said to describe the way Westerners misunderstood and described colonial subjects and cultures.
• B)The restoration of the Japanese emperor to power in 1867, leading to the subsequent modernization of Japan.
• C)The use or threat of military force to coerce a government into economic or political agreements.
• D)The mass movement of people from Europe in the nineteenth century; one reason why the West's impact on the world was so powerful and many-sided.
• E)The late-nineteenth-century drive by European countries to create vast political empires abroad.
• F)Descendants of the Dutch settlers in the Cape Colony in southern Africa.
• G)A meeting of European leaders held in 1884 and 1885 in order to lay down some basic rules for imperialist competition in sub-Saharan Africa.
• H)The idea that Europeans could and should civilize more primitive nonwhite peoples and that imperialism would eventually provide nonwhites with modern achievements and higher standards of living.
• I)The 1857 and 1858 insurrection by Muslim and Hindu mercenaries in the British army that spread throughout northern and central India before finally being crushed.
• J)Two mid-nineteenth-century conflicts between China and Great Britain over the British trade in opium, which was designed to "open" China to European free trade. In defeat, China gave European traders and missionaries increased protection and concessions.
• K)Policies and beliefs, often influenced by nationalism, scientific racism, and mass migration, that give preferential treatment to established inhabitants over immigrants.
• L)A series of Western-style reforms launched in 1898 by the Chinese government in an attempt to meet the foreign challenge.