AP World History
Chapter 33 Exam Study Guide – Age of New Imperialism
1. Be able to analyze the meaning of the poem “The White Man’s Burden” by Rudyard Kipling. (You have to look it up)
2. What effect did imperialism have on India’s cotton industry?
3. Be able to identify events in chronological order. You should know which parts of the world were colonized first, and those added later.
4. Which late 19th-century event most directly responsible for spurring the development of the United States as an imperialist power?
5. Who was David Livingston and what is he known for?
6. What was the goal of the Monroe Doctrine?
7. What did Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia have in common during the late 19th century?
8. Why was Siam able to remain independent?
9. Prior to 1870, which areas of Africa were under European control?
10. How would you describe Africa’s political situation in 1900?
11. Which country underwent major transformation in order to become an imperial power?
12. What was the most important incentive for the “scramble” of European countries to colonize areas of central and south Africa during the late 19th century?
13. Which nations competed for colonial empires in Africa in the last half of the nineteenth century?
14. What are major similarities between the economies of the African continent and Latin America in the latter part of the nineteenth century?
15. What effects did imperialism have on Europe’s political climate?
16. What was the major significance of the Boxer Uprising?
17. Why were European nations successful in acquiring colonial acquisitions during the 19th century?
18. What is the relationship between industrialization and imperialism?
19. Which region of the world was most affected by imperialism? Why?
20. Which nation threatened Japanese colonial aspirations most in the late 19th and early 20th centuries? Why?
21. What do social Darwinists believe?
22. What were the effects of the Opium War?
23. What were the effects of the Sepoy Rebellion?
24. Compare the PROCESS of imperialism in Africa with the PROCESS if imperialism in China.
25. Compare the PROCESS of imperialism in Southeast Asia the PROCESS of imperialism in South Asia.