ap world - unit 6 quiz (hanson)

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Question 1: What is the author's political point of view in the passage?

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Question 1: What is the author's political point of view in the passage?

attributes historical events to divine intervention

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Question 2: In what context would a historian interpret the policies advocated for in the passage?

The importance of access to coerced labor in the development of industrial economies

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Question 3: Rivett-Carnac's point of view is directly relevant in understanding all of the following features of the report EXCEPT?

the fact that the report envisions that the railroad will be used to import British textiles that would undersell Indian-made cloth

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Question 4: The arguments expressed in the passage are significant because they help explain why?

Some European states used Social Darwinism to justify their military subjugation of colonial peoples

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Question 5: A historian analyzing the lecture would most likely argue that the audience of Chakravarti's lecture is significant because it shows the most direct contrast with which of the following developments in the nineteenth century?

Social divisions within colonial societies often hindered the efforts of anticolonial movements to overthrow imperial rule

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Question 6: On a global scale, the implementation of the types of policies that Rivett-Carnac advocated for in the passage is most significant in that it directly led to the?

increased influence of laissez-faire economic philosophies among nationalist leaders in colonial societies

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Question 7: Stanley's description of the riches of the Congo in the first two paragraphs can best be seen as an attempt to?

place European expansion in the Congo in the context of other imperial ventures that had seemed difficult at first but have subsequently turned out to be highly valuable

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Question 8: Based on the third paragraph, Stanley's vision of the future of the Congo River basin can best be seen as part of which of the following late-nineteenth-century developments?

Economic imperialism

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Question 9: The rapid expansion of European empires in Africa in the late nineteenth century is best explained in the context of which of the following?

Rapid population increases in European colonies in Asia encouraging European states to create new colonies for migrants to settle

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Question 10: The expansion of the Russian Empire in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is primarily explained in the context of which of the following global developments?

European states acquiring growing technological and military advantages over non-European societies to expand their power

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