Modern World History 19th Century Intellectualism and Imperialism Test Review

Test Date:  Friday, February 28

Format:  

• 15 multiple choice questions, each worth 3 points (45 points total)
• 2 response questions, you choose 1, each worth 55 points

Chapters:

• Chapter 20, pages 589-606
• Chapters 21-22--Imperialism in India, South East Asia, Africa, China, and Japan

Chapter 20:

• Major characteristics of the Mass Society
• education
• leisure/entertainment
• women's rights
• quality of life
• Late 19th/early 20th century intellectualism
• characteristics and examples of Romanticism and Realism
• major scientists/scientific discoveries
• Darwin, Curie, Freud, Heisenberg, Einstein 

Chapter 21

• The motivations, characteristics, and impacts of Western Imperialism in India, Southeast Asia, and Africa, including
• The relationship between Industrialization and Imperialism
• The justification behind “The White Man’s Burden”—the Imperial Mission to “improve” the world
• The significance of the Berlin Conference of 1884 and the role that new technologies played in enabling Imperialism
• Individual approaches to Empire (for example, the British in India, the French in Indochina, etc.)
• Social, political, and economic impacts of Imperialism on the societies that were imperialized
• Reactions against imperialism

Chapter 22

China:

• The significance and impact of the Opium War on China, including the unequal treaties and their conditions
• The causes and consequences of the Taiping Rebellion
• The major characteristics of the self-strengthening movement  and why it failed
• Western policies and attitudes towards China, including the Open Door policy and Spheres of Influence
• The causes and consequences of the Boxer Rebellion
• The success of the Chinese Nationalist Movement and the significance of Sun Yat-Sen

Japan:

• The causes and events that led to collapse of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the Meiji Restoration
• Meiji polices regarding Westernization (military, economic, cultural) and how they were carried out
• Japanese motivations for imperialism along where they expanded
• The significance of the Russo-Japanese War

China and Japan:

• Compare the impacts of Westerners on China and Japan during the late 19^th-early 20^th centuries
• Explain how Japan was able to effectively Westernize, whereas China was not