This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > History > Colonial > Colonialism And Post Colonialism – Quiz 115 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Colonialism And Post Colonialism Quiz 115 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How was colonialism justified? A) The colonizers told the indigenous people that they were there to help them with government and religion. B) They wanted to rule together. C) They wanted to spread diseases. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The colonizers told the indigenous people that they were there to help them with government and religion. 2. Why did European countries begin sending ships around Africa or across the Atlantic? A) To invade other countries. B) Just to learn more about the world. C) To find new ways to get spices. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To find new ways to get spices. 3. What was one of the economic and trade benefits of colonialism? A) Reduction of wealth for European powers. B) Market dominance for non-European nations. C) Accumulation of wealth for European powers through resource exploitation. D) Decrease in infrastructure development. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Accumulation of wealth for European powers through resource exploitation. 4. Consider your social or cultural group superior to others to the point of justifying slavery, racial segregation, and even physical destruction. A) Ethnocentrism. B) Xenophobia. C) Racism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Racism. 5. In what year did Napoleon Bonaparte invade Spain? A) 1080. B) 1800. C) 1808. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1808. 6. The Berlin Conference and subsequent "Scramble for Africa" showed that European nations A) Wanted to carve up Africa among themselves. B) Wanted to end the African slave trade. C) Wanted to convert Africans to Christianity. D) Were ready to begin exploring the interior of Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wanted to carve up Africa among themselves. 7. Which was NOT a region of the English colonies? A) The Northern Colonies. B) The Middle Colonies. C) The New England Colonies. D) The Southern Colonies. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Northern Colonies. 8. WHERE DOES ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL LIBERALISM EMERGE? A) ASIA. B) SOUTH AMERICA. C) EUROPA. D) NORTH AMERICA. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) EUROPA. 9. The policy of extending a nation's power and dominion through economic and political means. A) COLONIALISM. B) Mercantilism. C) Industrialization. D) Capitalism. E) Imperialism. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Imperialism. 10. What did the Spanish use in the encomienda? A) 1.-The political, economic and social structures of the indigenous people and they took advantage of the power that the rulers had to dominate the people.2.-The help of the conquered to subjugate others and thus extend their dominion.3.-The tax and work organization that the indigenous lordships already used. B) None is correct. C) Only 1 is correct. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1.-The political, economic and social structures of the indigenous people and they took advantage of the power that the rulers had to dominate the people.2.-The help of the conquered to subjugate others and thus extend their dominion.3.-The tax and work organization that the indigenous lordships already used. 11. What event marked 50 years of independence for 17 African nations? A) The end of European colonialism. B) The outbreak of World War I. C) The signing of the Act of Berlin. D) The abolition of slavery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The end of European colonialism. 12. Exports A) A person or company who sells goods/products (merchandise). B) In:goods coming into a country. C) Exit:goods going out of a country (selling). D) The specific laws passed by England to control the trade. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exit:goods going out of a country (selling). 13. Which is cheaper? A) Raw Materials. B) FInished Product. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Raw Materials. 14. The agreement between Spain and Portugal which led to the exploration of the two countries to the East and West was a treaty A) Treaty of Saragosa. B) Treaty of Matamoros. C) Treaty of Tordesillas. D) Treaty of Asturias. E) Real Madrid Agreement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Treaty of Tordesillas. 15. This system was done by a group at the end of a governor-general's term. A) RESIDENCE. B) MAYOR'S DEPARTMENT. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) RESIDENCE. 16. What was Kerensky's Party? A) The Octoberist Party. B) The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. C) The Social Revolutionary Party. D) The PSOE. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Social Revolutionary Party. 17. Which of the following influenced cultural change in South America, making it more of a global trade and travel destination? A) Building of the Panama Canal. B) Development of human trafficing in Columbia. C) Deforestation. D) Building roads and bridges through the Andes Mountains. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Building of the Panama Canal. 18. The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut was the first A) Constitution. B) Map drawn of New England. C) Treaty between Colonists and Native Americans. D) Colony started. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Constitution. 19. The period when Europeans (Portuguese and Spanish) traveled to the east between 1450-1650 is known as the A) Colonialism-Imperialism. B) Regain. C) Discovery. D) Ocean Exploration. E) Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ocean Exploration. 20. Which was not a French colonial raw material? A) Cotton. B) Lana. C) Coal. D) Ivory. 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