After supplying the American colonists with money, arms, and officers, in 1778-1779, in alliance with _________, France declared war on Great Britain.
Portugal
Germany
Spain
Italy
The Congress of Vienna restored the French Bourbon monarchy with the coronation of King _________, the brother of Louis XVI.
Louis-Philippe
Louis XVIII
Louis XVII
Charles X
By 1800, the viceroyalty of La Plata, with the rising port of _________, had grown through contraband trade with Great Britain.
Rio de Janeiro
Buenos Aires
Caracas
Valparaiso
______________ ended slavery in Brazil in 1888.
The central government
British warships
The creation of an anti-slavery republic
A shift from sugar to coffee production
In the five years after the abolition of slavery, the Brazilian economy _____________.
collapsed
completely changed direction
slowed substantially
expanded
Independence and the end of Spanish rule initially benefited which Latin American trading partner the most?
The United States
France
Great Britain
Portugal
Generally speaking, the 19th century Latin American economy revolved around _______.
imports
services
exports
manufacturing
Some 235,000 _________ "coolies" were brought to Costa Rica, working in silver mines, and later on railroadsâand only about 10% of them returned home.
Vietnamese
Chinese
Indian
Kenyan
Caudillo is the Latin American term for a leader who
works within constitutional limits
accepts no constitutional limits on his power
is a king
is a communist
By the end of the eighteenth century, the illegal trade in _________, or "foreign mud," constituted the most profitable import commodity in China.
coal
tobacco
spice
opium
The Treaty of _________, which put an end to the first of the Opium Wars, marked the first of the century's "unequal treaties"
Nanjing
Zhoushan
Xiamen
Quanzhou
The British imposed the policy of _________, or immunity of a country's nationals from the laws of their host country, on the newly open ports on China.
mixed courts
extraterritoriality
amnesty
sovereignty
The movement to bring about the ________(taiping tianguo) on earth became known as the Taiping Rebellion and was headed by the Hong Xiuquan
Divine Kingdom of Great War
Renewed Kingdom of Great Imperial Power
Sacred Republic of the People
Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace
While Western powers wished for Qing China to become a more stable trade and diplomatic partner, the Chinese were primarily concerned with _________.
the spread of Confucianism
expanding the marketing of opium
suppressing both the Taipings and the control by foreigners
the spread of communism
To stem the tide of Western encroachment, a growing number of Chinese officials (Li Hongzhang and Zeng Guofan) advocated a policy of _________
a harmonious society
passive Confucianism
passivism
self-strengthening
By the fall of 1894, a full-scale war over the fate of Korea and northeast Asia, called the _________War, was under way.
Russo-Japanese
Tonghak
Sino-Japanese
Korean
After the war, the winning Japanese side forced China into a series of humiliating provisions including all but one of the following:
annexation of Taiwan
annexation of Macau
control of Korea
seizure of Liaodong