Practice Test 5

A historian argues that one method of New Imperialism was the use of international conferences and legal agreements among European powers to reduce the risk of war while partitioning territory, even when African and Asian peoples were excluded from decision-making. Which event best reflects this method?

A secondary source on New Imperialism concludes that metropolitan governments sometimes accepted the high costs of colonial administration because colonies could serve as strategic buffers against rival powers and as symbols of national strength, even when direct economic returns were mixed. Which consequence most closely follows from this argument?