Drill 18 · Multiple Choice · Unit 6: Industrialization and Its Effects
AP World History Unit 6 Drill 18 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Unit 6: Industrialization and Its Effects. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.
This AP World History Unit 6 drill is based on an 1884 speech by French Prime Minister Jules Ferry defending colonial expansion. Questions analyze Ferry's two justifications for imperialism, the Social Darwinist and racial assumptions in his rhetoric, and the broader intellectual context of late-19th-century European colonialism.
Adapted from a speech by Jules Ferry, Prime Minister of France, delivered to the French Chamber of Deputies, 1884 CE, with substantial paraphrase.
"Gentlemen, we must speak more loudly and more honestly. We must say openly that indeed the higher races have a right over the lower races. I repeat that there are superior races and inferior races. Since those superior races have a right, because they have a duty — the duty to civilize the inferior races. Is this not what the greatest nations of Europe have always done? Is it not what France has done in Algeria and in Senegal? Superior races have a right and a duty because it is to their advantage to go there, to render services to those inferior races, to civilize them. At the same time, gentlemen, it is necessary to say that our overseas colonies constitute an enormous market. French industry must have outlets. It is this that justifies our colonial policy."