AP World History Unit 6: Global Economy & Economic Imperialism Practice Test
Practice how industrial demand, capital, infrastructure, law, and imperial power reorganized production and exchange across the nineteenth-century global economy.
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35 Questions
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10 Easy • 15 Medium • 10 Hard Feedback appears after each answer.
Easy
Foundation • Question 1 of 35
British merchants sell machine-made textiles in India while importing raw cotton.
Which pattern does this best illustrate?
Easy
Foundation • Question 2 of 35
European firms control guano extraction in Peru through investment and contracts rather than formal annexation.
Which concept is most relevant?
Easy
Foundation • Question 3 of 35
British investors finance railways in Latin America.
Which Unit 6 process is illustrated?
Easy
Foundation • Question 4 of 35
A colony expands rubber production for overseas factories.
What most directly explains the shift?
Easy
Foundation • Question 5 of 35
Indian farmers are encouraged or compelled to grow cotton, indigo, or opium for export.
Which economic change is illustrated?
Easy
Foundation • Question 6 of 35
The British East India Company sells opium produced in India into China.
Which larger pattern does this show?
Easy
Foundation • Question 7 of 35
Egypt borrows heavily from European creditors while building infrastructure.
What vulnerability can result?
Easy
Foundation • Question 8 of 35
A European company receives a concession to build and operate a railway in a weaker state.
Which concept best applies?
Easy
Foundation • Question 9 of 35
A plantation in Ceylon produces tea for global markets.
Which trend is represented?
Easy
Foundation • Question 10 of 35
Refrigerated shipping allows Argentine beef to reach European consumers.
How did technology affect the global economy?
Medium
Application • Question 11 of 35
A colonial railway runs from a mining district to a seaport rather than connecting local population centers.
What does the route suggest?
Medium
Application • Question 12 of 35
A region becomes dependent on a single export crop whose world price later falls.
Which risk is illustrated?
Medium
Application • Question 13 of 35
A historian studies indentured Indian labor on Caribbean sugar plantations after slavery is abolished.
Which connection is most important?
Medium
Application • Question 14 of 35
European powers pressure Qing China to open treaty ports.
Which form of imperial influence is most direct?
Medium
Application • Question 15 of 35
Foreign residents in treaty ports are exempt from some local legal jurisdiction.
Which term describes this privilege?
Medium
Application • Question 16 of 35
A Latin American country exports coffee and imports British manufactured goods.
Which global pattern is best illustrated?
Medium
Application • Question 17 of 35
A company town pays workers in scrip redeemable only at company stores.
What does this show about labor in commodity frontiers?
Medium
Application • Question 18 of 35
Colonial officials impose head taxes that must be paid in money.
How can this support an export economy?
Medium
Application • Question 19 of 35
A British economist praises free trade while colonial policy protects some imperial interests.
What analytical point is strongest?
Medium
Application • Question 20 of 35
A map shows telegraph cables linking colonial ports to European capitals.
Which effect is most direct?
Medium
Application • Question 21 of 35
A mining boom attracts foreign investors, migrant workers, and railway construction.
Which interpretation is strongest?
Medium
Application • Question 22 of 35
A source reports rising export value but worsening land access for local farmers.
What does this evidence caution against?
Medium
Application • Question 23 of 35
A colonial administration reserves fertile land for settler plantations.
Which economic consequence is most likely?
Medium
Application • Question 24 of 35
A state remains formally independent but foreign creditors control customs revenue.
Which concept best describes the relationship?
Medium
Application • Question 25 of 35
A student says global economic integration benefited all participants equally.
Which evidence most directly challenges the claim?
Hard
Advanced reasoning • Question 26 of 35
A source from a colonial chamber of commerce celebrates rising exports.
Which sourcing question matters most?
Hard
Advanced reasoning • Question 27 of 35
A historian compares India and Latin America in the nineteenth-century world economy.
Which comparison is most useful?
Hard
Advanced reasoning • Question 28 of 35
A prompt asks how industrialization changed global economic relationships.
Which thesis is strongest?
Hard
Advanced reasoning • Question 29 of 35
A railway company receives guaranteed profits from a colonial government.
What does this arrangement reveal?
Hard
Advanced reasoning • Question 30 of 35
A region exports food crops during a local shortage.
Which question should a historian investigate?
Hard
Advanced reasoning • Question 31 of 35
A company uses contract labor backed by legal penalties for desertion.
What does this show?
Hard
Advanced reasoning • Question 32 of 35
A DBQ includes export statistics, a worker testimony, an investor prospectus, and a colonial tax law.
Which strategy is strongest?
Hard
Advanced reasoning • Question 33 of 35
A prompt asks for continuity and change in global trade from 1450–1750 to 1750–1900.
Which argument is strongest?
Hard
Advanced reasoning • Question 34 of 35
A student treats economic imperialism as identical to formal colonization.
What correction is most important?
Hard
Advanced reasoning • Question 35 of 35
Which statement best captures global economic development from 1750 to 1900?
Trace who controlled capital, land, labor, infrastructure, and the terms of exchange
If you missed global-economy questions, draw the commodity chain. Identify where the raw material was produced, who controlled land and labor, who financed transport, where processing occurred, and which consumers or industries created demand.
Economic imperialism does not require a flag over a colony. Foreign debt, concessions, treaty ports, extraterritorial rights, customs control, and investment can reduce a state's room to act even when it remains formally independent.
Do not treat rising exports as proof that everyone benefited. AP questions often reward students who distinguish total economic growth from the distribution of land, wages, profits, taxes, food access, and political power.