Imperialism in East Asia, India, and the Pacific: Mastery Test

Select the correct answer.

Which of the following issues was often a problem for local farmers in a colonized region?

A. They were forced to grow crops that benefited the colonizing nations instead of feeding their own people.
B. They were driven from their lands because colonizing nations used those lands to develop industrial factories.
C. They had to raise pigs and cattle despite their religious objections to these types of meat.
D. They became poor because they had to pay taxes to the colonizing nations in the form of a large share of their crops.