Practice Test Questions for the Modern Era
1750-1914
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1. Which of the following was
not a characteristic of the Industrial Revolution? a) capitalism replaces
mercantilism as dominant POLITICAL philosophy b) mass production of
goods due to advancement in machinery c) civilizations replace
agriculture with industry d) massive urbanization e) lacked a clear-cut
beginning and end 2. Which of the following
was not an effect of the Industrial Revolution? a) Western countries
hesitant to export industrialization to colonies to maintain favorable
dominance of trade b) labor became less-skilled c) empowered people to
believe they should have say in the government d) led to reform movements
that limited working hours and child labor e) the wealthy middle
class left urban areas for the suburbs 3. Which of the following
best explains why a) b) By leaving their fields
fallow, Great c) life expectancy rose due
to improved medical care, nutrition and hygiene d) steam power was
invented by James Watt e) Rousseau’s landmark
Enlightenment work – The Wealth of Nations – outlined the steps 4. Which of the following
was not a key phase of industrialization in a) steam engine use
adapted to every economic field b) encouraged the
development of vast networks of canals and railroads c) electricity surpasses
steam and coal as primary energy source d) Bessemer Process takes
impurities from iron allowing for the creation of steel e) Eli Whitney’s
invention of interchangeable parts prevented regions from exchanging
technology 5. Which of the following
was a social effect of the Industrial Revolution? a) birth of the
proletariat – owners who control labor b) middle class prevented
from owning agriculture c) man becomes part of
machine instead of controlling machine d) on the assembly line,
independent thought encouraged e) pace of work slows down
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6. Which of the following
best summarizes the reform movements of the Industrial Revolution? a) capitalism should not
be checked by government intervention b) reform more possible in
c) parliaments started
passing laws that limited hours, child labor and worsened working conditions d) factory owners almost
always made changes because they realized a happy, healthy, well-paid work
force could be more productive e) the number of people
with influence – aristocracy and middle class – increased pressuring the
government to act on behalf of the workers 7. Which of the following
was not a major global effect of the Industrial Revolution? a) countries with
industrial technology had advanced military weapons b) Western European
nations could not be defeated by Africans in battle ( c) the creation of a
monoculture that damaged both the environment and the economy d) countries needed
colonies to act as markets for finished goods e) 8. Which of the following
reflected the living conditions of the Industrial Revolution a) Initial housing was
quite comfortable for immigrants b) crime able to spread
relatively unchecked in densely populated areas c) factories closed in the
winter time creating free time for factory laborers d) health care prevented
spread of disease in tenements e) the bourgeoisie and
proletariat frequently shared housing because that’s just the nice thing to
do 9. What was the reaction
to the Luddite protests? a) business began to
incorporate Luddite traditions in operational
manuals b) government sided with
the Luddites c) factories began making
more user-friendly machines d) government supported
the bourgeoisie (factory owners) e) conservatives
frustrated by Luddite support for technological
advancement 10. Which of the following
was not a military improvement made during the Industrial Revolution? a) gunpowder b) modern artillery c) machine gun d) steam powered
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11. Which of the following
best describes “Banana Republics”? a) one crop was prioritized
at the expense of developing additional crops and creating a complex economy b) parliamentary buildings
created in a crescent shape to stimulate active discussion c) tropical regions that
lived on bananas as a staple product d) businessmen and industrialists
were unable to strike deals with local aristocrats and politicians e) wealth created spreads
to entire population 12. What was the first
major trade to be fully power-driven and industrialized? a) the canning of food b) the textile industry c) the production of
rubber d) the manufacture of
glass e) the leatherworking
trade 13. What effect did
nineteenth-century industrialization have on a) Industrialization made
the aristocratic class more powerful b) Industrialization had
very little effect on the aristocratic class c) Industrialization
gradually weakened the power and prestige of the aristocratic class d) Industrialization
suddenly weakened the power and prestige of the aristocratic class e) Industrialization had
no effect at all on the aristocratic class 14. Which of the following
was NOT among the Western world’s industrial leaders during most of the
nineteenth century? a) b) c) d) the e) the western German states 15. Who came up with the
notion of the “iron law of wages” that the employer will pay the lowest
possible wage to make a profit? a) Adam Smith b) Thomas Malthus c) Robert Owen d) David Ricardo e) Karl Marx |
16. Which of the following
best characterizes standard Marxist doctrine? a) Economic competition
leads to the highest possible level of prosperity for all b) the struggle between
propertied classes and laboring classes is the determining force in all human
affairs c) Any interference with
the natural operation of supply and demand is harmful. d) It is possible to
achieve social justice and economic equality within the capitalist framework e) There is no avoiding
the fact that there will always be impoverished classes in every society 17. How did
industrialization affect the Atlantic slave trade? a) Reliance on machines
caused the slave trade to end somewhat earlier than it would have otherwise b) Industrialization had
little or no effect on the slave trade c) Industrialization of
the textile trade increased the demand for d) Industrialization
quickly ended the slave trade e) Steam power allowed the
British and 18. Which of the following
was a major advantage a) British able to
industrialize faster due to prior knowledge b) c) d) e) British government
favored industrialization 19. Which of the following
was a difference between Japanese industrialization and British
industrialization? a) success of women’s
reform movements b) class tensions
developed c) limited foreign
investment d) rapid urbanization e) factories built
quickly 20. Which of the following
was not a technological innovation of the Industrial Revolution? a) new weaponry b) cotton gin that made
textile revolution possible c) new technological
innovations to extract resources from earth d) Spinning Jenny e) ox-drawn plow 21. Which of the following
was not a commonality of Industrial Revolutions around the world? a) urbanization due to poor harvests, too little land, too many mouths
to feed b) brutal initial working
conditions that lead to demands for reform c) middle class forms made
of factory managers, shop owners and the proletariat d) factories built near
towns e) increased need to find
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22. Which of the following
was not a change in social thought that stemmed directly from urbanization? a) women’s emancipation
movements b) the Enlightenment c) rise of unions and laws
to protect workers d) rise of Marxism e) independence movements
and revolutions 23. Which of the following
does not accurately reflect the changing role of women due to the Industrial
Revolution? a) by 1900, most working
women were single (they were usually young women not yet married) b) women were usually paid
less than men c) reform laws eventually limited women’s access to the marketplace d) upper class women more
restricted to their home than in previous eras e) poor women actually had
more opportunity for gender equality than upper/middle class women 24. Middle class
housewives during the Industrial Revolution a) lived in suburbs and
sometimes managed a servant b) expansive social
opportunities consistently involving white collar laborers c) resisted pull of
traditional role in house d) were the most active
opponents of suffrage e) did not have access to labor saving devices 25. Because of the
Industrial Revolution a) the massive working class consistently saw income disparity vis a vis the upper class b) power and wealth were
again based solely on hereditary c) the new middle class
consisted of managers, accountants, doctors, factory laborers and lawyers
(this comes later after WWI) d) social mobility was
limited e) husbands became
homemakers and wives became primary wage earners Revolutions 26. Modern political
revolutions were characterized by a) the influence of Enlightenment ideals b) peasants and urban
workers refusing to protest c) eventual choice of
universal democracy instead of autocracy d) the destruction of
traditional religion e) the unopposed rule of
absolute monarchs 27. Which of the following
was not a cause of the American Revolution a) enforcement of
navigation laws b) frustration of
colonists that they lacked representation in c) opening of western lands to exploration and migration d) debt from Seven Years
War e) notions of a social
contract described by British writer John Locke |
28. Thomas Paine’s Common
Sense was notable for a) its clear outlining of
the correct operation of the steam engine b) its firm rebuttal of
Christian ideology c) its attempt to unite d) statement that monarchy stripped e) its limited press run 29. One of the direct results of the American
Revolution was a) b) loss of all British territory
in the c) establishment of the d) creation of a Constitution that discussed notions of government never
before experienced in the history of mankind e) the election of John
Adams as the first president of the 30. Which of the following
was not a cause of the French Revolution? a) the American Revolution b) economic policies of
Louis XVI c) leisure expenditures of Marie Antoinette d) inability to collect taxes from the Third Estate e) Poor harvests and
unemployment 31. Which of the following
did not occur in the early stages of the French Revolution? a) Napoleon established stability by taking power from the Directory b) the Third Estate broke
away from the First and Second Estate and established the National Assembly c) revolutions in the city
eventually spread to the countryside d) Louis XVI and Marie
Antoinette were brought to e) Louis XVI called a
meeting of the Estates General for the first time in over 150 years 32. The Declaration of the
Rights of Man a) increased the authority
of feudal rights b) established natural
rights not discussed by previous Western nations c) guaranteed freedoms of press and religion d) was embraced by other
European nations e) reestablished the
control of the Catholic Church 33. Which of the following
was not accomplished during the Reign of Terror a) killing of thousands of
French by using the guillotine b) creation of a new
constitution c) beheading of its leader
Robespierre d) establishment of universal male suffrage e) refusal to adopt
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34. During the French
Revolution, the Directory a) was led by three men who
jointly ruled the executive branch b) failed to end the chaos
in c) increased the size of
the military d) was replaced by Napoleon e) agreed on all proposals
without debate 35. Which of the following
is not true about the cycle of revolution a) the initial stages are
planned by the liberal nobility and wealthy middle class b) the radical phase
becomes too radical leading to a conservative backlash c) the revolution almost always ends in a democracy d) the initial reforms
aren’t enough so the revolution becomes more radical e) the greatest freedoms
come at the beginning of the revolution, but don’t last 36. Which of the following
changes to a) created the fifth
constitution of the French Revolution b) censored speech and the
press c) created the Bank of
France d) established law codes e) developed the
Napoleonic standardized law code that exists in 37. Napoleon was
successful in a) defeating b) making himself king of
all of c) turning the Holy Roman
Empire into d) bringing the freedoms of e) conquering 38. The Congress of a) punished b) formed moderate
democracies in major European states c) attempted to divide d) attempted to maintain equilibrium in e) prevented any military
conflict for a hundred years 39. The French Revolution
can be considered a success because a) the old royal family
was put back into power b) it did away with all
forms of absolute monarchy c) set the precedent that the voice of the masses could not be ignored d) it resulted in
universal manhood suffrage e) tempered the spread of
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40. Which of the following
is an accurate depiction of politics in a) aside from French’s mini-revolutions,
the remainder of b) the monarchies of c) though d) even in e) the lower classes
gradually became more content with their status 41. The Revolution of 1848 a) were massive disturbances that to some degree affected every
country in b) was started because the
French king decided to enact reforms not agreed on by other nations c) reflected the
frustration of the lower classes at the negative social and economic effects
of the Industrial Revolution d) forced the king of
Prussia to withdraw reforms e) demonstrated that
people were inspired more by religion than by nationalism Major Themes 42. Which of the following
was not a continuity of the Modern Era? a) Chinese belief in their
own cultural superiority b) Slavery ends and slaves incorporated into society c) after decades of
revolution, d) Christianity continued
to play large role in lives of Europeans e) Conservatives attempt
to keep power by fighting liberalizing elements 43. Which of the following
was not a shift of the Modern Era? a) mechanization and
industrialization become driving forces b) mercantilism and
feudalism replaced by capitalism c) elite status can now be
achieved through wealth d) scientific/secular
world begins to dominate thought e) republican governments come to an end in favor of stable monarchies 44. Which of the following
occurred during the Modern Era? a) b) unification of c) end of absolute
monarchies d) developments in one
region have impact on other regions e) nationalism becomes huge force uniting people |
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45. Which of the following
does not represent the ideology of ethnocentrism? a) desire to convert
heathens to Christianity and civilize them in the European fashion b) Rudyard Kipling’s novel
the White Man’s Burden c) Chinese believed they were
the center of the world – the “Middle Kingdom” d) e) 46. Why was change able to
happen so quickly during the Modern Era? a) communication rapid due to trains, ships and telegraph cables b) invention of gunpowder c) ruralization
allowed like-minded people to associate d) countryside becomes
more liberal, desiring change e) 47. Examples of changes in
World Trade during the Modern Era a) the transfer of manufactured goods from the West to the rest of the
world b) Latin American and African
nations allowed to choose which crops they grew c) large plantations
divided into small, independently owned plots of land d) slavery increases
initially to satisfy demands of industrialization e) Ottoman Empire
increases control of the 48. The Opium Trade a) benefited b) shifted the trade balance away from c) led to Opium Wars which
eventually opened up trade in d) initially was able to
trade out of all Chinese ports e) opened up the Suez
Canal and made 49. World Trade in the
Modern Era saw a) b) the African Slave trade end in c) Commodore Perry open
trade in d) e) a maintenance of
serfdom in Demographic and Environmental Changes 50. All of the following
were push factors that increased emigration in the Modern Era except a) oppressive Communism in b) famine in c) anti-Semitism in d) poverty e) Russian pogroms |
51. As immigration
increased a) European settler
colonies were unable to control native populations b) industrialized nations
began to lose profits c) indigenous populations suffered from disease d) young adults moved away
from cities to the countryside in mass numbers e) middle class stayed in
the cities while the poor were pushed to suburbs 52. Which of the following
was not an effect of the Atlantic Slave Trade a) Africans began to rely
more on the slave trade for economic gain b) Internal trade relies
on the importation of foreign goods c) coastal kingdoms become
ruled by merchants and warlords who take advantage of slave trade d) coastal communities were so strong due to slave trade that they could
not be defeated by Europeans e) introduction of guns
increased severity of conflicts between tribes 53. What caused the end of
the Atlantic Slave Trade a) b) c) ending of slavery first
in d) the cost of obtaining
slaves was decreasing e) military defiance by
Africans 54. Which of the following
does not reflect a population change during the Modern Era? a) birth rate eventually
declines due to lack of need for farm laborers b) drop in death rate due
to Louis Pasteur’s germ research c) d) Japanese population declines due to famine and agricultural famines e) improved sanitation
improves health 55. The end of the
Atlantic Slave Trade a) was enforced by b) might have officially
ended, but still over two million slaves were traded illegally c) only increased the
power of the coastal kingdoms d) left the African states
independent and economically vibrant e) came at the same time as the end of the Islamic slave trade 56. The ideal women during
the Victorian Age a) fought for reform
efforts b) worked in the factory
to support a family c) held off marriage until
she found someone she truly loved d) was consistently
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57. Because of
Industrialization a) many people felt no longer resigned to fate and felt as if they could
alter their situation b) monkeys were able to floss
their teeth with electric tooth brushes c) the standard of living
went up immediately for everyone in the country, but then went down d) men's occupational
sphere primarily consisted of teaching and nursing e) eventually governments
had to encourage companies to work their laborers longer hours under worse
conditions 58. Serfdom (help – I’m
puzzled on this one) a) was prevalent in b) ended, but peasants
could not leave the land until they paid off their debt to the landowner c) occurred decades before
the emancipation of slaves in the d) was needed to maintain
a large population with surplus money to buy manufactured goods e) was economically
successful because it inspired peasants to work to their full ability 59. Which of the following
was not a major cause championed by women during the reform movements of the
1800s? a) temperance b) access to birth control c) equal job opportunities d) suffrage e) equal pay 60. During the French
Revolution, how was the abolishment of the monarchy and the aristocracy
justified? a) threat of invastion from b) need to test the
effectiveness of the guillotine and other forms of cutlery c) surplus of grain d) Napoleon's rise to power e) the 61. Which of the following
is not a reason why historians claim the American Revolution was not actually
a revolution? a) merely the exchange of
power from one wealthy group to another b) actually an
independence movement c) social/political
structure remained relatively unchanged d) regions of Colonial
America already ruled with a growing degree of autonomy e) the Declaration of (although this is true it has nothing to do
with whether or not the 62. The Haitian Revolution a) failed to receive the
support of creoles and mulattoes b) was put down by
Napoleon's agent Touissant L'Ouverture c) was caused in part by the self-serving French mercantilist policy d) inspired the American
Revolution e) created the first
nation in the |
63. The French were
defeated in the Haitian Revolution because of a) their reliance on
Freedom Fries as primary source of carbohydrates b) yellow fever wiped out French soldiers c) Napoleon utilized
indigenous soldiers to put down the revolution d) Napoleon's desire to
sell the e) the slaves never
splintered into rival factions 64. The Latin American
struggles for independence were caused in large part by a) Napoleon's wars against Europe left the power authority of b) the indigenous desire
to set up a mercantilist economy c) British naval
destruction of the Spanish Armada d) decrease of Amazonian
vegetation e) the frustration of the Spanish
hierarchy that all governmantal jobs were dominated
by Creoles 65. Though most Latin
American nations gained independence from a) constitutional law oftentimes proved a failure, establishing a
precedent of caudillos rising to power b) c) religious leaders
refused to recognize any of the new governments d) e) reformers and liberals
chose to refrain from further attempts to extend political and economic
opportunities 66. Which of the following
was not a cause of economic difficulty for Latin American nations in the 19th
century? a) failure to diversify
economies b) reliance on slave labor
to survive c) industrialization occcured too rapidly d) importation of
manufactured goods e) predisposition to mere
extraction of natural resources 67. Which of the following
best describes Latin America's relationship with a) Europe had no influence
on b) Europe had little
influence on c) d) Europeans had no impact
on political leaders of e) A huge European influence continued both economically and politically 68. The first Mexican
Revolution was led by a) a Creole priest without
assistance from mestizos and Native Americans b) a Creole priest that led mestizos and
Native Americans c) Creole business owners
frustrated by Spanish influence d) French revolutionaries
intent on transforming region e) an overweight Northern
European from the |
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69. All of the following
were results of the first Mexican Revolution except a) universal manhood
suffrage b) French occupation c) eventual reforms under
Benito Juares d) continued years of
chaos e) relative lack of Creole
interest in reform 70. One of the primary
causes of the Mexican Revolution of 1910 was a) the widening income gap between landowners and peasants b) oppressive Spanish rule c) decreasing impact of
Catholicism d) conservative reformers
demanding change e) the French Revolution 71. Which of the following
was not a cause of the Chinese Revolution? a) Qing administration's
decision to take power from provincial governments b) increasing influence of
foreigners c) frustration of rural
peasants d) diffusion of Western
reform ideas by educated Chinese e) embarassing
defeat in Sino-Japanese War 72. Dowager Empress Cixi a) has a name I can
readily pronounce b) nephew's concubine who
ruled in his place c) encouraged
implementation of Western reform ideals d) eventually arrested
Emperor after considering Hundred Days Reform e) increased territorial
holdings of 73. The Chinese Revolution
of 1911 was followed by a) years of chaos and the
gradual secession of provinces b) decades of stability
enforced by a democratic regime c) the establishment in
1927 of a Republican parliament d) the return of power to
the Qing emperor in 1912 e) the decreasing power of
warlords in outlying provinces 74. Sun Yat-sen a) initiated the revolt in
1911 by leading a military insurgency b) was frustrated that he
had not achieved the title of father of Modern China c) advocated the
principles of nationalis, democracy and the
People's Livelihood d) refused to employ
military strategies to gain power e) died before seeing the
revolution succeed 75. The a) was run by the
Communist Party - Kuomintang b) represented the first
time in c) ended in a Civil War as
Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong united to assume power d) succeeded without
assistance fromthe Soviets e) implemented the
American Constitution for 87 years |
76. Which of the following
does not accurately reflect the Latin American independence movements a) Portuguese King John VI
runs b) were caused in large
part by the confusion over authority due to Napoleon's European conquests c) Venezuelan Simon
Bolivar attempted to implement reforms learned through his Western education d) The Argentinian
independence movement was contained within e) King John VI's son
Pedro eventually declares independence from 77. Which of the following
was not a characteristic of Latin American independence movements? a) acceptance of
Enlightenment ideals by the both creoles and peasants b) slavery still existed
in some nations for centuries c) peasants worked on huge
estates d) a dominant middle class
never emerged e) economies continued to
rely on European goods 78. a) the Catholic Church's
desire to give up control b) conservative attempts
to give up power c) Latin American
maintenance of a mercantilistic-type economy d) an ocean e) 79. One method that
allowed Russian leaders to maintain control over a huge territory was a) usage of a secret
police to squash rebellion b) recruitment of serfs
for military duty c) alliance with d) clever flag with a
hammer and sickle e) leadership wholesale
acceptance of Enlightened ideals 80. a) freed slaves b) enabled serfs to move only if they made payments to government c) followed the precedent
of d) was an alliteration e) was passed by Czar
Nicholas II 81. During Nicholas II's Russification a) thousands of Jews were killed in religious pogroms b) Communist forces storm c) bread harvests reach
unprecedented heights d) e) vodka is outlawed on
streets, but not avenues 82. The creation of the Duma a) satisfied the peasant demands
for autonomy b) had no real power and could be cancelled at any time c) demonstrated Czar
Nicholas II's understanding of the needs of the
people d) followed e) followed the
incorporation of universal manhood suffrage in |
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83. In a) a large number of educated elite demanded the freedom they learned
from their Western education b) the Indian National
Congress was established in 1912 c) Mohandas Gandhi became the
nation's first Prime Minister d) independence was gained
due to violent confrontation with e) the 84. Latin American
revolutions were a) led by wealthy, educated creoles b) replaced creole landowners with peninsulares c) for the most part
completed by 1812 d) successful in that they
prevented future civil wars or power rivalries e) put down by caudillos,
priests who protected peasants at all costs 85. A connection to one's
own home, region, language and culture is known as a) nationalism b) feudalism c) communism d) the Great Schism e) multi-colored prism 86. a) were two of the first
European regions to centralize authority while creating a nation b) unified by the second part of the nineteenth century and changed the
balance of power in c) were free of foreign
control prior to their unification d) refused to involve
themselves in land claims around the world e) invented noodles and
schnitzel 87. Which of the following
was not true about a) it was inititated by the king of the island
kingdom b) focused on kicking out
the Austrians from northern c) northern Italians were
content with the established border following unification d) forced e) difficult to unite
because regions quite culturally different 88. The German states and
the Austrian Empire a) were united under the b) shared c) pushed for Industrial
Revolution under d) devalued education e) both ruled through a
central authority in the capital 89. William I was able to
unify a) transferring money
spent on the military to improving infrastructure b) uniting German states against a common enemy (he fought c) fighting the Catholic
German states in the Battle of Bismarck d) declaring the Third
Reich e) asking a short dictatoresque Austrian to take over power |
90. Once Germany had
unified a) b) c) Otto von Bismarck was annointed emperor d) e) they pursued colonial
ambitions in Latin America and 91. Which of the following
was not a reason why nations moved toward representative government in the
19th century? a) industrialization b) modernization c) urbanization d) population growth e) religion 92. Which of the following
was not an issue facing republican governments? a) British needed to
balance needs of aristocracy and growing middle class b) c) Nations such as d) e) In 93. In a) was shot after trying
to implement reforms b) increased censorship to
maintain power of czar c) centralized government
by taking power from provincial governments d) emancipated serfs in 1861 e) created Duma to satisfy radicals 94. During the Tokugawa Shogunate a) power resided with the
emperor b) the samurai fought with
the haiyatsu for dominance c) the Tokugawa clan centralized government d) social mobility became
increasingly possible e) 95. The Meiji Restoration a) was implemented from
above by the government b) was successful due to
the dominance of the merchant class c) came without Western
encouragement d) abolished payments to samurai e) created formal law code
and elected parliament known as the Diet 96. a) sent diplomats and
members of the upper class to West to train b) private banks took a leading role in funding entrepreneurs c) the increasing
dominance of the zaibatsu d) the encouragement of
private enterprise e) already had access to
technology of Industrial Revolution |
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97. Because of the Meiji
Restoration a) meritocracy became the
sole reason for career advancement b) middle class influence
reverts to pre-Tokugawa era c) the lower class gained
access to education and could now serve in military d) population decreased due to restrictions on birth
rates (this is RULE: Industrialization always leads to population growth no
matter where it happens) e) the civil service exam
was abolished 98. A woman who subscribed
to the "cult of true womanhood" would a) contradict her husband
if she knew the correct course of action b) utilize her free time
to champion reform movements c) was free to explore her
sexuality d) be able to fight in the
military if properly trained e) be comfortable staying at home to care for her husband 99. During the early
phases of women's reform movements a) women were granted the
right to vote b) women struggled to
improve divorce laws c) women discouraged
temperance d) women ignored the slavery issue due to the existence of abolitionists e) 100. By 1900, the dominant
method of economic organization was a) laissez faire, free market
capitalism b) mercantilism c) communism d) barter e) Euromonetaryfundism 101. All of the following
are true about the Industrial Revolution except a) the lower class usually
benefits in the early phases, but suffers later on b) the overall increase in
prosperity of peoples across the social scale c) some nations adopted
Western techniques, some chose to ignore Westernization d) prospered in nations that
believed in the "invisible hand" of supply and demand e) led to pessimistic
analytical pieces by Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo 102. A group of reformers
who created societies that would create happiness through thoughtful planning
and regulation were a) utopian socialists b) Marxists c) Communists d) Jacobin Club e) women suffragettes 103. By 1914 a) 88% of the world was controlled by Europeans b) c) alliances had been
avoided by all major Western European powers to avoid future conflict d) the e) |
104. By 1900 a) governments across b) trade unions had yet to
successfully motivate employers to listen to workers' demands c) the upper class was
drawn to radical ideas that encouraged a redistribution of wealth d) e) arbitrary rule of
dictators begins to outweigh written law 105. Labor unions were a) initially supported by
the government b) at first illegal and union members risked injury for participation c) for higher wages,
better working conditions and more hours d) never targeted by
communist and socialist organizations for membership e) prominent in 106. Which of the
following was not a Western cultural attitude? a) increasing nationalist
movements b) pursuing greater access
to public education c) avoidance of secular worldview d) studying the mind is a
science e) materialistm 107. The new artistic
trends of the late 19th century did all of the following except a) refused to deal with the hardships of everyday life b) began depicting
abstract images c) rejected the emotion
and passion of Romanticism d) defied artistic
conventions e) analyzed the inner
behavior and motivations of characters in literature 108. Which of the
following relationships was not an example of economic imperialism? a) dependence of b) control of Hawaiian
sugar and pineapple harvests by the c) European control of the pace of Japanese industrialization d) Latin America's trade
imbalance with e) the 109. Which of the
following was not a cause of imperialism and colonialism? a) need to maintain bases
and coal stations around the world b) decreasing populations forced European nations to seek outside labor c) new weaponry gave d) medical advances
allowed Europeans to enter continents without fear of malaria and yellow
fever e) belief in racial
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110. Which of the
following best represents the European notions of racial superiority? a) Rudyard Kipling's epic novel "White Man's Burden" b) Social Darwinists who
believed those technologically and culturally advanced should conquer those
less-developed c) Other cultures were
vibrant and their traditions should be kept intact d) native religions should
not be impeded and missionary work should be avoided e) Cecil Rhodes belief
that Europe should colonize and conquer 111. Which of the
following does not accurately reflect how European nations controlled their
colonies? a) the British and Belgians allowed their holdings to maintain political
autonomy b) the Portuguese were
quite harsh in their treatment of natives c) d) the French tried to
civilize and convert natives through their "la mission civilisatrice" e) the British introduced
positive social reforms and helped create infrastructure 112. Which of the
following was not an Indian product desired by Europeans? a) porcelain (from China not India) b) tea c) sugar d) salt e) textiles 113. In a) the Belgian military b) the Mughal
empire c) the British East India Company d) janissaries e) colonial officers 114. Which best explains
the British East India Company's ability to govern a) size of corporation b) ability to work with local rulers and manipulate regional divisions c) Indian desire to be
ruled by outsiders d) centralized authority
ruled from e) British hesitancy to
put down insurrections that might harm regional power 115. The Sepoy Mutiny a) started because a rumor spread that British soldiers used pork and
beef fat for soap b) started because the sepoys were not able to fight overseas c) was initiated in the
name of Siddharta Guatama d) saw unparalled
cooperation between Muslims and Hindus e) led to 300 million
Indian subjects being put under the crown authority of |
116. Which of the
following was not a characteristic of British rule of a) all castes exposed to British education b) spread of Christianity c) building of roads and
canals d) raw materials flowed
out of e) rate of urbanization
increased 117. a) made b) was forever altered
socially and politically c) saw its profits from
raw materials sent back to d) saw its local
businesses threatened by British products e) all of the above 118. British rule a) outlawed sati but
allowed the ritual assassination of travellers b) reduced the level of conflict
between Hindus and Muslims c) discontinued the civil
service exam d) created a system where
peasants were given land by local zanzibars e) all of the above 119. Which of the
following does not accurately reflect European influence in a) b) c) British influenced
Malaya and the island d) the e) part of 120. a) the King of Siam had an
affair with a beautiful teacher from b) both c) d) natural resources of
region not desired by e) rapid spread of malaria
made region inhospitable 121. Which of the
following was not a reason the United States annexed the Phillippines? a) fear that the recently liberated island nation would fall into
Chinese hands b) White Man's Burden c) President McKinley
believed it was his religious obligation to bring Christianity to the heathens d) naval base in Pacific e) navy already in region
due to victory over 122. Napoleon referred to a) it would be a formidable foe once its resources and population were
utilized efficiently b) its military devestated surrounding regions c) he was defeated by
Chinese soldiers in d) calling it an awake
dragon would sound kind of awkward e) the nation had an
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123. The product that
eventually opened a) opium b) porcelain (during Mind Dynasty) c) tea d) timber e) silver 124. Which of the
following was not a reason a) expensive cost of
securing borders drained treasury b) population growth was
not being matched by food harvests c) corrupt government
officials d) Europe hadn't traded with e) string of incompetent
leaders 125. Which of the
following is not a reason the Manchu Emperor of a) decrease in
productivity resulting from addiction b) unfair trade balance c) decline in Chinese
values d) fear of ever increasing
influence of the West e) workers too effective because opium heightens the senses and makes a
human able to work for 27 hours straight without a break 126. When the Christian
missionaries returned to a) they forced the nation
to adopt Christian doctrine b) they refused to teach
English and Western culture to the Chinese c) shared technological advances of the West d) allowed footbinding if the shoes were red e) they only negatively
affected the region 127. a) extraterritorial b) colonial c) mercantilistic d) trading partner e) alliance 128. The Taiping Rebellion a) was the second
deadliest war in world history b) resulted from peasants frustrated by taxes and arbitrary rule c) was a reaction to foreign
rule d) was eventually put down
with assistance from the e) all of the above 129. a) opened b) was initiated due to a
humiliating military defeat to the Japanese c) saw foreign nations
invest in business, communication and transporation
systems d) started after Commodore
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130. In a) Boxer Rebellion b) White Lotus Rebellion c) Taiping
Rebelling d) Manchu Expulsion e) all of the above 131. The primary European
partition of a) 1750 and 1780 b) 1780 and 1810 c) 1810 and 1840 d) 1840 and 1880 e) 1880 and 1910 132. Following the a) Europe began creating
national boundaries in b) c) d) European powes realized the notion of White Man's Burden was a bit
condescending e) Arabs and Christians
united to push 133. a) the region was mapped and transportation innovations allowed for
exploration of interior regions b) c) Europe's vast
population overwhelmed d) e) all of the above 134. In response to the
European advancement into the European continent a) the b) the Zulu kingdom showed
some early success against the British c) some African leaders
work with the Europeans to create a mutually beneficial trading relationship d) the e) all of the above 135. The Boer War a) saw the native Boers
fight the Dutch and British b) resulted as the Dutch
moved into Zulu controlled land c) eventually put all of d) resulted in 47 billion
casualties e) resulted in the
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136. Both colonies in a) Western-educated
natives develop strategies for independence b) a brutal caste system
destroy society c) Muslim rule triumph
over Christianity d) the exploitation of indegenous societies for the mining of diamonds e) apartheid laws created
to separate racial groups 137. Which of the
following is not an accurate statement regarding a) Muhammad Ali
industrialized b) c) d) e) though 138. Which of the
following was not a negative effect of European imperialism in a) arbitrary borders
created by European powers would be the cause of many of the 20th century
conflicts in b) natural resources leave
region benefitting c) slave trade continues on West Coast, but is discontinued on the d) fostered pattern of
violence to obtain political control e) impeded the development
of diverse economies 139. Which of the
following does not accurately depict European relations with a) upon initial contact, Europeans made consistent effort to colonize
the interior regions b) c) resources such as gold,
ivory and timber were plundered d) naval bases and
outposts were established e) coastal ports used
as stopping points for merchants on
way to 140. Which of the
following does not accurately describe a) British arrived first and set up trading post b) Dutch Afrikaners/Boers
eventually moved inland which created conflict with Zulus c) African National
Congress made up of Enlightened thinkers who wanted independence d) Shaka
Zulu was nicknamed the "Black Napoleon" e) discovery of diamonds
and gold encouraged mass immigration 141. What was the term
given to the downfall of the a) the Eastern Debacle b) the Eastern Question c) the Middle Eastern
Quandary d) the Return of the Jedi e) the Emancipation of
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142. Why wasn't the a) b) European military
inferior to that of Ottomans c) Geographical boundaries
prevented invasion d) Balkan states unite to
create formidable foe e) region had already
implemented radical reforms 143. In what ways were the
African colonies different from the Indian colonies? a) both colonies solely
controlled by British b) boundary lines
determined without concern for local population c) infrastructure not
brought to major cities d) both colonies saw
violence between indigenous groups e) by 1900 144. Which of the
following was not a reflection of a) ability to beat b) ability to fend off
economic threat of c) ability to beat d) ability to beat e) 145. Which of the
following was not a reason for the decline of the a) mediocre rulers b) janissary support for
reform c) conservative religious
leaders concerned about change d) e) growing threat of European imperialism 146. Which of the
following occurred due to US imperialism? a) b) c) US becomes world power with annexation of Guam, Puerto Rico and d) e) 147. The Congress of a) kept relative peace in b) created radical changes in the governmental structure of c) was led by Frenchmen
Rousseau d) created France and
British as dominant nations e) occurred in 148. Which of the
following is not a characteristic of nationalism a) drove the Japanese to
industrialize quickly b) drove Europeans to
compete with each other for imperial holdings c) drove Chinese peasants
to attempt to preserve Manchu dynasty d) drove Egyptians to
revolt against control of e) drove colonial
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149. Which of the
following best explains modernization theory? a) desire for democracy
will evolve after nations become economically prosperous b) nations become
economically prosperous only after establishing democracy c) western Europe is an
anomaly for modernization theory d) impedes social change e) women have no
opportunity to gain opportunities 150. Which of the
following does not accurately describe dependency theory? a) nations will eventually
become economically prosperous b) nations that have been
dependent will remain dependent c) developed nations have
access to industries to process natural resources d) dependent nations
export natural resources and agricultural products e) dependent nations
provide cheap labor |
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