Chapter 8/10 History Questions

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Creating a homeland for people who shared a common heritage was a major goal of

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Nationalists

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In 1815, why did the Congress of Vienna unite the Austrian Netherlands (present-day Belgium) and the Kingdom of Holland?

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The Congress wanted to create a strong barrier to French expansion

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The Concert of Europe was an agreement to

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Support the old order

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The ideas of liberals were sometimes called "bourgeois liberalism" because liberals spoke mostly for the

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Middle class

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Conservatives of the early 1800s believed in

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The restoration of monarchies

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Liberals strongly supported laissez-faire economics as the best way to

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Help businesses succeed

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The first president of the Second Republic in France was

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Louis-Napoleon

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Britain avoided violent revolution in 1848 by

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Expanding the right to vote to more people

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Wealthy property owners and nobility who argued for protecting the traditional monarchies of Europe. They usually believed in capitalism.

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Conservatives

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Group that favored the extension of democracy to all people. They believed governments should practice the ideals of the French Revolution-like liberty, equality, and brotherhood. The might also believe in communism.

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Radicals

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After the Emporere Napoleon, France was governed until 1830 by

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A king

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Middle-class business leaders and merchants wanted to give more power to elected parliaments, but only the educated and the landowners would vote. They might also believe in socialism.

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Liberals

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In 1848, revolutions took place in all of the following EXCEPT

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Britain

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What was the result of the 1830 revolt in Poland?

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Russian forces crushed the revolt

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What major event occurred during "February Days" in France in 1848?

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Louis Philippe abdicated

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What was a goal of revolutionaries in the Italian states in 1848?

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To end Hapsburg domination and set up constitutional governments

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Uprisings sparked by the dismantling of the Charter of French Liberties forced the abdication of

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Charles X

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What was the result of the revolutionary uprising in Belgium in the 1830s?

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Belgium became an independent state with a liberal constitution

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What contributed to the overwhelming majority of French voters that supported Louis Napoleon and his Second Empire?

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Many voters thought a monarchy was more stable than a republic

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The Second Republic in France ended when

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Louis Napoleon became emperor

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During the "June Days" in France, why did the peasants attack protesting socialist workers?

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They feared the socialists would take their land

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Louis Philippe was called the "citizen king" because

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He owed his throne to the people

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Many creoles in Latin America began to resent the political control of peninsulares. (True or False?)

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True

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Mixed European and Indian

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Mestizos

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The first Latin American territory to gain independence was

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Haiti

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This class of Spaniards was born in Latin America. They could not hold political office, but they could be officers in the army. They tended to be well educated.

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Creoles

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Mixed European and African

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Mulattos

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The French Revolution radically altered politics in Saint Domingue because under the Declaration of the Rights of Man, all free men, including in France's colonies, obtained the right to vote. (True or False?)

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True

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Because of his leadership in the Latin American independence movements, Simon Bolivar was nicknamed "The _____________."

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Liberator

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The movement for Mexican independence was started by Father ___________

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Hidalgo

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This class had been born in Spain, but lived in the New World. They formed a small percentage of the population but by law only they could hold high office in the government.

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Peninsulares

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The main leader against Spanish rule in the southern regions of South America was Jose de ___________, who led the liberation of Chile, and much of Peru.

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San Martin

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Toussaint Louverture lead the salves into a war against France but dies before the revolution came to a successful end. (True or False?)

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True

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The Portuguese king, Dom Joao, fled to Brazil to escape

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The troops of Napoleon

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Unlike revolutions in other Latin American countries, Haiti's fight for freedom was

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Carried out by slaves

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What event in Europe in 1808 encouraged widespread rebellion in Latin America?

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Napoleon ousted the Spanish king

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For a short time after liberation from Spanish rule, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Panama were part of a single nation called

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Gran Colombia

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What event spurred Simon Bolivar and his followers to begin the struggle for independence?

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Napoleon's occupation of Spain

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Toussaint L'Ouverture led a revolt that eventually resulted in independence for

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Haiti

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Father Miguel Hidalgo's "el Grito de Dolores" was a

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Call to fight for Mexican independence

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Which revolutionary leader helped Argentina win freedom from Spain?

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Jose de San Martin

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Latin Americans of African and European heritage

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Mulattos

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In the 1700s, Latin American political and social life was dominated by the

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Peninsulares

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Latin Americans of Native American and European heritage

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Mestizos

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Bismarck introduced many social reforms in Germany because he wanted to

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Avoid a socialist revolution

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Bismarck's editing of the Ems dispatch resulted in

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A war between France and Prussia

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In the 1830s, Prussia created a union called the Zollverein, which promoted German unity by

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Removing tariff barriers between German states

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In 1800, Austria was ruled by the oldest ruling house in Europe, called the

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Hapsburgs

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After the defeat of Napoleon I, the Congress of Vienna created the German Confederation headed by

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Austria

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William II asked Bismarck to resign because

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William II wanted no rivals

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In Bismarck's practice of Realpolitik, his political actions were guided by

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The needs of the state

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In the Kulturkampf, Bismarck's goal was to

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Reduce the power of the Catholic Church

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Bismarck became the king's highest official when he assumed the title of

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Chancellor

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When the Frankfurt Assembly offered Frederick William IV of Prussia the throne of a united German state in 1848, the ruler refused because

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The offer came from "the people"

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In the government Bismarck set up for the German empire, membership in the Reichstag was determined by

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A vote of all male citizens

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The Dual Monarchy was a combination of

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Austria and Hungary

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Loser of the Franco-Prussian War

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France

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Winner of the Seven Weeks War, loser of the Seven Weeks War

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Prussia, Austria

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"When I say that we must strive continually to be ready for all emergencies, I advance the proposition that, on account of our geographical position, we must make greater efforts than other powers would be obliged to make in view of the same ends. We lie in the middle of Europe. We have at least three fronts on which we can be attacked. France has only an eastern boundary; Russia only its western, exposed to assault. ... So we are spurred forward on both sides to endeavors which perhaps we would not make otherwise." OTTO VON BISMARCK. speech to the German parliament, 1888

According to Bismarck, what key factor makes Germany a potential target for invasion?

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Three borders to protect

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Bismarck faced challenges to his authority from all of the following EXCEPT

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The Prussian army

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He led the famous Red Shirts into battle

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Giuseppe Garibaldi

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Risorgimento

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The unification of Italy

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The Iron Chancellor

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Otto von Bismarck

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During the struggle for Italian unification, the 'Red Shirts' were forces made up of

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Nationalists

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Which of the following was an obstacle to Italian unity?

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Identification with local regions

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When Italy unified, what form of government did it take?

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A constitutional monarchy

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Italian unification was complete when Naples and Sicily were turned over to Victor Emmanuel by

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Giuseppe Garibaldi

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Leader of the "Red Shirts"

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Giuseppe Garibaldi

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In 1859, Camillo Cavour provoked a war between Sardinia and Austria because

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He wanted to end Austrian power in Italy

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One result of the October Manifesto was

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The establishment of the Duma

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By the 1800s Russian tsars saw the need to modernize, but they resisted because they thought reforms would

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Undermine their absolute rule

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Tsar Alexander III launched a program of Russification, in which he

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Suppressed non-Russian cultures within the empire

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Bloody Sunday served as a turning point in Russia because

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It caused the people to lose faith in the tsar

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Which of the following was an obstacle to progress in Russia in the 1800s?

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A rigid social structure

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Emancipation of the serfs benefited the Russian economy because many former serfs

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Took jobs in factories

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Violent mob attack against Jews

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Pogroms

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Elected national legislature in Russia

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Duma