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The author of a Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen was
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Olympe de Gouges.
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The revolution of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries helped to spread Enlightenment ideals and
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encouraged the consolidation of national states.
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Which of the following was not one of the basic ideals of the Enlightenment thinkers?
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equality for women.
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The leaders of the French Revolution
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called for a complete reorganizing of French political, social and cultural structures.
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In August 1789 the National Assembly expressed the guiding principles of the French Revolution by issuing the
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Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen.
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The turning point in Napoleon's career was his disatrous 1812 of
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Russia.
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The leading eighteenth proponent of conservatism was
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Edmund Burke.
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What nineteenth century English thinker promoted individual freedom, universal sufferage, taxation of high personal income and an extension of the rights of freedom and equality to women
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John Stuart Mill.
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The author of A Vindication of the Rights of Women was
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Mary Wollstonecraft.
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The German leader Otto von Bismarck believed that the great issues of his day would be determined by
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"blood and iron."
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Crucial to industrialization was
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the replacement of human and animal power with inanimate sources of energy such as steam.
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Beginning in the nineteenth century industrializing lands experienced a social change known as the demographic transition, when
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the rural population increased dramatically.
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Industrialization
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often tore working class families apart.
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Marx and Engels proposed that capitalism divided people into two classes. The classes were
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the capitalist and the proletariat.
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Marx suggested that music, art and literature
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served the purpose of the capitalists because they diverted the workers from their misery.
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Marx referred to_____________ as the "opiate of the masses."
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religion
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According to Marx all of human history had been a history of
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class struggle.
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Over the long haul trade unions
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reduced the likelihood of a revolution by improving the lives of working people.
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In Japan industrialization took place
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with the active support of imperial authorities.
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Most of Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa
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did not industrialize and depended upon exporting primary products.
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Which of the following states was the least multiethnic and multicultural in the 19th century?
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Tokugawa.
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A defeat in the Crimean War stopped ______________ expansion.
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Russian.
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The centerpiece of Sergei Witte's Russian industrial policy was
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a massive program of railway construction.
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After the assassination of Alexander II his successor Nicholas II
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championed oppression and police control.
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The Self-Strengthening Movement was an attempt to blend indigenous cultural traditions with western technology in
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China.
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By the end of the nineteenth century the only thing keeping China from being completely divided up into spheres of influence by foreigners was
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distrust among the foreign powers.
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In 1900 foreign embassises in China were besieged by
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the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists.
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Japan was forcibly opened to foreign trade in 1853 by the
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Americans.
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The Meiji reformers actively copied the western Europeans and Americans because
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they understood the danger of those two groups and wanted to find a way to survive.
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Which of the following was not one of the foundations of the Meiji Restoration?
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turning Japan into a constitutional republic.
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Who said, "We are the finest race in the world and the more of the world we inhabit, the better it is for the human race?"
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Cecil Rhodes.
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Rudyard Kipling's poem "The White Man's Burden" was actually meant to inspire the Americans to colonize
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the Philippines.
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Between 1859 and 1893 Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos all fell under the control of
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France.
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The chief victim of late 19th century European imperialistic expansion was
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Africa.
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After the overthrow of Queen Lili'uokalani in 1893 the U.S. took over
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Hawaii.
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Panama was supported in its uprising against Colombia by U.S. President
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Theodore Roosevelt.
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In 1876 Korea was forced to accept an unequal trading treaty by
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Japan.
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Between 1800 and 1914 ________ Europeans migrated overseas.
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fifty million.
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The Social Darwinists believed that
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powerful nations were meant to dominate weaker societies.
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In regards to imperialism, the Japanese and Americans
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proved to be just as racists as the Europeans.
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The first total war in world history was
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World War I.
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The nationalistic aspirations of subject minorities was most threatening to a state such as
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Austria-Hungary.
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The members of the Triple Alliance were
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Germany, Austria and Italy.
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Central to the Schlieffen Plan was an lightning invasion through
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Belgium.
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"To make the world safe for democracy" was the motto of
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Americans.
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The western front in WWI was
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a bloody stalemate.
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The WWI poet who considered Horace's line that "It is sweet and proper to die for one's country" to be an "old Lie" was
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Wilfred Owen.
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The Twenty-One Demands were issued
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by Japan to China.
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The battle of Gallipoli was
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a British-directed debacle that cost the lives of Canadian, Australian and New Zealand troops.
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The main reason for the failure of the provisional in Russia in 1917 was
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its inability to satisfy popular demands for an end to the war.
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The key factor in the U.S. decision to enter WWI was
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Germany's resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare.
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Woodrow Wilson agreed to many harsh stipulations to the Treaty of Versailles
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in return for the creation of the League of Nations.
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The Treaty of Brest Litovsk
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ended Russia's involvement in WWI.
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What was the impact of industrialization on families?
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-Urbanized them
-Interfered with family time -Health problems -Unsafe & unsanitary working conditions. |
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What ideals of the enlightenment challenged Longhill’s assumptions about government?
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-Rights to life and liberties were the rights of all men
-Representative government of the people -(Relate person to issue) |
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Name 4 basic components of Marx’s theory?
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-Civilization is based on class system?
-Class struggle -Overthrowing the elite in revolution -A dictatorship controlled by the working class. -Capitalism -Corporate monopoly. -Revolution -Abolish of class struggle. |
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Name one main difference between socialism and
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-Communism believes in revolution
-Socialism believes in evolution. |
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What was 19th century liberalism?
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-Opposed to slavery
-Limited government -Control -Use of government for protection of rights. |
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What are some of the characteristics of industrial capitalism?
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-Greed
-Ownership of means of production -Competition -Find the cheapest labor -Maximize productions |
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What are the four societies in the 19th century?
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-China
-Japan -Russia -Ottoman Empire |
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What happens when change comes too quickly?
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Too rapid of a change in society is often too
-Violent -Volatile -Counter productive. |