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The author of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen was _____________________________.
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Marie Gouze, aka Olympe de Gouges
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In response to the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen, ___________. (p. 621)
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Marie Gouze was executed for being friends with Marie Antoinette and for constantly promoting women's rights. the revolutionary leaders ignored women's rights and considered her appeal a publicity stunt.
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The revolutions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century helped to spread Enlightenment ideals and _____________________________.
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Encouraged the consolidation of national states
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Revolutionaries of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century _________________________________. (p. 622)
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spread enlightenment, freedom and equality and popular sovereignty, and extended political power to white males.
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The author of the Second Treatise of Civil Government was _______________________________. (p. 623)
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John Locke
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Which of the following was NOT one of John Locke’s main ideas? (p. 623)
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His main ideas were: government arose in the remote past when people decided to form together to appoint rulers to protect their common interests; individuals granted political rights to their rulers but reserved personal rights to life, liberty and property; and any rulers who violated these rights was subject to deposition (subjects who withdrew their consent to be governed could remove rulers)
Choices: (e is not one of his ideas) that governments were a result of a social contract between rulers and ruled b. that subjects had the right to remove their ruler c. that rulers derived their authority from the consent of those they governed d. that individuals retained personal rights to life, liberty, and property e. that although kings did have divine sanction, their subjects maintained personal rights |
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5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in his The Social Contract, argued that in every country the sovereign voice of government _______________.
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Was members of society acting collectively.
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Which of the following was NOT one of the basic ideals of the Enlightenment thinkers? (p. 623-624)
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Equality for women was not one of their basic ideals.
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After the end of the Seven Years’ War, (p. 624)
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The British dominated global trade and British possessions would prosper; meanwhile, the colonists grew more and more frustrated with Britain’s taxes and control over them.
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The main slogan for the colonies in the years leading up to the American revolution was ________________________.
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No taxation without representation
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The guiding principles of the French revolution are summed up in the phrase ___________________________.
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Liberty equality fraternity (brotherhood)
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The Declaration of Independence’s contractual view of political structure in which the government drew its authority from “the consent of the governed” was influenced by (p. 625)
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Locke
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Which of the following was NOT one of the principles built into the government of the newly formed American state? (p. 627)
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Equality of all inhabitants (women and slaves not considered equal)
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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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The ancien regime was the _______. (p. 627)
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Old order that revolutionaries wanted to replace with new political, social and cultural structures.
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On June 17th, 1789, members of the third estate seceded from the Estates General and declared themselves to be the ______________________________.
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National Assembly
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In August 1789, that same group expressed the guiding principles of the French revolution by issuing ________________________________.
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the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
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The leaders of the Convention hoped to hold off invading counterrevolutionary forces by (p. 629)
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Calling for the Levee en masse
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The most radical period of the French revolution was reached during the leadership of ___________, who was known as ___________________. (p. 629)
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Robespierre, The incorruptible
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During the rule of the Directory, (p. 629)
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The French Revolution moved in a more pragmatic direction
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Napoleon’s Civil Code (p. 630)
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Affirmed the political and legal equality of all adult men and established a merit based society in which individuals qualified for education and employment because of talent rather than birth or social standing.
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The turning point in Napoleon’s career was his disastrous 1812 invasion of __________________.
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Russia
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Napoleon’s final defeat occurred at ______. (p. 631)
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Waterloo
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The only successful slave revolt in history took place in _____________________________.
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Haiti (Saint-Domingue)
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The leader who was responsible for the success of the Saint-Domingue uprising was_____. (p. 631, 633-634)
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Toussaint Louverture
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The creoles of Latin America were influenced by the ideals of the Enlightenment (p. 634)
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But only wanted to displace the peninsulares and still retain their privileged positions.
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Colonial rule in Mexico ended in 1821 when the capital was seized by (p. 636)
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Augustin de Iturbide
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The goal of Simón Bolívar was to (p. 636)
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Weld the former Spanish colonies of South America into a confederation like the United States
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Which of the following revolutionary leaders is NOT correctly linked with his country?
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Miguel de Hidalgo and Peru
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The leader who helped lead Brazil to independence was ________________________. (p. 636)
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Emperor Pedro I
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Among the leading proponents of conservatism in the eighteenth century was (p. 637)
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Edmund Burke
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William Wilberforce (p. 638)
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Forced a bill through Parliament that ended the slave trade
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What nineteenth-century English thinker promoted individual freedom, universal suffrage, taxation of high personal income, and an extension of the rights of freedom and equality to women? (p. 637)
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John Stuart Mill
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The author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was __________________.
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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The organizer of the Seneca Falls conference was _____________________. (p. 639-640)
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Theodore Herzl was the founder of (p. 642)
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Zionism
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The leading conservative politician at the Congress of Vienna was (p. 643)
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Prince Klemens von Metternich
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The German leader Otto von Bismarck believed that the great issues of his day would be determined by (p. 645)
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Blood and Iron
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The industrial revolution began in _______________________.
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England (Great Britain)
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Crucial to industrialization was ____________. (p. 652)
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Human and animal power being replaced by inanimate sources of energy such as steam and coal
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The growing demand for cotton cloth in the eighteenth century threatened British (p. 653)
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wool producers
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The British Calico Acts of 1720 and 1721 (p. 653)
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Prohibited the importation of cotton cloth
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The inventor of the flying shuttle, ___________, changed industry, because his invention _______. (p. 653)
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John Kay
Sped up the process of weaving cloth and increased the demand for yarn or thread. |
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Which of the following was NOT a key feature in the rapid industrialization of Great Britain? (p. 653)
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Was: coal, coke, proximity to steel and ability to transport, large population, canals, banks (when they were in place, they allowed for start)
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Edmund Cartwright was responsible for the invention of the (p. 653-654)
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water driven power loom
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James Watt invented a more efficient steam pump when he _________________, but his steam engine did not adapt well to transportation uses because ______________________. (p. 654)
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figured out how to make a piston turn a wheel for rotary motion
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Cheaper iron was produced after 1709 when British smelters began to use what substance as a fuel? (p. 654)
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Coke
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Henry Bessemer’s innovations made it possible to produce cheaper ___________, which increased its use dramatically in the nineteenth century. (p. 654)
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Steel
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The first steam-powered locomotive was George Stephenson’s (p. 655)
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rocket
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The dominant form of industrial organization by the end of the nineteenth century was (p. 656)
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factory system
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The Luddites (p. 656)
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were craftsmen who destroyed textile machines
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Interchangeable parts were invented by (p. 659)
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Eli Whitney
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Horizontal organization is (p. 659)
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consolidation or cooperation of independent companies in the same business; sought to ensure the prosperity of their members by absorbing competitors, fixing prices, regulating production, or dividing up markets -- AKA CARTELS
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In America the petroleum monopoly, Standard Oil Company, was owned by (p. 659)
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John D. Rockefeller
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Beginning in the nineteenth century, industrializing lands experienced a social change known as the demographic transition when (p. 662)
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the fertility rate began a marked decline
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Marx and Engels, who wrote the Manifesto of the Communist Party, proposed that capitalism divided people into two classes. The classes were (p. 669)
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capitalists and the proletariat
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Marx and Engels suggested that music, art, and literature (p.
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served the purposes of the capitalists because they diverted the workers from their misery
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Marx and the communists believed that private property
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should be abolished
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Marx and Engels believed that the final result of the socialist revolution would be the (p. 669)
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a dictatorship of the proletariat
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According to the Manifesto of the Communist Party, all of human history had been a history of (p. 669)
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class struggle
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In the late nineteenth century, Germany led European countries in the movement to (p. 670-671)
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many social reforms (retirement pensions, minimum wage laws, insurance, work regulations)
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Throughout most of the 19th century, employers and governments ______. But over the long haul, trade unions ___________. (p. 671)
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considered trade unions bad and dangerous
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Charles Fourier was (p. 668)
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A French social theorist who Hated competitive market system and called for social changes & utopias and emancipation of women
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By 1900, which was the largest city in the world? (p. 663)
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New York (?)
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Fatt Hing Chin was (p. 677)
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a fish merchant in china who moved to SF to find gold and eventually opened a restaurant
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The term “manifest destiny” is associated with what country? (p. 679)
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the US
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In 1803, the United States doubled in size, after the Louisiana territory was purchased from (p. 679)
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France
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The native Americans who relocated from the eastern woodlands to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears were the
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Cherokee
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The last major native American victory against the United States armed forces came in 1876 at the battle of ______________________.
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Little Bighorn
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The last major native American resistance was defeated in 1890 at the battle of ______________________. (p. 680)
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Wounded Knee creek in South Dakota
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The main spark for the outbreak of the Mexican-American War in 1845 was the United States’ acceptance of the new state of ______________.
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Texas
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In 1848, the United States agreed to pay Mexico $15 million for what was then Texas, California, and New Mexico (today, that territory includes land in the states of Texas, California, New Mexico, AND Arizona) as part of the Treaty of ______________________________. (p. 690-681)
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Guadalupe Hidalgo
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Which of the following leaders was committed to the idea of “free soil”? (p. 682)
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Martin Van Buren
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Which of the following was NOT one of the chief factors for the outbreak of the U.S. Civil War? (p. 682)
A. The election of Abraham Lincoln B. The issue of slavery C. The imperatives of a budding industrial-capitalist system against those of an export-oriented plantation economy D. The traditional argument between a British or French alliance E. States' rights as opposed to the federal government's authority |
WAS: slavery and the cultivation of cotton as a cash crop-isolated south from economic development. Northerners viewed secession as an act of betrayal
D - British/French had nothing to do with the Civil War. That was the Revolutionary war |
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The U.S. Civil War changed character on 1 January 1863, after (p. 682-683)
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Lincoln signed the Emancipation proclamation
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Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons for the victory of the northern states in the U.S. Civil War? (p. 682-683)
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was: emancipation struck at heart of the southern war effort since slaves made up a huge portion of the region's labor force, north brought considerable resources to the war effort- 90% of the country's industrial capacity and 2/3 of its railroad lines
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The victory of the northern states in the U.S. Civil War meant that (p. 683)
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slavery ended in the US, the US would remain politically united, and it enhanced the authority of the federal government in the American republic
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New France passed into British control after (p. 683)
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the British won the Seven Years' War
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The U.S. invasion of Canada in the War of 1812 _____________ and ______________. (p. 684)
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were repelled by Canadians which promoted sense of Canadian pride
anti-US sentiments became a means for covering differences among French/British Canadians |
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Quebec, Ontario, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick were joined together as the Dominion of Canada _______________,
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in the British North America Act of 1867- each province had its own seat of government, provincial legislature, and lieutenant government representing the British crown
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and their first prime minister was ___________________. (p. 685)
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John A. MacDonald
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Simón Bolívar succinctly summed up the developing political situation in Latin America when he said (p. 685)
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I fear peace more than war.
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Who were Caudillos? (p. 687)
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regional military leaders
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Who called for regional autonomy in an attempt to reconcile competing interests in Argentina? (p. 687)
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Juan Manuel De Rosas
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Who was Benito Juárez? (p. 687)
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the President of Mexico who led La Reform which aimed to limit the power of the military the Roman Catholic church in Mexican society
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Who was Emiliano Zapata? (p. 688)
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a revolutionary leader who organied massive armies fighting for "tierra y libertad" (land and liberty)
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The early stages of industrial development in the United States depended in large part on investment capital from which of the following nations? (p. 691)
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Britain
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In terms of the industrial development of the United States in the late nineteenth century, the most important economic development was (p. 691)
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the construction of railroad lines that linked all US regions and helped create an integrated national economy (also canals)
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The National Policy, which was designed to attract migrants, protect nascent industries through tariffs, and build national transportation systems was a policy in (p. 693)
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created some violent altercations with indigenous peoples...center of transportation network was the transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railroad
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By the 1860s, Britain’s leading supplier of beef was (p. 694)
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Argentina
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Who was Walt Whitman? (p. 695)
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a Transcendentalist poet from the US
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After the conclusion of the U.S. Civil War, freed blacks _______________________ and the southern states ______________________________________. (p. 696)
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underwent a program of social and political Reconstruction - extended civil rights to freed slaves and provided black men with voting rights. had not received land grants so many had to work as sharecroppers for former slave owners
fashioned a rigidly segregated society that deprived blacks of educational, economic, and political opportunities |
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The lines, “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal,” come from (p. 696)
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Declaration of Sentiments from the Seneca Falls Convention
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In 1882, the United States government ordered a complete halt to immigration from _______________ in 1882, and in 1907, they ordered a halt to immigration from ____________________, (p. 697)
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Japan
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Who was Louis Riel? (p. 697)
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Leader of the metis and indigenous people of western Canada
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In 1851, the leader of the Taiping rebellion, _______________________, proclaimed his own dynasty, the Taiping tianguo, which meant ___________________________________. (p. 705-706)
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Hong Xiuquan
Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace |
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The most significant territorial loss for the Ottomans was (p. 707)
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Egypt
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Who was Muhammad Ali? (p. 707)
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the general who built a powerful army based on European forces and ruled egypt- remained nominally subordinate to the Ottoman sultan
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Which of the following statements is NOT true about the capitulations? (p. 708-709)
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IS: exempted European visitors from ottoman law, provided Europe with extraterritoriality, permitted foreign governments to levy duties on goods sold in Ottoman ports
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In the early nineteenth century, the Ottoman sultan Selim III (p
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embarked on a program to remodel his army along the lines of European forces. reform continued from earlier- limit tax, increase ag. prod. And end corruption
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What was the name of the sultan who, in 1826, had mutinous Janissaries slaughtered and thus opened the door for further reform within the Ottoman empire? (p. 709)
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Mahmud II
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Which of the following is NOT a reform proposed in the Tanzimat era? (p. 710)
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WAS: capitulations lifted, new civil code, commercial code, penal code, maritime code, (N-C,SPM) public trials guaranteed, equality before the law, education reform
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The Young Ottomans were (p. 710)
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a group who agitated for individual freedom, local autonomy, and political decentralization
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Sultan Abdül Hamid II (p. 710-711)
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was pushed to accept a constitution and establish rep.government-- within a year; suspended constitution, ruled autocratically for 30 years, developed army/admin. according to Tanzimat principles
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The stipulation, “In order to obtain for Ottoman citizens an education of a homogeneous and uniform character, the official schools will be open, their instruction will be free, and all nationalities will be admitted,” is from what document? (p. 711)
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The Proclamation of the Young Turks
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Which of the following Young Turk proposals caused the most dissension in the empire? (p. 712)
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Making Turkish the official language of th empire
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Which of the following accounts for the beginning of the social reform movement in Russia and a stop in expansion during the nineteenth century? (p. 713)
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the Crimean War (were decimated because they were not an industrialized world power)
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The key to social reform in Russia, Russian serfs were emancipated by __________________, which resulted in ___________________________________________
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Tsar Alexander II
The practice remained for decades after. the government tried to balance the interests of lords and serfs, and were unfavorable to mostpeasants |
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As part of the Russian reforms, during the reign of Alexander II, the government created zemstvos, (p. 714)
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elected district assemblies
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Sergei Witte was the prime mover behind Russian industrialization. What was the main idea behind his policy? (p. 714)
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removingthe unfavorable conditions that hamper economic development of thecountry and kindling of a healthy spirit of enterprise
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The working conditions of the growing Russian industrial class in St. Petersburg and Moscow (p. 715)
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were miserable.The government limited the maximum working day to 11.5 hours but prohibited the formation of trade unions and outlawed strikes. Economic exploitation had a lack of political freedom occurred. Workers were unhappy due to terrible conditions.
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After the assassination of Alexander II was assassinated by an agent of the Land and Freedom Party, his successor Nicholas II, (p. 716)
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championed oppression and police control, embarked on expansionist ventures in East Asia, and got involved in the Russo-Japanese war.
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The decisive factor in the Russo-Japanese War, an event that best displayed Japan’s rise to the level of a world power, was the (p. 716-717)
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the destruction of the russian Navy (at the Battle of Tsutsimo)
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The 1905 Bloody Sunday massacre eventually (p. 717)
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caused an angry uproar throughout the empire that culminated in labor unrest, peasant insurrections, student demonstrations, and mutinies in both the army and navy.
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Lin Zexu, who wrote “As months accumulate and years pass by, the poison they have produced increases in its wicked intensity, and its repugnant odor reaches as high as the sky”, was (p. 717)
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a commissioner who confiscated and destroyed 20,000 chests of opium and started the Opium war.
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What was the decisive point in the Opium War? (p. 718)
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When the British attacked through the Grand Canal
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The Opium War ended with the signing of the Treaty of (p. 718)
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Nanjing
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Which of the following was NOT one of the principles of the Taiping rebellion? (p. 721)
A) the creation of communal wealth to be shared according to need B) the prohibition on harems C) the prohibition of foot binding and concubinage D) abolition of private property E) free public education |
B- the prohibition of harems
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The Self-Strengthening Movement was an attempt to blend indigenous cultural traditions with western technology in (p. 722)
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China
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For most of the last fifty years of the Qing dynasty, China was ruled by (p. 722-723)
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Cixi
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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 (p. 723)
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distrust among foreign powers
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Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao were the leaders of the (p. 723)
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Hundred Days Reform
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In 1900, foreign embassies in China were besieged by (p. 723)
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140,000 Boxers in the Boxer rebellion
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Japan was forcibly opened to foreign trade in 1853 by the (p. 724)
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fleet of the united States warships led by Admiral Perry
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The Meiji reformers, including Ito Hirobumi, actively copied the western Europeans and Americans, because (p. 725-726)
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they wanted to obtain the knowledge and expertise to strengthen the Japanese and get other countries to revise unequal treaties
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Which of the following was NOT one of the foundations of the Meiji restoration? (p. 725-726)
A. abolishing the old feudal order B. turning Japan into a constitutional republic C. improving the Japanese educational system D. revamping the tax system E. reorganizing the Japanese army and navy |
E - reorganizing the army and navy
was: centralized political power, abolition of daimyo/Samurai classes, converted grain tax to fixed money tax, constitution limited authority of the Diet (monarchy with legislature), emperor had right to dissolve the parliament, remodelloping the economy (railroad, telegraph, abolished tariffs etc) private property, creation of communal wealth to be shared according to needs, prohibition of footbinding/concubinage, free public education, literacy for the masses, simplification of written language |
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Cecil Rhodes, 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”, was (p. 731)
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a leading British imperialist who founded acolony in Africa
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Rudyard Kipling’s poem, “The White Man’s Burden,” was actually meant to inspire the Americans to colonize (p. 735)
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Philippines
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The Suez Canal was essential for (p. 734-736)
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British control over India
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The battle of Omdurman (p. 742)
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opened the door for British control in Sudan
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Submarine cables linked all parts of the British empire throughout the world by (p. 736)
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telegraph
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The most important figures in the uprising in 1857 in India were (p. 737)
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disgruntled sepoytroops
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In 1824, Thomas Stamford Raffles founded the port of (p. 739)
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Singapore
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Between 1859 and 1893, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos all fell under the control of ___________________, and by 1900, the only part of southeast Asia not under European imperial rule was _____________________. (p. 740)
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The Congo Free State was established in the 1870s by (p. 740)
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Belgium
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The Berlin Conference (p. 741)
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devised the ground rules for the European colonization of Africa and how to divide it
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Who were the Boers? (p. 741)
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Dutch farmers who settled in South Africa (later known as Afrikaners)
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“Concessionary companies” refers to a system of colonial rule that employed (p. 743)
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private companies that were granted territory and control over taxation and labor for mining as well as land.
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In 1770, Captain James Cook anchored his fleet at Botany Bay, near what modern city? AND…New South Wales was originally settled by about one thousand people, most of them convicted criminals, _____________________________________. (p. 743-744)
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Sydney
who arrived at Sydney Harbor in 1788 in a british fleet and supports themselves mainly by herding sheep |
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Which matching of imperial power and colonial area is NOT correct? (p. 746)
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correct: England and New Zealand, Germany and the Marshall Islands, Netherlands and Indonesia, US and Philippines, France and Tahiti
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After the overthrow of Queen Lili`uokalani in 1893, the United States took over (p. 746)
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Hawaii
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The Monroe Doctrine (p. 746)
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was used by the United States as a justification for US intervention in Western hemispheric affairs
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The United States occupied Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines after its victory in (p. 747)
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the Spanish American War
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Emilio Aguinaldo led an uprising in (p. 747)
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the Philippines against the US
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The Roosevelt Corollary strengthened U.S. military and economic claims in which area of the world? (p. 747)
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the Western Hemisphere - if they demonstrated an inability to maintain the security deemed necessary to protect US investments.
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The Sino-Japanese War began with a dispute over (p. 748)
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Korea
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Under British control, Ceylon became a major producer of (p. 749)
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tea
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Between 1800 and 1914, ________________ million Europeans migrated overseas, and the majority of indentured laborers came from__________. (p. 750)
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50 million
Southern and eastern Europe, especially Russian and Poland, although sizable numbers came from Britain, Ireland, and Germany and scandinavia. |
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The Maji Maji rebellion occurred in (p. 751)
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East Africa
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Count Joseph Arthur de Gobineau, author of the Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races, viewed Europeans as (p. 752)
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More intelligent and morally superior to all other peoples in the world,
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Social Darwinists, a term associated with Herbert Spencer, believed that (p. 752)
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Powerful nations were meant to dominate weaker sociaties
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How did the Japanese and Americans compare to European nations in regards to imperialism? (p. 753)
a. were much more tolerant and respectful of their colonies than the Europeans were. b. expanded for very different reasons than the Europeans did. c. never saw the need to expand. d. proved to be just as racist as the Europeans. e. drew a sharp distinction between their enlightened sense of rule and that of the Europeans. |
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Who was Ram Mohan Roy? (p. 753)
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A prominent Bengali intellectual sometimes called the father of modern India, who argued for the construction of a society based on both modern European science and Indian Hindu tradition. He supported some British colonial policies and worked to improve the status of women.
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In 1916, the Indian National Congress (p. 754)
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joined forces with the All India Muslim League.
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