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Which of the following did not play a crucial role in making Britain the site of the first Industrial Revolution?
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Over ninety-five percent of the population was literate.
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The ability to make yarn at a much faster pace
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became necessary after the development of the flying shuttle.
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Steam power
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was originally used to pump water from mines.
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The\"four field method\" in agriculture was revolutionary in its introduction of two new crops:
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turnips and clover
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Continental European industrialization
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began in Belgium, France, and the German states.
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Between 1815 and 1850, which of the following was not one of the three major centers in which the Industrial Revolution developed on the European Continent?
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Russia
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The first commercial train in Britain went from
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Manchester to Liverpool
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By aiming at establishing legitimacy and a traditional balance of power in European political affairs, Metternich and his associates at the Congress of Vienna were advocates of the ideology known as
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conservatism
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The basic purpose of the Concert of Europe was to
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maintain conservative political control over Europe.
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The new, industrial middle class was
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composed of increasingly wealthy individuals who wanted political status and power.
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Nineteenth century liberals advocated
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voting rights only for male citizens who met certain property requirements.
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Nationalism
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was a potential threat to the existing political order.
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Karl Marx believed that all of human history was the story of
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the class struggle.
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The principle that guided the victors at the Congress of Vienna was the principle of
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legitimacy.
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German unification
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was finally achieved by militaristic Prussian politicians.
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The most multinational state in Europe in the nineteenth century, and thus the one most threatened by the new ideology of nationalism, was
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Austria.
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The new Italian kingdom established in 1861
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was, to a significant degree, the result of the diplomatic and political work of Cavour and the military actions of Garibaldi.
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The \"Eastern Question\" in the nineteenth century concerned the fate of
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the Ottoman Empire.
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The Eastern European state that gained its independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1830 was
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Greece.
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The Crimean War
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isolated the Austrians from the rest of the great powers of Europe.
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Which of the following would be considered the founder of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century diplomatic alliances:*
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Otto von Bismarck.
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In the early twentieth century, flashpoint for major violence was the
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Balkans.
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The territory annexed by Austria in 1908, which enraged Serbia, was
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Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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The first Mexican emperor was*
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Augustín de Iturbide.
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The liberators of Venezuela and Argentina, respectively, were
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Simón Bolívar and José de San Martín.
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After the nations of Latin America gained their independence in the nineteenth century, their economies became dominated by the
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British.
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In nineteenth century Latin America, the basis of wealth, social prestige, and political power was*
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land.
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The Mexican ruler from 1876 to 1910 and the man who overthrew him were, respectively,*
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Porfirio Díaz and Francesco Madero.
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Emiliano Zapata
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urged his peasant followers to seize the estates of the Mexican elite.
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United States foreign policy after 1890
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was characterized by an expansion of American power into the Pacific and the Caribbean.
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By 1900 the world's richest nation and greatest industrial power was
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the United States.
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The first important American colony was/were the
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Samoan Islands.
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The first male-dominated occupation to be entered by women was
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teaching.
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An early leader in the drive to professionalize nursing for women was
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Clara Barton in the United States.
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The radical suffragette in England who demanded votes for women was
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Emmeline Pankhurst.
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One of the classic novels of the Romantic and Gothic genre is
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Mary Shelley's \"Frankenstein\"
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Romanticism emphasized
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a focus on feeling, emotion, and imagination.
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The German Idealist whose dialectic philosophy influenced Karl Marx's concept of history was
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G.W.F. Hegel
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A central characteristic of all Romantic painting was a
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desire to create art that showed the artist's inner feelings.
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Which of the following is not an example of Romanticism?
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Gustave Courbet's The Stonebreaker
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Realism in the arts
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was typified by the work of Courbet and Flaubert.
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Major Realist works include
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Gustave Courbet's The Stonebreakers.
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The discoverer of the germ theory of disease was
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Louis Pasteur.
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Freud
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challenged the nineteenth century belief in progress with his stress on irrational and unconscious forces operating within a man life.
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Which of the following was not true about European Jews in the late-nineteenth century?
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Anti-Semitism prevented them from achieving any professional success.
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The artist who painted Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was
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Picasso.
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\"New\" products that European nations sought to obtain from colonies in Africa and Asia in the nineteenth century included
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oil, tin and rubber.
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The individual who left a massive estate to create a worldwide British Empire to \"civilize\" the world
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Cecil Rhodes.
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Within the context of Western economic expansion into the regions of Africa and Asia during the nineteenth century, the term imperialism means the forceful appropriation of all except
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a substitution of African and Asia cultural norms in place of traditional European culture.
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The individual who said that \"My ruling purpose is the extension of the British empire throughout the world\" was
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Cecil Rhodes
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In the second half of the nineteenth century
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a Frenchman built the Suez Canal, but it ultimately came under British control.
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What factor spurred the rise in Christian missionary work in East Africa in the nineteenth century?
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The persistence of the slave trade in East Africa.
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David Livingstone
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obtained great fame from his African missionary and anti-slavery work.
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The Boers were predominantly of what ethnic background?
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Dutch
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The Great Trek
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was the northeastward advance of the Boers after the British take-over of the Cape Colony.
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East Africa was
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the location of a struggle over the slave trade between Christian missionaries and Muslim merchants.
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Which of the following pairs, naming the European power and its African holding, is not correct?
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Germany - Congo
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The missionary who urged Europeans to introduce the \"three Cs\" (Christianity, commerce and civilization) was
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David Livingstone.
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Quinine was used by Europeans to provide partial immunity from
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malaria
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The Boer War
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was the result of the discovery of gold and diamonds in the Boer Transvaal.
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British colonial policies
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helped to end the slave trade in Africa and thuggee and sati in India.
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In the political realm, ultimate control of European colonies in Asia and Africa was
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maintained by force.
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Generally speaking, European colonialism was
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largely exploitation, usually accompanied by condescension.
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Which African country, with a temperate climate in its Central Highlands, attracted a relatively large European population?
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Kenya
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By combining the old Cape Colony and Natal with the Boer Republics in 1910, the British created the
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Union of South Africa.
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Colonial policies reflecting a relative lack of racist attitudes, and the revolutionary belief in the universality of human nature, were practiced by
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France
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The Sepoy Mutiny was caused by
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animal fat and lard that was on the rifle cartridges used by the Sepoy troops, which upset both Hindu and Muslim soldiers.
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In assessing the impact of nineteenth-century imperialism, it can accurately be said that
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the consequences of imperialism are more complex than was earlier believed.
