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The Treaty of Kanagawa signed by U.S. consul Townsend Harris and the Japanese accomplished all of the following except

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restricting the American presence in Japan to the port of Nagasaki. What up Charles. Working hard or hardly working?

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Romanticism emphasized

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a focus on feeling, emotion, and imagination. You know, that real shit. Women love feelings, emotions and imagination.

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In the effort to develop adequate housing for Europe's workers

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there was an expansion of the role of government in providing housing by the 1880s.

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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 Sepoys were

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Indian troops hired by the British to protect their interests in the region.

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The physicist who maintained that a heated body radiates energy in irregular packets that he called "quanta" was

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Max Planck

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Which of the following was not a direct social repercussion of Latin America's export-based economy?

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revitalization of smaller, family-owned farms

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Sigmund Freud

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challenged the nineteenth century belief in progress with his stress on irrational and unconscious forces operating within the human mind.

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Major Realist works include

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Gustave Courbet's The Stonebreakers. If ye'aint ne'r seen dis pic, look dat shit up. Its real ass art.

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After the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate,

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the samurai quickly became impoverished.

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The first male-dominated occupation to be entered by women was

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teaching

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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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In the United States in the early 1900s,

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over forty percent of the population lived in cities

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In the nineteenth century, imperialism

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was motivated by desire to control markets as well as raw material

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Who of the following was an Impressionist artist?

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Berthe Morisot

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The Japanese opening to the West resulted from

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the naval expeditions of Commodore Matthew Perry.

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The policies of Otto von Bismarck

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ignored domestic opposition and concentrated on foreign affairs

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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 Asian cultural norms in place of traditional European culture.

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Which of the following could be considered the most striking difference between the French and British political systems between 1875 and 1914?

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The multi-party system under the Third Republic produced much less political stability than the two party system in Britain.

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A country which was forced to reduce its industrial production by a more powerful competitor was

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India

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All of the following statements about Zanzibar are true except that it was

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the first capital of South Africa after the Boer War

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Which of the following was not an incentive to promote mass education?

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The German policy of restricting literacy to the upper and middle classes.

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The first European nation to grant women the right to vote was

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Norway

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Which of the following was NOT a feature of the Treaty of Nanjing?

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The British agreed to stop exporting opium to China. Weed is what you need

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All of the following were correct about Russia in the nineteenth and early twentieth century except

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Russia lost a war to Japan.

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The European working classes at the end of the nineteenth century constituted bout uhhhhhhhhhh

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80% of the population

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Sun Yat-sen

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created the Tongmenghui/Revolutionary Alliance.

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Sun Yat-sen's plan for revolution in China called for the overthrow of the Manchu Dynasty, followed initially by the

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institutionalization of democratic republicanism in China.

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The creator of relativity theory was

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Albert Einstein

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The British cotton manufacturer Robert Owens sought to

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establish a socialist utopian working environment

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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 leaders of the Meiji Restoration accomplished all of the following except

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they gave the emperor absolute power since he was a divine descendant of the Sun Goddess.

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Which of the following statements is NOT true about the revolutions of 1848 in Europe

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The overthrow of the tsar in Moscow initiated the series of upheavals.

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The Boxer Rebellion

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was an uprising against foreigners by a secret society opposed to foreign imperialism.

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Colonial policies reflecting a relative lack of racist attitudes, and the revolutionary belief in the universality of human nature, was practiced by

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France

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In the effort to develop adequate hosing for Europe's workers,

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there was an expansion of the role of government in providing housing by the 1880s

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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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A central characteristic of all Romantic panting was a

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desire to create art that showed the artist's inner feelings

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A new round of Western territorial demands in China was sparked by the successful 1897 German acquisition of much of the

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Shandong Peninsula

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By prudently purchasing European arms, the king of this African state was able to soundly defeat the Italian attempt at colonial takeover

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Ethiopia

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Hong Xiuquan

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was the Christian leader of the Taiping Rebellion

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An example of a Post-Impressionist painter is

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Vincent van Gogh

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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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The Manchu Dynasty did not fall because of

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constant Chinese population growth

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The Opium War

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demonstrated the superiority of British firepower and military tactics.

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The steam engine was developed by

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James Watt

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Steam power

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was originally used to pump water from mines

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The population of Europe during the nineteenth century

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was notable for its rapid overall growth and an even more rapid increase in city populations

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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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All of the following are correct about the nineteenth-century liberalism except

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opposition to the limiting of governmental power

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The congress of Vienna in 1815

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agreed to meet periodically to take steps to maintain Europe's peace and stability

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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 policies of Otto Von Biusmark

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ignored domestic opposition and concentrated on foreign affairs

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Which of the following was not a result of the Austro-Prussian War?

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A Russian and Austrian defensive alliance defeated the French and British in the Balkans.

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By 1871, all of the following are correct about Great Britain except that

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both political parties supported legislation to expand the right to vote

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All of the following were true about the Ausgleich of 1867 except that it

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unified Austria with the Bismarck's emerging German Empire

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The first Mexcian emperor was

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Augustin de Iturbide

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the basis of Latin American wealth, social prestige, and power throughout the nineteenth century was

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land

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Which of the following was true of developments in the United States through the Civil War?

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Mass white male electoral participation was instituted during the era of Andrew Jackson

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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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Which of the following was not an aspect of nineteenth century development in Canada

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John MacDonald led a bloody rebellion against the British in 1860

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The cities whose populations grew from 172,000 to 2,700,000 and from 960,000 to 6,500,000 during the 1800s, respectively, were

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Berlin and London

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Which of the following statements is not true?

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Technological development before 1700 depended heavily on scientific research

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the discoverer of the germ theory of disease was

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Louis Pasteur

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Charles Darwin presented a theory of evolution that

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state that all living things are involved in a struggle to survive

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The architect who pioneered the modern American home was

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Frank Lloyd Wright

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In the nineteenth century, European nations exploited areas of Asia and Africa for all the following except

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manufactured good to be sent from Asia to Europe

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Though originally a lucrative target for the new imperialists, by the end of the nineteenth century this country was actively seeking colonies of its own

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Japan

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The Boers were predominantly of what ethnic background

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Dutch

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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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Quinine was used by Europeans to provide partial immunity form

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malaria

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Imperialistic activity in Africa

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caused a good deal of international rivalry, as illustrated by the tense face-off between British and French forces at Fashoda.

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Which of the following can be said to be a benefit of colonialism in southeast Asia?

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The beginnings of a modern economic infrastructure

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It can be said that the first stage in the development of modern nationalism is

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resistance to colonial conquest, often based on traditional cultural factors

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whom of the following lead a peasant revolt in Burma against colonial rule?

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Saya San

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In terms of resistance to imperial control, it can be accurately said that

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some traditional resistance movements had significant religious dimensions, such as the revolts under the Mahdi in the Sudan and under Saya San in Burma.

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The Treaty of Tianjin

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made the Chinese opium trade legal

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the "spheres of influence"

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were in part the result of local Chinese strongmen selling exclusive economic privileges to foreign governments and their merchants

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In 1894, the Qing Dynasty went to war with Japan over

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Korea

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All of the following about the Empress Dowager Cixi are correct except that she

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abandoned her Manchu connections and adopted western democracy reforms

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The United States president and the admiral he sent to Japan were, respectively,

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Millard Fillmore and Matthew Perry

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All of the following were true about the "Sat-Cho" alliance except that it

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never accepted the fact that Japan had to begin to modernize in order to survive

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During the Meiji Restoration, Japan became

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"a Western-style democratic republic". If this is wrong its Cait's fault. Her shit better be right or we mobbin bruh.

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Which of the following was not a Meiji economic policy?

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a graduated and progressive income tax

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Meiji economic policies

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developed a closely linked business-government relationship which accelerated industrial growth in armaments and shipbuilding as well as silk and tea.

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The Meiji Restoration

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was in many ways a revolution form above.

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Prussia's victory over Austria in the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 allowed the Italians to take over ____ and the withdrawal of French troops during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 allowed the Italians to take over ____.

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Venetia and Rome

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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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Which of the following cities became a major colonial manufacturing center?

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Batavia

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The Can Vuong was an indigenous resistance to colonial effort in this country.

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Vietnam

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Which of the following was not Meiji social policy?

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Universal democracy was adopted

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To try to increase trade profits in China, the British

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shipped large amounts of opium into China at a massive profit.

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Although the population of London was one million in 1800, by 1850 it had swollen to

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2,363,000

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With an aroused concern over the emergence of Japanese imperialist power in 1894, the European powers forced the Japanese to

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return the Liaodong Peninsula to China

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The woman who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905 and the author of Lay Down Your Arms was

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Bertha von Suttner

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The so-called "barren rock" which Great Britain gained as a result of the Opium War was

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Hong Kong

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In the Treaty of Shimonoseki, the Japanese obtained all except

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Beijing "the forbidden city"

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The following were true about compulsory elementary education except that it

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sparked revolution in Germany against Otto von Bismarck.

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Lord Macartney's trip to Beijing in 1793

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failed, as the Chinese government did not want additional trade with Britain.

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The Chinese Revolution of 1911

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left a power vaccum in the country due to the collapse of the Manchu Dynasty

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Muhammad Ali

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modernized Egypt and extended its hegemony over neighboring regions.

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Extraterritoriality

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was granted to Americans in Japan by the terms of the Treaty of 1858

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So many mouses on the street

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Shit look like Disney World.

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Which of the following pairings is correct?

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Wasily Kandinsky - Abstractionism

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Among the first British Colonies in West Africa was

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Gold coast

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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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Which African country, with a temperate climate in its Central Highlands, attracted a relatively large European population?

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Senegal

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The individual who left a massive estate to create a worldwide British Empire to "civilize" the world was

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Cecil Rhodes

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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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Fought between 1858 and 1861, Mexico's War of Reform was a conflict between

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A liberal government and an entrenched Catholic clergy

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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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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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This act brought an end to the employment of children under nine years of age in Great Britain.

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the Factory Act of 1830

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The late nineteenth century advocate of a separate Jewish state was

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Theodor Herzl

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Which among the following was not one of the major impediments to the industrialization of Continental Europe?

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inadequate natural resources

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Continental European industrialization

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began in Belgium, France, and the German states.

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Which of the following is not an example of Romanticism?

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Gustave Courbet's The Stonebreakers.

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A rising non-western nation that avoided colonial subjugation by pursuing a concerted strategy of political and economic reform was

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japan

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The Tokugawa Shogunate maintained formal diplomatic relations only with

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Korea

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The Open Door Policy

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served to calm the increasingly frantic pace of Western imperialism in China

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The Meiji Constitution of 1890, with placed authority within the executive branch of the government, was modeled on the government of

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Germany

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Though idealistic, the stated goal of British indirect rule in Africa was

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to preserve African political institutions.

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Industrial development in the United States before 1870

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included an efficient transportation network.

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As a result of German acquisition of the Shandong Peninsula, all of the following occurred except

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it was obvious that the dismemberment of china was impossible.

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All of the following are correct about the slave trade except it

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was ended in Denmark in 1803. Try "was revived in East Asia because of the opium trade."? -DK <--- This is the right answer! :) Denmark did abolish slavery in 1803.

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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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The Philippine guerrilla leader who failed to thwart the United States conquest was

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Emilio Aguinaldo

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Ram Mohan Roy's major motivation in creating the Brahmo Samaj was to

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provide Hinduism with protection against verbal attacks by British colonialists.

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Which of the following was not an aspect of nineteenth century development in Canada?

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John Macdonald led a bloody rebellion against the British in 1860. (CHECK)

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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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This brilliant inventor sent the first radio waves across the Atlantic in 1901.

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Guglielmo Marconi

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British colonial policies

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helped to end sati and thuggery in India (WRONG. I don't know the other possible answers, but a few pages that might help are: 609, 614-615. -Cait)

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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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Karl Marx believed that all of human history was the story of

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the class struggle

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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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Japanese Imperialism

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reached an agreement in which Japan accepted United States control over the Philippines in return for the latter's recognition of Japanese annexation of Korea.

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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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The Sino-Japanese War

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forced China to cede Taiwan and the Liaodong Peninsula to Japan

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Which of the following statements accurately characterizes the nature of the Opium War?

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The British used Chinese objection to opium importation as a pretext to unilaterally invade China and forcibly open it to Western trade.

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In southern Africa during the 1800s,

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The British were more sympathetic to the rights of the local population then were the Boers.

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German unification

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was finally achieved by militaristic Prussian politicians.

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In Southeast Asia, imperialist governments

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often blended direct and indirect rule, with the latter used widely in rural areas such as Malaya.

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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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The upper Nile was the area of two major confrontations in the late 1800s between the British and the

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Mahdi at Khartoum and the French at Fashoda.

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Which of the following was not true about the loss of Qing Dynasty control over its empire in the late nineteenth century?

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The Russians transferred territories north of the Amur River in Siberia to China.

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The artist who painted Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was

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Picasso

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The British Raj

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established a new school system to educate the children of the elite.

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The first Cubist painting was painted by

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Pablo Picasso

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The ability to make yarn at a much faster pace

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became possible after the development of the flying shuttle.

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Professional mass sporting events provided people with

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highly organized activities with extensive rules and officials to enforce them.

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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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Of the following nations, which was the first to grant women the right to control their own property?

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Britain.

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The speeds attained by the first steam locomotive in 1804 and those in use by 1850 were, respectively,

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five and fifty miles an hour

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The largest and most successful trade union in nineteenth-century Britain was

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the Amalgamated Society of Engineers.

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By the middle of the nineteenth century, Henry Cort's system of puddling had resulted in

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Britain becoming by far the world's leading iron producer.

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All of the following were direct results of the Spanish-American War except

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Haiti gained its independence.

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The European powers rushed to increase their penetration of Africa because of all except

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fear of Russian economic expansion into Central Africa.

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The modernizing policies of the Meiji Restoration included the

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confiscation of lands controlled by the daimyo.

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Marxist revisionists believe that

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"violent revolution is inevitable

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China's last emperor was

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Pyui

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Thailand

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was able to remain independent because France and Britain preferred that it remain so in order to serve as a buffer between their colonial territories.

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Which of the following is not a true statement about nineteenth-century Western expansion in Southeast Asia?

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Burma retained its independence.

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All of the following were correct about China at the end of the nineteenth century except

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the Qing had finally succeeded in uniting all Chinese behind the regime.

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In stark contrast to British colonial policy, the goal of the French colonialists was to

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assimilate their African subjects into French culture.

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Revolution and chaos were avoided in Britain during the nineteenth century by all except the

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creation of a secret and effective secret political police unit known as the "Peelers."

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The United States Secretary of State who proposed the Open Door Policy was

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John Hay

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Which of the following was not linked to the European "missionary factor" as a motivation to conquer the peoples of Africa?

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The competition among the European powers to create an African industrial revolution.

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The Taiping Rebellion

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peaked with the rebel capture of the old Ming capital of Nanjing.

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The first important American colony was/were the

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Samoan Islands

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Japanese culture during the Meiji Restoration

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was characterized by a period of fascination with Western art, followed by a period of reaction, during which artists searched for authentic Japanese modes of statement.

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By prudently purchasing European arms, the king of this African state was able to soundly defeat the Italian attempt at colonial takeover.

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Ethiopia

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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.

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The liberator of Venezuela and Argentina, respectively, were

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Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin

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In the last decades of the nineteenth century China,

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Taiwan was taken over by Japan

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Government financial aid to industries

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was a basic element of industrialization on the European continent.

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The Second Empire in France

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was brought down by the disastrous 1870 war with Prussia.

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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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European nations sought to obtain the following products from their colonies in Africa and Asia in the nineteenth century

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oil, tin, and rubber

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The emancipation of the Russian serfs

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required that the former serfs pay for their freedom in installments

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In a response to the reforms initiated by Emperor Guangxu, all of the following occurred except

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democracy took root in China

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During the Meiji Restoration, the capital of Japan was moved from

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Kyoto to Tokyo

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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 Francisco Madero.

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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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Whom among the following should be considered the founder of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century diplomatic alliances?

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Otto von Bismark

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Which of the following statements is a false observation about the development of the Industrial Revolution?

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Price reductions produced increased markets, thus continuing the traditional, self-sustaining nature of the European economy as it had functioned since the early 1600s.

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In the early twentieth century, a flashpoint for major violence was/were the

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Balkans

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Wilfred Laurier

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smoothed relations between Canada's English- and French-speaking populations.

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All of the following were true about family life at the turn of the twentieth century except

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declining infant mortality rates enhanced the trend toward steadily larger families.

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By 1900, what region was included in the Indochinese Union

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Cambodia

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In the years after the Boxer Rebellion, the

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slow pace of reform served to intensify revolutionary fervor among the new reformist elite.

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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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The new mass society of the nineteenth century was characterized by the

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creation of new, mass leisure activities to entertain and divert the urban populations.

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the Russo-Japanese War

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was initiated by a Japanese surprise attack om the Russian navel base at port Arthur.

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Nationalism

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was a potential threat to the existing political order of nineteenth century Europe.

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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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The key figure of Russian industrialization was

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Sergei Witte.

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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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Social Darwinism was given

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a radical interpretation by Houston Stewart Chamberlain

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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 Sepoy Rebellion 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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By 1900, the world's richest nation and greatest industrial power was

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the U.S.

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Which of the following was not a result of the Franco-Prussian War?

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German unification was achieved. The loss of territory created a desire for vengeance on the part of the French. Louis Napoleon made himself Emperor of the Third Republic.* <--- CORRECT! :) The French suffered a military and political humiliation.

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The medical doctor who formed the Revive China Society was

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Sun Yat-sen.

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The Berlin Conference of 1884

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established guidelines to ease the frictions created by European ambitions in Africa.

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The first steam-powered locomotive was pioneered by

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Richard Trevithick. Richard Trevithick.

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