AP Euro Ch 21 Test/Quiz – Flashcards
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Klemens von Metternich
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e. believed European monarchs shared the common interest of stability.
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The author of Reflections on the Revolution in France and the founder of modern philosophical conservatism was
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d. Edmund Burke
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At its most elementary Burkean level, conservatism
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a. sought to preserve the achievements of previous generations by subordinating individual rights to communal welfare
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The man long regarded as the George Washington of Latin America is
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b. Simón Bolívar.
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The most important factor in preventing the European overthrow of the newly independent nations of Latin America was
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e. British naval power.
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By 1824, which one of the following Latin American states had not become independent?
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??????e. Panama.
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Which one of the following was the English political party in power until 1830, the party that represented tradition?
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?????a. Tories.
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By 1815, following the Congress of Vienna, the Italian peninsula
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b. remained divided into several states subject to the domination of other European powers.
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The growing forces of liberalism and nationalism in central Europe were exemplified by the
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d. Burschenschaften, the student societies of Germany
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The Karlsbad Decrees of 1819 did all of the following except
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d. dissolved several smaller German states.
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Following the death of Alexander I in 1825, Russian society under Nicholas I became
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e. became a police state, as the czar feared both internal and external revolutionary upheavals.
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The argument that population must be held in check for any progress to take place was popularized by
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e. Thomas Malthus.
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David Ricardo's iron law of wages stated that
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c. wages would stay low as workers bred more children.
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The foremost social group embracing liberalism was made up by
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b. the industrial middle class.
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J.S. Mill's On the Subjection of Women stated that
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b. men and women did not possess different natures
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Central to the liberal ideology in the nineteenth century was
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c. an emphasis on individual freedom.
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The growing movement of nationalism in nineteenthcentury Europe
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c. was radical since it encouraged people to shift their political loyalty away from existing states and rulers
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Charles Fourier advocated a system of cooperative communities called
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d. phalansteries
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Charles X was overthrown in the 1830 July Revolution because he
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??? b. supported the interests of the aristocrats and Church
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King Louis-Philippe in France
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b. cooperated with François Guizot and the Party of Resistance against the Party of Movement.
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The most successful nationalistic European revolution in 1830 was in
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e. Belgium.
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The primary driving force in the revolutions of Belgium, Poland, and Italy in 1830 was
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a. nationalism
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The Polish national uprising of 1830 was crushed by
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d. Russia.
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Which of the following statements best applies to Thomas Macaulay's thoughts on reform in Britain?
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c. He supported reforms as a means of preventing more radical revolutionary movements
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The Reform Bill of 1832 in Britain primarily benefited the
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e. upper middle-class.
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The English Poor Law of 1834 was based on the theory that
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c. if the conditions of provision for state welfare were intentionally made miserable, then the poor would be encouraged to find profitable employment.
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The revolution of 1848 in France ultimately resulted in
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d. a new French empire under Louis Napoleon
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Louis Blanc's "national workshops" in France
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c. became little more than unemployment compensation units through public works projects
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In 1848, the Frankfurt Assembly
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c. failed in its attempt to create a united Germany.
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The Frankfurt Assembly of 1848-1849
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e. accomplished nothing at all.
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Giuseppe Mazzini's nationalist organization, Young Italy,
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b. failed to achieve his goal of "resurgence" by 1849
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Mazzini's risorgimento
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b. failed due to opposition of the French, the Austrians, and the pope.
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Which one of the following brought an end to the Federalist party in the United States?
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c. the War of 1812, which Federalists had opposed.
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Professional civilian police forces known as serjents first appeared in 1829 in
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e. France
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London's police were called "bobbies" because
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c. the legislation to create them was introduced by Robert Peel
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Regular police forces and prison reform were geared toward
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a. the creation of more disciplined and law-abiding societies
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All of the following were characteristics of Romanticism except
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b. the rejection of the supernatural and unfamiliar
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The literary model for early Romantics was
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d. The Sorrows of the Young Werther, by Goethe
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The romantic movement can be viewed as a(n)
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a. reaction against the Enlightenment's preoccupation with reason.
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The American romantic author of The Fall of the House of Usher was
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c. Edgar Allen Poe
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The most important form of literary expression for the romantics was
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b. Poetry
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Which of the following were major themes/subjects of Romantic artists?
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c. landscapes and depictions of nature
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Romanticism in art and music was well characterized by
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b. Beethoven, whose compositions bridged the gap between Classicism and Romanticism
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In architectural styles, the Romantics were particularly attracted to the
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a. Gothic.
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The Romantic artist whose paintings were described as "airy visions, painted with tinted steam" was
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b. Turner.
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Religion in the age of Romanticism experienced
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a. a Catholic revival especially in Germany
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