AP Euro Unit VI – Flashcards

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8. What was the first and most important of the Great Reforms in Russia?
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Abolition of sefdom
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9. Louis Napoleon's great success with the economy and included which of the following?
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Encouraging new investment banks and railroad construction
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12. Ottoman reformers launched a series of radical reforms in the 19 century known as the
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Tanzimat
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13. The events that directly prompted the Great Reforms in Russia, including the emancipation of serfs, was the
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Defeat in the Crimean war of 1853-1856
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18. Theodore Herzel was
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The founder of the Zionist Jewish national movement
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19. Why did the conservative Bismarck pioneer the creation of an expansive system of social welfare?
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He sought to blunt the attraction of socialism to the working classes and give them a small stake in the existing political system.
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20. Which best characterizes the political goal of the creation of free, compulsory, elementary education in France?
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To act as a nation - building tool in which all children would be taught secular, republican views
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24. The Dreyfus affair
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Revived republican distrust of Catholicism
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25. Unlike other political parties, the Marxian Socialists
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Organize themselves into an international organization
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27. Who were the Red Shirts in 19th century Italy?
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Giuseppe Garibaldi's guerrilla army involved in the invasion of Sicily in 1860
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29. Who were the Young Turks?
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Fervent patriots who seized power in the Revolution of 1908 in the Ottoman Empire
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31. In "On the Inequality of the Human Races" (1854), Count Arthur de Gobineau divided humanity into white, black, and yellow races and
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Championed the "Aryan race" for its supposedly superior qualities
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36. Rudyard Kipling's "white man's burden" referred to
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The white race's supposed duty to "civilize" inferior, nonwhite races. E) the high costs of maintaining colonial rule.
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37. The Berlin Conference of 1884-1885
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Set up the terms for the division of most of Africa among European colonial powers.
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38. The Boxer Rebellion was
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A rebellion of traditionalist Chinese patriots who wished to expel all Westerners from China.
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40. The principle by which the European powers established their claim to an African territory was known as
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Effective occupation
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41. What was the goal of the new imperialism of the late nineteenth century?
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To create large political empires
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47. What belief drove native opponents to European colonial rule?
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The nationalist assertion that every people had a right to control their destiny
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50. What was "nativism" in the 19th century?
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Beliefs and policies that gave preferential treatment to established inhabitants over immigrants
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51. What medication proved to bee effective in controlling malaria and allowed Europeans to venture into the mosquito-infested interior of Africa?
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Quinine
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