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After industrialization in 19th century Europe, a demographic transition occurred which led to a new system that promoted stable population levels through (Page Ref: 522)

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*low birth and death rates

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Britain's Australian colonies originated in 1788 as (Page Ref: 532)

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*penal settlements.

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Which of the following nations became independent for the first time as a result of a revolution in 1830? (Page Ref: 519)

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*Belgium

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Which of the following was NOT a cause of the American Revolution? (Page Ref: 515)

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*The British invasion of the Mississippi River Valley

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Which of the following was a lasting reform passed during the initial, moderate phase of the French Revolution? (Page Ref: 516)

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*Peasants were freed from all traces of manorialism

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Western expansion in the 19th century meant an extension of Western society itself, and not primarily a new cultural interchange. Which of the following regions was NOT an area of Western expansion? (Page Ref: 533)

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*Malaya

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The final phase of the French Revolution was ushered in by the victory of (Page Ref: 517)

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*Napoleon Bonaparte.

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Who proposed evolution in 1859 as the basis of biological development? (Page Ref: 522)

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*Charles Darwin

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Population upheaval and the spread of a propertyless working class working for money led to which of the following developments? (Page Ref: 515)

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*The adoption of more urban styles of dress

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In what year did a European alliance finally crush the French empire? (Page Ref: 518)

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*1815

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Canada was won by Britain in the 18th century from (Page Ref: 532)

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*France

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Which of the following statements most accurately describes the relationship between science and the arts in the later 19th century? (Page Ref: 528-529)

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*Science continued the Western trend of traditional rationalism, but art adopted the more emotional and impressionistic theories of Romanticism.

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British settlers in New Zealand encountered and eventually defeated which native group? (Page Ref: 533)

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*Maoris

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In what nation did socialism produce the strongest political party during the 19th century? (Page Ref: 526)

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*Germany

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American exceptionalism suggests that the United States (Page Ref: 532-533)

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*developed on its own terms with only incidental contact with Europe.

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Socialist movements that proposed the possibility of gradual and peaceful change rather than revolution were called (Page Ref: 526)

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*revisionist.

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In what year did the American colonies set up a new constitutional structure based on Enlightenment principles? (Page Ref: 515)

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*1789

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Which 19th-century European political group listed below would espouse the following statement? "The political goals of greatest significance are the establishment of constitutional rule and the extension of the parliamentary franchise to propertied men of the middle class." (Page Ref: 519)

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*Liberals

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Which of the following statements is most accurate? (Page Ref: 515)

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*Western Europe experienced a huge population jump after about 1730.

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Which of the following countries was NOT a member of either the Triple Alliance or the Triple Entente? (Page Ref: 534)

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*The United States

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Louis Pasteur was responsible for the (Page Ref: 522)

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*discovery of germs.

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Which of the following was NOT a cause of the French Revolution? (Page Ref: 516)

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*The church seeking greater power over the royal government

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What British conservative prime minister was responsible for extending the vote to working-class males in 1867? (Page Ref: 522)

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*Benjamin Disraeli

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What piece of legislation gave the vote to many members of the middle class in Great Britain? (Page Ref: 519)

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*The Reform Bill of 1832

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Above all, population pressure in the 18th century (Page Ref: 515)

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*drove many people into the working-class proletariat.

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The radical phase of the French Revolution led to all of the following EXCEPT the (Page Ref: 516-517)

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*full-scale attack on private property.

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In 1820, Greece fought for its independence from (Page Ref: 519)

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*the Ottoman Empire.

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By 1900 what proportion of the Western population enjoyed conditions above the subsistence level? (Page Ref: 522)

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*Two thirds

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Which of the following statements concerning the impact of the French Revolution on the rest of Europe is NOT accurate? (Page Ref: 518-519)

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*The French Revolution and its subsequent empire created a general consensus after the defeat of France for a more liberal Europe.

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Balkan nationalism in the 19th century initially exacerbated deteriorating relationships between what two powers with interests in the region? (Page Ref: 534)

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*Russia and Austria-Hungary

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As industrialization spread, peasants in Europe improved their conditions by all of the following means EXCEPT (Page Ref: 522)

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*forming unions.

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Which of the following statements concerning the peace conference at Vienna following the fall of France is most accurate? (Page Ref: 519)

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*Territorial adjustments reached at Vienna kept Europe fairly stable for almost half a century.

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Which of the following statements concerning conservative political strategies after 1850 in Europe is most accurate? (Page Ref: 522-523)

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*Conservatives strove to develop a new political consensus with liberals that would grant the appearance of constitutional reform but retain aristocratic privilege.

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Which of the following did NOT represent an expansion of government functions in the West following 1870? (Page Ref: 524-525)

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*The establishment of mandatory national unions for laborers

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Which of the following statements could NOT be attributed to the political philosophy of Karl Marx? (Page Ref: 526)

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*In the aftermath of the victory of the proletariat, the state would emerge permanently as a powerful dictatorship.

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Who was responsible for managing the unification of Italy? (Page Ref: 522)

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*Count Camillo di Cavour

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What German conservative was responsible for the unification of Germany in 1871? (Page Ref: 522)

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*Otto von Bismarck

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Protoindustrialization refers to (Page Ref: 515)

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*the employment of laborers who worked at home but in a capitalist system dependent on urban merchants.

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In what year did the French Revolution begin? (Page Ref: 516)

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*1789

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Which 19th-century European political group listed below would espouse the following statement? "As long as property is controlled by private individuals, inequality will exist. It is the role of the state to manage property for the benefit of all citizens." (Page Ref: 519)

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*Socialists

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On July 14 in the first year of the French Revolution, the storming of what political prison provided a revolutionary symbol? (Page Ref: 516)

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*Bastille

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Which of the following statements concerning the political philosophy of the Enlightenment is most accurate? (Page Ref: 514)

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*Enlightenment thinkers challenged regimes that did not grant full religious freedom or that insisted on aristocratic privilege.

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Which of the following was a republic founded by the Boers in the 1850s? (Page Ref: 558)

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*Transvaal

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Which of the following statements is most accurate? (Page Ref: 550)

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*Quarrels over the division of the colonial spoils were used to justify the arms buildup and general militarism.

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Which of the following countries granted citizenship to educated inhabitants of their colonies? (Page Ref: 546-547)

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*France

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How were 18th-century land empires in Asia accumulated? (Page Ref: 542-543)

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*By the initiative of overseas agents of the Dutch and British East India companies acting in the absence of instructions from the company directors

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Which of the following statements concerning colonial society in India and Java prior to 1850 is most accurate? (Page Ref: 545-546)

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*The Dutch and British were content to leave the social systems of Java and India pretty much as they found them.

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Hawaii was effectively opened to the West through the voyages of (Page Ref: 559)

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*Captain James Cook.

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Which of the following statements concerning the management of colonial enterprises by the Dutch and British East India companies in the 17th century is most accurate? (Page Ref: 542)

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*The directors of the companies were little interested in the acquisition of colonial territories.

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Prior to 1902, what type of colony was South Africa? (Page Ref: 552)

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*Contested settler colony

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Which of the following statements most accurately describes the European strategy with respect to the government of tropical dependencies? (Page Ref: 552-553)

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*The Europeans exploited longstanding ethnic and cultural divisions between indigenous peoples.

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By 1914 all of Africa had fallen to European colonialists EXCEPT (Page Ref: 552)

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*Ethiopia.

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What English religious movement was critical to the social reform movement in the British Empire by the beginning of the 19th century? (Page Ref: 548)

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*Evangelical

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Which of the following statements is most accurate? (Page Ref: 550)

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*African and Asian peoples often fiercely resisted colonial rule, although without realistic chances of permanent success.

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What Hawaiian prince created a united kingdom in 1810 with the aid of British weapons and advisors? (Page Ref: 559)

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*Kamehameha

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Madras, Bombay and ________ were the administrative centers of the three presidencies in India. (Page Ref: 545)

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*Calcutta

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All of the following were reasons why India became the pivot of the great British Empire EXCEPT (Page Ref: 545)

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*the residence of more white settlers than any other British colony.

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Which of the following was NOT a motive for expansion in the late 19th century? (Page Ref: 549)

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*The absence of influence of political leaders in the European countries

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In what year did the British win the battle of Plassey? (Page Ref: 544)

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*1757

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What was the critical battle in which the British defeated a combined force of Indians and French? (Page Ref: 544)

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*Plassey

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Which of the following economic sectors did NOT increase as a result of European economic exploitation of their colonies? (Page Ref: 556)

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*Food crops

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Which of the following statements concerning the incursion of the Dutch East India Company into Java is most accurate? (Page Ref: 542-543)

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*The Dutch were content in the 1620s to be the vassals of the Sultan of Mataram.

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Which of the following statements concerning the internal economies of the European colonies is most accurate? (Page Ref: 557)

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*Colonial economies were steadily reduced to dependence on the European dominated global market.

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Which of the following is an example of a "White Dominion"? (Page Ref: 552)

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*Australia

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What event set the Boer colony in South Africa on a different path than the White Dominions of Canada and Australia? (Page Ref: 557)

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*The annexation of the colony by the British in 1815

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The victory of the forces of the British East India Company over the French gave them direct control of (Page Ref: 544-545)

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*Bengal.

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Which of the following was NOT a result of the first contact between the Maoris and Europeans during the 1790s? (Page Ref: 558-559)

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*Extensive intermarriage between the Maoris and the white settlers

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Which of the following was NOT an aspect of imperialism in the period following European industrialization? (Page Ref: 541)

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*The absence of Christian missions

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In what way was the British East India Company's intrusion into India similar to the Dutch entry into Java? (Page Ref: 543)

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*The use of mercenaries recruited from among indigenous peoples

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What tactic led to the Dutch control of the entire island of Java? (Page Ref: 542)

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*The Dutch, using mercenary forces recruited from the people of Java, intervened in succession disputes in return for grants of land.

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Which of the following nations did NOT enter the competitive race for colonial empire and industrial supremacy after 1870? (Page Ref: 549)

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*Spain

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Which of the following is NOT a similarity between South Africa and Australia? (Page Ref: 557)

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*Both were settled at approximately the same time.

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The territories controlled by the British East India Company expanded concurrently with the collapse of the (Page Ref: 545)

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*Mughal empire.

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How did the establishment of educational systems in Africa differ from those of Java and India? (Page Ref: 552-554)

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*They depended more on religious missionaries than on state support.

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Jeremy Bentham and James Mill were leaders of what philosophical movement that supported social reform in the colonies? (Page Ref: 548)

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*Utilitarianism

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By what time did the shift from preindustrial to industrial imperialism clearly take place? (Page Ref: 541)

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*The middle of the 19th century

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Who was responsible for the sweeping reforms in India in the 1790s? (Page Ref: 548)

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*Lord Cornwallis

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Which of the following statements concerning European interaction with indigenous peoples prior to 1850 is most accurate? (Page Ref: 546-547)

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*Mixed marriages between European males and indigenous females became widely accepted, particularly in Java.

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During what decade did European countries reduce much of Africa, Asia, and the Pacific to colonial possessions? (Page Ref: 549)

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*1870s

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What was a critical factor in the growing tensions between the colonizers and the rising African and Asian middle classes? (Page Ref: 554)

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*The growing size of European communities in foreign nations and the increased number of women in European settlements

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Which of the following incentives to greater production was commonly utilized by colonizers in the later 19th century? (Page Ref: 556)

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*The imposition of head or hut taxes payable in commodities

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The later representatives of the British East India Company who went out to secure sudden wealth, often through corruption, were called (Page Ref: 548)

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*nabobs.

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Which of the following descriptions most accurately defines the term "tropical dependencies"? (Page Ref: 552)

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*Colonies in which small numbers of Europeans ruled large numbers of non-Western peoples

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In which of the following ways was the British experience in India different than that of the Dutch in Java? (Page Ref: 543)

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*The existence of a global imperial rivalry with the French

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At what battle in 1879 did the Zulus defeat British military forces? (Page Ref: 552)

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*Isandhlwana

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Which of the following was the earliest example of a European empire built as a result of independent initiative of company agents? (Page Ref: 542)

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*Java

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In the first half of the 19th century, what European nation dominated overseas trade and empire building? (Page Ref: 549)

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*Britain

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The jingoistic press and the extension of the vote to the lower middle and working classes (Page Ref: 549)

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*made public opinion a major factor in foreign policy.

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Which of the following was NOT a handicap faced by the Indian princes in defending their kingdoms from the British? (Page Ref: 545)

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*The success of the British in winning many converts to Christianity

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Which of the following was NOT an aspect of European expansion in the pre-industrial era? (Page Ref: 541)

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*The establishment of European colonies in the interior of Africa

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Who was the British commander during the military victories over the French in India during the 18th century? (Page Ref: 544)

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*Robert Clive

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