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The Manchu Dynasty did not fall because of

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discreet Japanese economic pressure.

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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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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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Which 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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The Opium War

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gave Britain control of Hong Kong.

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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.

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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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The Taiping Rebellion

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

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Hong Xiuquan

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was the Christian leader of the Taiping Rebellion.

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The Treaty of Tianjin

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made the Chinese opium trade legal.

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In the last decades of the nineteenth century in China

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Taiwan was taken over by Japan.

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

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

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The "sphere of influence"

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were in large part the result of the ability of local strongmen to sell exclusive economic privileges to foreign governments and their merchants.

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In 1894, the Qing went to war with Japan over

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Korea.

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The Sino-Japanese War

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forced China to cede Taiwan and the Laodong peninsula to Japan.

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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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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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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 dismembership of China was impossible.

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In a response to the reforms initiated by Emeror Guangxu, all occurred except

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democracy took root in China.

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Britain's Factory Act of 1833

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reduced the number of children working in factories.

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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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Liberalism did not

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want to limit governmental power.

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Nationalism

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was a potential threat to the existing political order.

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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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German unification

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was finally achieved by the militaristic Prussian politicians.

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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 most multinational state in Europe in the nineteenth century, and this the one most threatened by the new ideology of nationalism, was

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Germany.

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The first Mexican emperor was

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Augustín de Iturbide

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The leader of the Mexican independence revolt was

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Father Miguel Hidalgo

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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

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Creoles frequently opposed both the peninsulars and the peasants, but the Mexican Revolution had significant mas support, which caused creoles and peninsulars to unite to crush the peasants.

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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 Crimean War

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isolated the Austrians from the rest of the great powers of Europe.

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The policies of Otto von Bismarck before 1871

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used warfare as an instrument of policy, regardless of its consequences.

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Which of the following was not a result of the brief 1866 war between Austria and Prussia?

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

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Which of the following was not a result of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870?

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Louis Napoleon made himself Emperor of the Third Republic.

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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, the "Peelers."

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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 Ausgleich of 1867 was all of the following except it

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unified Austria with the Bismarck's emerging German Empire.

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

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

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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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Romanticism emphasized

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a focus on individual, unique traits, and emotions.

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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 in viewing the world.

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Which of the following statements is not true?

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Technological development before 1750 depended heavily on scientific research.

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Charles Darwin presented a theory of evolution that

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stated that all living things are involved in a struggle to survive.

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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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