History Unit 4 Review – Flashcards
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In her book, A vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft argued that women and men should have equal:
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Education
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What did physiocrats believe was the best trade policy?
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Laissez faire
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Enlightenment writers often face censorship because they:
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Challenged the old order
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An enlightened despot was a ruler who:
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Influenced political/social change
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One important result of the Estates-General was:
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The National Assembly
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The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen was modeled on the:
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American Declaration of Independence
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The National Assembly voted to pay off the huge government debt by:
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Selling Church lands
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When the new National Convention met in 1792, what form of government did the radicals create?
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A republic
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The Concert of Europe was an agreement to?
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Support the Old Order
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Liberals were sometimes called "bourgeois liberal" because they spoke mostly for the:
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The Middle Class
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Creating a homeland for people who shared a common heritage was a goal of:
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Nationalist
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During the "June Days" in France, why did peasants attack protesting socialists workers?
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The peasants feared the socialist would take their land
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During the Industrial Revolution, life changed in what basic way?
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People migrated from rural areas to cities
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The cotton gin was a machine that could:
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Separate seeds from cotton
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Factories were first used by what industry?
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Textiles
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The Luddites in Britain were a:
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Labor organization
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In the early 1700s, Abraham Darby's experiments led him to:
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Produce less expensive better-quality iron
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In the 1830s, Prussia created a union called the Zollverein, which:
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Removed tariff barriers between German States
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Bismarck's political actions were guided by:
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The needs of the State
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William ll asked Bismarck to resign because:
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William wanted no rivals
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New products such as synthetic dyes resulted from cooperation between German industrialists and:
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Scientists
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When Italy unified, what kind of government did it form?
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A Constitutional Monarchy
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The first simplified electric motor and first dynamo for generating electricity were both invented by?
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Micheal Faraday
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What effect did the assembly line have on the cost of goods?
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It made the goods cheaper
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What was a major reason for the population explosion in Europe between 1800 and 1900?
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Medical advances reduced the death rate
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Which of the following phrases reflected the cult of domesticity?
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"A man's home is his castle"
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Why did social Darwinists favor the the new imperialism?
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Westerners thought they had a duty to bring their civilization to inferior races
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In 1787, the British helped create a colony for freed slaves named?
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Liberia
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What led to the Boer War?
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The discovery of gold and diamonds on Boer-held lands
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Ethiopia was able to stay independent because:
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Ethiopia modernized and imported European weapons
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In 1832, large towns and cities in Great Britain were able to send more representatives to Parliament as a result of the:
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Great Reform Act
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Through reforms that took place in the late 1800s, Britain transformed itself into:
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A Parliament Democracy
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Which group supported the British Corn Laws?
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Farmers and wealthy landowners, because they kept grain prices high
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What did the Catholic Emancipation Act do in Ireland in 1829?
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Irish Catholics were allowed to vote and hold office
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What war brought an end to France's Second Empire?
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Franco-Prussian War
