Test 8. THE AGE OF REVOLUTIONS – Flashcards
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            Simón Bolívar was _____.
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        a revolutionary leader in South America
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            Miguel Hidalgo's "Grito de Dolores" called for Mexico to rise up against the Spanish for independence and racial equality. His timing was largely due to ________________.
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        Napoleon changing the government leadership in Spain to his brother
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            The Napoleonic Code required that family property _____.
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        be divided among sons and daughters
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            Who wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen?
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        Olympe de Gouges
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            The 1905 massacre of protestors outside the czar's palace in St. Petersburg, Russia, is known as _____.
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        Bloody Sunday
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            The Crimean War ended in the defeat of the
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        Russians
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            The wave of revolutions across Europe in 1848 is known as _________________.
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        The Springtime of Peoples
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            Who became president of the French Republic in December 1848?
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        Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
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            The increased use of machinery in production of goods was seen in the ______.
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        Industrial Revolution
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            The 1842 Coal Mines Act forbade the underground employment of _____ in mines.
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        women and boys under the age of ten
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            Who wrote petitions to the British Parliament and launched a sugar boycott in their effort to abolish slavery?
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        Quakers
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            Choose all that apply.  What kind of equality did the French revolutionaries want?
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        -social -political -economical
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            The practice by which slave owners emancipated the slaves was known as ________.
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        Manumission
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            Who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Women, advocating women's right to vote and hold public office?
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        Mary Wollstonecraft
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            What work ends with the phrase, "Workers of all countries, unite!"?
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        The Communist Manifesto
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            What style of art represents people or objects exactly as they appear in life?
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        realism
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            Choose all that apply.  What were "the three Rs" taught in European public schools?
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        -reading -writing -arithmetic
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            Choose all that apply.  European immigrants to Brazil worked in the urban industries that were developing in _____.
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        -Rio de Janeiro -São Paulo
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            The first wave of European immigrants to arrive to the United States in the nineteenth century came from _____.
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        northwestern Europe
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            Choose all that apply.  What upset the sepoys during the British East India Company's rule of India?
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        -They were paid less than British soldiers. -They were required to serve overseas. -Rifle cartridges that supposedly were greased in animal fat were introduced.
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            What Asian nation avoided European colonization?
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        Thailand
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            Choose all that apply.  The outcome of the Opium War for the British was which of the following?
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        -The British gained control of Hong Kong. British citizens were granted immunity from -Chinese laws. -Chinese would pay the British for losses in the war. -China would open five ports for foreign trade.
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            Choose all that apply.  On what basic principles did Sun Yat-sen hope to rebuild China?
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        -nationalism -economic security -democracy
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            Choose all that apply.  The years of the Meiji Restoration are characterized by:
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        -efforts to industrialize Japan the modernization of Japan's army and navy -the acceptance of Western ideas
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            The Mitsubishi and Kawasaki families are examples of _____.
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        zaibatsu
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            The Revolutionaries began plans to invade Spain.  - Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions may be founded only upon the general good.  What document is this clause from?
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        Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
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            Muhammad Ahmad led a resistance movement against the British in
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        Sudan
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            Cecil Rhodes dreamed of constructing a railroad in Africa that stretched from Cairo, Egypt, to _____.
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        South Africa
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            The Meiji Restoration abolished feudalism and established _____ after Otto von Bismarck's Germany.
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        -Constitution -Cabinet -military
