World History- Chapter 21 Section Review Questions – Flashcards
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Why was nationalism a threat to the existing order in the nineteenth-century Europe?
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Because many monarchies at the time combined people of many nationalities who wanted their own governments.
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Why did liberal forces who won political rights from the rule of monarchs typically lose their power after a relatively few years?
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They could not agree on their aims and failed to work together to maintain their power.
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How may social and economic changes forced on Europe by the Industrial Revolution have contributed to the spread of liberism?
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The Industrial Revolution forced people to move, travel to look for work, and changed distribution of wealth and power.
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How did the Crimean War destroy the Concert of Europe?
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It made Russia and Austria into enemies.
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What action by Giuseppe Garibaldi made him unique amoung most national leaders?
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He gave up his power to avoid fighting with other Italians.
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How was Great Britain able to aviod revolutions that occured in many parts of Europe in 1848?
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The Reform Bill increased male voters and joined the middle class to the landed interests.
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Why didn't the distribution od the land to the peasants by the Russian government enable them to support themselves?
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Because the former landowners kept the best lands.
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What was the difference between the basis for the economy of the North and that of the South in the United States before the Civil War?
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The North was based on farming and manufacturing and the South relied on slavery.
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How did the existence of a common enemy help bring the unification of Germany?
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German states joined Bismarck against france in 1870.
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What economic shift was experienced in Europe during the Industrial Revolution?
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A shift from an economy based on farming and handicrafts to one based on manufracturing by machines and industrial factories.
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Why were railroads important to the success of the Industrial Revolution?
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They provided cheap transportation, supplied jobs, and created a market for industrial products.
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How was romanticism different from the ideas of Enlightment?
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Romanticism is emotional and sentiment. Enlightment is reason and logic.
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Why were romantic poets critical of eighteenth-century science?
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Because they believed that nature served as a mirror into which humans could look to learn about themselves.
