AP World history test Unit 5

Which of the following best describes how nineteenth-century European industrialization affected European women's lives?

Which of the following best describes how nineteenth-century European industrialization affected European women's lives?

Married women found it increasingly difficult to balance wage work and family responsibilities.

Which of the following contributed the most to the growth of the movement to abolish slavery in the Atlantic world?

The adaptation of Enlightenment ideas challenging established social hierarchies

Kersaint and Saint-Maurice's arguments about granting citizenship to the Black inhabitants of Saint-Domingue are most different from the arguments of those nationalists who claimed that

only those born within the territory of the nation and those who shared a common historical origin should be included as citizens within the nation

All of the following statements about Armand-Guy Kersaint are factually accurate. Which would best explain why, unlike the author of Source 2, Kersaint is NOT calling for the unconditional and immediate abolition of slavery?

At the time of the French Revolution, Kersaint owned plantations and other property in the French Caribbean.

Which of the following most directly influenced the arguments about social and economic change in Saint-Domingue expressed by Kersaint and Saint-Maurice in the passages?

Enlightenment thinkers

All of the following contributed to the rise of industrialization in western Europe and North America during the nineteenth century EXCEPT

increased rights for laborers

In contrast to initial industrialization, the second Industrial Revolution in the last half of the nineteenth century was particularly associated with the mass production of which of the following?

Electricity, steel, and chemicals

Which of following best explains a likely reason for the title of the image?

The soot pollution, which resulted from the coal industry in the region

The image best illustrates which factor that contributed to Great Britain's increasing prominence as a global power in the nineteenth century?

Great Britain's location on the Atlantic Ocean and its many waterways enabled it to import and export goods.

The technological processes reflected in the image had the most direct influence on which of the following?

The rise of Japan in the Meiji era

The industrialization of Great Britain's economy in the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is most directly explained by which of the following?

Britain had large reserves of coal.

The labor patterns shown in the table are most directly relevant in understanding which broader process in nineteenth-century Europe?

The development of new class identities

The high proportion of women and children among the workers reflected in the table is best seen in the context of the

low wages of workers in industrial societies

The data in the table best provide historical context to understand which of the following developments in mid-nineteenth-century Great Britain?

The emergence of social reform movements

Which of the following was a widespread social consequence of industrialization in the 1800s?

The creation of a wage-earning working class concentrated in urban areas

Industrialization in Russia during the nineteenth century most closely resembled industrialization in which of the following regions?

Japan during the Meiji Restoration

Which of the following was the most immediate effect of the processes illustrated in the images?

A decline in Asian countries' share of world manufacturing as Asian goods lost ground to European imports

The gender and age makeup of the workforce shown in Image 2 best illustrates which of the following phenomena in mid-nineteenth-century European society?

Within factories, skilled workers continued to be predominantly male, while women and children continued to perform mostly unskilled factory work.

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the working conditions depicted in Image 2 served as an inspiration for those arguing that

the negative social effects of capitalism should be alleviated by enacting factory regulations

The "second Industrial Revolution" in the last half of the nineteenth century was associated with the mass production of which of the following groups of products?

Electricity, steel, and chemicals

The United States Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen reflect a shared concern for

protection of private property

The quotation above best supports which of the following conclusions about the author's motives for resistance to Spanish colonial rule in Latin America?

Bolívar rejected Spanish mercantilist policies that restricted free trade in Latin America.

The beginning of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain was most influenced by which of the following factors?

The location and large number of British coal deposits

One important similarity between the American Revolution and the French Revolution is that they both

challenged monarchical governments

Marx's statement in the passage above is best understood in the context of which of the following responses to the development and spread of global capitalism in the nineteenth century?

A movement to articulate an alternative vision of society

Which of the following developments in the nineteenth century would most likely help explain the size and composition of the workforce at the Bayer plant as described in the second paragraph?

The construction of railroads facilitated the migration of people to interior regions.

Great Britain's development of the industry referred to in the first paragraph during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is best explained by the fact that British factories were the first to

use steam-powered machines for large-scale economic production

The emergence of the German industries referred to in the passage is most directly explained by which of the following processes in the nineteenth century?

The development of new methods of production during the second industrial revolution

Which of the following best describes the author's approach in the first paragraph?

Using sarcasm to highlight the weakness of the proslavery arguments

The second paragraph would most directly support the claim that abolitionists in the late nineteenth century supported their position by

exposing the discrepancy between the idea of universal human rights and the persistence of slavery

Based on the provisions from the 1824 Constitution cited in the second paragraph, it can be inferred that

the government of Brazil had adopted Enlightenment political principles

Which of the following was the main factor leading to the fall of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate and the rise of the Meiji government?

Pressure from Western powers

The development of the factory system most directly explains which of the following characteristics of the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

A decline in the diversity of consumer goods

Which of the following claims does Napoleon make about religion in the document al-Jabarti quotes in the second paragraph?

The French did not wish to change the religion of the people of Egypt.

Which of the following claims does al-Jabarti make about the French?

The French do not believe in either Christianity or Islam.

Most world historians would agree that the key to European predominance in the world economy during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was

the Industrial Revolution

Which of the following societies successfully resisted foreign penetration and domination from 1650 to 1850?

The Japanese

Many historians have argued that by the late nineteenth century the industrialized nations of Europe had achieved global economic dominance more through force and coercion than through the superiority of their industrial products. Which of the following nineteenth-century developments would best support this contention?

The decline of the Indian textile industry's share of global manufacturing

Which of the following best supports the view of some world historians that the eighteenth century marked a major turning point in world history?

The beginning of the Industrial Revolution in England

The decree's statement regarding the change in the situation of the Ottoman Empire, as described in the first paragraph, is a viewpoint that would most likely have been shared by members of which of the following governments in the nineteenth century?

The Qing Empire in the aftermath of the signing of the unequal treaties

A historian interpreting the decree would best understand the purpose of the "new legislation" referred to in the second paragraph as an attempt to

allow the Ottoman government to compete against industrializing European powers

The decree's references to following the rules of Shari'a would best be interpreted as an attempt to appeal to

Sunni religious elites within the Ottoman government who opposed modernization

Bolívar was describing the effects of which of the following economic policies?

Mercantilism

Which of the following describes a conclusion about Asia that is best supported by the data in the table?

Although Asia had far fewer vessels than North America had, Asia was responsible for a larger percentage of world trade.

Which of the following best describes a conclusion about the relationship between steamships and world trade in the late nineteenth century that is supported by the data in the table?

Europe's dominance in the total number of steamships roughly correlates to its dominance in world trade.