Chapter 17-18 Multiple Choice History

Which of the following developments contributed heavily to the growth of nationalism in nineteenth-century Europe?

The expansion of literacy and the periodical press

How did the Franco-Prussian War encourage the growth of French nationalism in the late nineteenth century?

It encouraged the French to unify around their antipathy toward the Germans

How did nationalism challenge the Austrian Empire?

By encouraging groups such as the Czechs and Hungarians to press for autonomy

What was the biggest, and seemingly unending, political problem for Great Britain in the nineteenth century?

the mass movement for Irish home rule

Why was electricity the most important power source for the second industrial revolution?

Factories could be located near concentrations of workers and production costs were lower.

Which of the following best describes the beliefs of a social Darwinist in the late nineteenth century?

Modern culture was created by white Europeans and Americans, who were more fully evolved than the darker peoples of the world.

Which British colony served as a model for later European endeavors by developing the colony's infrastructure to maximize profits from trade?

India

Where did delegates gather in 1884-1885 to discuss European claims to Africa?

Berlin

Which of the following was a reason that Europeans colonized Africa?

To acquire personal power and imperial glory

After the Spanish-American War, American expansionism increasingly involved which of the following?

Turning nominally independent countries into dependent states

In which war did Japan add Taiwan to its empire?

the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895

In what way was Russia's expansion in Asia different from American expansion in North America?

Russia tolerated and taxed native populations instead of displacing or slaughtering them.

The ____ movement was an attempt by reformist Chinese bureaucrats to adopt

elements of western learning and technological skills, but with the intention of keeping the core Chinese culture intact.

Self-Strengthining

How did conservative Chinese leaders react to the first railroads built in China?

They saw the railroads as a threat to Chinese social harmony and had them torn up.

During intense fighting in German Southwest Africa (modern Nambia), the German commander ordered the extermination of the ____ people.

Herero

Between 1840 and 1914, which of the following led to large-scale migration within individual industrialized states' national boundaries?

Factory jobs in urban centers

Which of the following factors challenged the nineteenth-century idea of "separate spheres" for women and men?

The movement of more women into the paid labor force

Which of the following was a common response to class conflict in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century western Europe?

The growth of labor parties to participate in electoral politics

Which of the following was an exception to the general rule of unrestricted migration during the late nineteenth century?

The Chinese Exclusion Act in the United States

Which of the following was a result of the influence of the city planning movement on urban life at the turn of the twentieth century?

Better sanitation and cultural amenities like museums and opera houses

What military tactics, which became more common during the twentieth century, were implemented during the Anglo-Boer War?

Concentration camps and guerrilla campaigns

Why was the Mexican revolution considered to be the most successful turn-of-the-twentieth-century

It transformed the country and forced later politicians to respect peasants' rights and land reform.

Which of the following is an example of a form of entertainment appealing to the masses that emerged at the end of the nineteenth century?

sports

How did the assumptions made by scientists in the modernist era differ from those of Enlightenment-era scientists?

Modernist scientists thought in terms of probabilities rather than certainties

Painters from the lower Yangzi river region, collectively known as the elements from both Chinese and western art techniques.

Shanghai School