WH Final Test sem 2

Which of the following social Darwinist argued in favor of the new imperialism?

Westerners thought they had a duty to bring civilization to inferior races.

What colony did the British help create for freed slaves in West Afric in 1787?

Sierra Leone

David Livingstone believed that opening the interior of Africa to Christianity and trade would..

end slave trade

The Boer war was sparked by..

the discovery of gold and diamonds in Boer held lands

Ethiopia was able to remain independent because

they modernized and imported European weapons

The desire to return to the purity and simplicity of Muhammad’s teachings was the goal of what Islamic reform movement?

Wahhabi

As the Ottoman empire crumbled, Russia plotted to seize the Bosporus and Dardanelles in order to..

gain access to the Mediterranean Sea

The interest of Europeans in Iran intensified with what discovery in the region?

Oil

Rifle cartridges greased with animal fat were a key cause of the

Sepoy Rebellion

The purpose of the Open Door policy was to

protect US trading rights in China

In the 1830s, Prussia created a union called the Zollverin, which promoted German unity by

removing tariff barriers between German states

In Bismarck’s practice on Realpolitik, his political actions were guided by..

the needs of the state

William II asked Bismark to resign because

William II wanted no rivals

Bismarck introduced many social reforms in Germany because he wanted to

avoid a socialist revolution

Synthetic dyes were among the new products that resulted from cooperation between German industrialists and

scientists

When Italy unified, what form of government did it take?

A constitutional monarchy

Which of the following was an obstacle to Italian unity?

Identification with local regions

The Dual Monarchy was a combination of

Austria and Hungary

Which of the following was an obstacle to progress in Russia in the 1800s?

A rigid social structure

Tsar Alexander III launched a program of Russification in which he..

suppressed non Russian cultures within the empire

In 1832, large towns and cities in Britain received greater representation in Parliament as a result of

the Great Reform Act

Through reforms that took place during the late 1800s, Britain transformed itself into

a parliamentary democracy

The British Corn Laws were supported by

farmers and wealthy landowners because they kept grain prices high

What did Catholic Emancipation Acts accomplish in Ireland

Irish Catholics were allowed to vote and hold office

One result of the social welfare reforms passed in Great Britain in the early 1900s was that

Marxism gained only limited support among British working class

What war brought an end to France’s second empire?

Franco Prussian War

What was a result of widespread anti semitism in Europe in the late 1800s?

Theodore Herzl helped to launch modern Zionism

In order to repress the involvement of the Catholic Church in French government, reformers did what

Created a system of free public elementary schools

In 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized what

The first women’s rights convention

US farmers joined city workers to support the..

Populist Party

What was a major threat to the empire of Charles V?

Ottomans advancing across Europe

An important goal of Philip II of Spain was to

Defend the Catholic reformation

The Edict of Nantes helped to ensure that

French protestants would not be persecuted

When the Huguenots left France their departure

seriously hurt the French economy

The Long Parliament met when Charles I requested funds to

Suppress the Scottish rebellion

What type of government was created in England by the Glorious Revolution?

Limited Monarchy

What was a result of the treaty known as the Peace of Westphalia in 1648?

France gained territory on its Spanish and German frontiers

What did Maria Theresa do to strengthen the Hapsburg empire?

She reorganized the Hapsburg Bureaucracy

Peter the Great waged war against the Ottoman empire to

gain a warm water port on the Black Sea

Under the rule of Catherine the Great..

Russia seized lands in eastern Poland

During the Industrial Revolution, life changed in what basic way

People migrated from rural areas to cities

The cotton gin was a machine that could

separate seeds from raw cotton

The first factories developed in what industry

textile

The Luddites were a

labor organization

Abraham Darby’s experiments led him to

produce less expensive better quality iron

Thomas Malthus discouraged vaccinations because

disease was natural for population control

The greatest happiness for the greatest number was a goal of

utilitarianism

German socialists formed social democracy aiming to transition

from capitalism to socialism

Karl Marx despised capitalism because he believed that it

created prosperity for few and poverty for many

Japan lacked many basic resources yet it industrialized rapidly after 1868 because

Japanese political leaders placed a high priority on modernization

Today’s electric generators work on the same principle as the dynamo invented by

Michael Faraday

A production method where workers perform one task in the process is

the assembly line

The population of Europe exploded because

medical advances reduced the death rate

The popular saying A man’s home is his castle reflected what middle class value

cult of domesticity

The purpose of normal schools was to train students to be

teachers

John Dalton made an important breakthrough in chemistry by showing

each element has its own atoms

What theory applied the idea of natural selection to business and society

Social Darwinism

Romanticism can be described as a revolt against the Enlightenment emphasis on

reason

An artist who portrayed the harsh lives of slum dwellers was probably using what style

realism

What aspect of the Cold War arms race made it so terrifying?

The weapons were more powerful than ever before

What was a change that took place during the Cuban Revolution

Political freedom was restricted

A red scare was the fear of

communists in the US

A major goal of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was to..

extend equal rights to all Americans

After WWII, the US offered assistance to war torn European nations through which?

the Marshall Plan

The Great Leap Forwards and the Cultural Revolution were social reform programs led by who?

Mao Zedong

What happened to the defeated Chinese Nationalists

They fled to the island of Taiwan

What was a result of Gorbachev’s perestroika

Shortages grew worse and prices soared

The East German government responded to Gorbachev’s call for change by

banning Soviet publications

During the Korean War, which nation provided hundreds of thousands of troops to help North Korea?

China