AP Euro: 3rd 9 Weeks Exam

Edwin Chadwick gained fame as a/an 

advocate of improved public sanitation.

Georges Haussmann is remembered for

rebuilding Paris.

Improved economic conditions in the nineteenth century led to 

the expectation that married women would not work outside the home.

The development of the __________ revolutionized urban life in the 1890s.

electric streetcar

According to the text, working-class leisure typically included all of the following *except*

hosting dinner parties. 

Joseph Lister is responsible for the

practice of antiseptic sterilization.

In 1900, the richest _________ percent of the population received 33 percent of all national  income.

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The flaw in Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's theory of evolution was his 

assertion that characteristics parents acquired in the course of their lives could be passed  on to their offspring by heredity.

The breakthrough development of germ theory was the work of 

Louis Pasteur

Napoleon III believed that rebuilding Paris would lead to all of the following *except*

a more equitable division of wealth. 

As the nineteenth century progressed, the upper middle class

tended to merge with the old aristocracy.

The middle classes championed

traditional Christian values.

The white-collar employees identified with the 

middle class.

According to the text, one of the social functions of the labor aristocracy's strict moral code  was 

to serve as an example to lower-paid unskilled workers. 

Across Europe, ___________ was the favorite leisure-time activity of the working class.

drinking

Ignorance and ______________ were most responsible for the poor conditions in early  industrial cities.

the legacy of rural housing conditions

The decline in illegitimacy rates after 1850 was probably the result of

the higher incidence of marriage for expectant mothers.

*My Secret Life* describes

the seamy, underground sex life of a Victorian rake.

According to the ____________ theory of disease, people contract disease when they breathe  the bad odors of decay. 

mismatic

Between 1750 and 1850, there was a/an

illegitimacy explosion.

__________ visited prostitutes. 

Men of all classes

The revolutionary reduction in the size of European families was in large part caused by

the family's desire to improve its economic and social position.

Working-class children were probably under less parental control than middle-class children in  the later nineteenth century because

working-class children went to work and became independent earners earlier.

Generally, Freud postulated that 

human behavior is motivated by unconscious emotional needs. 

In 1900, in almost every advanced country the richest 5 percent of the population received  about _________ percent of all national income.

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Industrial and urban development made nineteenth-century society

more diverse and less unified.

Comte believed that application of the positivist method would result in

discovery of the eternal laws of human relations.

Franziska Tiburtius was one of the few female ____________ of her time.

scientists

Developments in ___________ facilitated the production of synthetic dyes.

chemistry

In the late nineteenth century, masturbation was 

viewed with horror.

According to the text, realist writers fit within the late-nineteenth-century glorification of  science because they 

attempted to observe and record life in an objective manner.

Comte believed that the ________ stage was the culmination of human development.

scientific

__________'s sympathy with socialism is evident in the novel *Germinal.*

Zola

In 1816, the Ottoman Empire was forced to grant _________ autonomy.

Serbia

The first and most important of the Great Reforms in Russia was the

abolition of serfdom.

Which of the following events occurred *first*?

Napoleon III claims the throne in France.

The Russian zemstvo was the

institution for local government established by the Great Reforms. 

In the decades before 1848, ____________ pushed for a centralized democratic Italian  republic. 

Mazzini

Karl Lueger, the popular mayor of Vienna, espoused 

anti-Semitism.

Bismarck's Kulturkampf refers to 

his attack on the Catholic Church in the German Empire. 

In 1831 and 1839, ___________ led efforts to depose Mahmud II. 

Muhammad Ali

Ottoman reformers launched a series of radical reforms in the nineteenth century known as the 

Tanzimat.

The event that directly prompted the Great Reforms in Russia, including the emancipation of  the serfs, was the

defeat in the Crimean War of 1853–1856.

Garibaldi was the leader of the

Red shirts.

Sardinia-Piedmont became the leader of the Italian unification as a result of all of the following  factors *except* 

Austrian support.

____________ seized control of the Ottoman Empire in the revolution of 1908.

The Young Turks

Above all, Louis Napoleon believed that government should represent the

people.

The long-established customs union among the German states was known as the

Zollverein.

The cash crop that revitalized the slave economy of the southern United States in the  nineteenth century was

cotton.

Theodore Herzl was

the founder of the Zionist Jewish national movement. 

After the Franco-Prussian War, Prussia

imposed a harsh peace on France.

All of the following are consequences of the Franco-Prussian War *except*

a wave of social reform in Germany.

Parts of northern Italy were given to __________ at the Congress of Vienna in 1815.

Austria

The greatest impediment to nation building in the United States was 

regional differences exacerbated by slavery.

The Mexican War of 1848

exacerbated tensions between the North and South, as debate erupted over the extension  of slavery into territory acquired from Mexico.

The consequences of the U.S. Civil War included all of the following *except*

equality for its black citizens.

Sergei Witte was 

the minister of finance who led Russian industrialization in the 1890s.

Giuseppe Garibaldi is best described as a/an

romantic nationalist.

In 1881, __________ was assassinated by a small group of terrorists.

Alexander II

Bismarck's social reforms were motivated primarily by

his fear and distrust of socialism.

According to the text, German Social Democrats recovered their losses of the 1907 election  and became the largest party in the Reichstag in 1912, in part because they

took on a more patriotic tone and broadened their base.

The Dreyfus affair

drove a wedge between Catholics and anti-Semites.

Between 1906 and 1914, the Liberal party in Britain was able to accomplish all of the following  *except*

resolve the violent problems of Ireland.

Efforts by members of the House of Lords to block the ___________ in 1906 led to the triumph  of popular democracy in Britain.

People's Budget

By 1914, ___________ was the most industrialized, socialized, and unionized continental  country.

Germany

In his *Evolutionary Socialism*, ____________ suggested that socialists should reform their  doctrines and tactics.

Edward Bernstein

Conflict between China and Britain over the _________ trade led to war in the early 1840s.

opium

In 1750, the average standard of living in Europe, as a whole, was

no higher than the rest of the world.

In 1640, the _________ government decided to seal off the country from all European  influences.

Japanese 

The typical European immigrant was a/an

small farmer or rural craftsperson.

The largest share of European foreign investment went to

sub-Saharan Africa.

British armies remained in Egypt until

1956\. 

Jews made up the immigrant group least likely to return to their native land, primarily because  of 

violent anti-Semitism in eastern Europe.

The large new Asian colony acquired by the United States in the Spanish-American War of 1898  was

the Philippines.

Rudyard Kipling's *white man's burden* referred to

the white race's supposed duty to civilize inferior, nonwhite races.

The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885

set up the terms for the division of most of Africa among European colonial powers.

The Boxer Rebellion was a/an

rebellion of traditionalist Chinese patriots who wished to expel all Westerners from China.

The number of people who left Europe increased rapidly in the years before

World War I.

Between 1750 and 1913, average income in the Third World

was stagnant.

____________ absorbed the largest number of European migrants. 

The United States

Which of the following events occurred *first*?

Perry opens Japan.

Which of the following events occurred *last*?

Conrad publishes *Heart of Darkness.*

Most Asian migrants were

indentured laborers. 

The principle by which the European powers established their claim to an African territory

effective occupation.

The primary factor that influenced whether European immigrants returned to their native  lands was

the possibility of buying land in the home country. 

The Scramble for Africa began in earnest after

1880\.

In his book *Imperialism*, J. A. Hobson maintained all of the following *except* that

imperialism was justified by Darwin's theory of natural selection.

Japan opened its shores to Western trade

in response to U.S. military pressure. 

British settlers came into conflict with the Boers, or __________, over control of South Africa.

Afrikaners

___________ of Belgium formed a financial syndicate to take control of the Congo basin.

Leopold II

The Meiji Restoration featured all of the following *except*

borrowing of Western science and technology.

In 1910, Korea became a colony of

Japan.

Sun Yatsen

advocated overthrow of the Qing Dynasty and the establishment of a Chinese republic.

In the 1880s, the ___________ took control of Indochina.

French

___________ led the United States' effort to gain access to Japanese markets

Matthew Perry

By 1913, world trade had

grown to twenty-five times that of 1800.

Ismail Ali ruled for sixteen years as Egypt's ___________, or prince.

khedive

The all-important goal of the architects of the Meiji Restoration was to

meet the threat posed by outside powers.

Grigori Rasputin was assassinated by

nationalistic aristocrats.

William II's dismissal of Bismarck stemmed, in part, from Bismarck's friendly policy toward

Russia.