AP World History (notebooks 32 to 35)
Topic 5, part 3 (5.6 to 5.9 and Unit 6.1) Questions
1-4. Provide four types of people that are a part of the new Middle Class during the 18th and 19th centuries (yes, we know they’re the gentry and that they’re rich regular people).
Land owners |
bankers |
factory owners |
merchants |
5. Besides the few remaining peasants, who made up the working class?
Unspecialized laborers in the cities |
6-7. What type of groups or entities did the working class see as enemies?
Middle class |
Nobles |
8. Who felt that the best thing for society was the thing that made the greatest amount of people happy?
John Stuart Mill |
9. What was this philosophy called?
Utilitarianism |
10. What is the term used to describe people having the right to vote?
Suffrage |
11. What was the term used to describe an era of political change in the 1800s that argued working class men should be able to vote and participate in government?
Classical Liberalism (Capitalists) |
12-13. Provide two socialist policies (laws) these workers won in the 1830s and 1840s in Great Britain.
Mines act |
factory act 10 Hour act |
14-15. What were the two socialist policies put in place in Germany during the 1880s to avoid unrest and possible working-class revolution?
Old age pensions |
accident insurance workers compensation (comp) |
16. What was the name of the German chancellor that pushed for these changes?
-kaiser william the first was king
Prince Otto Von Bismarck-works for emperor |
17. What is the French word for the middle class?
Bourgeoisie |
18. What is the French word for the working class?
Proletariat |
19-20. Which two men came up with the idea for communism?
Marx |
Engels |
21. What was the book they wrote?
Das kapital |
22. What did they believe needed to be eliminated in order to end class struggles and bring peace?
private property |
23-26. What were the four class struggles of the past (upper class vs. lower class) in the Neolithic, Classical, Post-Classical, and EME/Modern eras?
patrician vs plebeian |
master vs slave |
nobility vs peasants |
middle class vs working class |
27-29. What are the three steps to achieving communism and ending the class struggle?
Proletarian revolution |
communism |
socialism |
30. This is the belief that all governments are oppressive and corrupt, and that humans should overthrow and rid themselves of such oppression.
anarchism |
31. Provide a figure who helped shape this belief.
Mikhail Bakunin |
32. Provide a group of these people who routinely attempted to assassinate the gov. leaders in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Black hand of serbia |
33. This was the 19th century financial instrument that required countries to only print the money they had in gold.
gold standard |
34. This was the 19th century financial instrument that protected businesses from being sued.
LLCS |
35. This was the 19th century financial instrument that allowed people to buy shares of businesses and sell them.
Stock market |
36-37. Provide two examples of economic imperialism.
United fruit |
HSBC |
38. What types of economics tend to depend on one good that was sold to Western buyers/businesses?
single export |
39-43. Provide five example countries that adopted this type of economy.
Peru, Usa, Argentina |
Mexico, Brazil |
44-45. Provide two examples of governments attempting to stop workers from negotiating for better conditions.
Homestead strike |
Pullman strike |
46. This was the name of the movement in which women attempted to win the right to vote.
Women's Suffrage |
47. This is the name of the woman who believed women should work together for the collective much like workers did in unions.
Flora Tristan |
48. This was the English female writer who wrote about the hypocrisy of Enlightenment ideals not been granted women.
Mary Wollstonecraft |
49. This was the French female writer who also wrote about the hypocrisy of Enlightenment ideals being granted to men and not women.
Olympes de Gouge |
50. This was the location of the first women’s suffrage meeting in 1848.
Seneca Falls |
51. This is the document in which they laid out their foundational views at the meeting described above.
Declaration of Sentiments |
52-53. Provide two examples of transcontinental businesses either in Africa or Asia.
unilever |
HSBC |