Period 3: Unit 5 & 6 Exam

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The British ownership of most of Argentina’s main railway lines can best be described as an example of which of the following late-nineteenth-century developments? Gunboat diplomacy, The Great Game, Economic imperialism, Social Darwinism

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Economic imperialism

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Which of the following most directly explains the importance of improved agricultural productivity to the industrialization of economic production in western Europe in the period 1750–1900? Options: Because the nutritional quality of food greatly improved, more people were able to sustain the long working hours that factory labor required. Because less labor was needed on farms, more people moved to urban areas to work in factories. Because farmers needed less land to produce the same amount of food, they could build textile factories on the excess land. Because greater quantities of food could be sold at higher prices, governments could tax farmers at higher rates and use those revenues to build factories.

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Because less labor was needed on farms, more people moved to urban areas to work in factories.

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Which of the following factors contributed most to the increase of world population in the period 1750 to 1900 C.E.? A decline in the frequency and deadliness of warfare, Improvements in agricultural productivity and food distribution, Improvements in rural health care, A rapid increase in birth rates throughout the globe

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Improvements in agricultural productivity and food distribution

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The image from Japan during the Meiji Restoration best exemplifies which of the following processes? Attempts by conservative members of society to maintain indigenous traditions, Cultural changes accompanying greater contact with the United States, Greater freedom for women resulting from democratization, Increased emphasis on international cooperation as a result of the lowering of trade barriers

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Cultural changes accompanying greater contact with the United States

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Which of the following most accurately describes the interactions between China and Europe in the nineteenth century? China became isolated politically in part because of its suppression of pro-Western Chinese dissidents., China effectively lost its economic independence to Europe as a result of military losses to European forces., China became a major exporter of manufactured goods to Europe., China and Europe were forced into an uneasy alliance to reverse Japanese imperial expansion in northern China.

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China effectively lost its economic independence to Europe as a result of military losses to European forces.

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In the passage above, Lin Zexu is asking that the British do which of the following? Allow the importation of opium into China, Stop the export of opium to China, Increase trade of opium with China, Legalize opium in China

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Stop the export of opium to China

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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 petroleum. British scientists were the first to discover electricity. Britain had large reserves of coal. British engineers developed new methods of producing cheaper steel.

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Britain had large reserves of coal.

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The sentiments expressed in the quotation above are most supportive of which of the following concepts? Nationalism, Imperialism, Liberalism, Marxism

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Imperialism

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Which of the following European developments is most closely associated with the revolution in Haiti? The Protestant Reformation, The Russian Revolution, The French Revolution, The Industrial Revolution

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The French Revolution

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In what way did the Haitian Revolution differ from the French Revolution?

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The leaders of the Haitian Revolution came from a different social class than did the leaders of the French Revolution.