WHAP - Period 5 Review

The United States Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen reflect a shared concern for

• physical elimination of the ruling class
• confiscation of church property
• protection of private property
• preservation of the monarchy

Most world historians would agree that the key to European predominance in the world economy during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was

• the industrial revolution
• European medical technology
• Spanish control of New World silver
• the Enlightenment

In contrast to initial industrialization, the second Industrial Revolution in the last half of the nineteenth century was particularly associated with the mass production of which of the following?

• textiles, iron, and coal

• textiles, automobiles, and plastics

• airplanes, ships, and radios

• electricity, steel, and chemicals

The North and South American independence movements of the late 18th and early 19th centuries shared which of the following?

• Revolutionary demands based on Enlightenment political ideas
• Reliance on Christain teachings to define revolutionary demands
• Industrial economies that permitted both areas to break free of European control
• Political instability caused by constant warfare among the new states

Which of the following best describes how nineteenth-century European industrialization affected European women's lives?

• By the end of the century, new social welfare legislation made it possible for most women to earn university degrees.
• Married women found it increasingly difficult to balance wage work and family responsibilites.
• By the end of the century, women gained the right to vote in most European countries.
• Women came to dominate the agricultural workforce as men moved to cities to take industrial jobs.

Which of the following was a widespread social consequence of industrialization in the 1800s?

• A decline in the social status of women
• An increase in the power and prestige of the landowning aristocracy
• The general leveling of social hierarchies based on wealth
• The creation of a wage-earning working class concentrated in urban areas

An important reason for China's rapid population increase in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was

• the introduction of new crops from the Americas
• the end of the bubonic plague in Asia
• the widespread adoption of the European three-field system
• unprecedented immigration from the Mughal and Ottoman empires

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

How did the German experience in colonizing Africa differ from that of the British and French?

• The Germans never colonized Africa.
• The British and French were more brutal in their treatment of the natives than the Germans.
• German colonies were less desirable, lost money, and involved brutal wars against the natives.
• The German colonies were the most politically and economically successful in Africa

Which of the following is NOT a trend associated with Europe's Industrial Revolution?

• urbanization
• population growth
• a general decline in prosperity
• the rapid expansion of the middle class