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 n 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