AP World History Period 3-6

Which of the following statements about the Manchus after the mid-1600s is accurate?

• (A)They lived in a highly urbanized society in Manchuria.
• (A)They rejected Confucianism and its rules.
• (A)They founded the long-lasting Qing dynasty in China.
• (A)They concentrated on creating an independent and productive peasant class.

Mughal leader Babur’s main goal in conquering India was to

• (A)Build an extensive empire
• (A)Win converts for his dream of a universal religion
• (A)Act as a champion of Shi’ite Islam
• (A)Be recognized as leading a jihad

The first Industrial Revolution in great Britain was initially based on which of the following?

• (A)Rubber
• (A)Textiles
• (A)Steel rails
• (A)Electricity

The wars of independence in Latin America in the early nineteenth century resulted in which of the following?

• (A)Rapid industrialization in the region
• (A)Gender equality
• (A)Racial equality
• (A)Few changes in social structure

“The yellow and white races which are to be found on the globe have been endowed by nature with intelligence and fighting capacity.  They are fundamentally incapable of giving way to each other.  Hence, glowering and poised for a fight, they have engaged in battle in the world of evolution, the great arena where strength and intelligence have clashed since earliest times, the great theater where for so long natural selection and progress have played out.” The quotation above by an early twentieth-century Chinese revolutionary illustrates the influence of

• (A)Social Darwinism
• (A)Communism
• (A)National Socialism
• (A)Anarchism

Which of the following pairs of countries ended coerced labor in the decade of the 1860s?

• (A)France and China
• (A)Brazil and Great Britain
• (A)Russia and the United States
• (A)Germany and Japan

Which of the following contributed most to the growth of nationalism in the period 1750 to 1914?

• (A)The spread of social welfare legislation
• (A)Advances in scientific knowledge
• (A)The pressure of rapid population growth
• (A)European imperialism

Which of the following nations was the most attractive military model for nineteenth-century Japanese and Ottoman government officials?

• (A)Mexico
• (A)Great Britain
• (A)France
• (A)The German Empire

One of the main goals of the Mexican Revolution (1910 – 1920) was to

• (A)Expel Europeans from Mexico
• (A)Close the border with the United States
• (A)Cooperate with the Catholic Church to institute social reforms
• (A)End the unequal system of land ownership

Which of the following arose out of dissatisfaction with the treaties ending the First World War?

• (A)The Indian National Congress
• (A)The Boxer Rebellion
• (A)The May Fourth Movement
• (A)The Meiji Restoration