Review Final Unit 5 AP World

Laissez-faire means

• more government involvement in business

• government should stay out of business

• government should control all of the prices

• government should control workers salaries

The Industrial Revolution started in

• France

• United States

• Japan

• Britain

The beginning of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain was most influenced by which of the following factors?

• The amount and location of British petroleum reserves
• The location and large number of British coal deposits
• The aggressive promotion of industrialization by George III
• The spread of cotton cultivation in southern England

This philosopher wrote in The Two Treatises of Government that everyone has the right to life, liberty, and property.

• Thomas Hobbes

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• John Locke

• Baron Montesquieu

A major factor in the expansion of industrialization was the development of

• Socialism
• Feudalism
• Land grants
• Railroads

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

All of the following are factors stimulating industrialization EXCEPT

• An organized union movement
• An ample population to serve as a workforce
• Investment in Capital
• Access to natural resources

The American and French Revolutions were both caused in part by

• Food shortages owing to poor harvests
• Problems of royal succession
• High taxation that bred discontent
• Lack of social mobility in the peasant class

The Meiji reforms in Japan resulted in

• The strengthening of hte power of regional lords at the expense of the emperor
• A shift of power away from regional lords and to the emperor
• The Tokugawa shogunate's adoption of a unified civil code
• The overthrow of the imperial system for a democratic republic

Efforts at industrialization in Russia and Japan were similar in that 

• Both began in the early 19th century
• Both followed the termination of long-established institutions
• Both countries developed more centralized governments
• Both countries widely adopted Western practices