AP World History- Unit 5

Simon Bolivar, Jamaica Letter, 1815

The quotation above best supports which of the following conclusions about the author's motives for resistance to Spanish colonial rule in Latin America?

• Bolivar opposed the use of Native Americans and Africans as forced laborers in Latin America.

• Bolivar rejected Spanish mercantilist policies that restricted free trade in Latin America.

• Bolivar was alarmed by the excessive consumerism in the Spanish empire

• Bolivar hoped to undo the effects of the columbian exchange

slavery and serfdom were abolished in the 1860s in

• Great Britain and Brazil

• the United States and Russia

• France and Algeria

• Austria-Hungary

• China and the Ottoman Empire

After the abdication of the last Qing emperor in China in 1912, the new republican government adopted a new national flag (the so-called five-races-together-in-harmony flag) in which five stripes represented the five main ethnic groups: the Han Chinese, the Manchus, the Tibetans, the Uighurs, and the Mongols. The adoption of the flag is an example of which of the following processes?

• Governmental efforts of the new states undo the tolerant ethnic and religious policies of their imperial predecessors in order to promote greater uniformity

• Governmental efforts of the new states to reduce heir political and economical dependence on former colonial powers

• Efforts by authoritarian governments to mobilize all segments of society for a conflict with foreign powers

• Governmental efforts of multinational states to promote a new nationalist identity that would help prevent the emergence of ethnic separatism

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?

• 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

Abd al-Raham al-Jabarti, Egyptian religious scholar and resident of Cairo, eyewitness chronicle of the French occupation of Egypt, 1798-1801

Which of the following claims does Napoleon make about religion in he document al-Jabarti quotes in the second paragraph?

• the French had come to convert Egypt to Christianity

• the French had come to abolish slavery

• the French did not wish to change the religion of the people of Egypt

• the French state was not based on the principles of the Enlightenment

Which of the following claims does al-Jabarti make about the French?

• The French are Muslim but pretend to be Christian

• The French are Christian but pretend to be Muslim

• The French do not believe in either Christianity or Islam

• The French have created a new religion of their own

During the 19th century Asian and African rulers usually desired transfer of which of the following western technologies most?

• medicines

• Weapons

• Navigational instruments

• Textile manufacturing equipment

• Chemical fertilizers

Harold Baron, British historian, book describing the chemical industry of Europe, published in 1909

The emergence of the German industries referred to in the passage is most directly explained by which of the following processes in the 19th century?

• The spread of new industrial technology such as the internal combustion engine from the United States

• The development of new methods of production during the second industrial revolution

• The greater diversity of manufactured goods produced by industrial factories

• The growing importance of using Cole as fuel in the industrial production

Harold Baron, British historian, book describing the chemical industry of Europe, published in 1909

Great Britain development of the industry referred to in the first paragraph during the late 18th and 19th centuries is best explained by the fact that British factories were the first to

• use steam powered machines for large scale economic production

• Use natural resources from colonies to create finished products

• Use coerced labor for producing manufactured goods

• Take advantage of mercantilist economic policies to protect themselves from foreign competition

Harold Baron, British historian, book describing the chemical industry of Europe, published in 1909

which of the following developments in the 19th century would most likely help explain the sizing composition of the workforce at the bear plant as described in the second paragraph?

• Deconstruction of railroads facilitated the migration of people to interior regions

• The invention of steam ships facilitated the migration of colonial subjects to imperial metropoles

• The invention of the telegraph made it easier for companies to recruit educated workers from across the world

• The discovery of electricity made rural communities more attractive places to live for wealthy urbanites