POP Quiz 1.23.23

Which of the following events in the late 19th and early 20th centuries represents a continuation of the process described in the passage above?

• Efforts to restrict immigration to the United States

• Political parties’ attempts to regulate economic activities

• The abolishment of slavery in and around the United States of America.

• The United States gaining possession of overseas territories

Based on the excerpt, one can assume a cause of the American Revolution was due to

• The disagreement over whether slavery should continue in the south.

• The people were no longer willing to accept economic statutes imposed on them without their censent.

• Changes the government needed just to improve the lives of a few and not everyone.

• Separating the people into groups based solely on their skin color or nationality.

The claims made in this passage were most likely influenced by whom?

• John Locke's advocation of the alienable rights each person has from birth.

• Mary Wollstonecraft's insistence that all women be educated.

• Montesquieu's suggestion no one man should have absolute power and that power be separated.

• Thomas Hobbes' belief in a leader to unite opposing minds under one government.

Based on the information and the graph, what was the mst likely reason for the creation of the 'Committee of Public Safety'?

• To protect France's Democratic movement from outside attacks from England and Spain.

• To legitimize the rule of the Jacobins and Robespierre's growing dictatorship.

• To return power to the previous monarchy and prevent further revolts.

• To ensure fair and equal rights were protected under the law.

Which claim is best supported by the graph?

• The nobility and supporters of the 2nd Estate were the primary target for people's aggression.

• The majority of individuals executed represented the third estate and not the upper class.

• Most of the commoners class was safe from these executions.

• No clergy members were targeted suggesting religious patrons were the most safe.

This image best represents...

• the hierarchical organization of France's Old Regime known as the 'Three Estates.'

• Britain's beliefs regarding Mercantilism and the need for colonies.

• The unfair treatment of immigrant workers by national citizens.

• an attempt to educate Europeans of the injustices of slavery.

In the context of 1789, these paintings underline what serious problem?

• The third estate was unfairly burdened with supporting the lifestyles of the first and second estate.

• The inability of the three estates to unite despite being in close proximity to one another.

• Groups could not agree on how best to support the church and enlightened ideas simultaneously.

• The royal family forced opposing groups to unite rather than allow natural groupings.

What political shortcomings prevented changes to the social order of France prior to the French Revolution?

• The king could veto any vote and undermined the entire process with his own selfish agenda.

• Only clergy and nobles could vote, not commoners.

• Though voting did occur, each group was only given one vote to represent the entire estate despite vast differences in population size.

• Women had fewer votes than men.

Which answer best identifies a claim made by the authors of this excerpt?

• Footbinding was predominantly practiced by wealthy class women to avoid physical labor.

• Foot-binding persisted in villages in order to keep young girls stationary to complete routine sedentary work.

• Footbinding increased with the Industrial revolution as China now had to compete with foriegn imports.

• Women also practiced other forms of body distortion including the binding of hands and faces.

Which of the following pieces of historical evidence, if true, best refutes the claims made by this author?

• Foot-binding endured longest in areas where it still made economic sense to produce goods like cloth at home

• It began to decline in the 20th century due to to ideological campaigns led by missionaries and reformers.

• Footbinding heavily reduced a woman's ability to work including the ability to carry heavy spools of thread.

• Young girls learned to spin around the same age their mothers began to bind their feet.