Regents Review #3 [2025]

Which claim related to the economic situation in 18th-century France is most directly supported by this passage?

• A surplus of grain hurt French farmers.

• Subsidized bread prices led to improved living conditions in French cities.

• Economic competition with England led to agricultural innovation in France.

• Efforts to stimulate industry in France through trade agreements caused unemployment.

Which event was caused in part by the conditions described in this passage?

• German wars of unification

• French Revolution

• French withdrawal from Mughal India

• collapse of the British Empire

Marx and Engels are reacting to changes resulting from

• imperialism

• nationalism

• industrialization

• democratization

Which action did Marx and Engels predict would change the conditions described in this passage?

• revolts by the working class

• use of passive resistance

• adoption of laissez-faire policies

• implementation of government reforms

What was a contributing factor to the historical development shown on this map?

• the abolition of the slave trade

• the growing strength of Asian states

• the lack of seafaring technology

• the desire for markets and raw materials

What was a short-term effect of the uprising described in this passage?

• creation of the independent nation of Haiti

• election of Napoleon Bonaparte as First Consul in France

• introduction of women’s suffrage across Haiti

• emergence of socialist labor reform movements in Latin America

Which group on Saint-Domingue stood to lose most of its wealth and power as a result of the actions described in this passage?

• enslaved Africans

• indigenous peoples

• mulattoes

• French plantation owners

Based on this map, countries from which part of the world gained the most power in Southeast Asia during the late 1800s?

• North America

• Europe

• Africa

• Southwest Asia

Which event played a major role in the expansion shown on this map?

• Russo-Japanese War

• French Revolution

• Industrial Revolution

• World War I

“Not by democracy or liberal standards will our goal be achieved but by blood and iron. Then we will be successful, no nation is born without the traumatic experience of war.” 

—Otto von Bismarck

This statement was used to justify a policy of 

• ethnocentrism

• militarism

• containmemnt

• appeasement