Unit 7: Decolonization

Based on the information in these graphs, identify one cause of the French Revolution.

• Over-taxation of the third estate

• Limited land ownership by the first estate 

• Population decline amongst the second estate 

• Population growth amongst the third estate

Identify one action taken during the French Revolution to address an issue depicted in these charts.

• The revolutionaries created the first Communist government. 

• Napoleon named himself emperor of France.

• Exemptions from taxes for the first and second estates were abolished by the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.

• King Louis XVI was executed.

These documents were most likely written during which historical period?

• The Enlightenment

• Industrial Revolution

• Green Revolution

• World War II

A historian would find these documents most useful for:

• understanding the lives of the upper middle class in the 19th century

• depicting struggles that faced 19th century farmers

• examining the effects of pollution in 19th century cities

• depicting 19th century factory life

What action was taken as a result of testimonies like those in these documents?

• Child labor laws were passed

• Slavery was abolished

• Invention of the steam engine

• World War I

Which statement best describes the Sadler Committee’s purpose in collecting testimonies like the ones written above?

• To figure out how to get factory workers to be more efficient.

• To test the education levels of factory workers.

• To estimate how much cloth British factories produced in 1832.

• To inform the government and public of the conditions that children experience in factories.

The message of this poem was used by many Europeans to justify:

• Industrialism

• Feudalism

• Imperialism

• Fascism

Based on this poem, which action would Kipling have most likely supported?

• The British sharing equal power with Indians in the colonial government in 1899.

• The British using child labor in textile factories in India. 

• The British establishing coal mines in India.

• The British establishing schools in India to teach Indian children English and British culture.

Identify a policy most closely associated with the historical developments depicted in this map.

• Communism

• Imperialism

• Zionism

• Pacifism

Which of these contributed to the historical developments depicted in this map?

• The start of World War II

• Chinese Communist Revolution

•  Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Industrialization in Japan