Regents Review 1.20

What was an important contribution of the sankin kōtai (alternate attendance) system to the modernization of Japan?

• Japan’s people developed a stronger sense of national cultural unity.

• Japan’s government established control over Western intellectuals forced to live in Osaka.

• Japan improved its railroad system by connecting the countryside to the cities.

• Japan increased the power of the daimyo during the Tokugawa shogunate.

The purpose of the Tokugawa’s sankin kōtai (alternate attendance) system is similar to the purpose of

• British suffragettes who demanded Parliament grant women the right to vote

• King Louis XIV of France who required nobles to stay at Versailles

• Simón Bolívar who expected the indigenous people to rise up against the Spanish

• European countries that divided up the African continent

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?

• collapse of the British Empire

• French withdrawal from Mughal India

• German wars of unification

• French Revolution

What was Lin Zexu’s purpose for writing this letter to Queen Victoria?

• to negotiate opening trade between China and Britain

• to attempt to stop the flow of opium into China

• to address the injuries the Chinese inflicted on the British

• to gain independence from unjust British rule

What is a long-term consequence of the historical development discussed in this 1839 letter?

• establishment of British spheres of influence in China

• accumulation of great wealth by the Chinese at British expense

• successful enforcement of a Chinese embargo on all British imports

• creation of a mutually beneficial trade alliance between Britain and China

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?

• implementation of government reforms

• adoption of laissez-faire policies

• use of passive resistance

• revolts by the working class

The division of the mandates into these states caused future conflicts because

• the Ottoman Empire thought it could easily conquer the divided territories

• Britain received a larger territorial mandate than France did

• none of the territories were turned over to German control as they had been promised

• the boundaries failed to fully recognize competing religious and ethnic interests

The situation shown on this map played a direct role in the

• building of the Suez Canal

• invasion of Afghanistan

• series of Arab-Israeli wars

• admission of Turkey to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)