World History Chp. 23 Test

The 1848 revolution in France resulted in

• new opportunities for workers

• middle-class uprisings

• restoration of the monarchy

• the creation of the Second Empire

The Frankfurt Assembly failed to achieve

• peace with France

• religious reforms

• German unification

• universal male suffrage

The social change brought about by the Industrial Revolution was evident in the

• emergence of the middle class and the working class

• famines caused by families abandoning their farms

• cloud of air pollution that choked the British Isles

• growing death rates from accidents on the roads

The effect of the Crimean War was to

• allow Russia to retain control of Moldavia and Walachia

• plunge the Estonian economy into a long period of decline

• strengthen the Concert of Europe with the addition of France

• destroy the Concert of Europe and leave Russia without allies

The revolutionary outbursts in Europe in the 1830s and the 1840s were sparked by attitudes of

• romanticism

• nationalism

• conservatism

• religious intolerance

The factory created a new labor system in which

• products were produced by an assembly line of workers and animals

• workers had to work regular hours and perform repetitive tasks

• machines were valued more highly than the workers who ran them

• workers had to adjust to periods of hectic work followed by idle periods

The harsh conditions created by the Industrial Revolution gave rise to

• a movement toward socialism

• the Iron Workers Revolt of 1886

• the organization of charitable groups

• government oversight of factories

One reason Great Britain led the way in the Industrial Revolution was that it

• disregarded the dignity of factory workers

• was ruled by a constitutional monarchy

• had a lot of money and natural resources

• practiced laissez-faire economics

The greatest threat to American unity in the mid-1800s was

• slavery

• industrialization

• British imperialism

• religious intolerance

Foreign investors ensured their continued domination of the Latin American economy by

• enlisting powerful caudillos to subdue any possible uprisings among the peasant classes

• draining raw materials from Latin American countries while keeping them dependent on manufactured goods

• building factories in urban areas of Latin America while eliminating gas crops

• refusing to develop transportation and communication systems in rural areas of Latin American