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WorksheetsAPWMH Unit 5 (1750-1900)
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All of the following factors contributed to significant growth in worldwide population from 1750 through 1900 EXCEPT
decline of epidemic disease
introduction of Western Hemisphere food crops to new areas
expansion of land under cultivation
new grain crops developed in the Green Revolution
All of the following have been African contributions to cultures in the Americas EXCEPT
African forms of religious observance
African musical forms
knowledge of how to grow African crops
African folklore
African monetary systems
The trade patterns shown on the map above depict
British imports of raw cotton and exports of finished cotton in the 1850s
major slave trading routes in the nineteenth century
alternate trade routes that developed as a result of the disruption caused by the Napoleonic Wars
routes that developed in response to the building of railroads in North America
illicit drug routes that developed in the second half of the twentieth century
Before 1870, the European presence in Africa was characterized primarily by
military conquests of large territories administered as military states
intense colonization and settlement of large areas
active international interaction through trade and diplomacy
coastal enclaves for trade and a few settlements
frequent coastal raids along with racial segregation imposed on conquered peoples
Between 1450 and 1750, which of the following were produced on large plantations by slave labor for the world market?
Wheat and barley
Corn and beans
Bananas and oranges
Sugar and tobacco
Between 1500 and 1800, Europeans were primarily interested in tropical colonies in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans and in the Caribbean because
large profits could be made from products like sugar, coffee, and pepper
the major European states were competing with each other for imperial hegemony
these colonies had strategic military importance
these areas had small populations and were thus easy to control
many Europeans were interested in getting away from Europe’s wintry climate
Between 1750 and 1900, which of the following industrializing states created an empire?
Japan
China
Brazil
Argentina
Darwin’s theories were interpreted by Social Darwinists to indicate that
select human groups would dominate those less fit
European countries were more nationalistic
non-White groups were better adapted to tropical climates
imperialism went against the theory of natural selection
education would lead to equality
In the late nineteenth century, European imperialism in both Africa and China was characterized by
widespread trade in opium
the encouragement of slavery
extensive conquest of territory
small military enclaves along coastlines
competition among imperialist powers
In the period 1450—1750, which of the following, produced on large plantations by slave labor, were significant commodities in the growing world market?
Grains such as wheat and barley
Tropical fruits such as bananas and oranges
Animal products such as wool and beef
Cash crops such as sugar and tobacco
In the period 1500 to 1750, the population of the Portuguese colony of Brazil grew rapidly and became predominantly African. Which of the following best explains these demographic changes?
The adoption of indigenous food crops by African migrants
Portuguese loss of colonial holdings in the Indian Ocean
The rapid natural increase of Brazil’s early slave population
The increase in global demand for cash crops such as sugar
In the three centuries after Columbus’ voyages, most of the people who came to the Western Hemisphere originated in which of the following regions?
Southern Europe
Northern Europe
Western Africa
Eastern Africa
East Asia
Most world historians would agree that the key to European predominance in the world economy during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was
the Industrial Revolution
European medical technology
Spanish control of New World silver
Portuguese naval and firearms technology
the Enlightenment
The “second Industrial Revolution” in the last half of the nineteenth century was associated with the mass production of which of the following groups of products?
Textiles, iron, and coal
Textiles, automobiles, and plastics
Airplanes, ships, and radios
Electricity, automobiles, and airplanes
Electricity, steel, and chemicals
The Columbian Exchange involved which of the following new connections in the era 1450–1750?
European food to the Western Hemisphere; Western Hemisphere diseases to Europe; African population to Europe
Western Hemisphere technology to Africa; African food to Europe; European population to the Western Hemisphere
European technology to Africa; Western Hemisphere population to Africa; African food to the Western Hemisphere
African population to the Western Hemisphere; Western Hemisphere food to Europe and Africa; African and European diseases to the Western Hemisphere
The economies of the southern colonies of colonial British America developed most like colonial economies in
Canada
the Dutch East Indies
the Caribbean and Brazil
Ireland and Scotland
Massachusetts and New York
The North and South American independence movements of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries shared which of the following?
Limitation of civil rights to a minority of the population
Reliance on Christian teachings to define revolutionary demands
Industrial economies that permitted both areas to break free of European control
The desire of a majority of revolutionary leaders to create a politically united hemisphere
Political instability caused by constant warfare among the new states
The policies of the Meiji reformers brought about which of the following in Japan?
An improvement in the economic condition of the peasants
The collapse of the industrial sector of the economy
An increase in isolationism among government leaders
A reduction in military expenditures
The promotion of rapid industrialization
The success of European powers in penetrating the Asian trading system by 1600 can best be explained by the
Asian demand for luxury goods
European use of steam power
high demand for European agricultural produce in China and India
lower prices of European manufactured products
opening of rich silver mines in Peru and Mexico
The United States Bill of Rights and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen reflect a shared concern for
physical elimination of the ruling class
confiscation of church property
protection of private property
preservation of the monarchy
establishment of a parliamentary system
Which of the following best characterizes Western imperialist expansion in the late nineteenth century?
Western fears of the spread of Japanese influence
Western investment to create self-sufficient economies in the new colonies
An unprecedented amount of territory colonized in a short period of time
The establishment of political institutions to resolve ethnic and religious conflicts within colonies
The decline of British and United States influence in international affairs
Which of the following best describes the impact on African society of the trade depicted on the map?
Gender and family roles were restructured as the male population in West Africa diminished.
Bantu peoples increasingly migrated southwards and eastwards.
African societies became increasingly monotheistic as they adopted Islam.
African states underwent significant urbanization as rural agricultural populations diminished.
Which of the following best explains the relative volume of trade to different destinations as shown on the map?
The need for labor in new mining centers
The traditional use of enslaved soldiers by the Ottoman Empire
The increasing demand for labor on cash crop plantations
The growing desire for household servants among emerging commercial elites
Which of the following best explains why Japan was more successful than China in resisting imperialist encroachments in the nineteenth century?
Japan’s manipulaiton of the rivalries among western governments
The introduction of democracy by the Meiji Restoration
The willingness of Japan’s elite to sponsor reform
Lack of interest in Japanese markets
Abundant natural resources
Which of the following describes the major impact of the introduction of coffee growing in places like Kenya and El Salvador after 1880 ?
The end of taxes paid to the government in cash
The weakening of the European colonial military and landowning elite
Access to cheaper food for Africans and Latin Americans
Increased control over the land by Africans and Latin Americans
Greater dependence on foreign markets by Africans and Latin Americans
Which of the following developments in the Western Hemisphere most directly resulted from the French Revolution?
The expansion of the slave trade in the Americas
The extension of the plantation economy in the Caribbean
The colonization of Brazil
The British conquest of Quebec
The creation of the first independent Black republic in the Americas
Which of the following facilitated European expansion in Asia in the nineteenth century?
The popularity of democratic values among Asians
A general easing of tensions and cooperative expeditions among European powers
Europe’s development of new military technologies
Asians’ lack of resistance to European diseases
Europe’s ability to send numerically superior armies to Asia
Which of the following is most likely to have influenced eighteenth-century population trends in both Europe and China?
A sharp decline in average global temperatures
Introduction of Western Hemisphere crops
The rise of parliamentary governments
Innovation in birth control measures
Improvement in surgical procedures
What was the central theme that Enlightenment thinkers were writing about?
Divine Right Theory
Debating taxation
Relationship between people and government
Increasing the power of the Church
What is the social contract theory?
People should give up some freedoms so that as a group, everyone is cared for
People should abstain from following any system of Government
All men were born equal with natural rights: life, liberty, property
Government should not be controlled by religion
Which Enlightenment thinker had the concept that all men have natural rights (life, liberty, property)? This thinker also inspired the ideas in the Declaration of Independence.
John Locke
Charles Montesquieu
Thomas Hobbes
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
What concept below would the Enlightenment philosophers be most likely to agree upon?
Government should be dictated by the Divine Right Theory
Citizens should never be involved in how the Government is ran
People should get to choose how the government controls them
There should be no separation between Church and Government
What was the main reason the American colonists wanted freedom from Great Britain?
They wanted their own Monarch
Taxation without representation
They never wanted to be free from Great Britain, Great Britain wanted rid of the colonies
Great Britain wanted to end slavery
Many Enlightenment thinkers had strong beliefs about:
The role of government
Scientific method
Industrial growth
Increase of wealth
What was the Reign of Terror
The event that started the French Revolution
The event that led to 17,000 French citizens to be killed by the Guillotine
A mob that stormed the Bastille in Paris, France
The event that started the American Revolution
While ruling France, which of the following changes was Napoleon NOT able to bring about?
create an efficient government
increase women's rights
impose fair taxes
Napoleonic Code
What is Enlightenment?
Eloquently stating your opinion
A time period of reason and logic about how government should work
A rebirth of Art and Science
A time period of rebuilding social structure
Of the following enlightenment thinkers, who developed the idea for the social contract?
Charles Montesquieu
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Voltaire
John Locke
Life, liberty, and property are also known as?
Unalienable Rights
Essential Rights
Natural Rights
Original Rights
This philosopher wrote in The Two Treatises of Government that everyone has the right to life, liberty, and property.
Thomas Hobbes
Mary Wollstonecraft
John Locke
Baron Montesquieu
Laissez-faire means
more government involvement in business
government should stay out of business
government should control all of the prices
government should control workers salaries
Jethro Tull invented the
cotton gin
steam engine
seed drill
spinning jenny
Which of the following events that occurred that year BEST supports that contention that Historians often consider 1812 a turning point in the history of Napoleonic France?
Napoleon’s invasion of Russia resulted in Moscow’s destruction, but he was forced to withdraw.
Switzerland and the Ottoman empire remained neutral, weakening Napoleon’s control of the continent.
Great Britain’s blockade of European ports failed.
American intervention as Great Britain’s ally forced Napoleon into exile.
Which of the following represents the most significant cause for the unification of Germany in the nineteenth century?
The strength of the Austrian Hapsburg empire was a threat to Germany if unification did not occur.
German pacifism and withdrawal from the international scene allowed for focus on unification.
The Germans provoked wars with three neighboring countries to strengthen German nationalism.
Speeches and elections had served to help unify the German people in 1848 and 1849.
Which of the following BEST describes a significant influence on the time frame for Italian political unification?
Massive Italian immigration to the Americas and Australia included many potential revolutionaries that weakened the process toward unification.
Civil war erupted and the drive to unify the country was successfully resisted by several Italian states.
Austrian and Spanish power blocked attempts to unify Italy, and the country remained divided into a variety of small states until the early twentieth century.
The last of the Italian lands to renounce independence and join the new nation was the Papal States, where the Roman Catholic Church resisted unification.
Which of the following describes a major change that occurred as a result of the Haitian revolution?
Five hundred gens de couleur were dispatched to British North America to assist the rebellious Americans against the British and they return to Haiti to serve as a militia for the white colonists.
Haiti became the only republic founded from the result of a slave revolt.
Intervention by the French, British, and Spanish successfully protected the interests of French planters in Saint-Domingue, later Haiti.
The gens de couleur (French for “people of color”), free mulattos and blacks, were wiped out by an alliance of French settlers and slaves that they armed.
Whose philosophy greatly influenced the creation of a political structure where the government drew its authority from “the consent of the governed” and is the basis for the contractual view of the Declaration of Independence?
Edmund Burke.
John Locke.
John Stuart Mill.
William Wilberforce.
Most revolutions produce a strong leading figure; the French Revolution allowed which of the following to assume great power?
Jean Lafitte
King Louis XVI
Lafayette
Robespierre
Which of the following were similar reasons for rebellion between the French Revolution and the American Revolution?
New proposed political structures
The privileges and influence of religious leaders
Transformation of the social class structure
Unfair systems of taxation
Which of the following was the basis for the intellectual concepts of the eighteenth-century political foundations?
Mercantilism
The Enlightenment
the Reconquista
The Reformation
Which of the following was least likely an influence for the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) led by Toussaint Louverture?
Other successful slavery uprisings
Social reforms spreading across Europe.
The ideals of the Enlightenment.
The American and French revolutions.
Which of the following best refers to Saint-Domingue's importance to France?
It was a buffer to the Spanish colonial presence in the Caribbean.
It was connected to the African slave trade network.
The island's location was of a strategic military position in the western hemisphere.
The plantation crops grown on the island generated wealth.
Which phrase best sums up the guiding principles of the French Revolution?
“all men are created equal.”
“liberty, equality, fraternity.”
“no taxation without representation.”
“peace, bread, land.”
Why have the Atlantic revolutions been described as democratic revolutions?
They permanently eliminated the monarchy as a viable political system.
Their common objective was to end the slave trade and abolish slavery.
Their overall thrust was to extend political rights further than ever before.
They fought for universal human rights for all, regardless of race or sex.
In contrast to the American Revolution, the French Revolution
experienced no participation by women.
sought to recreate society from scratch.
drew on Enlightenment ideas about liberty.
sought to preserve existing liberties.
The Atlantic revolutions were inspired by the Enlightenment belief that political and social arrangements
could be improved by human action.
were justified by the divine right of kings.
were driven by economic forces.
should be regulated by church authority.
Machiavelli thought is was better to be
Feared
Loved
Someone who pays for artists is called a
Reformer
Patron
Jesuit
Benefactor
Renaissance Artists studied who for inspiration
Greeks and Romans
Chinese and Indians
Medieval artists
Arabic texts
The Printing press made the cost of books
Increase
Decrease
Stay the same
What major trade city was the center of renaissance art?
London
Jerusalem
Florence
Munich
A piece of paper that you pay for to go to heaven is called
Theses
Indulgences
Freedom paper
Jesuit tokens
Why did King Henry want a divorce
His wife was mean
He wanted to have a son
He was afraid of Predestination
He fell in love with a servant
During the Counter-Reformation, who was trying to maintain strength
Catholics
Lutherans
Polytheist
Anglicans
Which of these DOES NOT represent an early achievement in women's suffrage and equality?
writings of Mary Wollstonecraft
Declaration of Independence
Seneca Falls Convention
Olympe De Gouges
Rotating different crops in and out of a field each year is called
urbanization
crop rotation
interchangeable parts
enclosure movement
In 1801, he became the governor of Egypt
Sultan Selim
Muhammad Ali
Mahmud
Sinan
The Sultan's (Ottoman Empire) army was composed of a highly organized elite unit called the
Tanzimat
Janissaries
Mamluks
Qzilabash
What is the name of the movement that promotes the interests of a particular nation due to intense pride?
A revolution
Protestantism
Enlightenment
Nationalism
Which of the following revolutions were based on discontent with imperial and monarchist rule?
The American Revolution
The French Revolution
The Haitian Revolution
Ottomanism
Which nation was the first to industrialize?
Britain
France
Germany
Japan
What effect did specialization of labor have on the workplace?
It led to more unskilled labor in factories
It led to more skilled labor in factories
How did industrialization affect colonies like India and Egypt?
It led to decline in these countries' share of global manufacturing
It led to increase in these countries' share of global manufacturing
The 1st Industrial Revolution focused on factories and steam power. The 2nd Industrial Revolution focused on all of the following except:
Oil
Electricity
The steam engine
Steel
As countries embraced Adam Smith's capitalism laissez faire policies, what new forms of business were promoted?
corporations
monopolies
socialism
transnational businesses
All of the following were reactions to industrialization's negative effects on workers except:
Labor unions
Communism
The invisible hand
Utilitarianism
Accurate effects of industrialization on society include
Poor working and living conditions for the lower class
Increased standard of living for middle and upper classes
Lower class families working closer together in their homes
More accessible and cheaper goods
Toussant L'Ouverture
was a member of the Committee of Public Safety under Robespierre
rose to the rank of General under Napoleon
was a complete revolutionary failure
helped free slaves in Haiti
Mexico was liberated from
the United States
the Spanish
the Portuguese
the Spanish and later (after a brief take over) the French
The following is associated with the view of the Philosophes
man is created good
there should be no capital punishment
freedom of speech but not the press
all of the above
Mary Wollstonecraft is associated with
the Industrial Revolution
the Enlightenment
the French Revolution
none of these
Italian unification had as its architect
Bismarck coupled with opportunity
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Giuseppe Mazzini
Count Cavour together with the support of Garibaldi
Luddites
agitated for better wages for factory workers
were Utopian Socialist
adapted Marxism
hated machines
Socialism believes
that the means of production should be communally owned
that the move to a communal society is inevitable
that land should be the measure of wealth
that poverty will always exit
Classical Liberals believe
all of these
that the economy is a natural process
that population will always grow faster than food supply
that poverty will always exit in some form
A 19th century Conservative believes in
money as a measure of wealth
that there should me no attempt to help the poor
the status quo
in an eventual social revolution of the proletariat
Jean Jacques Dessalines is best know for
his driving French forces from Haiti
his leadership in Latin America
creating the first commercial steam engine
as a Philosophe
Russia's industrial process can best be described as
evolving organically by Russian middle class investors
directed by outside colonial powers
rapid because of the maintenance of serfdom
directed by the state through ministers like Sergei Witte
Who best represents a reasoned defense of monarchy
John Locke
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Thomas Hobbes
Rene Descartes
Under the Tokugawa Japan was
a major trading nation
rapidly industrializing
bankrupt
isolated
Which of the following revolutions was impacted by Napoleon Bonaparte
French
Haitian
Latin American
All of these
Commander Perry is connected to
the opening of Japan for trade
the attack on China during the Opium wars
Russia's rapid growth as a power
the defeat of the Napoleon
Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations describes
Utopian Communist communities
Democratic Republicanism
Laissez Faire Economics
Mercantilism as an ideal economic system
Industrialism in Egypt differed from Industrialism in England in that
It was driven more by the state then independent capitalists
It was driven more by independent capitalists than the state
In did not involve foreign intervention
Machines were adapted much less in production
Bolivar envisioned
a Grand Columbia united all the liberate South American states
a united Portugal and Spain
a Spanish takeover of Portuguese Brazil
a loosely knit confederation of South American States
Maximillian Robespierre's reign in France during the Revolution was characterized by...
Increased taxes
Mass executions
A period of peace
A period marked by warfare
Why did King Louis XIV of France build the massive new royal palace at Versailles?
He forced the nobles to live there, thereby maintaining control over them.
Forced the nobles to be educated there
Enslaved the nobles
To prevent the nobles from mistreating the peasants
Which scientist discovered the circulatory system of the human body?
Galileo Galilei
Isaac Newton
Johannes Kepler
William Harvey
Why was the concept of "divine right" so important for absolute monarchs in Europe?
reserved governmental positions for the clergy.
It gave kings real supernatural powers
guaranteed natural, inalienable rights to the people.
justified the king's right to rule.
Which of the following was a result of the Enlightenment?
It stifled (slowed down) scientific and technological progress
It led to an increase in absolute monarchies
It led to increased religious intolerance
It fueled democratic revolutions around the world.
Which of the following events is associated with the French Revolution?
The Reign of Terror
The Battle of Yorktown
The Watergate Scandal
The Boston Tea Party
Which of the following was an invention or innovation developed during the Enlightenment?
All-weather roads that improved year-round transportation and trade.
Improvements in ship design that lowered the cost of transportation.
New thoughts about the use and purpose of political power and what an ideal government looked like.
The Guillotine
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
James Madison
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Jethro Tull
What does the heliocentric theory state is at the center of the universe?
The Earth
Jupiter
Heaven
The Sun
Which of these events came first?
The American Revolution
The French Revolution
Napoleon Bonaparte taking power in France
The Mexican Revolution
Who was the father of modern physics, as well as the creator of calculus and the discoverer of gravity.
William Harvey
Nicolaus Copernicus
Galileo Galilei
Isaac Newton
This astronomer confirmed the Heliocentric Model of the Universe by observing the moons of Jupiter through his telescope.
Galileo Galilei
Issac Newton
Johannes Kepler
Nicolaus Copernicus
This astronomer discovered the Heliocentric Model of the Universe by tracking "heavenly bodies" in the night sky and applying math to their paths.
Galileo Galilei
Isaac Newton
Johannes Kepler
Nicolaus Copernicus
This astronomer refined the Heliocentric Model of the Universe by discovering that the planets did not orbit the sun in circular patterns, but instead in elliptical patterns.
Johannes Kepler
Galileo Galilei
Isaac Newton
William Harvey
Industrialism in Egypt differed from Industrialism in England in that
It was driven more by the state then independent capitalists
It was driven more by independent capitalists than the state
In did not involve foreign intervention
Machines were adapted much less in production
Where did the Industrial Revolution begin?
Russia
United States
Germany
Great Britain
This concentrated labor in a single location and led to the division of labor
domestic system
cottage industry
factory system
globalization
Invented the steam engine
Thomas Edison
James Watt
James Hargreaves
Henry Bessemer
The first industry to be mechanized
textiles
precision machinery
canned food
pencils
The Enclosure Movement forced poor English peasants off their land, with many moving to cities to find work.
True
False
Invented the smallpox vaccine
Aristotle
Marie Curie
Edward Jenner
Louis Pasteur
Germ theory of disease
Louis Pasteur
Edward Jenner
James Hargreaves
Adam Smith
A major goal of labor unions was _________.
strikes
collective bargaining
longer hours
communist revolution
Scottish economist who wrote The Wealth of Nations (1776)
J.S. Mill
Jeremy Bentham
David Hume
Adam Smith
Adam Smith compared the forces of supply and demand in a free market to
the foundation of a house
a revolving wheel
a hammer and nail
an invisible hand
Who wrote the pamphlet The Communist Manifesto in 1848?
Adam Smith and David Hume
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
George Bernard Shaw
Batman and Robin
All of the following are communist beliefs EXCEPT:
need for revolution
class conflict as driving force in history
strong belief in nationalism
inevitability of capitalism's demise
The "second industrial revolution" from 1850 to 1900 featured all of the following EXCEPT
steel
computers
chemicals
electricity
What is the movement of people from farms to cities?
Utilitarianism
Urbanization
Proletariat
Enclosure Movement
A place where people and machines join together to mass produce goods.
Cartel
Corporation
Factory
Urbanization
The Industrial revolution created a new ____________ class.
Upper
Poor
Lower
Middle
Known as the Father of modern economics, author of Wealth of Nations, based on the principle of Laissez-Faire?
Adam Smith
David Ricardo
Thomas Malthus
John Wesley
In which European country did the Industrial Revolution begin?
France
Britian
Prussia
Spain
Which of the following is considered an impact of Industrialization during the 18th and 19th centuries?
Increased competition between industrialized nations
Rise of global inequalities
Transformation of society.
All of the above
Capitalism is
An economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and money is invested to make profits.
An economic system in which the means of production are owned by the public (government) and operate for the welfare of all.
Some of the machines invented in the 18th and 19th centuries are:
telephones, geographic positioning system, radios, airplanes
steam engine, railroads, flying shuttle, phonograph, steam ships, light bulb
sailboats, automobiles, wheel barrels, clocks, word processors
automatic washer, hair dryer, rockets, space shuttles
Industrialism leads to
rapid rural population expansion
an increase of power in landed investors
a shift in the measure of wealth
an demand for skilled craftsmen
Socialism believes
that the means of production should be communally owned
that the move to a communal society is inevitable
that land should be the measure of wealth
that poverty will always exit
Classical Liberals believe
all of these
that the economy is a natural process
that population will always grow faster than food supply
that poverty will always exit in some form
A 19th century Conservative believes in
money as a measure of wealth
that there should me no attempt to help the poor
the status quo
in an eventual social revolution of the proletariat
Most 19th century liberals were likely
middle class
working class
upper class
peasants
Industrialism in Egypt differed from Industrialism in England in that
It was driven more by the state then independent capitalists
It was driven more by independent capitalists than the state
In did not involve foreign intervention
Machines were adapted much less in production
Crop rotation and the seed drill led to
increased food production.
the use of machinery in production.
the economic collapse in British agriculture.
Before the industrial revolution cotton was being woven in Britain by
women in their own cottages
children in orphanages
slave labor
allowed more than one thread to be spun at a time
spinning jenny
water frame
flying shuttle
doomed the cottage industry because it required a factory
spinning jenny
water frame
flying shuttle
What system created by Eli Whitney allowed for industrial machines to be repaired and serviced more easily?
interchangeable parts
assembly line
division of labor
With specialization of labor, factory owners didn't have to rely on
skilled laborers
machines
the weather
In the 20th century Henry Ford improved the division of labor in factories when he introduced
the assembly line.
interchangeable parts.
the water frame.
Which of the following was NOT a reason that Britain led the world in industrialization?
mineral resources in Britain and resources from colonies
a large slave labor force
abundant rivers for transportation
growing population and urbanization
a government that protected private property
Which of the following was NOT an industrial power in the second wave of industrialization?
France
Germany
the United States
Japan
the Mughal Empire
What had the largest impact on Russian success in industrialization?
Trans-Siberian Railroad
end of serfdom
unification of fragmented small states
British rule and control led to the decline of which THREE industries in India?
ship-building
mining
cotton cloth
tea
spices
Besides India, what other country saw its textile industry devastated by European (especially English) production?
Egypt
Japan
Russia
the United States
A major reason the Industrial Revolution developed in Great Britain in the 1700s was because of Great Britain’s
geographic features
immigration policies
use of collectivization
access to imported oil
During the Industrial Revolution, locating factories near concentrations of natural resources and transportation routes most directly promoted
annexations and unequal treaties
migration and urbanization
legislative reforms and formation of unions
communal fields and the domestic system
Which geographic feature aided industrialization through importation and exportation in Great Britain?
good harbors
large forests
highland climate
monsoon winds
Commodore Matthew Perry’s visits to Japan in 1853 and 1854 resulted in the
colonization of Japan by the United States
transfer of spheres of influence to China
introduction of Christianity to Japanese society
opening of trade and diplomatic relations with Japan
One effect of industrialization on Meiji Japan was that it
strengthened the power of the Shogunate
decreased the level of pollution
modernized transportation
increased the number of small farms
Japan’s increased foreign trade during the Meiji Restoration was closely related to its
need to maintain a traditional society
desire for a modern industrialized society
colonization by Western nations
encouragement of foreign investment
One reason for Japan’s rapid industrialization during the Meiji Restoration was that Japan had
rejected Western ideas
used its access to the sea for fishing
relied on traditional isolationist policies
reformed its political and economic systems
Emperor Meiji promoted what in Japan?
isolation and nationalism
capitalism and democracy
revolution and absolutism
reform and modernization
Which action in Japanese history occurred during the Meiji Restoration?
Japan modernized its economy.
Mongols invaded the islands of Japan.
The Japanese government adopted an isolationist policy
Buddhism became the official religion of Japan
What was one impact of industrialization on Japan during the Meiji Restoration?
Japan became more isolated from world affairs
Demand for natural resources increased
Japan became a colonial possession of China
Traditional practices of Bushido were reintroduced
The Meiji Restoration in Japan was prompted in part by
a fear that Japan would be colonized by western nations
the failure of Japanese expansion
the Shogun’s conversion to Christianity
a desire to stay isolated
Why did the Meiji government want to modernize/Westernize Japan? (Select ALL that are correct)
Japan was far behind (technologically) from all Western powers
Japan was fearful of being invaded/conquered by Western powers (like they saw happen in China)
The Samurai class demanded that Japan become more modern
Japan was not a desirable enough country to trade with unless it modernized
Before the Meiji Restoration, Japan prevented foreign influences by choosing to...
isolate themselves from the world.
killing any foreigners that landed in Japan
send ambassadors around the world to request to be left alone
building a seawall around the islands to prevent ships from entering
