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| 9148369729 | By 1915, the U.S. railroad network was | the largest in the world | 0 | |
| 9148369730 | How was the ocean shipping transformed by the mid-nineteenth century? | all of these | 1 | |
| 9148369731 | The "annihilation of time and space," extolled by the public and the press, referred especially to | submarine telegraph cables |  | 2 |
| 9148369732 | Englishman Henry Bessemer is | best known for his advances in producing steel |  | 3 |
| 9148369733 | What qualities make steel different from iron? | it is both hard and elastic | 4 | |
| 9148369734 | The chemical dye industry hurt tropical nations such as India because | those nations grew the most indigo | 5 | |
| 9148369735 | The development of nitroglycerin was important for | explosives | 6 | |
| 9148369736 | Industrial chemistry was a great advantage to Germany because Germany | had the most advanced scientific institutions | 7 | |
| 9148369737 | Despite the prosperity in the West due to the growth of world trade, economies periodically experienced | booms followed by depressions in the business cycle | 8 | |
| 9148369738 | By 1900, the nation that controlled the majority of the world's trade and finances was | Great Britain | 9 | |
| 9148369739 | The increase in the number of Europeans overseas was largely due to | a drop in the death rate | 10 | |
| 9148369740 | The most important urban technological innovation was | pipes for water and sewage | 11 | |
| 9148369741 | The middle class exhibited its wealth in | fine houses, servants, and elegant entertainment | 12 | |
| 9148369742 | The Victorian Age refers to rules of behavior and family wherein | the home was idealized as a peaceful and loving refuge | 13 | |
| 9148369743 | Late-nineteenth-century Victorian morality dictated that men and women belong in | "separate spheres" | 14 | |
| 9148369744 | Families were considered middle-class only if they | employed a full-time servant | 15 | |
| 9148369745 | When the typewriter and telephone were first used in business in the 1880's, | businessmen found that they were ideal tools for women workers | 16 | |
| 9148369746 | Why were women considered well-suited for teaching jobs? | it was an extension of the duties of Victorian mothers | 17 | |
| 9148369747 | Some women sought satisfaction outside of the home and became involved | all of these | 18 | |
| 9148369748 | Urban industrial working-class women had the difficult task of | earning a living as well as keeping house and children | 19 | |
| 9148369749 | What ideology question the sanctity of private property? | Socialism | 20 | |
| 9148369750 | The nineteenth-century movement that defended workers against their employers was | the labor union movement | 21 | |
| 9148369751 | Karl Marx defined "surplus value" as the | difference between wages and the value of goods | 22 | |
| 9148369752 | The goal of International Working Man's Association was to | overthrow the bourgeoisie | 23 | |
| 9148369753 | Workers around the world primarily sought change | by participating in the political system through voting | 24 | |
| 9148369754 | The most influential idea of the nineteenth century was | Nationalism | 25 | |
| 9148369755 | A revolutionary nineteenth-century idea was to realign national boundaries to fit | religious and linguistic divisions | 26 | |
| 9148369756 | Which of the following was NOT an idea that Liberalism asserted? | equality for all peoples | 27 | |
| 9148369757 | Who was the most famous early nineteenth-century nationalist? | Giuseppe Mazzini | 28 | |
| 9148369758 | Bismarck's plan to unite most German-speaking people into a single state was centered on using | industry and nationalism | 29 | |
| 9148369759 | Bismarck gave the vote all adult males in order to | weaken the influence of middle-class liberals | 30 | |
| 9148369760 | The British nineteenth-century attitude toward Europe has been called a policy of | "splendid isolation" | 31 | |
| 9148369761 | Why did nationalism fail to unify Russia and Austria-Hungary? | their empires included many ethnic and language groups | 32 | |
| 9148369762 | Although Tsar Alexander II emancipated the serfs, | he failed to create a modern state based on the Western model | 33 | |
| 9148369763 | One direct result of Russo-Japanese War in 1904-1905 was the | popular revolt that forced the creation of Duma and a new consititution | 34 | |
| 9148369764 | In Tokugawa Japan, the political power rested in the hands of the | military leader of shogun | 35 | |
| 9148369765 | The biggest weakness of the Tokugawa Shogunate was an inability to resist invasion; therefore | Japan closed its borders to foreigners | 36 | |
| 9148369766 | Who demanded that Japan open its ports for refueling and trade? | Matthew Perry | 37 | |
| 9148369767 | In 1858, the Treaty of Kanagawa | was modeled on the unequal treaties that the West had with China | 38 | |
| 9148369768 | Leaders of Meiji Japan planned to remain free from Western imperialism by | becoming a world-class industrial power | 39 | |
| 9148369769 | The Meiji transformed the government and incorporated | European practices in government, education, industry, and popular culture | 40 | |
| 9148369770 | The Meiji oligarchs transformed Japan by | introducing a new army, education system, and industry | 41 | |
| 9148369771 | Once government-owned industries in Japan became profitable, | they were sold to private investors | 42 | |
| 9148369772 | The Boxer Uprising was a series of riots | encouraged by Chinese officials against foreign presence | 43 |
