Chapter 26
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| 4078904024 | Where was the largest railway network? | United States | 0 | |
| 4078904025 | What was the shipping line? | A company for ships that offered fast, punctual, and reliable service on a fixed schedule | 1 | |
| 4078904026 | What are submarine telegraphic cables? | Insulated copper cables laid along the bottom of a sea or ocean for telegraphic communication | 2 | |
| 4078904027 | Who discovered that air forced through molten pig iron by powerful pumps turned iron into steel without additional fuel, and who improved this method? | William Kelly; Henry Bessemer | 3 | |
| 4078904028 | Who created the first synthetic dye, aniline purple? | William Perkin | 4 | |
| 4078904029 | By the end of the 19th century, who was the leading producer of dyes, drugs, synthetic fertilizers, ammonia, and nitrates? | Germany | 5 | |
| 4078904030 | In 1831, who showed that the motion of a copper wire through a magnetic field induced an electric current in the wire? | Michael Faraday | 6 | |
| 4078904031 | Which economies were prey to sudden swings in the business cycle? | Capitalist | 7 | |
| 4078904032 | What was the one of the main causes of growing interdependence of the global economy? | Financial power of Great Britain | 8 | |
| 4078904033 | In the late 1870s and early 1880s, how did the United States, Germany, and other late-industrializing Western nations protect their industries from British competition? | Raised tariffs | 9 | |
| 4078904034 | To what did the Irish famine, persecution of Jews in Russia, poverty and population growth in Italy, Spain, Poland, and Scandinavia, and cultural ties between Great Britain and English-Speaking countries overseas contribute? | Mass migrations | 10 | |
| 4078904035 | How did Asians migrate in large numbers during this period? | They came often as indentured laborers | 11 | |
| 4078904036 | In 1851, who became the first nation with a majority of its population living in towns and cities? | Britain | 12 | |
| 4078904037 | What was the most important technological change within urban life? | Installation of pipes to bring in clean water and carry away sewage | 13 | |
| 4078904038 | What did lower population densities and better transportation do to cities? | Divided them into industrial, commercial, and residential zones occupied by different social classes | 14 | |
| 4078904039 | How did the new middle class exhibit its wealth? | Fine houses with servants and elegant entertainment | 15 | |
| 4078904040 | How did air quality worsen in urban environments, and what helped alleviate some of these problems? | Burning coal, horse waste; Electricity, power plants built at distance from city | 16 | |
| 4078904041 | To whom did Victorian morality best fit? | Upper- and middle-class European families | 17 | |
| 4078904042 | What was the most important duty of middle-class women? | Raising children | 18 | |
| 4078904043 | What was the first profession open to women? | Teaching | 19 | |
| 4078904044 | In what two work areas did women form a majority? | Textile industries and domestic service | 20 | |
| 4078904045 | What was socialism? | Ideology developed by radical thinkers who questioned the sanctity of private property and argued in support of industrial workers against their employers | 21 | |
| 4078904046 | What are known as organizations formed by industrial workers to defend their interests in negotiations with employers? | Labor unions | 22 | |
| 4078904047 | What did socialism begin as, and who is the best-known socialist? | An intellectual movement; Karl Marx | 23 | |
| 4078904048 | What served to persuade workers to become part of the existing political system instead of seeking to overthrow it? | Electoral politics | 24 | |
| 4078904049 | In pursuit of electoral success, what did the Social Democratic Party of Germany become? | More reformist and less radical | 25 | |
| 4078904050 | What was usually the crucial element in creating a feeling of national unity? | Language | 26 | |
| 4078904051 | What is a political ideology that emphasizes the civil rights of citizens, representative government, and the protection of private property? | Liberalism | 27 | |
| 4078904052 | Who was the most famous nationalist of the early 19th century? | Giuseppe Mazzinni | 28 | |
| 4078904053 | How did a new generation of conservative political leaders learn to preserve the social status quo? | Public education, universal military service, colonial conquests | 29 | |
| 4078904054 | Who saw the rivalry between France and Austria as an opportunity to unify Italy? | Count Camillo Benso di Cavour | 30 | |
| 4078904055 | Which Italian nationalist and revolutionary conquered Sicily and Naples and added them to a unified Italy in 1860? | Giuseppe Garibaldi | 31 | |
| 4078904056 | What two advantages did the Prussian state possess? | Newly developed industries of the Rhineland, and the first European army to make use of railroads, telegraphs, other products of modern industry | 32 | |
| 4078904057 | Who was determined to use Prussian industry and German nationalism to make his state the dominant power in Germany? | Otto von Bismarck | 33 | |
| 4078904058 | In 1866, when Prussia attacked and defeated Austria, what did they do instead of taking territory? | Formed the North German Confederation | 34 | |
| 4078904059 | What two things made politicians of all parties appeal to public opinion? | Nationalism and parliamentary elections | 35 | |
| 4078904060 | Why did international relations revolve around a united Germany? | Germany was located in the center of Europe and had the most powerful army on the European continent | 36 | |
| 4078904061 | How did Wilhelm II try to gain respect? | Bullying tactics | 37 | |
| 4078904062 | What were two major weaknesses of the French republic? | Scarcely growing population, slow growth of French industry | 38 | |
| 4078904063 | Who was Captain Alfred Dreyfus? | Jewish officer falsely convicted of spying for the Germans in 1894 | 39 | |
| 4078904064 | What were major problems the British faced as time went on? | Irish resentment of English rule, their economy, preoccupation with their growing empire | 40 | |
| 4078904065 | What did the forces of nationalism do to Russia and Austria-Hungary? | Weakened | 41 | |
| 4078904066 | Where was nationalism most divisive? | South-central Europe | 42 | |
| 4078904067 | What contributed to the instability of imperial Russia? | Ethnic diversity | 43 | |
| 4078904068 | In 1861, what did the moderate conservative Tsar Alexander II do? | Emancipated peasants from serfdom | 44 | |
| 4078904069 | Who continued to dominate the Russian court and administration and succeeded in blocking most reforms? | Wealthy landowning aristocrats | 45 | |
| 4078904070 | How did Japan and China react to the influence of Western powers? | China resisted and became weaker, while Japan transformed itself into a major industrial and military power | 46 | |
| 4078904071 | How did the French and British take advantage of China's weakness? | Demanding treaty ports where they could trade at will | 47 | |
| 4078904072 | In 1853, who arrived off the coast of Japan with a fleet of steam-powered warships demanding that Japan open its ports to trade? | American Commodore Matthew C. Perry | 48 | |
| 4078904073 | In 1868, who overthrew the Tokugawa Shogunate and declared the young emperor Mutsuhito "restored"? | Provincial rebels | 49 | |
| 4078904074 | What did the Meiji oligarchs encourage? | Their country's transformation into "a rich country with a strong army" with world-class industries | 50 | |
| 4078904075 | Which government structure did the Meiji leaders try to copy? | Imperial Germany | 51 | |
| 4078904076 | Who founded the Toyoda Loom Works in 1906? | Toyoda Sakichi | 52 | |
| 4078904077 | What did Yamagata Aritoma believe? | Japan must sustain a vigorous program of military industrialization to protect the "sphere of influence" | 53 | |
| 4078904078 | What is known as a series of anti-foreign riots encouraged by Chinese officials around the Empress Dowager Cixi? | Boxer Uprising | 54 |
