AP World History - Final Flashcards

10041654190	What was not one of the major 18th-century wars in Europe?	Thirty Years War	0
10041654191	The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement in which...	the methods and questions of the Scientific Revolution were applied to human society	1
10041654192	What would've John Locke have argued?	People have the right to rebel	2
10042122602	One of Rosseau's most radical ideas was that government...	authority could rest on the consent of the government	3
10041654193	What were the goals of monarchs such as Catherine the Great of Russia and Frederick of Prussia in supporting the Enlightenment?	Expansion of local authority over localism, religious institutions, and nobility	4
10041654194	Napoleon's plan for European conquest was held in cheek by the naval supremacy of ...	Britain	5
10041654195	Woman helped disseminate new political ideas by...	all of the above ~	6
10041654196	The Enlightenment's intellectual ferment most deeply influenced...	The Middle Class	7
10041654197	To European intellectuals, Benjamin Franklin showed that America was...	a particularly healthy environment for genius	8
10041654198	In the eighteenth century, the common people of Europe sometimes expressed outrage over...	violations of popular customs	9
10041654199	What 2 related problems did the British face after defeating the French in 1763?	Limiting settlements in Amerindian land and imposing taxes	10
10041654200	The Proclamation of 1763 and the Quebec Act of 1774 was intended to...	keep colonists from taking Amerindian land by slowing settlement	11
10041654201	The American frontier wars of the eighteenth century...	did not directly threaten British authority	12
10041654202	The British angered American colonists by do all except...	prohibiting of publication of inflammatory political tracts	13
10041654203	Which 1770 event radicalized public opinion throughout American colonies?	The 'Boston Massacre'	14
10041654204	Before 1775, which of the following was not one of the tactics with which North American responded to British policies?	Declaring war on Britain	15
10041654205	The Constitutional Convention of 1787 is called the 'Second American Revolution' because...	the delegates pushed aside the announced purpose and in secret wrote a new constitution	16
10042161208	The Constitution was different from the Articles of Confederation in that it...	created two house legislature	17
10042168514	The French Revolution...	did not create an enduring form of representative democracy	18
10042179137	As a result of the French Revolution, King Louis XVI was...	beheaded	19
10042195578	Which members of the French population would have paid taxes in 1785?	Wealthy merchants	20
10042210723	Which of the following did not contribute to the financial crisis that triggered the French Revolution?	Failure to collect tithes from the clergy	21
10042220102	In 1787, the Assembly of the Notables...	sought to protect their own interests	22
10042231813	In 1787, King Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates General, the French national legislature, because...	the French elite would not consent to the new taxes	23
10042263968	Which French Estate declared itself to be the National Assembly?	Third Estate	24
10042263969	The Tennis Court Oath was...	the declaration by the Third Estate that they would not convene again without a constituion	25
10042277279	In response to economic depression, hunger, and high bread prices in 1789, a Parisian crowd...	attacked the Bastille	26
10042283550	When the Parisian crowd to Versailles, it...	demanded to return the royal family to Paris	27
10042263970	The Declaration of the Right of Man was...	a contrast between the king and the National Assembly outlining certain rights	28
10042318229	The Jacobin members of the National Convention were...	middle-class democrats	29
10042329408	Robespierre was a member of which political party?	The Mountain	30
10042331870	The Reign of Terror...	made a new calendar without Sundays	31
10042346741	Napoleon became Europe's first popular dictator because he...	promised order to an exhausted society	32
10042358963	Despite the dominance of the French military, the British defeated Napoleon's navy in 1805 at...	Waterloo	33
10042366426	Napoleon won the support of the peasantry and the middle class by...	rewriting French law to assert equality	34
10042438125	In the US many owners opened their factories with a commitment to decent wages and housing...	but eventually lowered wages and imposed longer hours	35
10048314354	Business Cycle meant that...	Workers' income and employment fluctuated wildly due to the rise and fall in demand for commercial products	36
10048766987	The early industrial revolution's real beneficiaries were...	The middle class	37
10048766988	In the wealth of nations, Adam Smith proposes that the government should...	not intervene in businesses	38
10048766989	Fredrich List, the German economist, argued that...	Germany effectively compete with Britain by erecting tariffs against British imports	39
10048766990	To address the misery of the poor, French socialists that workers from communities under the protection of business leaders; their views were known as...	Positivism	40
10048766991	Which of the following is not one of the ways in which workers resisted harsh treatment?	Frequently assassinating unpopular factory owners	41
10048766992	The most revolutionary invention of the industrial revolution was Jame Watt's...	steam engine	42
10048766993	In continental Europe, industries such as iron, construction, and machinery were greatly stimulated by...	Railroads	43
10048766994	Urbanization has the greatest impact on ...	The poor who came to the city from rural area for work	44
10048766995	The most obvious change in rural life during the industrial revolution was...	The appearance of new roads, canals, and railroads	45
10048766996	Factory work represented a radical difference from traditional rural work because...	all of these	46
10048766997	Industrial work had an enormous effect on the family because...	work was now removed from the home and family members were separated all day	47
10048766998	Women typically earned	one-third to one-half as much as men	48
10048766999	Single women and married women both worked in factories but for different reasons ...	Married women worked if their husbands were unable to support the families	49
10048767000	When child labor laws began to pass in England,	factory owners simply replaced child workers with Irish immigrants, who were cheaper.	50
10050751060	What new crop contributed to the agricultural revolution?	Potato	51
10050751061	Which of the following is not one of the factors that have Britain a 'head start' in the industrial revolution?	It recovered from the plague from the plague more quickly than the rest of Europe	52
10050751062	Britain's manufacturing deepened on the importance of raw material from its colonies as well as enforced trade. Which of the following was not an area of colonization for Britain?	Japan	53
10050751063	New forms of energy were important for industrialization such as...	Steam engines and electricity	54
10050751064	Why was industrialization more difficult in continental Europe than in Britain?	ongoing wars slowed down the diffusion of British technology and discouraged production in industrial revolution	55
10050751065	'Division of Labor' in manufacturing means...	dividing work into specialized and repetitive tasks	56
10050751066	England began importing raw cotton because...	The English parliament banned the importation cotton cloth	57
10051043017	According to the Chapter what was one of the of the five major contributors to the industrial revolution?	Innovation in biochemistry	58
10051043018	Iron production was transformed by Abraham Darby's discovery that...	coke could be used in place of charcoal in the smelting process	59
10051043019	The Zulu Kingdom arose primarily from...	internal conflicts over grazing and farm lands	60
10051043020	The creation of a unified kingdom in SE Africa under Shaka Zulu intended to...	quell unrest over pastoral lands among tribal cheifdoms	61
10051043021	The Zulu succeeded in...	creating a new national identity	62
10051043022	The African slave trade was perpetuated by...	The Sokoto Caliphate	63
10051043023	Why did the slave trade end?	Slave revolts and humanitarian reform movements	64
10051043024	Africans wanted European manufactured goods, so when slave trade ended they...	expanded their 'legitimate trade' by developing new exports	65
10051043025	The most successful export from West Africa after abolition was...	palm oil	66
10051043026	Eastern Africa was referred to as the 'Secondary States' because they were...	not directly controlled by Europeans but were supplied with European weapons	67
10051043027	Sepoys were Indian troops who...	were hired and trained to protect European companies' warehouses	68
10051043028	What was the British raj?	British rule of India	69
10051043029	What prevented the Sepoy Rebellion in 1858 from becoming a full-scale revolution?	No sense of Indian Nationalism	70
10051043030	Why was the Sepoy Rebellion a turning point in the history of India?	India came to be ruled directly by the British government	71
10051043031	The Indian National Congress initially sought more rights for Indians...	by promoting ethnic and religious unity	72
10051043032	A significant method of instilling nationalism was...	establishing schools and universities.	73
10051043033	The underlying goal of British imperialism in the mid-19th century was to...	promote British trade overseas	74
10051043034	The first British settlers in Australia were...	exiled convicts	75
10051043035	Most indentured servants left their homes because they...	hoped to better their economic and social position	76
10051043036	The 19th century movement that defended the workers against their employers was...	The labor union movement	77
10051090167	Workers around the world primarily sought change...	by participating in political systems by voting	78
10051090168	According to the Marx, the end of worker exploitation would end when...	workers became tired of being 'have-nots' and rose in a violent opposition to their oppressors	79
10042451429	The overthrow of the Venezuelan, Mexican, and Bolivian colonial gov. was initially held by...	landowning creoles	80
10042460602	Who objected to the Junta Central in Spanish America?	Loyalists to the King	81
10042468192	Simon Bolivar created Gran Columbia, which unified...	Venezuela, Columbia, and Ecuador into one nation	82
10042453008	In 1810, Spain's richest most populous American colony was...	Mexico	83
10042510744	The Mexican revolutionaries Jose Maria Morelos and Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla were...	priests	84
10042522898	The Confederation of 1867...	created the Dominion of Canada with a central gov. in Ottawa	85
10042533112	A French army was driven out of Mexico by...	Benito Juarez	86
10042500960	With the end of colonialism in the Americas, Amerindians...	were no longer exploited	87
10042550761	People who wanted slavery to outlawed were called...	abolitionists	88
10042677975	An argument to end slavery was that it was...	immoral and violated universal human rights	89
10042562482	After the profitability of sugar plantations declined, the British...	planned opium instead	90
10042572935	The Women's Rights Convention was held in...	Seneca Falls, New York	91
10042581142	Working-class women transformed gender relations by...	working outside the home	92
10042596712	Because Canada did not allow women to enter the medical school before 1895, that country's first women doctors received their degrees in...	Europe	93
10042615604	The Industrial Revolution created new demand for metal such as copper, zinc, and tin. This led to...	a mining boom in the US, Chile, Mexico	94
10042627560	Which of the following technological improvements did not change the Argentine cattle industry at the end of...	Antibiotics	95
10042639145	The economic success of the US in the 19th century was exemplified by the...	all of these	96
10042656019	Much of Cuba's dense forest was cut for...	expanding sugar-production	97
10042663224	A naturalist who worked for environmental preservation was...	John Muir	98
10042673012	When confronted with the choice of economic growth or environmental protection,	all nations chose economic growth	99
10042719873	Which of the following was not among the earliest reforms of the Ottoman Empire?	implementation of laws to protect women and children from abuse and abandonment	100
10042731620	The most persistent opponents of early Ottoman reforms were the...	Janissaries	101
10042258671	Which French Estate declared itself to be the National Assembly?	Third Estate	102
10042739635	The war for Greek independence resulted in...	defeat of Ottomans by the combined Russian, British, and French fleets	103
10042726314	After the war for Greek independence, Mahmud II...	created a new artillery unit and bombarded the Janissaries.	104
10042761525	The Tanzimat proclamations...	called for public trials and equal protection under the law	105
10042735542	The root cause of the Crimean War was...	Russia's desire to expand south for naval access to the Mediterranean Sea	106
10042799555	The Russian gov viewed industrialization...	with limited interest, preferring to import industrial goods	107
10042819353	The process of modernization in Russia in the 19th century was accomplished more smoothly than in the ...	all of these	108
10042835037	Intellectuals pressing for the reforms in Russia wanted all of the following except...	college education for women	109
10042850055	When Britain was unable to obtain enough tea to meet its demand and China did not import enough British goods, the British responded by...	starting the illicit trade of opium	110
10042861100	When the Qing banned the movement of importation of opium, the British...	sent naval and marine forces to China	111
10042873204	Which of the following was not a result of the Treaty of Nanking?	China was able to retain its protective tariffs to protect fledging industries	112
10042890214	The stresses that led to the Taiping Rebellion in the Guangxi region were initially a result of ...	social unhappiness and foreign instrusion	113
10042901258	The founder of the Taiping (Great Peace) Movement, Hong Xiquan...	was inspired by Christianity	114
10042905938	Women in the Taiping Rebellion were...	organized into military brigades	115
10042896217	Ch. 25 ~		116
10042948489	Who was the most famous early 19th century nationalist?	Giussepe Mazzani	117
10042954994	The Revolution of 1884 convinced politicians that..	They couldn't keep the people out politics forever	118
10042967199	Bismarck's plan to unite most German-speaking people into a single state focused on using...	industry and nationalism	119
10042987980	Bismarck gave the vote to all adult males in order to...	weaken the influence of middle-class liberals	120
10043009526	A significant point of dispute between France and Germany was...	Germany's seizure of Alsace and Lorraine	121
10043032596	The British 19th century attitude towards Europe has been called the policy of...	'splendid isolation'	122
10043041346	Why did nationalism fail to unify Russia and Austria-Hungary?	their empires included many ethnic and language groups	123
10043049127	One direct result of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904-1905 was the...	popular revolt that forced the creation of Duma and the new constitution	124
10043064649	In Tokugawa Japan, the political power rested in the hands of the...	Shoguns	125
10043072563	The biggest weakness of the Tokugawa Shogunate was an inability to resist the invasion; therefore...	Japan welcomed foreigners and learned from them instead	126
10043083931	Who demanded that Japan open its ports for refueling and trade?	Matthew Perry	127
10043090708	Leaders of Meiji Japan planned to remain free from Western imperialism by...	becoming a world class industrial power	128
10043099739	The Meiji rulers sought to strengthen Japan by...	embracing foreign ideas, institutions, and techniques	129
10043108756	The Meiji transformed the government and incorporated...	European practices in gov, edu, industry, and popular culture	130
10043121660	One of the most significant reforms undertaken by Japan's Meiji oligarchs was...	opening schools to train Japanese students in Western sci and tech	131
10043152122	Historians use the term 'New Imperialism' to refer to the West's...	use of industrial technology to impose its will on the non-industrial world	132
10043171072	Although industrialization was not new to Europeans, this period was uniquely characterized by...	rapid and unprecedented annexations of territory by Western powers	133
10043206079	Besides conquering large amounts of territory, the New Imperialism was most significant for...	creating global economy of suppliers and consumers	134
10043219696	The Suez Canal inadvertently assisted imperialism by..	creating lower shipping costs, stimulating shipping and construction of steamships for those with overseas trade	135
10043236121	Among the cultural motives for the New Imperialism was a desire to ...	all of these	136
10043255725	The colonies offered job opportunities to European women, who often become...	wives of indigenous men	137
10043258015	The major technical advantages influencing European dominance were...	communications and nobility	138
10043270672	One of the greatest barriers to the European invasion of inland African territories was...	Falciparum malaria	139
10043281539	Colonies that were allowed to maintain their own traditional gov with European advisors were called...	Secondary Nations	140
10043292855	The decisions to grant colonies 'home rule', or the autonomy to elect their own parliament usually depended upon...	the presence or absence of European settlers	141
10043310296	A tactic taken by colonial administrations to gain cooperation of indigenous people was to...	hire local youths for modern jobs within the new colonial gov. , ensuring loyalty	142
10043322473	When western women arrived in the colonies they created...	a more racist and segregated environment	143
10043331641	Until the 1870s, Africans ruled 90% if Africa; however within a decade...	Europeans invaded and divided Africa in the "scramble for Africa"	144
10043344965	The major decision of the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 was that Europeans could...	only colonize Africa by "effective cooperation"	145
10043360611	In SE Asia, a rising generation of nationalists was inspired by...	awareness of other nationalist and modernizing movements in India, China, and Japan	146
10043373994	Free-Trade imperialism in Latin America meant...	economic dependence instead of direct colonization	147
10043352772	In order to build the Panama Canal, the US...	supported a Panamanian rebellion against Columbia	148
10043406179	Which of the following was not one of the elements in the treaty of Versailles that angered Germany?	high tariffs enacted by the allies	149
10043415917	How did the Bolsheviks win the civil war in Russia after WW1?	through military leadership of Leon Trotsky and the Red Army	150
10043438960	The communist party of the Soviet Union planned to pay for industrialization by ...	squeezing the peasants	151
10043450141	What were the significant difference between contenders for control of the communist part after Lenin's death in 1924?	Stalin wanted to focus on communism establishment in Russia as 'socialism in one country'	152
10043462971	The German crisis of 1923 was marked by...	Germany recklessly printing $$, causing inflammation	153
10043473095	Japan had...	very few natural resources and little arable land	154
10043489299	What was the result of the Boxer Revolution of 1900?	Western powers and Japan captured Beijing and demanded payments	155
10043497966	What was the mandate system?	colonial rulers administrated territories but were held accountable to the League of Nations	156
10043514008	Before the 20th century, what was the only nation in which women had the right to vote?	New Zealand	157
10043520806	America got involved in WW1 because...	sinking of Lusitana	158
10043526998	Which of the following was not a factor in the starting WW1?	Monroe Doctrine	159
10043540599	What was one of the fundamental weaknesses limiting the development of military strength in Europe?	mobilization was dependent on railroads rather then individual motor vehicles	160
10043556449	The early 20th century system of alliance pitted the British French, and Russians against...	Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary	161
10043565250	Which of the European Nation was least prepared to go to war?	Russia	162
10043575104	Most European nations thought that the war that started in 1914 would...	be won by the fastest-moving army and the boldest general	163
10043583139	A new and potent defensive weapon in WW1 was...	The machine gun	164
10043585433	Women during WW1...	joined the work force 'for the duration'	165
10043591764	During WW1, Africa...	provided over a million Africans for armed services	166
10043601809	Zionism was supported as an official policy by which country?	Britain	167
10043610649	The policy decision that most affected future relations between the Jewish and Palestinian settlers was embodied in...	Balfour Declaration	168
10043615214	The Russian army during the war...	was very large but poorly supplied and lead	169
10043622576	The February Revolution in Russia was led by...	Alexander Kerensky	170
10043627638	Vladamir Lenin was the leader of...	Bolsheviks	171
10043633074	Which of the following was not included in Lenin's plan for Russia?	A return to an agrarian society	172
10043625206	In the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Russia...	lost territory, including Poland and Finland	173
10043663799	Stalin's First Five-Year plan stressed...	increases in electricity and heavy industries	174
10043672265	How did the Nazi takeover of Germany affect Stalin's second 5-Year plan?	Stalin intended to produce consumer goods, but decided to produce arms instead	175
10043680800	At the height of Stalinist terror of the 1930...	millions of ordinary citizens were sent to gulags, often for no reason	176
10043693595	Despite the terror, Soviet women...	entered jobs and careers previously closed to them	177
10043699017	The stock market crash of 1929 turned into ...	the deepest, most widespread depression in history	178
10043704685	The Smoot-Harey Tariff was...	a protective tariff on imported goods applied by the US to stimulate the domestic economy	179
10043713174	What 2 countries were particularly hit by the Depression?	Japan and Germany	180
10043719667	While the Depression effect on non-industrialized countries were uneven, those hardest hits were...	those under colonial mandate	181
10043730399	The South African economy boomed during the Depression because...	it was based on agriculture, not industry	182
10043741109	Which of the following wasn't one of the actions taken by Mussolini?	He allowed freedom of press	183
10043746359	The slogan repeated in Italy was...	Il Duce (leader) is always right	184
10043752947	What did Hitler write while in jail in the 1920s?	Mein Kampf	185
10043758260	Hitler's 'master race' reserved intense hatred for ...	Jews	186
10043761953	Hitler's goal did not include...	to divide the Western world from the Eastern by a tripartite pact with Japan	187
10043776657	Hitler's popularity came in large from the German peoples' belief that...	economic well-being out-weighed the loss of liberty	188
10043792344	In 1935, Mussolini took advantage of the weaknesses of Western democracy and...	invaded Ethiopia	189
10048314357	Many Japanese nationalists thought the answer to the Depression was...	to have Japanese colonies	190
10048314358	Which of the following was not among one of Mao Zedong's policies towards women?	He put put women in leadership positions	191
10048314359	The German Blitzkrieg meant, literally	lightning war.	192
10048314360	The Battle of Britain was conducted primarily by...	air attacks	193
10048314361	The prime motivation for the Japanese invasion of SE Asia was ...	its abundant oil and rubber production	194
10048314362	On Dec. 21, 1941...	Japanese planes bombed the US naval base at Pearl Harbor	195
10048314363	The final defeat of Japan took longer than victory over Germany in large part because...	The US had concentrated its efforts on Germany	196
10048314364	The end of the war in the Pacific arena was controversial because of...	The US use of atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki	197
10048314365	Which of the following scientific & technological innovations were not spurred by WW2?	machine guns	198
10048314366	The Holocaust was estimated to have killed ________ Jews.	6 M	199
10048314367	Which group was not murdered by the Nazi in the interest of 'racial purity'?	Aryans	200
10048314368	Which of the following was not a result of increased US production during WW2?	the economy performed at a minimal level	201
10048314369	One of the most significant long lasting consequences of WW2 in the US was the...	recruitment of women and minorities into the labor force	202
10042782400	The significance of the Crimean War was that it...	marked the transition to modern warfare with the use of breech-loading rifles	203