Chapter 31 AP World History Flashcards

12791685207	The leader of the Taiping Rebellion was	Hong Xiuquan	0
12791685208	In 1851, Hong Xiuquan proclaimed his own dynasty, the Taiping tianguo, which meant	"Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace"	1
12791685209	The most significant territorial loss for the Ottomans was	Egypt	2
12791685210	Muhammad Ali was	The egyptian leader who overthrew ottoman control	3
12791685211	The capitulations were unfair trading agreements between the western Europeans and the	Ottoman sultans	4
12791685212	Which of the following is not true about the capitulations?	they were imposed on the Europeans by the Ottomans	5
12791685213	In the early 19th century, the Ottoman Sultan Selim III	Embarked on a program to remodel his army along the lines of European forces.	6
12791685214	What was the name of the Sultan who, in 1826, had mutinous Janissaries slaughtered and thus opened the door for further reform with the Ottoman Empire?	Mahmud II	7
12791685215	Which of the following is not a reform proposed in the Tanzimat era?	A commercial code	8
12791685216	The Young Ottomans were	(Opposed the Tanzimat) A group who agitated for individual freedom, local autonomy, and political decentralization. Desired the establishment of a constitutional government along the lines of the British system. (Opposed the Tanzimat)	9
12791685217	Sultan Abdul Hamid II	Was put in power by a group of radical dissidents from the Ottoman bureaucracy. Accepted a constitution, dissolved parliament, exiled many liberals, and executed others within a year. Ruled autocratically, developed army and administration according to TANZIMAT PRINCIPLES, and oversaw the formation of a police force, educational reforms, economic development, and construction of railroads.	10
12791685218	Which of the following was not one of the leading principles of the YOung Turks?	Islam as the guiding principle in public life	11
12791685219	Which of the following Young Turk proposals caused the most dissension in the empire?	Making Turkish the official language of the empire	12
12791685220	The stipulation, "in order to obtain for Ottoman citizens an education of a homogenous and uniform character, the official schools will be open, their instruction will be free, and all nationalities will be admitted" is rom what document?	Proclamation of the Young Turks	13
12791685221	Which of the following accounts for beginning of the social reform movement in Russia in the 19th century?	Military defeat in the Crimean War	14
12791685222	A defeat in the Crimean War stopped expansion by the	Russian empire.	15
12791685223	The key to social reform in Russia was	Emancipation of the serfs.	16
12791685224	The Russian serfs were emancipated by	Tsar Alexander II	17
12791685225	The emancipation of the Russian serfs	Resulted in little, if any, increase in agricultural production.	18
12791685226	As part of the Russian reforms, during the reign of Alexander II the government created zemstvos,	which were elected district assemblies that remained subordinate to the tsarist autocracy.	19
12791685227	The prime mover behind Russian industrialization was	Count Sergei Witte	20
12791685228	the centerpiece of Sergei Witte's Russian industrial policy was	A massive program of railway construction that linked the far-flung regions of the Russian empire and also stimulated the development of other industries.	21
12791685229	The working conditions of the growing Russian industrial class in St. Petersburg and Moscow	Became notorious for the miserable working and living conditions of factory workers.	22
12791685230	Tsar Alexander II was assassinated in 1881 by	The People's Will, a terrorist faction of the Land and freedom party	23
12791685231	After the Assassination of Alexander II, his successor Nicholas II	championed oppression and police control.	24
12791685232	The decisive factor in the Russo Japanese War was the	Destruction of Russian navy	25
12791685233	The 1905 Bloody Sunday massacre eventually	Led to labor unrest, peasant insurrections, student demonstrations, and mutinies in both the army and navy.	26
12791685234	Lin Zexu	Confiscated and destroyed some twenty thousand chests of opium. Ignited a war that ended in a humiliating defeat for China	27
12791685235	The decisive point in the Opium War was	When British forces decided to strike at the Grand Canal, "the jugular vein" of China, with the aid of steam-powered gunboats	28
12791685236	The Opium War ended with the signing of the Treaty of	Nanjing	29
12791685237	Who wrote, "As months accumulate and years pass by, the poison they have produced increases in its wicked intensity, and its repugnant odor reaches as high as the sky?"	Lin Zexu	30
12791685238	Which of the following was not a rebellion that threatened China in the nineteenth century?	mongol	31
12791685239	Which of the following was not one of the principles of the Taiping Rebellion?	Hong Xuiquan's belief that he was the reincarnation of the Buddha	32
12791685240	The Self-Strengthening Movement was an attempt to blend indigenous cultural traditions with western technology in	China	33
12791685241	For most of the last fifty years of the Qing dynsty, China was ruled by	Empress dowager Cixi, a former imperial concubine.	34
12791685242	By the end of the nineteenth century, the only thing keeping China from being completely divided up into spheres of influence by foreigners was	Distrust amont the foreign powers.	35
12791685243	Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao were the leaders of the	Hundred Days Reforms	36
12791685244	In 1900, foreign embassies in China were besieged by	The Boxers, or the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists.	37
12791685245	Japan was forcibly opened to foreign trade in 1853 by the	U.S.	38
12791685246	they understood the danger of those two groups and wanted to find a way to avoid commercial and/or imperial domination by either one.	They wanted to obtain the knowledge and expertise to strengthen Japan and win revisions of the unequal treaties.	39
12791685247	Which one of the following leaders played a major role in the Meiji Restoration?	The boy emperor Mutsuhito or Meiji.	40
12791685248	which of the following was not one of the foundations of the meiji restoration?	turning japan into a constitutional republic	41
12791685249	The event that best displayed Japan's rise to the level of a world power was their victory in the	Russo-Japanese and Sino-Japanese wars.	42