AP World History Chapter 26 study Flashcards

12601306224	By 1915, the U.S. railroad network was	the largest in the world	0
12601306225	How was the ocean shipping transformed by the mid-nineteenth century?	all of these	1
12601306226	The "annihilation of time and space," extolled by the public and the press, referred especially to	submarine telegraph cables	2
12601306227	Englishman Henry Bessemer is	best known for his advances in producing steel	3
12601306228	What qualities make steel different from iron?	it is both hard and elastic	4
12601306229	The chemical dye industry hurt tropical nations such as India because	those nations grew the most indigo	5
12601306230	The development of nitroglycerin was important for	explosives	6
12601306231	Industrial chemistry was a great advantage to Germany because Germany	had the most advanced scientific institutions	7
12601306232	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
12601306233	By 1900, the nation that controlled the majority of the world's trade and finances was	Great Britain	9
12601306234	The increase in the number of Europeans overseas was largely due to	a drop in the death rate	10
12601306235	The most important urban technological innovation was	pipes for water and sewage	11
12601306236	The middle class exhibited its wealth in	fine houses, servants, and elegant entertainment	12
12601306237	The Victorian Age refers to rules of behavior and family wherein	the home was idealized as a peaceful and loving refuge	13
12601306238	Late-nineteenth-century Victorian morality dictated that men and women belong in	"separate spheres"	14
12601306239	Families were considered middle-class only if they	employed a full-time servant	15
12601306240	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
12601306241	Why were women considered well-suited for teaching jobs?	it was an extension of the duties of Victorian mothers	17
12601306242	Some women sought satisfaction outside of the home and became involved	all of these	18
12601306243	Urban industrial working-class women had the difficult task of	earning a living as well as keeping house and children	19
12601306244	What ideology question the sanctity of private property?	Socialism	20
12601306245	The nineteenth-century movement that defended workers against their employers was	the labor union movement	21
12601306246	Karl Marx defined "surplus value" as the	difference between wages and the value of goods	22
12601306247	The goal of International Working Man's Association was to	overthrow the bourgeoisie	23
12601306248	Workers around the world primarily sought change	by participating in the political system through voting	24
12601306249	The most influential idea of the nineteenth century was	Nationalism	25
12601306250	A revolutionary nineteenth-century idea was to realign national boundaries to fit	religious and linguistic divisions	26
12601306251	Which of the following was NOT an idea that Liberalism asserted?	equality for all peoples	27
12601306252	Who was the most famous early nineteenth-century nationalist?	Giuseppe Mazzini	28
12601306253	Bismarck's plan to unite most German-speaking people into a single state was centered on using	industry and nationalism	29
12601306254	Bismarck gave the vote all adult males in order to	weaken the influence of middle-class liberals	30
12601306255	The British nineteenth-century attitude toward Europe has been called a policy of	"splendid isolation"	31
12601306256	Why did nationalism fail to unify Russia and Austria-Hungary?	their empires included many ethnic and language groups	32
12601306257	Although Tsar Alexander II emancipated the serfs,	he failed to create a modern state based on the Western model	33
12601306258	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
12601306259	In Tokugawa Japan, the political power rested in the hands of the	military leader of shogun	35
12601306260	The biggest weakness of the Tokugawa Shogunate was an inability to resist invasion; therefore	Japan closed its borders to foreigners	36
12601306261	Who demanded that Japan open its ports for refueling and trade?	Matthew Perry	37
12601306262	In 1858, the Treaty of Kanagawa	was modeled on the unequal treaties that the West had with China	38
12601306263	Leaders of Meiji Japan planned to remain free from Western imperialism by	becoming a world-class industrial power	39
12601306264	The Meiji transformed the government and incorporated	European practices in government, education, industry, and popular culture	40
12601306265	The Meiji oligarchs transformed Japan by	introducing a new army, education system, and industry	41
12601306266	Once government-owned industries in Japan became profitable,	they were sold to private investors	42
12601306267	The Boxer Uprising was a series of riots	encouraged by Chinese officials against foreign presence	43