AP European History Ch. 20-24 Study Notes
*Source 1: Education Institution (CHART) 1877-1890/ Source 2: Excerpt from a lecture for civics course for boys' elementary schools, 1884* In 1881 and 1882, the Frenc government passed laws making primary education free and compulsory for all children in France. Based on the data in *Source 1*, all of the following likely influenced Frenc legislators in passing the laws EXCEPT a concern that
supporting a large number of small schools was economically inefficient
*Emile Zola, Letter to the President of the Republic, 1898* Dreyfus affair help convince Theodor Herzl to do?
Launch the European Zionist movement
*Jean-Francois Millet, The Gleaners, 1857. Musee d'Orsay, Paris. PICTURE* The emergence of Realism stemmed largely from which of the following?
The materialistic outlook of mid-19th-century society
*-General Giuseppe Garibaldi, 1860* What government developed in Italy once Garibaldi's uprising was complete?
A monarchy led by the Piedmont king Victor Emmanuel
*The White Man's Burden Pears' Soap (PICTURE)* Which of the following would have been least likely to have supported New Imperialism?
A Marxist
*Jean-Francois Millet, The Gleaners, 1857. Musee d'Orsay, Paris. PICTURE* Based on the painting above, all of the following would be characteristic of Realism EXCEPT
An emphasis on imagination and emotion
*Russian estate owner addressing his serfs, 1847* The persistence of the social and economic system illustrated by the passage contributed strongly to which of the following?
An increasing productivity gap between Russia and industrialized Europe
*-Mikhail Bakunin, "Principles and Organization of the International Brotherhood," 1866* What ideology was Mikhail Bakunin influenced by when he developed the anarchist plan in the above document?
Conservatism/Socialism
*-General Giuseppe Garibaldi, 1860* All of the following events helped inspire this action in 1860 EXCEPT
Creation of an independent, united German state at the Frankfurt Assembly
*The White Man's Burden Pears' Soap (PICTURE)* All of the following were used to justify New Imperialism EXCEPT:
Darwinism
*Emile Zola, Letter to the President of the Republic, 1898* Why had evidence providing Dreyfus' innocence been suppressed, resulting in a false conviction?
Dreyfus was a victim of anti-Semitic attitudes in bolt society and the government
*The White Man's Burden Pears' Soap (PICTURE)* During the last two decades of the 19th century, how did imperialism differ from previous decades?
Europeans employed their military strength and industrial technology to control new territories rather than controlling he regional trade networks by establishing fewer trading posts.
*Source 1: Education Institution (CHART) 1877-1890/ Source 2: Excerpt from a lecture for civics course for boys' elementary schools, 1884* The two sources together best support which of the following statements about late 19th-century European governments and public education
Governments used the expansion of public education as an opportunity to promote nationalist sentiment
*-Mikhail Bakunin, "Principles and Organization of the International Brotherhood," 1866* What was Bakunin's belief about the role of government in society?
He believed that structured governments were oppressive and not necessary in a modern society.
*-General Giuseppe Garibaldi, 1860* What was the objective of the "brave and generous companions [who]...will shed their last drop of blood"?
The unification of the Italian states into one nation
*Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Communist Manifesto 1848* What did Marx and Engels view as the fundamental cause of the conflict discussed in this selection?
Historical tension concerning the control of the means of production
*Emile Zola, Letter to the President of the Republic, 1898* What had the victim in this newspaper article been falsely accused of?
Passing french military secrete to the Germans
*-General Giuseppe Garibaldi, 1860* Which of the following events indirectly led to the completion of Italian unification?
The wars of German unification
*Jean-Francois Millet, The Gleaners, 1857. Musee d'Orsay, Paris. PICTURE* The painting above represents which of the following artistic movements?
Realism
*The White Man's Burden Pears' Soap (PICTURE)* Which of the following motives for New Imperialism is reflected in the advertisement?
Social duty to spread European civilization to the natives
*Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Communist Manifesto 1848* Marx and Engels' assertion that "the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all" is an extension of what other intellectual idea?
Socialism
*Russian estate owner addressing his serfs, 1847* The passage provides evidence for which of the following features of Russian society?
The continued dominance of landowning elites
*Image 1: "The Playroom" 1823/ Image 2: German political cartoon, 1848* In the late 19th century, the ideals of family life and gender roles reflected in the two image*(s)* underwent which of the following transformations?
The ideals were increasingly adopted by working-class families
*Russian estate owner addressing his serfs, 1847* The estate owner's admonition that the Tsar cannot give orders directly to the serfs is best understood in the context of which of the following?
The push by reformers to end serfdom
*Image 1: "The Playroom" 1823/ Image 2: German political cartoon, 1848* The material prosperity evident in *Image 1* was in part attributable to which of the following?
The restoration of political stability in the aftermath of the Congress of Vienna
*Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Communist Manifesto 1848* What specific economic and social conditions were Marx and Engels referring to in this selection?
The social and economic order that emerged with the Industrial Revolution
*Image 1: "The Playroom" 1823/ Image 2: German political cartoon, 1848* A historian of 19th-century European society is most likely to use *Image 2* as evidence that
many men feared that women's participation in the public sphere would undermine the established social order
