Chapter 18: An Unsettled World, 1890-1914 - InQuizitive

Put in chronological order the events of the Boxer Uprising.

1. Christian missionaries spread deep into China, seeking converts. 2. The Boxer movement rejected Western influence in China and provided help to the poor. 3. After initially challenging Boxer rebels, Qing forces joined with them and the government declared war on Western powers. 4. Boxers attacked Europeans, Chinese Christians, and symbols of Western influence, like telegraph lines. 5. Twenty thousand foreign troops beat the Boxers and forced the Qing government to sign the Boxer Protocol.

African resistance movements were widespread and persistent. Select the resistance movements that lasted more than ten years.

1. Samori Touré 2. Bedouin 3. Malagasy

Toward the end of the nineteenth century, capitalism began to look increasingly volatile and class conflicts broke out in regions across Europe, Russia, and America.

Argentina: the growing popularity of urban syndicalism and anarchism United States: the Pullman strike of 1894 Britain: founding of the Labour Party in 1900 Russia: a workers' revolt and short-lived representative government

Complete the following passage about Russian expansion into steppe lands.

SIOL SCIENCE was an integral part of Russian national expansion into the steppe. First, farmers and scientists developed techniques to combat erosion. Later developments included using region-specific CROP ROTATIONS and lighter plowing. This region—the Ukraine—became a breadbasket to Europe, but new problems arose in the forms of DEPLETED FORESTS and pollution from chemical fertilizers.

Identify the group that worked to improve the lives of industrial workers.

Syndicalists

Select the portion of Diego Rivera's 1935 mural, History of Mexico, that depicts the 1910 Mexican Revolution.

The correct clickable area is the one directly in the middle at the top of the picture. There is a distinct red banner being held in the middle arch way.

During the period between 1860 and 1914, all migration moved from Europe, South Asia, China, and Africa to the Americas, North Asia, and Southeast Asia. (T/F)

False

Pan movements, like pan-Africanism, pan-Islamism, and pan-Slavism, advocated for new political boundaries that united people by ethnicity. (T/F)

False

Political changes, such as awarding women the right to vote in elections, were responsible for dramatic changes in equality between the sexes in western countries. (T/F)

False

Sun Yat-sen led the Boxer Uprising in the hopes of creating a unified Han nation. (T/F)

False

Complete the passage below to describe the economy at the end of the nineteenth century.

Giant corporations that produced things like STEEL and textiles dominated the economies of North America and Europe. The financial world was tumultuous, as periodic busts resulted in waves of BANK CLOSURES, ruining many property owners. This chaos led many to call for government-controlled CENTRAL BANKS and increased financial regulation.

Complete the statement below to analyze the image of the Boxer Uprising.

In this illustration depicting the start of the Boxer Uprising in China, the BOXERS AND THE QING, shown on the right, are battling the JAPANESE, EUROPEAN, and AMERICAN troops, shown on the left. (If it has "Passage with ___" at the bottom, the answer for the blank is BLANKS)

In Latin American agricultural economies, anger about economic inequality focused on unequal land distribution. Identify the outcomes of each of the local movements.

Indigenous peasants lost land to powerful coffee growers: In Guatemala, Mayans tried to retain their land rights. Spanish and U.S. troops crushed the movement : In pre-World War I Cuba, tenant farmers tried to reclaim land from sugar-growers' estates. One-tenth of the country died in the fighting, but the movement succeeded : In Mexico, Emilio Zapata led farmers and rural workers in the fight against the Díaz regime and its supporting oligarchy.

Which conclusions can you reasonably draw from this map?

Correct Answers: 1. The ethnic composition of the United States and the Dutch East Indies changed radically. 2. The population of the Russian Empire grew primarily through expansion and natural increase, not immigration. Incorrect Answers: 1. In 1900, Canada, the United States, Brazil, and Australia had the greatest relative increase in population in the world, having seen population increases of over 1,000 percent. 2. The British Empire prohibited people from its different global colonies from moving within the empire.

Though progressive reformers did address the negative effects of industrialization and urbanization, their arguments betray the prejudices of their times. Identify the progressive ideas.

Correct Answers: 1. Urban parks offer entertainment to substitute for drinking, gambling, and hiring prostitutes. 2. Corrupt city governments are controlled by immigrants via "political machines." Incorrect Answers: 1. Society should be a free association of its members without the oversight of government, laws, or police. 2. Meat Inspection Act will protect workers from dangerous industrial accidents.

Pablo Picasso was truly a modernist. Identify the characteristics that support this statement.

Correct Answers: 1. He borrowed from many cultures 2. He rejected the Enlightenment's emphasis on realism\ Incorrect Answers: 1. He was influenced by the work of earlier painters, like Ingres. 2. He explored the content of dreams in his art.

Click the sentence in the following passage that is an incorrect description of how Europeans and Americans tended to view imperialist intrusions in Africa and Asia.

Correct Sentences: 1. The American and European public was uniformly supportive of colonialism in Africa and Asia. Incorrect Sentences: 1. News of imperialist violence against Africans and Asians tended only to reinforce Americans' and Europeans' confidence in the superiority of their own nation's culture. 2. This sense of cultural superiority mattered within Europe too, where rivalries between countries only exacerbated intra-European conflicts and instability.

Afro-Asian culture influenced modernism in Europe just as Western influences contributed to modernism in the East. (T/F)

True