hist ch 15

British East India Company rules India

1757-1858

James Watt's invention of the steam engine

1769

American Revolution

1775-1783

French Revolution

1789-1799

Napoleonic Era

1799-1815

abolition and decline of Atlantic slave trade

1803-1867

Muhammad Ali's reign in Egypt

1805-1848

revolutions in Spanish America

1810-1824

Tanzimat reforms in Ottoman Empire

1826-1839

Opium War

1839-1842

As trade accelerated, merchants and financiers began to recognize the greater potential of free trade. Which country claimed to be in favor of free trade but blocked it by creating monopolies in its colonies?

Britain

The Opium War involved

Britain's willingness to use force to back the right of merchants to sell opium to China.

What best describes the industrious revolution?

It occurred when households produced more for the market and used additional income to increase purchasing.

What was the unanticipated effect of ending the Atlantic slave trade?

It strengthened slavery within Africa.

Which of the following responses best describes the struggle for Mexican independence?

It was a conflict between locally born creoles and Spanish-born peninsulares.

How did Brazil's transition to independence differ from that of other Latin American nations?

It was won peacefully when the Portuguese Prince Pedro declared Brazil independent from Portugal.

The beginning of Napoleon's swift decline came with a loss to

Russia

Most of Latin America's successful revolutions were dominated by elite men of either pure or mixed European descent. In which of the following places did revolutionaries, most of whom were from the lower ranks of society, succeed in liberating slaves?

Saint-Domingue

When delegates of the Estates-General met, what was their procedural dispute?

The First and Second Estates wanted to vote by estate only, but the Third Estate wanted everyone to vote as individuals.

Which of the following is true of the role of women during the French Revolution?

Women demanded the right to bear arms to defend the revolution but stopped short of claiming equal rights for both sexes.

In Russia, the death of the childless Alexander I led to

a retrenchment of traditional absolutist rule.

The Reign of Terror during the French Revolution led to which of the following?

execution of the king and tens of thousands of other French men and women

In India, the British sought to

foster a change in Indian attitudes, through education and laws, so that they would feel more British.

As British influence in Mughal India expanded, the Mughal emperor

received a hefty annual pension in return for his cooperation.

Which of the following actions was the first step in ultimately inciting the North American War of Independence?

the British crown's decision to make the colonies help pay for the Seven Years' War

Egypt's Muhammad Ali reformed his country by instituting which of the following changes?

the establishment of engineering and medical schools and the implementation irrigation innovations that allowed for a boom in cotton exportation

Which of the following would many argue was Napoleon's most significant contribution to world history?

the impact his troops had in sparking nationalistic sentiment throughout Europe

In the mid-1800s, a new class of merchants began to develop in Africa when

vegetable and palm oil replaced slaves as exports in "legitimate" commerce with Europeans.

The Declaration of Independence asserted that "all men are created equal." Who was included in the category of "all men"?

white male property owners