WHAP chp. 16 quiz

How did nationalist thinkers define "the nation"?

In terms of a common language, culture, and history

How did the British change their approach to ruling India after 1857?

India came under the British crown's direct control

Hong Xiuquan believed that he was

Jesus's younger brother sent to rid the world of evil.

The goals of European reactionaries during the Restoration period included which of the following?

Rejection of change

In Restoration-period Europe, which of the following was a goal of liberal thinkers?

supporting individuals' right to speak, think, and act as they chose

From which groups did European nationalist movements draw their greatest number of supporters?

the liberal aristocracy and the commercial middle class

what was a common factor in the Shawnee, Maya, and Indians rebellions against colonial control?

the use of prophecy and charismatic leadership

How would life in Fourier's phalanx qualify as a reform of Restoration Europe's economic order?

All members would work at diverse tasks, for short periods of time.

The Shawnee prophet Tenskwatawa was similar to Hong Xiuquan in which of the following ways?

Both had religious visions and embraced a strict moral code.

In which of the following ways did the Zuku leader, Shaka, resemble Mongol leaders?

Both had the ability to incorporate defeated communities into the state.

Which of the following groups supported Usman dan Fodio's revolt against the Hausa city-states?

Fulani tribes people

Which of the following nineteenth-century principles derived from the revolutions of the late eighteenth century?

Government by and for property holding citizens

Why did small-scale settlements in southern Africa give way to larger states during the early nineteenth century?

Larger states were better equipped to compete for limited land and resources.

Why did Charles Fourier consign nasty jobs such as cleaning latrines to adolescents?

He believed that adolescents liked to muck about in filth

On what idea could disparate groups of radicals agree?

Popular sovereignty

Which of the following contributed to social and political instability in both China and Africa?

Pressure from a growing population

Prior to the mid-nineteenth century, how did the Mayan experience of colonial rule differ from that of other indigenous Mexican peoples?

The Mayans escaped forced labor recruitment and social disruption because their territory lacked minerals or fertile land.

Wahhabism was a direct threat to whose political power?

The Ottoman Empire

Why were women especially drawn to Fourier's proposed reforms?

Women longed for a way to address the social problems of poverty, prostitution, and the exploitation of workers.

what event sparked the great rebellion of 1857?

a rumor that cow and pig fat had been used to grease the cartilages used in soldiers' rifles

Which of the following was called for in the People's Charter?

annual parliamentary elections, universal male suffrage, and the secret ballot

Why did Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels call their theories "scientific" socialism?

because their arguments were rooted in a materialist view of history

In what way did the Mayans who followed José María Barrera resemble the Chinese who followed Hong in the Taiping Rebellion?

Both the Mayans and the Chinese followed visionaries who formed alternative religions that combined Christian beliefs, symbols, and rituals with traditional beliefs and legends.

How did the outcome of the War of 1812 hasten the ethnic cleansing of Native Americans east of the Mississippi?

The British withdrew their support from south of the Great Lakes, leaving the Shawnee at the mercy of land hungry American settlers.

what change did the british east india company make in its approach to ruling India during the 1840s?

it annexed more land and stripped native aristocrats of their privileges

how did the status of Islam in West Africa change after the establishment of the Sokoto caliphate?

it changed from a minority religion to the majority religion

what was a reason for the collapse of the Taiping Rebellion?

it failed to attract strong support from the landed gentry and other elite groups

Why did American officials fear Tecumseh's message even more than his brother's?

officials feared that Tecumseh's attempt to create a confederation of Native American tribes could lead to a nation comparable to that of the Aztecs

how did the peasants show their divergence from the indian elite in the great rebellion of 1857?

peasants attacked both indian and british people and places that represented their oppression

Which of the following groups was most attracted to Wahhabi Islam?

people who felt threatened by new commercial activities and the increasing pace of intellectual change

the impetus of Mohammad Ibn al-Wahhab's Islamic reform movement was a reaction to ...

polytheistic beliefs that had taken root among some muslims

Which of the following was the most important device used by Mexicans to lure Mayans into plantation labor?

Debt peonage forced fathers and sons to work for low wages on sugar plantations.

What were the sharp contrasts between millenarian revolts such as the Taiping Rebellion and orthodox institutions?

EITHER: Millenarian movements were inspired by Confucian, not Daoist, ideals OR Millenarian revolts often had women in leadership roles

The Taiping Rebellion was a nineteenth-century example of what Chinese tradition?

Millenarian peasant revolts

During the early nineteenth century, which of the following led to a crisis in southern Africa?

Overpopulation that strained the region's resource base

Which of the following characterized the British counterinsurgency effort in India?

The British responded brutally; villages were destroyed and leaders were tied to cannons and executed.

Both Usman dan Fodio and Muhammad Ibn abd al-Wahhab drew on which of the following inspirations for Islamic reform?

The life of Muhammad and early Islamic practices

In what way did nineteenth-century nationalist goals prove destructive in the twentieth century?

The nationalist goals of different groups proved incompatible with one another.

Viewed collectively, the actions of rebels and dissidents in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries reflected which of the following?

Their dislike of capitalism and colonialism

Which of the following is a similarity between the goals of Hong, the leaders of the Islamic revitalization movements, and Shaka?

They all believed that lack of harmony was caused by foreign rule

What did the groups that led the 1848 revolutions in Europe have in common?

They shared a desire for independent nations and to overthrow the existing elites.

What was a goal of the Mayans in the Yucatan peninsula when they revolted against the Mexican government in 1847?

They wanted political equality with other Mexicans.

what did Marx and Engels believe would be the outcome of the conflict between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat?

a victory by the proletariat that would result in the destruction of capitalism, the end of private property, and the eventual withering away of the state

The leaders of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Islamic revitalization movements sought to reestablish the glory of Islam through which practice?

establishing new religiously based governments in lands already under Muslim control

Which of the following was required of Shawnee culture if they were to be able to cooperate with U.S. government officials?

That men rather than women take over farming