WHAP Test Units 5 & 6
"Nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes... Marx's statement in the passage above is best understood in the context of which of the following responses to the development and spread of global capitalism in the nineteenth century?
A movement to articulate an alternative vision of society
"Americans today . . . who live within the Spanish system occupy a position in society no better than that of serfs destined for labor..." Simón Bolívar, Jamaica Letter, 1815 The quotation above best supports which of the following conclusions about the author's motives for resistance to Spanish colonial rule in Latin America?
Bolívar rejected Spanish mercantilist policies that restricted free trade in Latin America.
Which of the following most directly influenced the arguments about social and economic change in Saint-Domingue expressed by Kersaint and Saint-Maurice in the passages?
Enlightenment Thinkers
"The misfortunes and decline of this country [Bengal, a region in eastern India] began on the day of the Muslim conquest... A historian analyzing the lecture would most likely argue that the audience of Chakravarti's lecture is significant because it shows the most direct contrast with which of the following developments in the nineteenth century?
Religious movements often inspired rebellions against imperial rule.
"The yellow and white races which are to be found on the globe have been endowed by nature with intelligence and fighting capacity. They are fundamentally incapable of giving way to each other. Hence, glowering and poised for a fight, they have engaged in battle in the world of evolution, the great arena where strength and intelligence have clashed since earliest times, the great theater where for so long natural selection and progress have been played out." The quotation above by an early-twentieth-century Chinese revolutionary illustrates the influence of
Social Darwinism
"Liberty and justice consist of restoring all that belongs to others; thus, the only limits on the exercise of the natural rights of woman are perpetual male tyranny; these limits are to be reformed by the laws of nature and reason." Olympe de Gouges, French feminist, Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen, 1791 The passage above is an example of which of the following processes occurring in the eighteenth century?
The application of Enlightenment ideas
Which of the following developments in the nineteenth century would most likely help explain the size and composition of the workforce at the Bayer plant as described in the second paragraph?
The construction of railroads facilitated the migration of people to interior regions.
The emergence of the German industries referred to in the passage is most directly explained by which of the following processes in the nineteenth century?
The development of new methods of production during the second industrial revolution
Kersaint and Saint-Maurice's arguments about granting citizenship to the Black inhabitants of Saint-Domingue are most different from the arguments of those nationalists who claimed that
only those born within the territory of the nation and those who shared a common historical origin should be included as citizens within the nation
The misfortunes and decline of this country [Bengal, a region in eastern India] began on the day of the Muslim conquest.... The arguments expressed in the passage are significant because they help explain why
social divisions within colonial societies often hindered the efforts of anticolonial movements to overthrow imperial rule
All of the following advocate for the abolition of slavery in Saint-Domingue EXCEPT:
that "White hands will never suffice to work the land under a burning sun"
Great Britain's development of the industry referred to in the first paragraph during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is best explained by the fact that British factories were the first to
use steam-powered machines for large-scale economic production
