AP World History Chapter 17 Multiple Choice

Which of the following best exemplifies mercantilism as it was practiced in the Atlantic trading system by 1750?

International agreements by European governments to protect the freedom of the seas

Term used by Karl Marx to describe the industrial working class. He believed they had been exploited by the bourgeois

Proletariat

Which of the following played a greater role in the industrial development in Russian than in the United States or Western Europe?

The state

By reducing the cost of overland freight, the railroad

created national markets

Which of the following describes a feature of Karl Marx's vision of the society he predicted would emerge after the collapse of capitalism?

A society without classes and conflict

Which of the following was a result of the Industrial Revolution?

An increase in the production of mining, manufacturing, and services

Which of the following contributed to England's early industrialization?

Colonial trade

Which of the following resulted from Europe's expansion overseas in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

European countries acquired colonies and dominated world trade

Which of the following explains why industrialization first occurred in Europe?

European rulers fostered unusually close alliances with their merchant classes

In what way was the Industrial Revolution a global phenomenon by the end of the nineteenth century?

Even regions that failed to industrialize were impacted by industrialization

Adoption of which of the following power sources has contributed the most to the increasing energy available to humans?

Fossil fuels

What of the following did Karl Marx propose?

He believed middle class and working class were opposed to each other

Which of the following describes how the Industrial Revolution unfolded?

It began independently in only one place, Great Britain

How did contact with other civilizations contribute to Europe's Industrial Revolution?

It enabled Europe to draw disproportionately on the world's resources

In the eighteenth century, how did the Industrial Revolution solve an emerging energy crisis?

It introduced the use of coal, oil, and natural gas a sources of fuel

British working-class party established in the 1890s and dedicated to reforms and a peaceful transition to socialism

Labour

Which of the following describes how the movement toward industrialization in the nineteenth century affected Latin America?

Latin America provided the food products, raw materials, and markets for industrializing countries

Which of the following describes the situation in Latin America after independence?

Politically, the area was plagued by internal divisions, regional revolts, and international wars

Followers of an American political movement in the period around 1900 that advocated reform measures to correct the ills of industrialization

Progressive

Spontaneous rebellion in Russia after the country's defeat at the hands of Japan that forced the tsar to make substantial reforms

Russian Revolution of 1905

Which of the following has been offered as an explanation for why Britain was the first European country to industrialize?

The Scientific Revolution in Great Britain fostered technological innovation

The beginning of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain was most influenced by which of the following factors?

The location and large number of British coal deposits

Which of the following groups benefited most from the Industrial Revolution in nineteenth-century Britain?

The middle classes

Which of the following accompanied industrialization wherever it occurred in the world?

Urbanization

Due to the unrest, these military strongmen would take power in newly formed Latin American countries

caudillo

In nineteenth-century Britain, women from the laboring classes found jobs as

factory workers and domestic servants

The economic development of Latin America was heavily dependent on

foreign capital

Emphasized thrift, hard work, rigid moral behavior, cleanliness, and respectability

middle class of Europe values

The most significant technological advance to solve the issues of energy in the early stages of the Industrial Revolution was the

steam engine