Final Exam Study Guide
The critical question, as the Estates General met, was whether it would meet as one or three chambers because
the Third Estate had twice as many representatives, and so could dominate a combined chamber
The strongest and most effective abolition movement was found in
Britain
Railroads revolutionized transportation in all of the following ways EXCEPT
D) by leading quickly to individual steam-powered vehicles for use on roads
During the early nineteenth century, the standard of living for the great mass of people
D) changed in different ways for different people
The First World War had all of the following effects EXCEPT
D) it increased the status of the aristocracy and middle class relative to the workers and peasantry.
All of the following were impediments to economic innovation EXCEPT
D) laissez-faire attitudes among government administrators.
Britain's Factory Act
D) limited the amount of hours children worked
The institutional initiatives that Napoleon implemented included all of the following EXCEPT
D) restoration of the rule of law and the abolition of the institutions of police state set up by the Directory
Napoleon's political stature grew because of all of the following EXCEPT
D) the success of his military expedition to Egypt
The new German republic faced all of the following problems EXCEPT
D) war with Poland and Hungary.
Primary schooling in England and France
D) was left entirely to the chance of local initiative
until 1943 , germany
E) failed to prepare its citzens for total war
Adam Smith argued that
E) money itself did not constitute wealth, but was only its marker
Napoleon created the Continental System to cut off British trade with Europe because
A) Admiral Nelson's defeat of the French and Spanish navies at Trafalgar made an invasion impossible
Britain won its rivalry for dominance in the colonial world with France primarily because
A) Britain's dominance at sea prevented France from reinforcing its colonies.
The North German Confederation
A) left member states free to regulate their own affairs.
In Romantic values, conservatives found
A) powerful arguments for rejecting the French Revolution
The Kulturkampf centered on
A) the state's right to control certain aspects of Church function
The Argentine general who defeated the Spanish army and won independence for his country was
B) Jose de San Martin
By 1910, women in major industrial countries had gained all of the following EXCEPT
B) a share in decisions affecting their children.
the allies created all of the following international agencies to help maintain peace except
B) amesty international to keep track of the human rights abuses that had characterized the axis
Hitler's change in tactics during the Battle of Britain to focus bombing on British cities
B) dissipated the military and economic effects of the bombing
Which of the following best describes the general situation of the aristocracy in the nineteenth century?
B) on the defensive, having been the principal target of the French revolution
Spain remained an important international player in the eighteenth century because of its
B) powerful navy and overseas possessions
French rule in Spain was resisted by all of the following EXCEPT
B) the Bourbon dynasty
One important reason the philosophes championed intellectual freedom was
B) the beliefs they opposed were supported by official power
Eastern Europe was distinguished from Western Europe by
B) the continued dominance of the system of serfdom similar to that of the Middle Ages.
The structure of cultural life changed in the early nineteenth century in all of the following ways EXCEPT
B) the merging of high and popular culture.
the yalta conference in feb 1945 successsfuly worked out all of the following except
B) the way governments would be set up in liberated countries
which country was referred to as " the arsenal of democracy " by its own leader during the initial phrase of wwii?
C) USA
Science was important to the Enlightenment as
C) an inspiring example of the success of reason and experience
The revolutions of 1848 exposed divisions among revolutionaries; in France, these were largely
C) between the middle classes and the workers
The Treaty of Versailles imposed all of the following on Germany EXCEPT
C) complete disarmament.
In his book The Social Contract, Rousseau described the ideal polity as
C) government in which individuals have a role in making the law to which they submit
After Louis XIV, the French monarchy was troubled by all of the following EXCEPT
C) incessant warfare (thanks to Louis XV's dynastic ambitions in Spain)
Metternich called for a "Concert of Europe" to
C) suppress revolutions by force
All of the following were effective in reducing the sources of international tensions during the 1920s EXCEPT
C) the Kellogg-Briand pact, which renounced war "as an instrument of national policy."
The main difference between Hobbes and Locke was that Locke argued
C) the sovereign is a party to the contract, and may be overthrown if he breaks it
Louis XIV's court at Versailles was designed to serve all of the following purposes EXCEPT
C) to serve as a final defensive bastion in case of invasion
World War I started when all of the following came to a head EXCEPT
D) Italy's colonial rivalry with France in North Africa.
By 1932 the Great Depression was so bad that all of the following were true EXCEPT
D) a series of communist revolutions broke out across Europe, inspired by Russia's success.
James Watt's steam engines were used to drive what textile machines?
E) Cartwright's power loom
Europe's population rose primarily because of
E) declining death rates due to better food supply.
Developing the country's bureaucracy gave Louis increased ability to do all of the following EXCEPT
E) disenfranchise the traditional nobility
Romanticism
E) emphasized emotional experience as the focus of artistic endeavor
Political agitation in America differed fundamentally from that in Europe because
appealed to traditional rights of all British and theories of popular sovereignty and natural rights.
The effect of the National Assembly's religious policy was to
alienate most of the clergy and many devout French people.
By the late 19th century, European attitudes toward colonial subject peoples
had hardened, and they were seen as biologically inferior
The Jacobin Dictatorship was characterized by all of the following EXCEPT
implementation of the constitution drafted by the Convention to deal with the emergency situation.
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, threats to the mercantile colonial system outside Europe came from
independence movements and slave revolts
How did Marxism view industrialization?
inevitable and beneficial
Nationalism
is a modern phenomenon often requiring generations of propaganda.
The fundamental political flaw in Imperial Germany was that
it had an increasingly liberal parliament, but ultimate power was held by the conservative monarchy.
Europeans sought control of Egypt because
of its strategic location on the Red Sea
Upheavals in the British Empire included all of the following EXCEPT
opposition and ultimately rebellion in Britain's North American colonies.
Anti-Semitism increased during this period for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
that a secret Jewish congress had met to organize a conspiracy to take over control of the world.
Colonial expansion in Africa was dominated by
the British and French
Reforms were forced on Nicholas II of Russia by all of the following EXCEPT
the Fundamental Laws, which were a list of demands by liberal elements for concessions by the Tsar.
The turmoil following Louis Napoleon's defeat was resolved by
the founding of the Third Republic.
In Captain James Cook's expeditions to the South Pacific, he was searching for
the missing continent, known as Terra Australis
Economic and technological developments that fostered imperialism include all of the following EXCEPT
the radio and the airplane
Fascism manifested discontents rooted in all of the following EXCEPT
war weariness.
