Modern Era Quiz

The Russian Empire was defeated in the Crimean War because

Britain and France joined forces to prevent Russian expansion into the Ottoman empire

Canada, Argentina, Uruguay, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand

Exported primary goods but also underwent economic development and industrialization

The Young Ottomans (Young Turks) promoted

Nationalism and modernization

The term Great Game refers to

The Russian push into Central Asia

Which of the Young Turk proposals caused the most dissension in the empire?

Turkish as the official language of the empire

The Russian intelligentsia promoted terrorism as a strategy for political reform because

their attempts at more peaceful reform were crushed by the tsarist authorities

Napoleon's Civil Code

Affirmed the political and legal equality of all men

The Ottoman military had declined by the nineteenth century because

All of the answers are correct

Which of the following could not be considered a contributing cause of the Russian Revolution of 1905?

All of the answers are correct

By 1913, all of the following provinces gained either independence or autonomy from Ottoman control except

Anatolia

The leaders of the French Revolution

Called for a complete reorganizing of French political, social, and cultural structures

The conditions described in the passage were most closely associated with the development of which trend in European thought?

Classical liberalism

All of the following were efforts at reforming the Ottoman Empire EXCEPT

Creating a more effective millitary

The most significant achievement of the sultan Mahmud II was

Creation of a modern army

Most of Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa

Did not industrialize and depended on exporting primary products

The Monroe Doctrine

Ensured that neither the Europeans nor the Americans would ever interfere in Western Hemispheric affairs

The Ottoman Empire began a reform campaign to modernize its military after its defeat in which war?

Greek War for Independence

Who was Toussaint L'Ouverture?

He was the leader of the slave rebellion in Saint Domingue that turned into a revolution for an independent nation-state

The British insisted on their right to trade opium with China because

It was the only trade good that they could sell in China at a profit

The guiding principles of the French Revolution can be summed up in the phrase

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

Based on the depiction of immigrants as shown in the image and your knowledge of world history, which of the following can be inferred regarding migrant settlement patterns?

Migrants often settled in ethnic enclaves in urban areas as a means to gain support networks

The Taiping Rebellion was defeated when

Nanjing was defeated by a combined force of imperial and European soldiers

Which of the following was not part of Count Witte's policy of industrialization?

Nationalization of key industries such as coal and steel

In regard to imperialism, the Japanese and Americans

Proved to be just as racist as the Europeans

Beginning in the nineteenth century, this movement argued against private property and in support of the workers and their demands

Socialism

The Tokugawa shogunate was overthrown because

The Japanese were outraged by the unequal treaty forced on them by Commodore Perry

The United States occupied Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines after its victory in

The Spanish-American war

The developments described in the letter regarding trade between Great Britain and China is contributed to which of the following?

The expansion of the global economy during the nineteenth century

The dominant form of industrial organization in Europe, the United States, and Japan by the end of the nineteenth century was

The factory system

The most dramatic environmental change that took place in industrializing European nations was

The growth of large cities

At the end of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire, Russian Empire, Qing dynasty, and Tokugawa Japan were "societies at crossroads" because

They discovered through wars and confrontations that they were militarily much weaker than the western powers

In Japan, Industrialization took place

With the active support of imperial authorities

By 1900, the world's four biggest steel producers were

the United States, Germany, Britain, and Russia