ch 16 hist 101

What event sparked the Indian Mutiny of 1857?

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

What events parked the Indian Mutiny of 1857?

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

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

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

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

All members would work at diverse tasks, in comfort

How did non-Indian Mexicans view the Mayan rebellion they called the Caste War?

As a battle between forward-looking Mexican liberals and backward-looking Indians

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

Because their arguments were rooted in a materialist view of history

How did the Mayan rebels express their increasing desire for cultural autonomy?

By creating a new political, moral, and religious system that was almost entirely divorced from the rest of Mexico

All of the following groups supported Usman dan Fodio's revolt against the Hausa city-states except:

Hausa landlords

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 in the region

Hong Xiuquan believed that he was:

Jesus' younger brother sent to rid the world of evil

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

Lack of minerals or fertile land meant that Mayans escaped from forced labor recruitment and social disruption

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 resources and defend against their enemies

All of the following contributed to the beliefs and goals of the Taiping Rebellion except:

Orthodox Confucian beliefs

Which of the following was not a change made by the British in their approach to ruling India after 1857?

The British began to use railroads, roads, and telegraph lines to link the region together and make it easier to govern effectively

What happened in the aftermath of the Shawnee rebellion?

The U.S. government relocated most Native Americans west of the Mississippi River

Wahhabi Islam was a threat to the political power of _______

The ottoman empire

How did the Greeks use nationalist arguments in support of their fight for independence during the 1820s?

They cited their ancient Greek heritage and their membership in the community of Christians

What message did Tecumseh spread among the Indians of the Great Lakes region?

They should unify and stop selling land to the Americans

When the Mayans of the Yucatan peninsula revolted against the Mexican government in 1847, what was their initial demand?

They wanted political equality with other Mexicans

What did the radical thinkers of Restoration-period Europe have in common?

a belief in the importance of popular sovereignty

What was the outcome of the 1848 revolutions in Europe?

a crackdown by reactionary governments

When the Shawnee and other Native Americans wanted to cooperate with U.S. government officials and Christian missionaries, they were asked to do all of the following except:

abandon their native language

What reform or reforms did the British Chartist movement call for?

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

What did the Islamic revitalization movements of the early nineteenth century have in common with the Taiping movement in China?

both provided new opportunities to claim political and spiritual legitimacy

What form of government was most common in post-Napoleonic Europe?

conservative monarchy

In Restoration-period Europe, liberal thinkers wanted to:

continue to pursue political reforms, but not attempt economic reforms

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

creating full-scale theocratic polities

The Taiping Rebellion was an example of what Chinese tradition?

egalitarian, millenarian peasant revolts

Eighteenth-and nineteenth-century Islamic reform movements were encouraged by proximity to major trade routes and the growth of capitalism

false

Eighteenth-and nineteenth-century Islamic reform movements were popular among social and economic elites

false

Marx and Engels believed that the conflict between proletariat and bourgeoisie would be succeeded by other stages of class conflict

false

The British avoided the use of technologies like the railroad and telegraph in India because they feared that rebels could turn their tools against them

false

The Taiping movement succeeded in reshaping Chinese society

false

The introduction of what new crop to the Yucatan encouraged the incorporation of the Maya into the plantation system?

henequen

How did nationalist thinkers define "the nation"?

in terms of a shared language and shared history

Which of the following did not contribute to social and political instability in China after the Opium War?

increased standards of living among the peasantry

Generally speaking, the Taiping Rebellion failed because:

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

Viewed collectively, the actions of rebels and dissidents in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries reflected:

local traditions and levels of contact with global trade networks and European power

The Shawnee Prophet's message of renewal appealed to:

members of many Indian tribes

Which indigenous group benefited from the British East India Company's changing policies in the years leading up to the 1857 Indian rebellion?

moneylenders

During the early nineteenth century, southern Africa experienced a crisis caused by:

overpopulation that strained the region's resource base

Early socialist and communist reformers wanted to:

overthrow the existing political and economic order

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

people who felt threatened by the increasing pace of commerce and intellectual change

Utopian socialist thinkers believed in creating change by using _______

planning

The goals of reactionaries in Europe during the Restoration period included all of the following except:

reversal of the beginnings of industrialization

Tenskwatawa advised his followers to do all of the following except:

stop fighting battles

What does the popularity of the Rani of Jhansi as a hero in Indian ballads suggest about life in India after 1857?

that the British defeat of the rebellion didn't eliminate the wish for alternatives to colonial rule

Shaka of the Zulu is an example of what type of African traditional leader?

the "big man"

The international order that began to emerge during the nineteenth century was based on all of the following except:

the emergence of international law

Islamic reformers in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were inspired by:

the life of Mohammed and early Islamic practice

Mohammad Ibn al-Wahhab's Islamic reform movement stressed the oneness of Islam as a reaction against:

the polytheistic beliefs that had taken root among some Muslims

Which of the following was not a characteristic shared among the Shawnee, Maya, and Indian rebellions against colonial control?

the use of prophecy to encourage resistance

Chinese peasant rebellions were often inspired by popular religious movements

true

In the Caste War, the Mayan cause was damaged by its lack of a full-time army

true

Nineteenth-century liberals differed from socialists in their rejection of the need for economic reform

true

The Indian Rebellion of 1857 comprised many small, locally oriented revolts

true

The destruction of Prophet's Town harmed the credibility of Tenskwatawa as a prophet

true

Charles Fourier can best be described as a(n) _______

utopian socialist

For Marx and Engels, the key conflict in nineteenth-century European society was between:

workers and capitalists