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2. Which of the following is a doctrine of economic liberalism that emphasizes unrestricted private enterprise and no government interference? A) Laissez faire B) Mercantilism C) Trickle-down economics D) Value theory

A. Laissez Faire

7. For what is Georges Haussmann best remembered? A) Leading massive rebuilding projects in Paris B) Developing the antiseptic method C) Writing realistic novels of lower-class life D) Promoting positivist philosophy

A. Leading massive rebuilding projects in Paris

1. What ideas united the victorious allies at the Congress of Vienna? A) They were all motivated by traditional ideas about the balance of power. B) They all wanted to resurrect the Holy Roman Empire under Habsburg rule. C) They were all motivated by a desire to punish France harshly and reduced it in size. D) They sought to establish constitutional monarchies in the areas conquered by Napoleon.

A. They were all motivated by traditional ideas about the balance of power

9. What did Charles Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection tend to reinforce? A) Views of secularists such as Spencer and Marx B) The bacterial theory of disease tested by Pasteur C) The Catholic Church's opposition to expansion of political participation D) The drive for universal public education in Europe

A. Views of secularists such as Spencer and Marx

9. Who built the Suez Canal? A) The British East India Company B) A French company C) Ottoman janissaries D) Muhammad Ali's army

B. A French company

10. Quinine proved an effective protection against what debilitating disease? A) Smallpox B) Malaria C) Syphilis D) Yellow fever

B. Malaria

1. What was the main economic goal of European imperialists in Africa? A) To encourage sustainable indigenous industrial development B) To connect Africa to world markets in a way that would be profitable for the Europeans C) To develop markets for industrial goods in the European colonies D) To develop new settlements to be populated by working-class Europeans

B. To connect Africa to world markets in a way that would be profitable for the Europeans

7. In America and Australia in the 1880s, "great white walls" were actually what? A) Physical walls surrounding Asian settlements B) Discriminatory laws against Asian migrants C) Laws allowing Asian labor on plantations D) Factory dormitories to keep Asian and white workers apart

B. discriminatory laws against Asian migrants

3. During the great migration of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the vast majority of migrants were A) from China and South Asia. B) from Europe. C) African slaves. D) Jews from Eastern Europe.

B. from Europe

5. The Berlin Conference established the principle that European claims to African territory had to rest on which of the following in order to be recognized by other states? A) "Extraterritoriality" B) "Direct annexation" C) "Effective occupation" D) "Military subjugation"

C. "effective occupation

6. Cecil Rhodes and De Beers dominated the African trade in what? A) Slaves B) Rubber C) Diamonds D) Ivory

C. Diamonds

10. What did the journalist Theodor Herzl advocate? A) The full emancipation of Jews in Prussia B) Economic equality for German women C) The creation of a Jewish state D) The unification of Austria and Prussia

C. The creation of a Jewish state

8. At the end of the nineteenth century, white-collar employees were identified with what group? A) The working class B) Labor aristocracy C) The middle class D) The propertied class

C. The middle class

3. What did liberals and democrats see as the ultimate source for good government? A) The monarchy B) God C) The people D) Scientific rationalism

C. The people

8. As a result of the growth of trade, Europeans made massive foreign investments A) in Ireland and South Africa. B) in its colonies in Asia and Africa. C) in other European countries, the United States, and its old dominions like Canada and Australia. D) in Russia.

C. in other European countries, the US and its old dominions like Canada and Australia

5. To help Austria subdue Hungary, what country's leader sent troops to occupy the territory in 1849? A) Bohemia B) France C) Russia D) Prussia

C. russia

2. How did Muhammad Ali raise money to pay for his army and the industrialization of Egypt? A) He developed commercial agriculture. B) He reopened the slave markets. C) He borrowed money from Russia. D) He built large cotton mills.

A. He developed commercial agriculture

6. Which of the following pushed Russia toward modernization? A) The loss of Silesia to Austria B) An unsuccessful war with Poland C) A rebellion of serfs D) The Crimean War

D. The Crimean War

4. Which of the following was a primary cause of the French Revolution of 1848? A) The landed aristocracy was dissatisfied over questions of property ownership. B) Workers in France's silk factories were upset over factory wages. C) Women in the major cities were angry over high bread prices. D) The French government refused to consider electoral reforms. \

D. The French government refused to consider electoral reforms

4. What was one consequence of the spread of Islam in the Sudan? A) Fewer women married. B) Slavery was abolished in the region. C) The trans-Saharan trade doubled. D) A written constitution was established.

D. a written constitution was established


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