Western Civ Test 2
How did industry grow in continental Europe?
Belgium led continental Europe in adopting British technology for production
How did America's Constitutional Convention of 1787 deal with the discord between pro- and antislavery delegates?
It compromised by stipulating that an enslaved person would count as three-fifths of a person for purposes of taxation and proportional representation in the House of Representatives.
Why was the Declaration of Independence so important to the American Revolution?
It universalized the traditional rights of English people and made them the rights of all mankind.
Which function did the Crystal Palace serve?
It was the location of the Great Exhibition in 1851 in London.
Folklorists like Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm employed Romantic ideas in service of which other concept from the middle of the nineteenth century?
Nationalism
Who forced the king and the royal family to abandon Versailles and return to Paris?
Several thousand Parisian women
Which two fundamental principles of the French Revolution were incorporated into the Napoleonic Code?
The equality of all male citizens before the law and the absolute security of wealth and private property
Why did the British decide to stop fighting the Americans at Yorktown in 1781 and to offer such favorable terms to the Americans in Paris in 1783?
To cut their losses and end a war that had gone global
At the Congress of Vienna, the victorious allies
were guided by the principle of the balance of power
Why did Klemens von Metternich, as Austrian foreign minister, have to oppose the spread of nationalism in Europe?
Austria was a multiethnic empire, and the spread of nationalism among its different ethnic groups threatened to dissolve it.
Which of these was the goal of the Committee of Public Safety?
To use dictatorial powers to respond to threats to France from without and within
Industrial development in continental Europe was slowed for two decades by
the Napoleonic Wars.
According to Marx, the driving historical force in the nineteenth century was
the economic relationship between classes
According to the doctrine of laissez faire, the government should intervene in
the economy as little as possible
in addition to massive population decline, another effect of the Great Famine in Ireland was
the repeal of the Corn Laws
The Chartist movement in Britain in the 1830s and 1840s demanded
universal male suffrage
In the "separate spheres" pattern of gender relationships,
women generally stopped working outside of the home after the first child was born.
Which law outlawed labor unions and strikes in Britain?
Combination Acts of 1799
Who invented the spinning jenny?
James Hargreaves
After the arrest and deportation of Toussaint L'Ouverture, how was the war of Haitian independence resolved?
Jean-Jacques Dessalines, L'Ouverture's lieutenant, led the resistance to a crushing victory over the French and later declared Haitian independence.
In 1830, an unsuccessful revolution failed to re-create the country of
Poland
How did the Concordat resolve the crisis over Catholicism in France in the Napoleonic era?
The Catholic Church gained the right to practice religion freely, while the French state gained greater control over the nomination of church officers and church activities.
As the Jacobins gained power, what was their reaction to women's political activity?
They banned all women's political activity, which they believed to be disorderly and a distraction from women's proper domestic duties.
How did older members of the population seek to control the sexuality of working-class youths?
They supported the establishment of sex-segregated employment.
The Factory Act of 1833 constituted a major victory in preventing the exploitation of children in that it
banned children under nine years of age from employment.
In Great Britain, the Reform Bill of 1832
gave greater representation to the new, industrial areas of the nation
The Great Exhibition of 1851 in London commemorated the
industrial dominance of Britain.
The men elected to represent the third estate at the Estates General were primarily
lawyers and government officials.
Thomas Malthus argued in his Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) that
population tends to increase beyond the means of subsistence
Which social groups comprised the revolutionary alliance during the revolutions of 1848 in Central Europe?
students and urban workers
