ap world quiz 326-350
Which of the following concerns made creole elites, who yearned for independence in spain, what we might call "cautious revolutions"?
Fear that slaves and other oppressed groups would target local elites as part of a general social upheaval
What impact did the instability of the wars for independence have on subsequent developments in Latin America
Military leaders remained influential and intervened frequently in political affairs
According to Adam Smith in his seminal work, the wealth of nations, 1776, which of the following is true?
The division of labor leads to greater output of production
The sale of guano fertilizer by nations like Peru and Chile shows a strong continuity in the period before and after political independence, in terms of which of the following.
The export of American raw materials to wealthier nations
Which of the following was NOT an aspect of the regime?
1. Foreign investment 2. Crony capitalism 3. Persistent poverty
Which of the following least explains causation for the use of almost exclusively Chinese labor in the guano fields of the islands off Peru?
1. The ending of the slave trade of Africans 2. Overpopulation in China during the nineteenth century 3. Improved methods of transportation and communication
Which factors had the LEAST impact on creating the conditions that gave rise to the situations described in the passage?
1. The french island colony of Haiti was extremely valuable for France because of its sugar crop 2. slavery was first established in Santo Domingue/ Haiti in the early 1700s by French traders and settlers 3. French revolutionary ideas such as equality and democracy began to spread to Haiti by 1790
all of the following are historical factors that help explain Britain's role as a leader of industrialization EXCEPT:
1. the governments support of patents that protected innovation 2. the rich deposits of iron and coal lying close together in the British Isles 3. the building of transportation infrastructure
Which of the following regions were also upset at the economic rules that governed the use of monopoly over colonial trade?
American colonies
Which of the following explains the changes in the Hawaiian population?
Disease-related deaths due to lack of Hawaiians immunity
The image above is best explained by which of the following processes during the Industrial Revolution?
Domestic system to factory system
The pie charts above are best understood in the context of
Conditions that led to the French Revolution
Which examples of modernity from the Porfirio Diaz regime in Mexico can be seen in the photograph?
Electrical lines
Which situations did formally independent Latin American nations have most in common with colonized portions of Africa and Asia in the nineteenth century?
A dependant position in the world economy due to the rise of Western industrial capitalism
Which Latin American nation attracted the greatest number of European immigrants in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
Argentina
The principle outlined above by Adam Smith was key to the success of which historical process?
Industrial revolutions
The combination of a cheap raw material, a labor force that is mobile, advertising and transportation to wealthy markets indicate which fact about the world's economy by the 1900?
Interdependence
Which of the following was a similarity that Hawaii shared with the people of the Americans, Siberia, Australia, and the other indigenous peoples in the interaction with Europeans?
Long-standing geographic isolation
Causation for the political process in the chart on the left is due to which of the following?
Sharp racial and class divisions
Which is the best reason why rail networks were underdeveloped in Spanish Latin America at the time independence was achieved?
Rail technology was relatively new and limited to small areas of Britain, Western Europe, and the United States at the time
The secondary source above supports which of the following conclusions?
Some French soldiers in Haiti questioned the incompatibility of their mission with Republican values
What other mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth-century development came alongside improvements in productivity?
The growth of existing large cities expanded rapidly
Which of the following acts as context for the chart on the left?
The political instability in many Latin American nations
The image left showing James Watt's steam engine patent in 1750 that was a result of which of the following historical events and processes?
The practical application of science in technology
As seen in the pie charts above question 343, compared to the American Revolutions, the French Revolution
Was a social upheaval as well as a political revolution