ch 15 hist 101

Which are was the worlds largest slaveholding region in the mid-nineteenth century?

Africa

Orientalists were:

British scholars who studied Indian languages, religions, and literatures

The _______ redrew Europe's borders and tried to guard against future revolutions or French expansionism

Congress of Vienna

Besides the United States and India, which region of the world became an important cotton exporter in the 19th century?

Egypt

How did the industrial revolution affect Europe's relationships with other parts of the world?

Europe became more powerful by exporting more goods than it imported

Which of the following revolutions began with a successful slave revolt?

Haitian

How did the idea that "all men were created equal" affect revolutionary American society?

It encouraged people to overturn social hierarchies and stop deferring to those who claimed higher rank

During the early 19th century, what characteristic of the British East India Company did British observers believe was most in need of reform?

Its monopoly on British trade with India

The jobless craftsmen who smashed the machinery that had rendered them unemployed were known as _______

Luddites

Which of the following was not a characteristic of the industrial revolution?

More people earned a living by working in factories

Which turn of the 19th century event destabilized the Ottoman Empire?

Napoleon's invasion of Egypt

How did the trade relationship between China and Europe in the early 19th century?

The balance of trade between China and Europe was reversed

Which of the following leaders did not rely on the military to gain and hold power?

Tsar Alexander I

Why did the end of the Atlantic slave trade lead to the decline of some African states?

Without income from the slave trade, leaders couldn't afford to buy weapons or pay their soldiers

The absence of which of the following factors contributed to the failure of Mohammad Ali's attempt to industrialize Egypt?

a reliable source of energy

19th century English observers like James and John Stuart Mill thought that Indian people were:

backward and unfit for self-rule

In South America, the political revolution against the Spanish monarchy in the early nineteenth century:

became a social struggle among Indians, slaves, mestizos, and whites

The rule of Napoleon Bonaparte was characterized by:

centralized, efficient administration

Radical French revolutionaries did all of the following when they controlled the French government during the 1790s except:

declare France to be a constitutional monarchy

After the Opium wars, the British began to colonize China

false

American political leaders were eager to welcome Haiti as another new country that embraced the ideals of liberty and egalitarianism

false

Industrialization meant that skilled labor would no longer be necessary in manufacturing

false

Napoleon's assumption of power marked a return to pre-evolutionary absolute monarchy in France

false

The British East India Company's presence helped India to industrialize in the early 19th century

false

In the eighteenth century, all of the following were arguments made against the use of the mercantile system except:

free trade would increase the power of kings and aristocrats

Both the American Revolution and the French Revolution:

introduced republican forms of government

Quaker activists in England and the United States advocated for ending the Atlantic slave trade because:

it was immoral

All of the following contributed to Great Britain's early industrialization except:

its belief that the best place for innovative was in the government bureaucracy

What factor led to Mexico's declaration of independence in 1820?

loss of faith in the Spanish king's ability to rule effectively

Which group or groups of people did elite Europeans and Euro-Americans believe should be eligible for political liberty?

men of property

Reforming leaders in the Ottoman Empire relied on European models in order to carry out which of the following?

modernization of their military and educational systems

Tsar Nicholas I used all of the following methods to maintain absolute rule in Russia except:

modernizing Russia's administrative apparatus

Calls for political reform in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world relied on which of the following new ideas?

nationalism and democracy

All of the following contributed to the thirteen colonies' discontent with British rule except:

new restrictions on religious freedom

Where did participation in global trade first begin to have a significant impact on the lives of ordinary people?

northwest Europe and British North America

In 18th and early 19th century Great Britain, the accumulation and diffusion of technical knowledge:

often developed from the many small innovations developed by small and medium sized producers

What was Britain's primary export to China by the 1830s?

opium

During the 18th and 19th centuries, the British East India Company became less focused on trade and more focused on:

political control of territory that allows them to profit from tax collection

In the early 19th century, the Qing dynasty's ability to administer its empire was challenged by:

rapid population growth

The Decembrist revolutionaries:

sought to replace Russian nepotism with Western-style political institutions

By the mid nineteenth century, global trade had expanded to include which new type of product?

staple goods for everyday use

When Europeans argued that Africans should engage in "legitimate trade," they meant:

that Africans should sell raw materials instead of slaves, and buy manufactured goods from Europe

All of the following were results of the Opium Wars between China and Great Britain except:

the British agreed not to export more opium to china

Which document resulted from elite Americans' fear that their revolution was becoming too radical and threatened to plunge the nation into anarchy?

the Constitution

Early 19th century technological developments led to all of the following changes in European manufacturing except:

the emergence of mass production as the norm in manufacturing

In the name of which group did supporters of revolution in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries claim to be acting?

the people

Which technological innovation greatly contributed to the emergence of the industrial revolution?

the steam engine

The availability of tea as a popular beverage in the Western world relied on all of these except:

the tea ceremony from Japan

In early 19th century industrial societies, migration from rural to urban areas increased because:

there was a growing need for wage labor in the cities

Elite Iberian Americans in places like Brazil and Mexico were initially reluctant to embrace the idea of independence because:

they feared that it might inspire slave revolts and other forms of social revolution

Why did King Louis XVI summon the Estates-General into session in 1788?

to levy new taxes and reduce France's debt burden

What new class of professionals emerged at the top of Europe's social and economic order during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries?

trader-financiers

In industrial workplaces, clocks were used to impose discipline over workers' behavior

true

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen extended equal rights to all men, but not to women

true

The Ottoman Empire become vulnerable to outside influences because it was in debt to Europeans

true

The decline of the Atlantic slave trade opened the way for the rise of African merchant princes

true

The first region of the world to embrace free trade in politics and in practice was the Americas

true

The early-nineteenth-century development that reopened the slavery question in the United States was:

westward expansion

The Tanzimat reforms included laws guaranteeing that Ottoman subjects:

would be treated equally regardless of their religion

Which of the factors below assisted the Haitian rebels in defeating the French?

yellow fever