Progress Checks Unit 5

The print above suggests that as nineteenth-century Japan industrialized, Japanese women did which of the following?

Became involved in the factory system and industrial production.

Which of the following most directly explains the importance of improved agricultural productivity to the industrialization of economic production in western Europe in the period 1750-1900?

Because less labor was needed on farms, more people moved to urban areas to work in factories.

The industrialization of Great Britain's economy in the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is most directly explained by which of the following?

Britain had large reserves of coal.

The trade patterns shown on the map above depict

British imports of raw materials and exports of finished goods during the nineteenth century

Which of the following most accurately describes the interactions between China and Europe in the nineteenth century?

China effectively lost its economic independence to Europe as a result of military losses to European forces.

The image from Japan during the Meiji Restoration best exemplifies which of the following processes?

Cultural changes accompanying greater contact with the United States

The Indian liberal view of women discussed in the passage is best understood in the context of which of the following?

Emerging women's suffrage and feminist movements

Which of the following facilitated European expansion in Asia in the nineteenth century?

Europe's development of new military technologies

The developments depicted in Map 2 most directly emerged from which of the following developments in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

Government-sponsored industrialization as part of the Meiji reforms

The image best illustrates which factor that contributed to Great Britain's increasing prominence as a global power in the nineteenth century?

Great Britain's location on the Atlantic Ocean and its many waterways enabled it to import and export goods.

Which of the following factors contributed most to the increase of world population in the period 1750 to 1900 C.E.?

Improvements in agricultural productivity and food distribution

Japan's industrialization during the Meiji period and the Soviet Union's industrialization during the 1920s and 1930s had which of the following characteristics in common?

Industrialization in both countries was achieved largely through state direction rather than through private initiative.

In the late nineteenth century, Japanese attitudes toward European cultural influences changed as a direct result of

Japan enacting political reforms during the Meiji Era

Which of the following developments in the late 1800s and early 1900s most directly challenges the author's argument regarding the role of Japan in Asia?

Japanese imperial expansion into Asian territories such as Taiwan and Korea

Which of the following developments in the period 1878-1922 best explains the change in Japanese trade patterns shown in the graphs above?

Japanese manufacturing output rose as a consequence of industrialization.

In the Japanese print above of the war between China and Japan (1894-1895), the artist suggests that the

Japanese showed their mastery of Western technology, dress and military bearing

In the nineteenth century, women's use of bound feet (China), white face paint (Japan), and corsets (western Europe) are examples of which of the following?

Practices that inhibit female activities

Which of the following was the main factor leading to the fall of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate and the rise of the Meiji government?

Pressure from Western powers

Which of the following is true of both Russia and Japan by 1914 ?

Rapid, state-sponsored industrialized had occurred in both countries.

Which of the following distinguishes the Meiji period from earlier periods in Japanese history?

Reform and industrialization

Which of the following nineteenth-century historical processes gave rise to arguments for regional unity similar to those made by the author?

Spanish Latin American colonies' struggles for independence

Based on an analysis of the Japanese currency used during the Meiji period (1868—1912) shown above, which of the following is the primary message conveyed by the engraving?

The Japanese government saw itself as a major Pacific power.

Which of the following processes in the nineteenth century most directly created the economic needs filled by Indian indentured servants in the Caribbean?

The abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and of slavery in British colonies

Which of the following contributed the most to the growth of the movement to abolish slavery in the Atlantic world?

The adaptation of Enlightenment ideas challenging established social hierarchies

Which of the following best supports the view of some world historians that the eighteenth century marked a major turning point in world history?

The beginning of the Industrial Revolution in England

Which of the following most likely influenced Fukuzawa's views in the passage?

The forcible "opening up" of Japanese markets to the West, which led to the Meiji Restoration

The development of the factory system most directly explains which of the following characteristics of the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

The greater degree of labor specialization

The policies of the Meiji reformers brought about which of the following in Japan?

The promotion of rapid industrialization

The technological processes reflected in the image had the most direct influence on which of the following?

The rise of Japan in the Meiji era

Which of the following best explains Kartini's familiarity with the ideas regarding social roles that she discusses in her letter?

The spread of Enlightenment thought as empires consolidated control over their territories

The trade described in the passage is best seen as an early example of which of the following?

The use of economic imperialism by European merchants and states

Which of the following best explains why Japan was more successful than China in resisting imperialist encroachments in the nineteenth century?

The willingness of Japan's elite to sponsor reform

The Meiji government's "emulation of foreign ways" was most directly a response to which of the following nineteenth-century developments?

Western states forcing Japan to open itself to trade

The Meiji reforms in Japan resulted in

a shift of power away from regional lords and to the emperor

In the late nineteenth century, European imperialism in both Africa and China was characterized by

competition among imperialist powers

Sun Yuting's analysis of the potential effect of a trade embargo on Great Britain could best be characterized as

inaccurate, because Sun Yuting failed to account for the fact that Great Britain's economy had largely industrialized

All of the following contributed to the rise of industrialization in western Europe and North America during the nineteenth century EXCEPT

increased rights for laborers

A historian might argue that the trade described in the passage reflected a turning point in world history primarily because the opium trade

shifted the pattern of historic European trade imbalances with China

As described in the passage, the voting requirements in Japan circa 1878 most directly reflect the continuing influence of

societal norms that assigned women lower status than the status of men

Slavery and serfdom were abolished in the 1860s in

the United States and Russia