AP World Chapter 15
Which area was the world's 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 nineteenth 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.
what was Britain's primary export to China by the 1830s?
Indian Opium
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-century 19th-century event destabilized the Ottoman Empire?
Napoleon's invasion of Egypt
How did the trade relationship between China and Europe change in the early 19th century?
The balance of trade between China and Europe was reversed.
Early 19th century technological developments led all of the following changes and European manufacturing except:
The emergence of mass production as the north and manufacturing
which technological innovation greatly contributed to the emergence of the Industrial Revolution?
The steam engine
The absence of which of the following factors contributed to the failure of Mohammed Ali's attempt to industrialize Egypt?
a reliable source of energy
19th-century English observers such as James and John Stuart Mill thought that Indian people were
backward and unfit for self-rule.
Nineteenth-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 19th century
became a 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.
In the 18th 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
In the eighteenth century, all of the following were arguments made against 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
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
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 thinkers was in the government bureaucracy.
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.
What factors led to Mexicos declaration of independence in 1820?
loss of faith in the Spanish kings ability to rule effectively.
Which group or groups of people did elite European 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 1 used all of the following methods to maintain absolute rule in Russia except:
modernizing Russia's admin 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
n 18th and early-19th-century Britain, the accumulation and diffusion of technical knowledge.
often developed from the many small innovations developed by small and medium-size producers.
In eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Great Britain, the accumulation and diffusion of technical knowledge:
often developed from the many small innovations developed by small and medium-sized producers.
In the 18th and early 19th century GB, the accumulation and diffusion of technical knowledge:
often developed from the many small innovations developed by small and producers
As trader-financiers increased their business connections (and their fortunes), they increasingly needed the services of which group?
peasants
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 allow them to profit from tax collection
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the British East India Company became less focused on trade and more focused on:
political control of territory that allowed them to profit from tax collection.
By the early 19th century, the Qing dynasty's ability to administer its empire was challenged by
rapid population growth.
In the early nineteenth century, the Qing dynasty's ability to administer its empire was challenged by:
rapid population growth.
The Decembrist revolutionaries:
sought to replace Russian despotism with Western-style political institutions.
By the mid-19th 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
In the name if which group did supporters of revolution in the 18th and early 19th centuries claim to be acting?
the educated
The availability of tea as a popular beverage in the Western world relied on all of these global inputs except
the tea ceremony from Japan.
In early-nineteenth-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 mostly 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
The early 19th century development that reopened the slavery question in the United States was
westward expansion.
The early-nineteenth-century development that reopened the slavery question in the United States was:
westward expansion.
Why did the end of the Atlantic slave trade lead to the decline of some African states?
without income from the slave trade, leaders could not afford to buy weapons or pay their soldiers.
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