Chapter 20 inquizitive

Place in chronological order the key milestones leading to the end of the slave trade in Britain.

1) formation of the abolitionist movement 2) British ships prohibited from participating in slave trade 3) month-long slave revolt in Jamaica 4) Great Reform Bill

Which of the following statements best describes the "Concert of Europe" that was agreed to at the Congress of Vienna?

An agreement to suppress any further disturbances to the internal stability of European nations

Which of the statements below best explains why nations are sometimes called "imagined communities"?

Answer: A nation creates fellow-feeling among those who share the same language and culture.

Which of the following statements best describes the "Concert of Europe" that was agreed to at the Congress of Vienna?

Answer: An agreement to suppress any further disturbances to the internal stability of European nations

Which of the following is not a reason that slavery persisted in Spanish-controlled Cuba until the 1870s?

Answer: In Spanish Cuba, slavery was of minimal importance and emancipation was not seen as a pressing issue.

Select the statement below that best explains the role that women played in the Romantic Movement.

Answer: Romanticism's emphasis on emotions gave women a way of claiming a role within the movement.

Read these closing lines from Percy Bysshe Shelley's Prometheus Unbound and then choose the best answer for why it is an example of Romantic poetry: To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than Death or Night; To defy Power, which seems Omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change nor falter nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan! Is to be Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory.

Answer: Shelley insists that only a life spent passionately in political struggle can be truly satisfactory.

Which sentence best explains why the Enlightenment and the French Revolution did not lead to complete emancipation of the slaves in the European colonies by 1800?

Answer: Slavery was too lucrative of a trade for the European nations to abolish.

The French Revolution of 1830 was provoked by the infamous July Ordinances. Which of the following statements below best describes them?

Answer: They nullified the recent legislative elections and clamped down on voting rights and freedom of the press.

Choose the principle that is not a key idea of nineteenth-century liberalism.

Choose the principle that is not a key idea of nineteenth-century liberalism.

Select all the following statements that reflect the viewpoint of a nineteenth-century European conservative.

Conservative Viewpoints Nobles were the rightful leaders of the nation. Monarchies would guarantee social stability. Slow and managed change would ensure an orderly future. Not a Conservative Viewpoint Women should be given the right to vote. People should have freedom from arbitrary authority and imprisonment. Individuals should have equality before the law.

Select all the statements below that describe nationalism's relationship to liberalism.

Correct Answer(s) Both wanted to develop economies and infrastructures. Nationalism challenged liberalism's defense of individual liberties. Incorrect Answer(s) Nationalism scared liberals by threatening the power of traditional elites. Liberals argued that the social classes, not national identity, was the most important feature of modern society.

Select all the relevant achievements of the British Reform Bill of 1832.

Correct Answer(s) British liberals gaining influence in Parliament expanded the franchise eliminated boroughs (electoral districts) that were dominated by large landowners Incorrect Answer(s) outlawed revolutionary pamphlets and restricted freedom of assembly abolished slavery in British colonies repealed the Corn Laws

Please select all the arguments that Marx and Engels present in The Communist Manifesto (1848).

Correct Answer(s) Capitalism had created more productive forces than any previous generation or social system. As capital became concentrated, workers would become aware of their disenfranchisement. Recurring crises would lead to capitalism's collapse. Incorrect Answer(s) Good working conditions and decent housing should be provided for workers. Capitalism should be abandoned in favor of creating utopian communities. Property is theft!

Select all the correct reasons why abolitionism appealed to increasingly greater numbers of Europeans by the 1820s.

Correct Answer(s) Women saw abolitionism as both a moral commitment and a way to become politically active. European laborers could relate to the harsh working and living conditions suffered by slaves. Religious revivals both converted people to abolitionism and offered a source of motivation. Incorrect Answer(s) Europeans wanted to follow the example of the United States, which had emancipated its slaves in 1808. The successful slave revolt in Saint-Domingue led to a rapid decline in the slave trade's profitability.

Select all the ways that European governments sought to cultivate national feeling among their citizens during the nineteenth century.

Correct Answer(s) developing textbooks creating public rituals building schools Incorrect Answer(s) conquering new territories promoting regional diversity funding churches

Select all the actions taken by the Congress of Vienna to establish the restoration of political order in Europe after 1815.

Correct Answer(s) recognizing Louis XVIII as France's legitimate monarch requiring that France pay a large war debt and accept foreign troops on its soil Incorrect Answer(s) creating an international buffer zone in the Rhineland between France and Prussia reducing the size of French territory even beyond its boundaries during the Old Regime

T or F: Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) is a classic work of European conservative philosophy because it opposes all forms of political change no matter the context or circumstances.

False

T or F: In her novel Frankenstein (1818), Mary Shelley celebrated the scientific achievements of the Age of the Enlightenment through the heroic portrayal of her protagonist, Dr. Frankenstein.

False

T or F: The creation of the state of Belgium in 1831 brought an end to the religious tensions between the Flemish-speaking Belgians and the French-speaking Walloons, who divided the country between them.

False

T or F: The idea of a "nation" first emerged during the French Revolution of 1789 when the people of Paris asserted their political power against that of the king.

False

T or F: When liberals came to power—in France in 1830 and in Britain with the passage of the 1832 Reform Bill—they immediately extended the franchise to all male voters, realizing one of their key principles.

False

This movement, which emphasized emotion, freedom, and imagination, was a reaction against the reason and discipline of the Enlightenment.

Romanticism

Many Latin American elites had long resented ____________'s imperial control of their territories and saw an opportunity in Napoleon's defeat of the mother country. Rio de la Plata, now known as ______________, declared its independence first in 1816 and soon afterward sent one of its generals, ___________________________, to liberate _______. However, the most important figure was ____________________, who mobilized slaves and ____________________________ to defeat the Spanish. Ultimately, he sparked uprisings from __________________ to the country that would ultimately be named for him, ______________, and consequently became famous as the father of Latin American independence.

Spain Argentina José de San Martin Peru Simón Bolívar indigenous peoples Venezuela Bolivia

Read the following passage from Wordsworth's "The Ruined Cottage" and then choose the best explanation for it as an example of Romantic poetry. Give me a spark of Nature's fire, 'Tis the best learning I desire ... My muse, though homely in attire, May touch the heart.

The poet seeks in nature a source of creative inspiration.

T or F: Frustrated by the slow pace of reform in Russia, a group of army officers known as the Decembrists staged an uprising to put pressure on the new tsar, Nicholas I, in 1825.

True

T or F: Unlike many of the other nineteenth-century political ideologies, nationalism was unique in that it could be adapted to fit almost any political position.

True

Which was not one of the results of the French Revolution in 1830?

Universal male suffrage was instituted.

Beginning in the 1780s, the ______________ movement, whose principle aim was to end the slave trade, developed in England.

abolitionist

One of the key principles adopted at the Congress of Vienna was that no single European country should again be strong enough to threaten the entire international order. What is the name of this principle?

balance of power

Which of the following was not a concern of Klemens von Metternich, the Austrian diplomat who dominated the Congress of Vienna?

demanding compensation by acquiring former French colonies in Africa and South America

Type the term that best describes a coherent system of thought that claims to represent the workings and structure of the social order and whose defenders seek to establish as the dominant view.

ideology

Type the term that best describes the view that governments should not intervene in the economy and that their role should be limited to the protection of property and the preservation of social order.

laissez-faire

Many Romantics developed a fascination with the non-European cultures of North Africa and the Asiatic East, a passion that was called ________________. This interest was spurred, in part, when ________________ invaded _________ in 1798 and brought back a wealth of information on its history and culture. Europeans used these other cultures as a kind of mirror. They often contrasted the East with their own cultures, comparing ____________________, who were fighting for their independence, with the despotic Ottoman Turks.

orientalism Napoleon Egypt the Greeks