Honors World Studies Midterm Multiple Choice Questions

Which of the following describes the enclosure movement of the eighteenth century?

The land was divided into plots bounded by fences to farm more efficiently

What happened in 1898 at Fashoda

British and French troops encountered one another and set off a series of diplomatic crises that only ended with the French background.

The global transfer of plants, animals, and diseases that occurred during the colonization of the West is referred to as the

Columbian Exchange

Which of the following contributed to the success of Martin Luther's reform ideas?

Luther understood the power of the new printing press and authorized the publication of his works

What was the new model for European expansion did Britain establish in Egypt?

A combination of military force, political dominance, and an ideology of beneficial reform

What was the Boxer Rebellion

A rebellion of traditionalists who wished to expel all Westerners from China

In the wake of the Great Fear in the summer of 1789, the National Assembly restored order by...

Abolishing all of the old noble and church privileges

Why did Japan open its shores to Western trade?

Are the response to you as military pressure

The proletarianization of peasants in the eighteenth century forced them to

Become landless rural wage earners

What was nativism in the nineteenth century

Believe some policies that gave professional treatment to established inhabitants over immigrants.

Match the bourgeoisie of France to its corresponding social group of Latin America?

Creoles

All of the following are steps Colbert used to turn France into an economic power except...

Encouraging French citizens to migrate to France's colony in Canada

How did Enlightenment thinkers differ from those of the Middle Ages and Renaissance?

Enlightenment thinkers believed that their era had surpassed antiquity, which demonstrated the possibility of human progress

The Declaration of the Rights of Man of the Citizen guaranteed...

Equality before the law

What was the outcome of the heightened central control established by absolutist and constitutional government?

Growth in armed forced

All of the following are necessary to create an absolutist government except . .

Having no foreign enemies

In general, what was Voltaire's attitude toward government, like many of the other French Philosophes?

He believed that a good monarch was the best one could hope for in government

How did Cardinal Richelieu increase the power of the centralized French state?

He extended the use of intendants, commissioners for each of France's thirty-two districts

How did Ismail transform Egypt in the 19th century?

He promoted large irrigation networks for cotton production and export

All of the following were ways Peter The Great westernized Russia except

He promoted the arts, including ballet and the opera

All of the following are reasons Napoleon revolutionized warfare except ...

His troops were simply better trained by Napoleon to win at traditional 18th century warfare

The Meiji rebellion restored the Japanese Empire to power in 1867 and?

Initiate a series of measures to reform Japan along modern lines.

After the arrest and deportation of Toussaint L'Ouverture, how was the war of Haitian Independence resolved?

Jean-Jaques Dessalines, L'Ouverture's lieutenant, led the resistance to a crushing victory over the French and later declared Haitian independence

In the eighteenth century, advocates for agricultural innovation argued that

Landholdings and common lands needed to be consolidated and enclosed in order to farm more efficiently

Why did the Directory continue French Wars of conquest begun by early revolutionary governments?

The Directory understood that big victorious armies kept men employed

Holland's leadership in farming methodology can be attributed to

The necessity to provide for a densely populated country

What was a competitive advantage of the rural put-out system?

The rural poor worked for low wages

Merchant capitalists complained bitterly about

Their inability to supervise and direct the work of rural laborers

Why did the members of the National Convention turn against Robespierre on the Ninth Thermidor?

They believed that Robespierre might soon have them arrested and executed

How does a British woman seek to affect British colonialism in India in the 19th century?

They were to improve the lives of the Indian woman Moving them closer in Western standards through education and legislature.

What was the goal of the Committee of Public Safety?

To use dictatorial powers to respond to threats to France from within and without

All of the following are correct statements concerning Toussaint L'Ouverture except ...

Toussaint was killed during the final fight for Haitian independence at the end of 1803

After 1860 white of foreign aggression diminished in China until near the end of the century.

Europeans had obtained their primary goal of commercial and diplomatic relations.

The Legal Definition of the composition of the prerevolutionary third estate included...

Everyone who was not a noble or member of the clergy

Great Britain chose to seize land in Africa and Asia in the late 19th century because.

Fear that France and Germany would seal all their empires with high terrorist, causing it to lose future economic opportunities.

How did the reactions of kings and nobles in continental Europe toward the French Revolution change over the revolutions' first two years?

Initially pleased by the revolution's weakening of France, they came to feel threatened by its increasingly radical message

What was the result of the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885?

It set up the terms for the division of most of Africa among European colonial powers

But not 1890. How had Japan reset the challenge of Western imperialism?

It's selectively adopting those elements of Western society that we're keeping with Japanese tradition.

How did Luther benefit from his appearance before the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms?

Luther gained a larger audience for his reform ideas, and others began to challenge the church's teaching and practices

All of the following are the reasons Italy was the birthplace of the Renaissance except . .

Modern army

What occurred during the 100 days of France?

Napoleon returned from exile to rule France briefly

What was China required to do in a treaty of Nanking that ended the first opium war.

Open up four large cities to unlimited foreign trade with low tariffs

The industrious revolution was a result of

Poor families choose to reduce leisure time and the production of goods for household consumption in order to earn wages to buy consumer goods.

What medication proved to be effective in controlling malaria and allowing into a mosquito infected inferior to Africa.

Quinine

The enlightened policies of Frederick the Great included

Simplifying Prussia's laws

All of the following are reasons sugar was the most significant cash crop on the growth of slavery except . . .

Sugar had a short growing season so harvesting had to be fast requiring lots of labor

The attack on Bastille had what political effect?

The King's plans to reassert his authority were forestalled, permitting the national assembly to continue its work

To what extent did the new imperialism result in economic gains and why?

The economic games were limited because the new colonies were too poor to buy European goods and offer few immediately profitable investments.

Which of the following correctly characterizes the transformation of the English and Scottish countryside in the enclosure era?

The elimination of common rights and access to land turned small peasant farmers into landless wage earners.