Multiple Choice Chapter 23 History
What was crucial to the success of Cavour's plan to unify northern Italy?
A secret alliance with Napoleon III against Austria
In early 1900s, why were extensive social welfare programs slow to form in Great Britain?
Conservative, aristocratic House of Lords resisted it
Why did Prussia and Austria attack Denmark in 1864?
Denmark attempted to bring 2 provinces into Denmark
How did Sergei Witte seek to transform Russia?
He believed in industry and using the West to catch up
Why did Conservative Bismarck pioneer the expansion of social welfare?
He sought to blunt the attraction of socialism
What effect did the Dreyfus affair have on late 1800s in France?
It revived republican distrust of Catholicism
When Hungary gained an independent status, how did it organize its domestic policies?
Magyar nobility dominated peasantry & minority populations
How did expanding right to vote in late nineteenth century affect national politics in Europe?
Politicians and parties became more responsible to citizens
What event directly prompted the Great Reforms in Russia, including emancipation of serfs?
Russian defeat in Crimean War of 1853-56
Ottoman reformers launched a series of radical reforms in the 19th century know as
Tanzimat
How did Sardinia and Victor Emmanuel, gain the reputation of liberal progressive state?
Victor Emmanuel retained liberal constituion
Which of following did Napoleon III include in his successful economy?
encouraging new investment banks and railroad construction
What was the long-established customs union among German states?
Zollverein
What was the first and most important of the Great Reforms?
abolition of slavery
Otto von Bismarck's Kulturkampf refers to
attack on the Catholic Church in German Empire
Who were the Young Turks?
fervent patriots who seized power in the revolution of 1908
Who was Theodor Herzl?
founder of Zionist Jewish national movement
After the Franco-Prussian War, Prussia
imposed a harsh peace on France
What was Russian Zemstvo?
institution for local government established by Great Reform
Unlike other political parties, Marxist socialist
organized themselves into international organization
The October Manifesto in the Russian Revolution of 1905 granted full civil rights and promised
popularly elected Duma or parliament
In 19th century Italy, Giuseppe Garibaldi was a
romantic nationalist
How did German Social Democrats recover their losses in 1907 election?
they took a more patriotic tone and broadened base
What was political goal of creating free, compulsory education in France?
to act as a nation-building tool to teach republican values
What was the goal of the Prussian Parliament in 1850s and 1860s?
to establish that it held final political authority
