Unit 3 Review Practice Test
Which of the following was the most immediate effect of the processes illustrated in the images?
A decline in Asian countries' share of world manufacturing as Asian goods lost ground to European imports
Which of the following best characterizes the economic situation of most Asian states such as China at the end of the nineteenth century?
Although their overall wealth declined, they continued to produce finished goods.
Which of the following occurred in nineteenth-century Africa as a result of the end of the transatlantic slave trade?
An increased use of slave labor within Africa
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 cotton and exports of finished cotton in the 1850s
Which of the following scientific concepts had the greatest role in providing a justification for imperialism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
Charles Darwin's theory of evolution
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.
Which of the following was a major reason for the decline in India's share of the global manufacture of cotton textiles by the end of the nineteenth century?
Competition from industrially produced British textiles
The image from Japan during the Meiji Restoration best exemplifies which of the following processes?
Cultural changes accompanying greater contact with the United States
An increase in the number of overseas investment opportunities such as those shown in the table in the nineteenth century most strongly contributed to which of the following processes?
Economic imperialism in Asia and Latin America, as Western individuals and businesses pressured their governments to protect their investments
Which of the following was the primary Ottoman response to the processes depicted in Map 2 ?
Efforts to reform the government despite considerable internal opposition
In contrast to initial industrialization, the second Industrial Revolution in the last half of the nineteenth century was particularly associated with the mass production of which of the following?
Electricity, steel, and chemicals
The "second Industrial Revolution" in the last half of the nineteenth century was associated with the mass production of which of the following groups of products?
Electricity, steel, and chemicals
The values of "foreign civilization" that Nagazane criticized in the passage were most directly a product of the
Enlightenment
Which of the following facilitated the creation of European empires in Africa during the late nineteenth century?
Europeans' use of both warfare and diplomacy
Which of the following conclusions is best supported by the data in the table?
Financial practices facilitated deeper global economic integration.
Adoption of which of the following power sources has contributed the most to increasing the energy available to humans?
Fossil Fuels
Which of the following European developments is most closely associated with the revolution in Haiti
French Revolution
For the period circa 1890 to 1910, which of the following countries experienced industrialization trends most similar to those for Japan, as shown in the table?
Germany
The adoption of the new flag is an example of which of the following processes?
Governmental efforts of multinational states to promote a new nationalist identity that would help prevent the emergence of ethnic separatism
Which of the following was among the first results of the European Industrial Revolution in other parts of the world?
Increased demand for commodities such as cotton and palm oil
Industrialization in Russia during the nineteenth century most closely resembled industrialization in which of the following regions?
Japan during the Meiji Restoration
Which of the following was the most direct political consequence of Japan's attempts to sustain the economic trend shown in the table for the period 1930-1938 ?
Japan engaged in imperial expansion to acquire access to raw materials.
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 mid-twentieth century, the presence of Chinese and Japanese populations in North America and of South Asian populations in the Caribbean and South Africa is best explained by which of the following?
Labor migrations during the nineteenth century
The North and South American independence movements of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries shared which of the following?
Limitation of civil rights to a minority of the population
Marx's statement in the passage above is best understood in the context of which of the following responses to the development and spread of global capitalism in the nineteenth century?
A movement to articulate an alternative vision of society
The quotation above best supports which of the following conclusions about the author's motives for resistance to Spanish colonial rule in Latin America?
Bolívar rejected Spanish mercantilist policies that restricted free trade in Latin America.
Which of the following is an accurate comparison between the economic development of Japan and the economic development of Russia in the nineteenth century?
Both countries industrialized, with the state playing an important role in the process.
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.
The ideology reflected in the poster was most directly the result of which of the following developments in the nineteenth century?
Growing discontent with traditional forms of government led to the development of new political ideas.
Which of the following statements is true of global migration patterns during the nineteenth century?
Migrants increasingly relocated from rural areas to cities.
Which of the following is a significant result of the late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century revolutions in both Europe and the Americas?
Nation-states emerged as the principal form of political organization in both Europe and the Americas.
Which of the following best describes an important difference between Karl Marx's theory of socialist revolution and that of V. I. Lenin?
Only Lenin argued that the workers' revolution would have to be led by professional revolutionaries.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, some governments responded to the growing popularity of ideas such as the ones expressed in the passage by doing which of the following?
Passing reforms designed to improve the conditions of industrial workers
The North and South American independence movements of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries shared which of the following?
Revolutionary demands based on Enlightenment political ideas
Which of the following best supports the argument that the last three decades of the nineteenth century were a turning point in world history?
Significant increases in demand for fossil fuels for industrial uses
he philosophy behind the late-nineteenth-century Chinese policy mentioned above was part of which of the following?
The Chinese government's attempt to reform the economy through self-strengthening
Which of the following most directly contributed to the overall trend in the percentages of industrial production and heavy industry as shown in the table for the period 1890-1938 ?
The Meiji reforms
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 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
Many historians have argued that by the late nineteenth century the industrialized nations of Europe had achieved global economic dominance more through force and coercion than through the superiority of their industrial products. Which of the following nineteenth-century developments would best support this contention?
The decline of the Indian textile industry's share of global manufacturing
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 beginning of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain was most influenced by which of the following factors?
The location and large number of British coal deposits
The changing relationship between Portugal and Brazil described in the passage can best be understood in the context of which of the following developments after 1750 ?
The onset of Latin American independence movements
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
Image 1 best illustrates which of the following broad economic transformations in the period circa 1750 ?
The transition from a human- and animal-powered economy to a fossil-fuel economy
Which of the following best represents the purpose of Trotsky's statement in the passage above?
To argue that Russia is ripe for a socialist revolution, despite being less industrialized than other European countries
most likely explains the differences in the perceived risk associated with investing in land in Britain and investing in land in India, as shown in the table?
While improvements in agricultural productivity made investing in land in Britain relatively safe, Britain was still in the process of securing its control over India.
The Meiji reforms in Japan resulted in
a shift of power away from regional lords and to the emperor
All of the following resulted from the French and Russian Revolutions EXCEPT
a socialist economic system
Over the course of the nineteenth century, the risks associated with financing the trading voyages of European ships would
decrease, as steamships offered a more reliable and safer method of oceanic transportation
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
In the nineteenth century, the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires were two examples of
multinational empires
Rebellious ethnic minorities in the Russian, Ottoman, and Austro-Hungarian Empires during the late nineteenth century were motivated primarily by
nationalism
Most world historians would agree that the key to European predominance in the world economy during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was
the Industrial Revolution
Slavery and serfdom were abolished in the 1860s in
the United States and Russia
In the second half of the nineteenth century, the working conditions depicted in Image 2 served as an inspiration for those arguing that
the negative social effects of capitalism should be alleviated by enacting factory regulations