Unit 5 WHAP

Which of the following groups was Bolívar most trying to influence with this letter?

(Definitely) Creole Elites

Adoption of which of the following power sources has contributed the most to increasing the energy available to humans?

(Definitely) Fossil Fuels

Which of the following European developments is most closely associated with the revolution in Haiti?

(Definitely) The French Revolution

Based on the letter, Kartini's views were most similar to the views espoused by members of which of the following movements?

(Definitely) The early feminist movement

Which of the following was the most immediate effect of the processes illustrated in the images?

(Definitely) 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?

(Definitely) Although their overall wealth declined, they continued to produce finished goods.

The print above suggests that as nineteenth-century Japan industrialized, Japanese women did which of the following?

(Definitely) Became involved in the factory system and industrial production

Which of the following most directly explains the importance of improved agricultural productivity to the industrialization of economic production in western Europe in the period 1750-1900 ?

(Definitely) Because less labor was needed on farms, more people moved to urban areas to work in factories.

The quotation above best supports which of the following conclusions about the author's motives for resistance to Spanish colonial rule in Latin America?

(Definitely) 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?

(Definitely) Both countries industrialized, with the state playing an important role in the process.

The industrialization of Great Britain's economy in the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is most directly explained by which of the following?

(Definitely) Britain had large reserves of coal.

The perspective of the author in the first paragraph can best be understood in the context of which of the following nineteenth-century developments?

(Definitely) Competition among European states for global power and influence

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?

(Definitely) Competition from industrially produced British textiles

The image from Japan during the Meiji Restoration best exemplifies which of the following processes?

(Definitely) Cultural changes accompanying greater contact with the United States

"And God gave unto the Polish kings and knights freedom, that all might be brothers, both the richest and the poorest. The king and the men of knightly rank received into their brotherhood still more people.... And the number of brothers became as great as a nation, and in no nation were there so many people free and calling each other brothers as in Poland." Adam Mickiewicz, poem, 1832, about Polish uprisings against Russia in 1830 and 1831 The passage above best reflects which of the following?

(Definitely) Development of nationalism

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?

(Definitely) 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?

(Definitely) Electricity, steel, and chemicals

The Indian liberal view of women discussed in the passage is best understood in the context of which of the following?

(Definitely) Emerging women's suffrage and feminist movements

Based on Bayly's argument, Indian liberal ideas were most clearly influenced by which of the following?

(Definitely) Enlightenment concepts of natural rights

Which of the following best describes a conclusion about the relationship between steamships and world trade in the late nineteenth century that is supported by the data in the table?

(Definitely) Europe's dominance in the total number of steamships roughly correlates to its dominance in world trade.

Which of the following historical processes after 1750 contributed most directly to a change in Safavid production and export patterns as described in the passage?

(Definitely) European industrialization

The adoption of the new flag is an example of which of the following processes?

(Definitely) Governmental efforts of multinational states to promote a new nationalist identity that would help prevent the emergence of ethnic separatism

The image best illustrates which factor that contributed to Great Britain's increasing prominence as a global power in the nineteenth century?

(Definitely) Great Britain's location on the Atlantic Ocean and its many waterways enabled it to import and export goods.

Which of the following factors contributed most to the increase of world population in the period 1750 to 1900 C.E.?

(Definitely) Improvements in agricultural productivity and food distribution

Many Indian historians after independence would likely have objected to Bayly's characterization of Indian liberalism on the basis of their belief that...

(Definitely) Indian nationalism was inspired predominantly by Indian cultural and political traditions

Japan's industrialization during the Meiji period and the Soviet Union's industrialization during the 1920s and 1930s had which of the following characteristics in common?

(Definitely) Industrialization in both countries was achieved largely through state direction rather than through private initiative.

Industrialization in Russia during the nineteenth century most closely resembled industrialization in which of the following regions?

(Definitely) Japan during the Meiji Restoration

In the late nineteenth century, Japanese attitudes toward European cultural influences changed as a direct result of

(Definitely) Japan enacting political reforms during the Meiji Era

Which of the following developments in the period 1878-1922 best explains the change in Japanese trade patterns shown in the graphs above?

(Definitely) Japanese manufacturing output rose as a consequence of industrialization.

In the excerpt, Bolívar expresses which of the following?

(Definitely) Outrage at the effects of mercantilist policies

Which of the following is true of both Russia and Japan by 1914 ?

(Definitely) Rapid, state-sponsored industrialized had occurred in both countries.

The values of "foreign civilization" that Nagazane criticized in the passage were most directly a product of the

(Definitely) Scientific and Industrial Revolutions

Which of the following best supports the argument that the last three decades of the nineteenth century were a turning point in world history?

(Definitely) Significant increases in demand for fossil fuels for industrial uses

he type of grievances outlined by the author in the passage was a key contributing factor in the outbreak of which of the following?

(Definitely) The American Revolution

Which of the following would most directly challenge the labor system portrayed in the sketch?

(Definitely) The Enlightenment

Most world historians would agree that the key to European predominance in the world economy during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was

(Definitely) The Industrial Revolution

Which of the following contributed the most to the growth of the movement to abolish slavery in the Atlantic world?

(Definitely) The adaptation of Enlightenment ideas challenging established social hierarchies

The author's argument regarding the effects of Western philosophy on the world is likely based on which of the following?

(Definitely) The adoption of European Enlightenment political and scientific principles worldwide

The economic success of businesses such as the British South Africa Company was in part dependent on which of the following developments in the late nineteenth century?

(Definitely) The adoption of innovative practices in banking and finance

Which of the following best supports the view of some world historians that the eighteenth century marked a major turning point in world history?

(Definitely) The beginning of the Industrial Revolution in England

Which of the following developments in the nineteenth century would most likely help explain the size and composition of the workforce at the Bayer plant as described in the second paragraph?

(Definitely) The construction of railroads facilitated the migration of people to interior regions.

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?

(Definitely) The decline of the Indian textile industry's share of global manufacturing

The emergence of the German industries referred to in the passage is most directly explained by which of the following processes in the nineteenth century?

(Definitely) The development of new methods of production during the second industrial revolution

Which of the following most likely influenced Fukuzawa's views in the passage?

(Definitely) The forcible "opening up" of Japanese markets to the West, which led to the Meiji Restoration

The development of the factory system most directly explains which of the following characteristics of the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

(Definitely) The greater degree of labor specialization

Which of the following best explains the general increase in the living standards of industrial workers between 1800 and 1914 ?

(Definitely) The increased supply of inexpensive consumer goods

Which of the following best explains the change in energy consumption in the time period from 1000 to 1850 C.E.?

(Definitely) The increasing mechanization of labor as a result of industrialization

In what way did the Haitian Revolution differ from the French Revolution?

(Definitely) The leaders of the Haitian Revolution came from a different social class than did the leaders of the French Revolution.

The beginning of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain was most influenced by which of the following factors?

(Definitely) The location and large number of British coal deposits

The "objections" that the chairman refers to in the first paragraph can most directly be explained in relation to which of the following arguments commonly made by laissez-faire economists in the period 1750-1900 ?

(Definitely) The monopolistic practices of government-chartered joint-stock companies such as the British South Africa Company distorted market competition and hurt consumers.

The policies of the Meiji reformers brought about which of the following in Japan?

(Definitely) The promotion of rapid industrialization

The technological processes reflected in the image had the most direct influence on which of the following?

(Definitely) The rising of Japan in the Meiji Era

As described in the passage, the economic model of the British South Africa Company most directly differed from which of the following economic trends in the late nineteenth century?

(Definitely) The shift from mercantilism to free-market trade policies

Which of the following best explains Kartini's familiarity with the ideas regarding social roles that she discusses in her letter?

(Definitely) The spread of Enlightenment thought as empires consolidated control over their territories

Image 1 best illustrates which of the following broad economic transformations in the period circa 1750 ?

(Definitely) The transition from a human- and animal-powered economy to a fossil-fuel economy

Judging from the excerpt above, which of the following was the main purpose of Morelos' speech?

(Definitely) To offer a vision of Mexican history that could be used as a basis for nation building

Slavery and serfdom were abolished in the 1860s in

(Definitely) United States and Russia

The Australian catalog page of 1929 shown above shows women primarily as

(Definitely) consumers in a world economy

Sun Yuting's analysis of the potential effect of a trade embargo on Great Britain could best be characterized as

(Definitely) 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

(Definitely) increased rights for laborers

As described in the passage, the voting requirements in Japan circa 1878 most directly reflect the continuing influence of

(Definitely) societal norms that assigned women lower status than the status of men

Great Britain's development of the industry referred to in the first paragraph during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is best explained by the fact that British factories were the first to

(Definitely) use steam-powered machines for large-scale economic production