AP World History Chapter 17-18

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Which of the following groups benefited most from the Industrial Revolution in 19th century Britain?

The middle class.

By reducing the cost of overland freight, the railroad...

created national markets.

Which of the following describes a feature of Karl Marx's vision of the society he predicted would emerge after the collapse of capitalism?

A society without classes and conflict.

Which of the following was a result of the Industrial Revolution?

An increase in the production of mining, manufacturing, and services.

Which of the following has been offered as an explanation for why Britain was the first European country to industrialize?

Britain had a ready supply of coal and iron ore, the resources that fueled industrialization.

Due to the unrest, these military strongmen would take power in newly formed Latin American countries.

Caudillo.

How did Britain's geography affect its industrial revolution?

Coal and iron ore deposits were abundant and close to each other.

Which of the following contributed to England's early industrialization?

Colonial trade.

Which of the following resulted from Europe's expansion overseas in the 18th and 19th centuries?

European countries acquired colonies and dominated world trade.

Which of the following explains why industrialization first occurred in Europe?

European rulers fostered unusually close alliances with their merchant classes.

In what way was the Industrial Revolution a global phenomenon by the end of the nineteenth century?

Even regions that failed to industrialize were impacted by industrialization.

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

Fossil fuels.

What of the following did Karl Marx propose?

He believed the middle class and the working class were opposed to each other.

Which of the following best exemplifies mercantilism as it was practiced in the Atlantic trading system by 1750?

International agreements by European governments to protect the freedom of the seas.

Which of the following describes how the Industrial Revolution unfolded?

It began independently in only one place, Great Britain.

How did contact with other civilizations contribute to Europe's Industrial Revolution?

It enabled Europe to draw disproportionately on the world's resources.

In the eighteenth century, how did the Industrial Revolution solve an emerging energy crisis?

It introduced the use of coal, oil, and natural gas as sources of fuel.

British working-class party established in the 1890s and dedicated to reforms and a peaceful transition to socialism.

Labour.

Which of the following describes how the movement toward industrialization in the 19th century affected Latin America?

Latin America provided the food products, raw materials, and markets for industrializing countries.

Emphasized thrift, hard work, rigid moral behavior, cleanliness, and respectability.

Middle class of European values.

In what way did the Industrial Revolution transform the human relationship to the natural world?

People learned to access energy sources derived from inorganic resources.

Which of the following describes the situation in Latin America after independence?

Politically, the area was plagued by internal divisions, regional revolts, and international wars.

Followers of an American political movement in the period around 1900 that advocated reform measures to correct the ills of industrialization.

Progressive.

Term used by Karl Marx to describe the industrial working class. He believed they had been exploited by the bourgeois

Proletariat.

Spontaneous rebellion in Russia after the country's defeat at the hands of Japan that forced the tsar to make substantial reforms.

Russian Revolution of 1905.

Which of the following represents a way that governments in the 19th century instilled national loyalties in their citizens?

Sponsoring public rituals.

Which of the following has been offered as an explanation for why Britain was the first European country to industrialize?

The Scientific Revolution in Great Britain fostered technological innovation.

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.

Which of the following played a greater role in the industrial development in Russia than in the United States or Western Europe?

The state.

Which of the following accompanied industrialization wherever it occurred in the world?

Urbanization.

In the 19th century, nationalism in Europe fueled...

a competitive drive for colonies in Asia and Africa.

In 19th century Britain, women from the laboring classes found jobs as...

factory workers and domestic servants.

The economic development of Latin America was heavily dependent on...

foreign capital.

The Atlantic Revolutions challenged the absolute and divine authority of...

monarchies.

In contrast to the American Revolution, the French Revolution...

sought to recreate society from scratch.

The most significant technological advance to solve the issues of energy in the early stages of the Industrial Revolution was the...

steam engine.


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