History 102 - Chapter 23 Quiz
Bismarck's Kulturkampf refers to?
his attack on the Catholic Church in the German Empire.
Why did the conservative Bismarck pioneer the creation of an expansive system of social welfare?
Bismarck sought to blunt the attraction of socialism to the working classes and give them a small stake in the existing political system.
How did Louis Napoleon believe that the people should be represented in government?
By a strong national leader whose reforms would aid all of the people.
Why did Prussia and Austria attack Denmark in 1864?
Denmark was attempting to bring two provinces that belong to the German Confederation into a more centralized Danish state.
The Mexican War of 1848?
Exacerbated tensions between the North and South, as debate interrupted over the extension of slavery into territory acquired from Mexico.
Upon his election as president, why did Louis Napoleon sign conservative legislation increasing the power of the Catholic Church and depriving poor men of the right to vote?
He signed the legislation in order to get the National Assembly to pay his personal debts and change the constitution so he could run for a second term.
Why did Bismarck enact high tariffs on grain from the United States, Canada, and Russia in 1878?
He sought to win support from both the Catholic Center and the Protestants Junkers, who had large land holdings.
How did the expanding right to vote affect national politics across Europe?
Politicians and parties became more responsive to the people they represented.
Ottoman reformers launched a series of radical reforms in the nineteenth century known as the?
Tanzimat.
Which of the following does not correctly characterize the various socialist parties in Europe prior to 1914?
The French Socialist Party was the most modest due to the powerful labor unions that controlled the party.
As Hungary gained its independent status in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, how did it organize its domestic politics?
The Magyar nobility dominated both the peasantry and minority populations through the parliament.
How did the process of Italian unification survive the French betrayal of Sardinia in its effort to unify Italy?
The nationalist leaders in central Italy overthrew their local princes and merged with Sardinia.
How did the Ottoman Empire's efforts at reform in the latter half of the nineteenth century undermine the empire's stability?
The reforms created equality before the law for all citizens, which increased religious disputes and split Muslims into secularist and traditionalist camps.
Which of the following best characterizes the political goal of the creation of free, compulsory elementary education in France?
To act as a nation-building tool in which all children would be taught secular, republican values
What was the goal of the Prussian Parliament in the 1850s and 1860s?
To establish that the Parliament held final political authority and that the army was responsible to the Parliament.
How did labor unions in Germany change in the early 1900s?
Unions increasingly focused on basic issues of wages, hours, and working conditions rather than dissemination of socialist doctrine.
How did Bismarck structure the North German Confederation in order to secure the authority of the Prussian Emperor?
Universal male suffrage permitted the emperor to go directly to the people if the middle-class liberals resisted his bills in the legislature.
How did Sardinia and its monarch, Victor Emmanuel, gain the reputation of a liberal, progressive state?
Victor Emmanuel retained the liberal constitution forced upon his father in 1848, which included substantial civil liberties.
In the 1890s, how did Sergie Witte seek to transform Russia?
Witte implemented industrial policies to catch up with the West.
The long-established customs union among the German states was known as the?
Zollverein.
Giuseppe Garibaldi is best described as?
a romantic nationalist.
The first and most important of the Great Reforms in Russia was the?
abolition of serfdom.
The event that directly prompted the Great Reforms in Russia, including the emancipation of the serfs, was the?
defeat in the Crimean War of 1853-1856.
Bismarck's social reforms were motivated primarily by?
his fear and distrust of socialism.
Louis Napoleon's great success with the economy included all of the following except?
his government prevented the formation of labor unions or laws permitting labor strikes.
After the Franco-Prussian War, Prussia?
imposed a harsh peace on France.
The Russian zemstvo was the?
institution for local government established by the Great Reforms.
The greatest impediment to nation building in the United States was?
regional differences exacerbated by slavery.
The Dreyfus affair?
revived republican distrust of Catholicism.
Socialist parties become more moderate by the late 1800s for all of the following reasons except?
socialist leaders saw revolution as a threat to their now respectable positions in society.
Theodore Herzl was?
the founder of the Zionist Jewish national movement.
According to the text, German Social Democrats recovered their losses of the 1907 election and became the largest party in the Reichstag in 1912, in part because they?
took on a more patriotic tone and broadened their base.
