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12/07/2010
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1. Slavery in the Caribbean during the eighteenth century was associated primarily with the production of
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Sugar
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10. Adam Smith thought that the best way to increase national wealth was to
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Divide labor into more efficient tasks
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11. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels thought that
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History could only progress when classes struggled with each other to change how things were produced
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12. Sun Yat Sen though in 1922 that
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China needed investment from the United States and Europe in order for its fledgling democracy to survive
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13. Dadabhai Naoroji thought in the 1860s that
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British imperialism was beneficial to India, except that it did not result in the same kinds of economic growth or democratic change that happened in Britain
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14. The 1917 Mexican constitution differs from the US constitution in that it
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Includes sections on the nationalization of mineral wealth
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15. Nineteenth-central liberalism involved
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Free markets, Universal Suffrage, Rule of Law
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16. The Mexican war of independence was less successful than the American war of independence because
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a. States almost immediately tried to secede from the Mexican union
b. Spain, unlike Britain, became a weak imperial power
c. Spain, unlike Britain, did not industrialize significantly until the 20th century
d. The united sates acquired 1/3 of Mexico’s territory at a time of civil war
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17. The social democratic movement of the late 19th and early 20th century differentiated itself from communism by
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Arguing reform was better than revolution
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19. The man who wanted to build a railroad from the South African Cape to Cario, Egypt was
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Cecil Rhodes
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2. The principal European slave traders came from
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Britain and Portugal
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20. The events occurred in the following order
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a. Fall of the Ming dynasty
b. The opium war
c. The Taiping rebellion
d. Collapse of the Qing empire
e. The Chinese republic
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21. These revolutions occurred in the following order
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a. North American
b. France
c. Haitian
d. Venezuelan
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22. The East India Company’s army was composed mostly of soldiers from
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India
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23. The first industrial revolution involved all of the following except
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Oil
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24. The long depression helped cause
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The scramble for Africa
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25. Africa was divided by European imperial powers in
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Berlin
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26. Which country received the Congo in the Scramble for Africa
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Belgium
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27. Most opium in the world ca. 1800 was grown
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By the British in the Bengal
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28. The most deadly conflict in the nineteenth century was
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The Taiping Rebellion
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29. Mohammed Ali helped which country achieve independence
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Egypt
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3. In Hannah More’s poem “Slavery” (1788) the line “And Faith and Freedom spring from Mercy’s hands” suggests slavery is
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Unchristian
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30. According to Seeley, British imperialism in the 19th century was
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An unintentional result of British military superiority
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31. When women first obtained the right to vote in Britain in 1918 they had to be
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30 years old
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32. The Suez Canal was built in the aftermath of
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a. US Civil war
b. The Sepoy Rebellion
c. The Taiping Rebellion
d. Egyptian independence
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33. Which of the following countries gave women the right to vote first
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Finland
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34. The Taiping rebellion had its roots in
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a. Fighting organized crime
b. Resisting British Imperialism
c. Protestant Missionaries
d. Resisting Government interference
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35. Adam Smith famously began his “Wealth of Nations” with the example of making
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Pins
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36. Why did Adam Smith think Chinese workers remained poor?
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Chinese national wealth was not expanding
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37. Which of the European empires was the first to collapse?
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The Spanish
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38. The French Revolution began with the calling of the Estates General because
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The king was bankrupt after helping the Americans defeat the British
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39. The world’s largest city in the nineteenth century was
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London
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4. By 1800, Britain’s largest port for departing slave ships was
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Liverpool
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40. The Napoleonic wars resulted in
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a. The end of the silver cycle
b. Bans on slave trade
c. The independence of Central and South America
d. The toppling of many European monarchies
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41. The American revolution influenced world history by setting an example of
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a. Popular sovereignty
b. The rule of law
c. Anti-colonialism
d. Enlightenment values
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43. John Wesley and Hannah More were both
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a. Methodists
b. Opposed to Slavery
c. British
d. Authors
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44. The united States was composed out of former parts of
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a. Russian empire
b. Spanish empire
c. French Empire
d. British Empire
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45. The following occurred despite and in many ways because of the Long Depression
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a. The increased use of electricity
b. The extension of railroad and telegraph communications networks
c. The expansion of European imperialism
d. The rise of Social Democracy
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46. Which of the following people was the most influential in the abolition of slavery
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Toussaint L’Ouverture
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47. Conservatives in nineteenth-century Europe tended to believe in
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a. The importance of the monarchy
b. The importance of a government-controlled church
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48. Over the 350-year period of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, about how many people were taken from Africa to the Americas to work as slaves?
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11,000,000
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49. This table from the French Encyclopedie shows the effort in the European Enlightenment to
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Organize and classify knowledge
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5. Simon Bolivar grew up in
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Caracas, Venezuela
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50. Which of the following began to emerge as global powers in the late nineteenth century?
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a. Japan
b. Germany
c. The United States
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51. Which of the following got rid of their emperor, king or sultan in the early 20th century?
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a. China
b. The Ottoman Empire
c. Germany
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52. Japan in the late nineteenth century began to show its power by defeating what countries in battle?
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a. Russia
b. China
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53. Which colony was the most important producer of sugar in the eighteenth century?
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Hati
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54. Somersett’s Case in 1772
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Suggested that slavery had no legal basis in Britain
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55. “Futures” trading in the late nineteenth century
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Helped stabilize the price of food globally
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56. Railroads in Africa were different than those in India, Russia and the US and Canada because
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They focused primarily on the extraction of wealth rather than the circulation of goods and raw materials
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57. World war I was most directly caused by
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Nationalists using anarchist tactics against old empires
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58. With the coming of World War I, social democrats in many European countries
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Supported war out of feelings of nationalism
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59. “Imagined Community” is Benedict Anderson’s phrase for new feelings of ____ in the late 18th and 19th century
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Nationalism
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6. While In France, Simon Bolivar wrote that “the crown which Napoleon placed on his head..” This suggests that
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Napoleon’s crowning, while unfortunate, was nevertheless a healthy sign of popular sovereignty
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60. The British factory acts
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Tried to reign in long working hours and child labor
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61. Adam Smith was from
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Scotland
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62. The Franco-Prussian war in 1870 spurred the formation of which new country
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Germany
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63. In 1750, approximately 25% of world manufacturing occurred in India, 33% in China and 2% in Britain. By 1850, Britain had overtaken both China and India, because of
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Industrial Manufacturing
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7. 1808 was a “critical year” according to Lynch because
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The Spanish monarchy and empire collapsed in the aftermath of Napoleon’s invasion
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8. A Junta initially was
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A group of monarchist elites who organized provincial resistance to Napoleon in Spain and in the Spanish colonies
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9. The Cartagena Manifesto suggested that
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Enlightenment philosophies were too idealized and ethereal for practical application in South American revolutions
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Was Turkey a new nation in the 19th century?
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Turkey was not a new nation in the 19th century. It was formed in the 20th century after the dissolution of the Ottoman empire
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