This President sought to make slavery a crime and in 1801 passe the act which banned the import of slaves to the United States
George Washington
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
The First country to take slaves from Africa was
Spain
Portugal
England
France
How many million Africans were shipped to the Americas between 1500s and 1800s?
8 million
10 million
12 million
14 Million
The Majority of kidnapped Africans were already slaves in Africa
What two European Countries were the most involved in trade in india?
England and France
Britain and Holland
Portugal and Britain
Portugal and Spain
This system was meant to help regulate European trade in China
British East India Company
Jesuit
Shogunate
Canton
Initially Europeans wanted _________ and from India?
Spices and Jewels
Jewels and Textiles
Spices and Textiles
Tea
THis "good" was used by Europeans to shift the balance of Trade with China
Porcelian
Opium
Slaves
Many Japanese were converted to this religion by imperialist forces
Protestantism
Christianity
Judaism
Islam
What commodity did the Japanese initially get from the portuguese which was used to make Japan an imperial force?
Guns
Jesuits
The man responsible for the independence of Central American Countries from Spain was...
Joseph Brant
Simon Bolivar
Mercantilism is
Another name for Imperialism
A way to Strengthen trade within your own empire at the expense of other empires
The process of establishing control over indigenous peoples
Essential for the flow of good between countries
The man who created the title of Czar/Tsar was
Ivan the Terrible
Peter the Great
Vlad the Impaler
Tsar Nicholas
This event greatly influenced the Haitian Revolution
American Revolution
Execution of King Louis XVI
French Revolution
Exile of Napoleon
He began to modernize and opened thinking to the west reforms
Slaves who established their freedom in Haiti did so in the face of __ to ___ Odds
10 to 1
15 to 1
17 to 1
20 to 1
The empire that invaded India in 1526 and dominated and Indian politics for much of the sixteenth and seventeeth centuries was the:
Hindu Empire
Mughal Empire
British Empire
Spanish
The Dominant relgion of India is:
Hindusim
Sikhism
Veddas
The first European to come to India were the...
British
CHinese
Portugese
Europeans produced no goods which the indians wanted to buy so they had to pay in:
Spices
SIlver
Diamonds
The first unified Chinese empire was created in 202 CE by the:
Monghol
Ming Dynasty
Mughals
Qin Dynasty
1500 _____________ was the least centralized state in East Asia
Japan
China
Vietnam
Korea
Matteo Ricci was:
A colleague of Marco Polo
Jesuits who worked to build connections between China and the West
President of the Dutch East India Company
Portuguese Explorer
Brginning in the mid-1600s, East Asian countries devoloped a policy of _______________.
Inclusiveness
Free market trade
Seclusion
Equality
Janissaries were:
Muslims who made made a poligrimage to Mecca
Governors of Ottoman provinces
Elite Soldiers recruited from Christian famallies
Scholars who made Islamic science the envy of the world
Millets were
Military units
Semi-autonomous Islamic, Jewish, Orthodox, and Armenian religious communities
Division of the papacy
Forms of Ghazi, or Relgious War
Under the rule of Sulayman the Magnificent, the ottmans managed to conquer Belgrade but fialed to move beyond:
Constantniople
Bucharest
Cario
Vienna
The treaty of Karlowitz in 1699 was:
An alliance of the Ottomans and Austrians against the Russians
Made France the Ally of the Ottoman Empire
Required the Ottomans to give up territory and showed they were now weaker than their European Rivals
Forced Austria to pay tribute to Sulayman
Under "Ivan the Terrible" ( 1533-1584) this system was established
Czar
Kievan Rus
Imperialism
Serfdom
"Peter the Great"opened Russia to the West by defenting this army at the Battle of Poltava in 1709
Sweden
Austria
THe Ottomans
Poland
The Navel battle that destroyed any hope Napoleon had for invading England was:
Trafalgar
Waterloo
Liepzig
Lepanto
The boycott of English by Napoleon was:
The code Napoleon
The Treaty of Campo Formio
The Continental System
The congress system
The Peace Settlement after the Napoleonic wars was made at the Congrss of:
Berlin
London
Versailles
The declaration of independence is historically significant because:
it ended British control of North America
It was the First time of Authority of a monarch was questioned
It ended the America Revolution
It was the first time that a people proclaimed freedom from a sovereign authority and the right to constitute a new independent state
Which of the following were key supporters of the 13 colonies in the American Revolution?
Spain and France
Spain, Austria and Russia
England and Great Britian
In the 1700s, most territory in india controlled by the British was run by:
Parliament
The British East India Company
The army
Directly by the King
Following independence movements in Spanish America in the 1820s, the only two territories left of Spanish Empire in America were:
Brazill and Mexico
Mexico and Venzuela
Puerto Rico and Cuba
Cuba and Mexico
The only country where a slave revolt successfully abolished slavery was in:
Jamaica
Haiti
Cuba
THe United states
Which industry was first transformed by the industial revolution?
Pottery
Mining
Textile
Lumber
Divsion of Labour in the industrial revolution
Slowed the process of production
Increased the importance of slave labour and unskilled tasks
Meant that women and children lost their importance in the labour force
Led to an increase in cottae industries
The industrial Revolution started in
The United states
Britain
Peter the Great;s Russia
The following countries made up the Quadruple Alliance:
Spain, Portugal, England and France
Spain, Portugal, Russia and Prussia
Austria, England, France, and Russia
England, Austria, Russia, and Prussia
Who became King of the French following the July 1830 revolution?
Louis XVII
Charles X
Louis Napoleon
Louis Phillipe
Nineteenth century Liberal thought saw power vested in the people, though "the poeple" often meant:
Only men
Men who owned property
The Aristocracy
Universal sufferage
Liberal revolutions saw the
Sale of church lands and abolition of privilage by birth.
Extension of the vote to 60% of the population.
Return of absolute monarchy.
Return of the French Revolution.
The poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 meant the creation of
Factories
Workhouses
The Anglican Church
The constitution
Chartism or the Chartist movement in England sought
A return of conservatism
The forceful imposition of free trade
A limit to the opium trade
Parlimentary democracy and constitional reform.
The result of the Opium war of 1840 was
British control of Hong Kon, low tariffs and increased trade with China
Increase in Opium trade and the defeat of Britian
Higher tariffs and greater trade restrictions
Chinese authorities criminalized the use of opium and attempted to bans iports.
Before 1848 the only nationalist movements that had any measure of sucess were in:
France and England
Belguim and Greece
The Ottoman Empire
The Austrian Empire
The Revolution of 1848 began in
Madrid
Belgium
Paris
One Major failure of the revolutions of 1848 was that the revolutionaries
Could not remain united
could not replicate the sucess of the French Revolution
Wanted too much too fast
Saw Constitutional as ineffective
Unficiation in italy started in
Turin
Sicily
Naples
Piedmont
In order to unite italy, count Camillo di Cavour would have to enlist the help of
Russia against Austria
France against Austria
Russia against France
France against Russia
The last part of Italy to be united was
The papal States
Rome
Realpolitik was the policy employed by Bismarck to united Germany, it focused upon:
A peace as a means of achieving stability on the European continent
Nationalism and liberalism
Compromise
The poltics of reality
Bismark saw the role of war in
First defeatig austria then uniting Germany against the common enemy of France
In Purely Machiavellian Terms
No way obtaining peace
Forming the balance of power that set the stafe for World War one
Karl Marx identified four types of societies which had existed in the West
Socialist, communist, Anarchist, utiltarian
Primtive, ancient, feudal, capitalist
Primary, secondary, tertiary, utopian
England, Britian, France, Spain
According to Marx, social change happens
Because of the overthrow of the proletariat
At the hands of bourgeois
At the expense of communist thought
By class conflict beteen those who control the means of production and those who do not.
Marx felt that parliamentary system would not properly respresent that needs of workers because
Capialist would not give up control of the state without a fight
Not all workers could vote
It was formed by the proletariat
Socialists could not agree
Socialism is
a Poltical and economic system aimed towards achieving utopia
The polar opposite of communism
A massive program of social upheaval
A poltical and ecomonic system aimed in which production is controlled by a central democratically elexted authority.
According to utiltitarianism, the test for value of an instition or law was its usefulness in contributing to the greatest __________ of all people
Freedom
Wealth
Happiness
Protection
In the 1880s, the country was one of the first to use income contributions to help pay for a national social security system
Germany
Italy
Which statement best desribes the state of Catholcism by the late 1800s
church land had been returned and church attendance was increasing
The pope initiated a catholicism revival and celebrated the unification of italy
Church were extending their control over secular education
The pope was ensconced in the Vatican, church lands ahd been confiscated and social welfare was being taken over by the state.
Zionism advocated:
An increased in anti semitism.
The cration of a jewish homeland in Palestine
Vindication for the Dreyfus affair
Communist revolution
The Meiji restoration resulted in:
Increased power for the shogunate
A centralized government, industrializations and a strong military
More US control
Japan being defeted by China
China reformed in the late 19th and early 20th century to strengthen
China against the west and westernized Japan
the ties between China and Japan
Chinese cultural revoltuions
Tienamin Square