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This President sought to make slavery a crime and in 1801 passe the act which banned the import of slaves to the United States
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George Washington
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John Adams
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Thomas Jefferson
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Abraham Lincoln
Question 2
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The First country to take slaves from Africa was
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Spain
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Portugal
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England
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France
Question 3
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How many million Africans were shipped to the Americas between 1500s and 1800s?
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8 million
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10 million
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12 million
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14 Million
Question 4
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The Majority of kidnapped Africans were already slaves in Africa
Question 5
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What two European Countries were the most involved in trade in india?
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England and France
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Britain and Holland
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Portugal and Britain
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Portugal and Spain
Question 6
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This system was meant to help regulate European trade in China
Question 7
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Initially Europeans wanted _________ and from India?
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Spices and Jewels
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Jewels and Textiles
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Spices and Textiles
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Tea
Question 8
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THis "good" was used by Europeans to shift the balance of Trade with China
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Tea
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Porcelian
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Opium
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Slaves
Question 9
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Many Japanese were converted to this religion by imperialist forces
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Protestantism
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Christianity
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Judaism
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Islam
Question 10
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What commodity did the Japanese initially get from the portuguese which was used to make Japan an imperial force?
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Slaves
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Opium
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Guns
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Jesuits
Question 11
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The man responsible for the independence of Central American Countries from Spain was...
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Thomas Jefferson
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George Washington
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Joseph Brant
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Simon Bolivar
Question 12
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Another name for Imperialism
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A way to Strengthen trade within your own empire at the expense of other empires
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The process of establishing control over indigenous peoples
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Essential for the flow of good between countries
Question 13
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The man who created the title of Czar/Tsar was
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Ivan the Terrible
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Peter the Great
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Vlad the Impaler
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Tsar Nicholas
Question 14
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This event greatly influenced the Haitian Revolution
Question 15
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He began to modernize and opened thinking to the west reforms
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Ivan the Terrible
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Peter the Great
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Vlad the Impaler
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Tsar Nicholas
Question 16
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Slaves who established their freedom in Haiti did so in the face of __ to ___ Odds
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10 to 1
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15 to 1
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17 to 1
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20 to 1
Question 17
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The empire that invaded India in 1526 and dominated and Indian politics for much of the sixteenth and seventeeth centuries was the:
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Hindu Empire
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Mughal Empire
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British Empire
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Spanish
Question 18
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The Dominant relgion of India is:
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Hindusim
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Islam
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Sikhism
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Veddas
Question 19
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The first European to come to India were the...
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Spanish
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British
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CHinese
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Portugese
Question 20
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Europeans produced no goods which the indians wanted to buy so they had to pay in:
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Opium
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Spices
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SIlver
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Diamonds
Question 21
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The first unified Chinese empire was created in 202 CE by the:
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Monghol
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Ming Dynasty
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Mughals
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Qin Dynasty
Question 22
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1500 _____________ was the least centralized state in East Asia
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Japan
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China
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Vietnam
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Korea
Question 23
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Matteo Ricci was:
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A colleague of Marco Polo
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Jesuits who worked to build connections between China and the West
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President of the Dutch East India Company
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Portuguese Explorer
Question 24
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Brginning in the mid-1600s, East Asian countries devoloped a policy of _______________.
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Inclusiveness
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Free market trade
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Seclusion
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Equality
Question 25
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Janissaries were:
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Muslims who made made a poligrimage to Mecca
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Governors of Ottoman provinces
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Elite Soldiers recruited from Christian famallies
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Scholars who made Islamic science the envy of the world
Question 26
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Military units
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Semi-autonomous Islamic, Jewish, Orthodox, and Armenian religious communities
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Division of the papacy
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Forms of Ghazi, or Relgious War
Question 27
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Under the rule of Sulayman the Magnificent, the ottmans managed to conquer Belgrade but fialed to move beyond:
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Constantniople
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Bucharest
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Cario
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Vienna
Question 28
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The treaty of Karlowitz in 1699 was:
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An alliance of the Ottomans and Austrians against the Russians
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Made France the Ally of the Ottoman Empire
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Required the Ottomans to give up territory and showed they were now weaker than their European Rivals
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Forced Austria to pay tribute to Sulayman
Question 29
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Under "Ivan the Terrible" ( 1533-1584) this system was established
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Czar
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Kievan Rus
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Imperialism
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Serfdom
Question 30
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"Peter the Great"opened Russia to the West by defenting this army at the Battle of Poltava in 1709
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Sweden
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Austria
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THe Ottomans
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Poland
Question 31
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The Navel battle that destroyed any hope Napoleon had for invading England was:
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Trafalgar
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Waterloo
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Liepzig
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Lepanto
Question 32
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The boycott of English by Napoleon was:
Question 33
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The Peace Settlement after the Napoleonic wars was made at the Congrss of:
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Berlin
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London
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Vienna
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Versailles
Question 34
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The declaration of independence is historically significant because:
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it ended British control of North America
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It was the First time of Authority of a monarch was questioned
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It ended the America Revolution
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It was the first time that a people proclaimed freedom from a sovereign authority and the right to constitute a new independent state
Question 35
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Which of the following were key supporters of the 13 colonies in the American Revolution?
Question 36
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In the 1700s, most territory in india controlled by the British was run by:
Question 37
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Following independence movements in Spanish America in the 1820s, the only two territories left of Spanish Empire in America were:
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Brazill and Mexico
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Mexico and Venzuela
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Puerto Rico and Cuba
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Cuba and Mexico
Question 38
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The only country where a slave revolt successfully abolished slavery was in:
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Jamaica
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Haiti
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Cuba
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THe United states
Question 39
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Which industry was first transformed by the industial revolution?
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Pottery
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Mining
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Textile
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Lumber
Question 40
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Divsion of Labour in the industrial revolution
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Slowed the process of production
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Increased the importance of slave labour and unskilled tasks
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Meant that women and children lost their importance in the labour force
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Led to an increase in cottae industries
Question 41
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The industrial Revolution started in
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The United states
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France
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Britain
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Peter the Great;s Russia
Question 42
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The following countries made up the Quadruple Alliance:
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Spain, Portugal, England and France
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Spain, Portugal, Russia and Prussia
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Austria, England, France, and Russia
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England, Austria, Russia, and Prussia
Question 43
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Who became King of the French following the July 1830 revolution?
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Louis XVII
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Charles X
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Louis Napoleon
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Louis Phillipe
Question 44
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Nineteenth century Liberal thought saw power vested in the people, though "the poeple" often meant:
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Only men
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Men who owned property
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The Aristocracy
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Universal sufferage
Question 45
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Liberal revolutions saw the
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Sale of church lands and abolition of privilage by birth.
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Extension of the vote to 60% of the population.
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Return of absolute monarchy.
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Return of the French Revolution.
Question 46
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The poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 meant the creation of
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Factories
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Workhouses
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The Anglican Church
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The constitution
Question 47
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Chartism or the Chartist movement in England sought
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A return of conservatism
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The forceful imposition of free trade
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A limit to the opium trade
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Parlimentary democracy and constitional reform.
Question 48
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The result of the Opium war of 1840 was
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British control of Hong Kon, low tariffs and increased trade with China
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Increase in Opium trade and the defeat of Britian
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Higher tariffs and greater trade restrictions
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Chinese authorities criminalized the use of opium and attempted to bans iports.
Question 49
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Before 1848 the only nationalist movements that had any measure of sucess were in:
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France and England
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Belguim and Greece
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The Ottoman Empire
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The Austrian Empire
Question 50
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The Revolution of 1848 began in
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London
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Madrid
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Belgium
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Paris
Question 51
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One Major failure of the revolutions of 1848 was that the revolutionaries
Question 52
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Unficiation in italy started in
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Turin
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Sicily
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Naples
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Piedmont
Question 53
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In order to unite italy, count Camillo di Cavour would have to enlist the help of
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Russia against Austria
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France against Austria
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Russia against France
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France against Russia
Question 54
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The last part of Italy to be united was
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Piedmont
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The papal States
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Rome
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Sicily
Question 55
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Realpolitik was the policy employed by Bismarck to united Germany, it focused upon:
Question 56
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Bismark saw the role of war in
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First defeatig austria then uniting Germany against the common enemy of France
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In Purely Machiavellian Terms
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No way obtaining peace
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Forming the balance of power that set the stafe for World War one
Question 57
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Karl Marx identified four types of societies which had existed in the West
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Socialist, communist, Anarchist, utiltarian
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Primtive, ancient, feudal, capitalist
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Primary, secondary, tertiary, utopian
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England, Britian, France, Spain
Question 58
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According to Marx, social change happens
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Because of the overthrow of the proletariat
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At the hands of bourgeois
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At the expense of communist thought
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By class conflict beteen those who control the means of production and those who do not.
Question 59
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Marx felt that parliamentary system would not properly respresent that needs of workers because
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Capialist would not give up control of the state without a fight
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Not all workers could vote
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It was formed by the proletariat
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Socialists could not agree
Question 60
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a Poltical and economic system aimed towards achieving utopia
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The polar opposite of communism
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A massive program of social upheaval
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A poltical and ecomonic system aimed in which production is controlled by a central democratically elexted authority.
Question 61
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According to utiltitarianism, the test for value of an instition or law was its usefulness in contributing to the greatest __________ of all people
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Freedom
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Wealth
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Happiness
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Protection
Question 62
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In the 1880s, the country was one of the first to use income contributions to help pay for a national social security system
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England
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France
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Germany
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Italy
Question 63
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Which statement best desribes the state of Catholcism by the late 1800s
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church land had been returned and church attendance was increasing
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The pope initiated a catholicism revival and celebrated the unification of italy
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Church were extending their control over secular education
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The pope was ensconced in the Vatican, church lands ahd been confiscated and social welfare was being taken over by the state.
Question 64
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Zionism advocated:
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An increased in anti semitism.
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The cration of a jewish homeland in Palestine
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Vindication for the Dreyfus affair
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Communist revolution
Question 65
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The Meiji restoration resulted in:
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Increased power for the shogunate
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A centralized government, industrializations and a strong military
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More US control
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Japan being defeted by China
Question 66
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China reformed in the late 19th and early 20th century to strengthen
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China against the west and westernized Japan
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the ties between China and Japan
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Chinese cultural revoltuions
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Tienamin Square