1900s Flashcards

1
Q

The most accurate description of the economic division between the northern and southern states in the United States in the late 19th century was the ______ was economically diverse, and the ______ was more focused on a few sectors.

A

North, South

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2
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William Lloyd Garrison was an editor and leading ______.

A

Abolitionist

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3
Q

The Kansas Nebraska bill of 1854 introduce the idea of ____ ____, that the people of each new state would vote on whether slavery would be allowed.

A

Popular sovereignty

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4
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The 13th amendment in the US Constitution abolished ____

A

Slavery

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5
Q

The belligerence and the Crimean War were ____, ____ and ____, against ____.

A

Russia, Ottoman Empire and France, against Britain.

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6
Q

In obtaining Italian unification, Cavour forced ____ to give up the notion of a Republican Italy.

A

Garibaldi

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7
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Otto Von Bismarck wasn’t conservative Prussian minister who united

A

Germany

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8
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In his description of the living conditions of industrial workers, the French physician implied that ____ ____ is necessary to protect urban workers

A

Government protection

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9
Q

Working women of Lancaster justified their continued employment by arguing that ____ ____ is the only occupation many women can find to earn a living

A

Factory work

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10
Q

But the end of the 19th century, most working-class women were employed in the ____ and ____ industries

A

Textile and garment

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11
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The author whose writings apply the revolutionary doctrines of the rights of man to include women was

A

Mary Wollstonecraft

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12
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British women received the vote primarily because of their contributions to the war effort in

A

World War I

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13
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In the 19 century, Jewish emancipation made the least progress in

A

Russia

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14
Q

By about 1900, trade unions included both ____ and ____ workers

A

Skilled and unskilled

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15
Q

The conditions of the working class in England was written by

A

Frederick Engels

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16
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In the coming this manifesto, Marx Engle stated that the revolutionary class was composed of the

A

Proletariat

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17
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The Fabians were British civil servant who advocated a ____ approach to social reform

A

Gradualist

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18
Q

The first European country to adopt a program of social welfare legislation was

A

Germany

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19
Q

Darwins exclamation natural selection suggest that natural selection was ____ means of making the world more beautiful

A

God’s

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20
Q

Friedrich Nietzsche believes that the combined efforts of the scientific, industrial, and French revolutions place to higher value on ____ and ____

A

Mediocrity and restraint

21
Q

Some European authors believe that the source of white racial superiority was ancient Indian and ____ civilizations

A

Aryan

22
Q

____ movement around the turn-of-the-century influenced Africa to develop a more truly Muslim society

A

Jihad

23
Q

The ____ era or “mfecane” in southern Africa resulted in the creation of several large Multi-tribal military states

A

Crushing

24
Q

Zulus were transformed into a major kingdom and military power by

A

Shaka

25
Q

In southern Africa, the kingdom of ____ was exceptional because it was not an aggressive military state

A

Lesotho

26
Q

Journalist, ____ ____ explored the Congo River in the 1880s it began to penetrate the darkness of Central Africa

A

Henry Stanley

27
Q

An ardent British nationalist, ____ _____ had great dreams of controlling all of Africa from Britain by building a rail way from the Cape to Cairo, reconciling the Boers under the British flag even recovering the American colonies for Britain.

A

Cecil Rhodes

28
Q

The end result of the ____ ____ and Boer expansion was the creation of the Orange Free state

A

Great Trek

29
Q

The Boers called the grassy plains of South Africa the ____

A

Veld

30
Q

Great Britain assumed control of Cape Colony during the ____ wars.

A

Napoleonic

31
Q

During the Anglo Zulu wars a British force was destroyed by us through army at

A

Isandhlwana

32
Q

After a bitter struggle the ____ conquered Algeria, creating the first major European colony in Africa.

A

French

33
Q

The scramble for Africa was largely over by

A

1914

34
Q

By World War I, the only African states none of the European control were ___ and ____

A

Liberia and Ethiopia

35
Q

The invention of the _____ _____ aided in the expansion of cotton growing in the American south

A

Cotton gin

36
Q

The British establish control over Egypt primarily because the newly created ____ ____ provided a strategic link to their Asian colonies

A

Suez Canal

37
Q

Great Britain abolish the slave trade in the year

A

1807

38
Q

The Boer were predominantly of ____ background

A

Dutch

39
Q

The upper Nile was the place of a major confrontation in the late 1800s between the British and the Madhi at

A

Khartoum

40
Q

Great Britain establish a colony of ____ ____ for freed slaves

A

Sierra Leone

41
Q

Quinine was used by Europeans to provide partial immunity from _____

A

Malaria

42
Q

Cecil Rhodes became the leading figure in the deBeers syndicate and made his fortune in

A

Diamonds

43
Q

The ____ ____ of 1884 established guidelines to ease the frictions created by different European nations efforts to gain control of Africa

A

Berlin Conference

44
Q

In the 1880s the land drained by the best Congo River and its tributaries became the personal property of ____ ____ __ of Belgium

A

King Leopold II

45
Q

The ____ ____, A private army sent into the Transvaal to support and uitlander uprising, heightened suspicions and animosity between Boers and Great Britain

A

Jameson Raid

46
Q

The Boer War lasted so long because of the highly effective use of ____ tactics by the Boers.

A

Guerrilla

47
Q

The British utilized ____ camps as a tactic against the Boers

A

Concentration

48
Q

____ ____ wrote “heart of darkness” about your pain exploitation of the condo

A

Joseph Conrad