1900s Flashcards
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.
North, South
William Lloyd Garrison was an editor and leading ______.
Abolitionist
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.
Popular sovereignty
The 13th amendment in the US Constitution abolished ____
Slavery
The belligerence and the Crimean War were ____, ____ and ____, against ____.
Russia, Ottoman Empire and France, against Britain.
In obtaining Italian unification, Cavour forced ____ to give up the notion of a Republican Italy.
Garibaldi
Otto Von Bismarck wasn’t conservative Prussian minister who united
Germany
In his description of the living conditions of industrial workers, the French physician implied that ____ ____ is necessary to protect urban workers
Government protection
Working women of Lancaster justified their continued employment by arguing that ____ ____ is the only occupation many women can find to earn a living
Factory work
But the end of the 19th century, most working-class women were employed in the ____ and ____ industries
Textile and garment
The author whose writings apply the revolutionary doctrines of the rights of man to include women was
Mary Wollstonecraft
British women received the vote primarily because of their contributions to the war effort in
World War I
In the 19 century, Jewish emancipation made the least progress in
Russia
By about 1900, trade unions included both ____ and ____ workers
Skilled and unskilled
The conditions of the working class in England was written by
Frederick Engels
In the coming this manifesto, Marx Engle stated that the revolutionary class was composed of the
Proletariat
The Fabians were British civil servant who advocated a ____ approach to social reform
Gradualist
The first European country to adopt a program of social welfare legislation was
Germany
Darwins exclamation natural selection suggest that natural selection was ____ means of making the world more beautiful
God’s
Friedrich Nietzsche believes that the combined efforts of the scientific, industrial, and French revolutions place to higher value on ____ and ____
Mediocrity and restraint
Some European authors believe that the source of white racial superiority was ancient Indian and ____ civilizations
Aryan
____ movement around the turn-of-the-century influenced Africa to develop a more truly Muslim society
Jihad
The ____ era or “mfecane” in southern Africa resulted in the creation of several large Multi-tribal military states
Crushing
Zulus were transformed into a major kingdom and military power by
Shaka
In southern Africa, the kingdom of ____ was exceptional because it was not an aggressive military state
Lesotho
Journalist, ____ ____ explored the Congo River in the 1880s it began to penetrate the darkness of Central Africa
Henry Stanley
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.
Cecil Rhodes
The end result of the ____ ____ and Boer expansion was the creation of the Orange Free state
Great Trek
The Boers called the grassy plains of South Africa the ____
Veld
Great Britain assumed control of Cape Colony during the ____ wars.
Napoleonic
During the Anglo Zulu wars a British force was destroyed by us through army at
Isandhlwana
After a bitter struggle the ____ conquered Algeria, creating the first major European colony in Africa.
French
The scramble for Africa was largely over by
1914
By World War I, the only African states none of the European control were ___ and ____
Liberia and Ethiopia
The invention of the _____ _____ aided in the expansion of cotton growing in the American south
Cotton gin
The British establish control over Egypt primarily because the newly created ____ ____ provided a strategic link to their Asian colonies
Suez Canal
Great Britain abolish the slave trade in the year
1807
The Boer were predominantly of ____ background
Dutch
The upper Nile was the place of a major confrontation in the late 1800s between the British and the Madhi at
Khartoum
Great Britain establish a colony of ____ ____ for freed slaves
Sierra Leone
Quinine was used by Europeans to provide partial immunity from _____
Malaria
Cecil Rhodes became the leading figure in the deBeers syndicate and made his fortune in
Diamonds
The ____ ____ of 1884 established guidelines to ease the frictions created by different European nations efforts to gain control of Africa
Berlin Conference
In the 1880s the land drained by the best Congo River and its tributaries became the personal property of ____ ____ __ of Belgium
King Leopold II
The ____ ____, A private army sent into the Transvaal to support and uitlander uprising, heightened suspicions and animosity between Boers and Great Britain
Jameson Raid
The Boer War lasted so long because of the highly effective use of ____ tactics by the Boers.
Guerrilla
The British utilized ____ camps as a tactic against the Boers
Concentration
____ ____ wrote “heart of darkness” about your pain exploitation of the condo
Joseph Conrad
