Quiz 19 Flashcards
During the Industrial Revolution, __________ caused many people to move to the cities.
all of these answers
an increase in the food supply
factory jobs in cities
improved transportation
factory jobs in cities
The __________, which sped up weaving and ended cloth-making as a cottage industry, was the first major improvement in the process of making cotton.
water-powered loom
spinning jenny
steam-powered loom
flying shuttle
flying shuttle
The Compromise of 1867 __________
placed Alsace and Lorraine under German control.
allowed Italy to annex Rome.
kept the best Russian lands in the hands of large landholders.
created the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary.
created the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary.
Germany achieved unification __________
when Count Otto von Bismarck became prime minister.
when the southern German states agreed to enter the North German Confederation.
after it won the Franco-Prussian War.
when Prussia took leadership of the Frankfurt Assembly.
when the southern German states agreed to enter the North German Confederation.
An intellectual movement that emerged at the end of the eighteenth century in reaction to the ideas of Enlightenment; it stressed feelings, emotion, and imagination as sources of knowing was _____________________.
conservatism fundamentalism socialism romanticism progressivism minimalism liberalism abolitionism
romanticism
Which of the following did NOT contribute to Italian unification?
the growth of the kingdom of Piedmont
the military successes of Garibaldi
the Franco-Prussian War
the decline of the Ottoman Empire
the decline of the Ottoman Empire
The coal-driven __________ became crucial to Britain’s Industrial Revolution.
steam engine
loom
flying shuttle
spinning jenny
steam engine
Liberalism, a political philosophy based on Enlightenment principles, held that __________
government should regulate people’s lives as much as possible.
monarchies should be abolished.
all people should have the right to vote.
civil liberties should be protected.
civil liberties should be protected.
Led by Klemens von Metternich from __________, the great powers met at the Congress of Vienna to establish a stable order in Europe.
Austria
Great Britain
Prussia
Russia
Austria
In 1848, the forces of liberalism and nationalism led to failed revolutions in all of the following countries EXCEPT __________
Austria.
Germany.
Belgium.
Italy.
Belgium
The process in which coke derived from coal is used to burn away impurities in crude iron to produce high quality iron is _______________.
puddling purifying deriving screening smelting sifting
puddling
A system in which society, usually in the form of the government, owns and controls the means of production is called __________________.
totalitarianism romanticism progressivism liberalism Darwinism socialism conservatism abolitionism
socialism
All of the following were common features of realism in literature EXCEPT __________
a preference for the novel over poetry.
the use of exotic settings.
the use of precise description.
the rejection of romanticism.
the use of exotic settings.
At the end of the eighteenth century, romanticism emerged as a reaction to the ideas of __________
nationalism.
Enlightenment.
liberalism.
realpolitik.
Enlightenment
Abolitionism’s goal was to __________
end serfdom in Russia.
join Upper and Lower Canada.
end slavery in the United States.
abolish the monarchy in France.
end slavery in the United States.
