Quiz 3

Question 1

Immanuel Kant believed that ___ was the only acceptable moral motivation of action.

Answer 1

duty

Question 2

the Industrial Revolution changed society in that it

Answer 2

created new technologies that made old occupations obsolete and new opportunities that attracted people to live in cities

Question 3

the relationship between French intellectuals and the monarchy is best described as

Answer 3

combative. The intellectuals hated the monarchy and wanted to overthrow the absolutist power it held

Question 4

Why was white superiority such an important part of 19th century science?

Answer 4

because it was difficult for a government to espouse freedom while condoning enslavement of equal human beings, but if science could prove humans as belonging to different species, inequality could become acceptable

Question 5

in 1848, while Europe was embroiled in revolutions, the US concluded the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that

Answer 5

along with the Gadsden purchase, drastically increased US territory

Question 6

19th century imperialism was based upon all EXCEPT

Answer 6

the belief that African countries should be free and independent

Question 7

Why did the US suddenly need a policy dealing with Latin America in the 1830s?

Answer 7

they all claimed independence in the late 18th/early 19th centuries

Question 8

German unification was based in all EXCEPT

Answer 8

the desire in the part of Germans to remain in separate kingdoms, but to acknowledge they had a similar language

Question 9

the motto “Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality” reflected

Answer 9

Tsar Nicholas I’s idea to create a uniform identity in Russia

Question 10

Industrial imperialism changed in Western Europe by all EXCEPT

Answer 10

peacefully incorporating Western Europe into the global trading system

Question 11

the Enlightenment questioned

Answer 11

the role of government, the question of personhood, and the relationship of God to man

Question 12

the 1748 Treaty of Aix la Chapelle

Answer 12

restored the territorial status quo, but solved few of the underlying problems in the War of Austrian Succession

Question 13

Why were the Herero Uprising and Maji Maji revolt a problem for the idea of superiority and the German civilizing mission?

Answer 13

because civilization should not be able to be acquired through annihilation

Question 14

John Locke believed the role of government was

Answer 14

to protect people’s rights and promote general welfare

Question 15

the Russo-Japanese war demonstrated

Answer 15

the failure of Russia’s industrialization and military reform movements

Question 16

Adam Smith’s social and economic theories depended in the idea that

Answer 16

humanity was interconnected

Question 17

What happened to the newly independent Latin American countries’ economies in the mid-19th century?

Answer 17

they became reliant on the production of raw materials (monocrop)

Question 18

The Opium Wars between China and Britain did all EXCEPT

Answer 18

retain China’s isolation from global commerce (*resulted in Britain taking control of Hong Kong, proved the virtues of industrial technology, such as steamships, in warfare, opened the Chinese markets to British goods)

Question 19

In 1861, Tsar Alexander II emancipated the serfs as a way to

Answer 19

ensure he would have enough people to help with the industrialization and modernization of Russia

Question 20

The independence revolutions in the Americas affected political power by

Answer 20

allowing a younger generation of leaders to come to power