Deck 20: Changing Societies in Europe, the Americas, and Oceania, 1750-1914

Question 1

After winning the Spanish-American War, the United States gained control over each of these territories EXCEPT which of the following?

A) Cuba
B) Philippines
C) Hawaii

Answer 1

Hawaii

Question 2

The American Founders created the Electoral College for which of the following reasons?

A) They distrusted total popular sovereignty after the French Revolution.
B) They wanted to make sure that the popular vote winner never won the White House.
C) They wanted to ensure that slaves would not influence the vote.

Answer 2

They distrusted total popular sovereignty after the French Revolution.

Question 3

Prior to World War I, which of the following describes one way the government of the United States encouraged migration westward?

A) Free gold and exemption from taxes
B) Free passage on any of the country's railroads
C) Free land for farming

Answer 3

Free land for farming

Question 4

How did Albert Einstein's theories about space and time contradict Newtonian physics?

A) Einstein disagreed that space and time were fixed quantities.
B) Einstein did not think that inertia was a property of matter.
C) Einstein thought that precise observations were impossible.

Question 5

In the early nineteenth century, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams set which of the following as goals for the United States?

A) To inaugurate a protestant republic
B) To return enslaved Africans to Africa
C) To dominate the North American

Question 6

When did women gain the right to vote in the United States?

A) 1876
B) 1900
C) 1920

Question 7

The Monroe Doctrine of 1823 asserted which of the following?

A) Latin America was reserved for the American sphere of influence.
B) The United States had the right to overthrow Latin American leaders.
C) Any act of aggression in North America would be met with an armed U.S. response.

Question 8

Why did France sell the Louisiana Territory to the United States?

A) To support their fellow republic
B) To prevent Spanish expansionism
C) To finance France's wars in Europe

Question 9

Which artistic movement is best represented by Goya?

A) Realism
B) Rationalism
C) Modernism

Question 10

Why did the United States go to war with Mexico under President James Polk?

A) To resolve a border dispute
B) To end illegal Immigration
C) To secure the annexation of Texas

Question 11

How many states joined the Confederacy during the American Civil War?

A) 11
B) 10
C) 9

Question 12

Which of the following is true of Europe's population between 1650 and 1900?

A) Grew from 100 million to over 400 million
B) Grew from 190 million to 500 million
C) Stabilized at around 100 million

Question 13

Which of the following is the best description of the role of caudillos in nineteenth-century Latin America?

A) Spanish missionaries who refused to cooperate with Latin American governments
B) Military strongmen who ran governments in Latin American states
C) Puppet governments installed by the United States in the Monroe Doctrine system

Question 14

Between 1870 and World War I, how many Europeans emigrated to the United States?

A) 45 million
B) 25 million
C) 1.5 million

Question 15

Former slaves and their descendants faced each of these challenges after the Civil War EXCEPT which of the following?

A) Restrictions on relocation
B) Mob violence and lynching
C) Voting restrictions

Question 16

By 1900, what European country had the world's most urban society?

A) France
B) Britain
C) Germany

Question 17

Which of the following statements describes an important difference between Brazil and other Latin American states?

A) It relied heavily on slave labor.
B) It was governed by a monarchy.
C) Its economy relied on cash crop exports.

Question 18

Which of the following is the best description of Darwin's theories?

A) Evolution over millions of years does not account for modern species.
B) Organisms either adapt to their environments or perish.
C) Human races existed in a biological hierarchy in which only the fittest survived.

Question 19

What railroad improvement was completed in the United States in 1869?

A) The transcontinental railroad was completed.
B) The steam engine was invented.
C) Railroads were nationalized.

Question 20

The vehicle devised in the late nineteenth century by Daimler and Benz ran on which fuel?

A) Steam and coal
B) Liquid petroleum
C) Palm oil

Question 21

The concept of Manifest Destiny was most used to justify which of the following?

A) Legislating religious freedom
B) The invasion of Mexico
C) Removing Native Americans from their lands

Question 22

How did women respond to changes in their status caused by industrialization?

Question 23

Why were there fewer women and children working in industry by 1900?

A) Machines doing most of the work
B) Men protested that women were taking too many jobs
C) Laws prevented women or children from laboring

Question 24

What was the "Trail of Tears"?

A) The name for the forced migration of Native Americans by the U.S. government
B) The name for the network of safe houses that aided escaping slaves
C) The name of the route taken by Lewis and Clark on their exploration of Louisiana

Question 25

Which of the following was a reason for Canadians to form a confederated dominion under the British crown?

A) To stave off U.S. influence
B) To allow French Canadians autonomy
C) To attain full independence

Question 26

How had family life changed in Europe during and after the Industrial Revolution?

Question 27

In the nineteenth century, the U.S. militarily intervened to change governments in each state EXCEPT which of the following?

A) Nicaragua
B) Panama
C) Argentina

Question 28

How did the role of middle¬class women shift during the Industrial Revolution?

A) Women's work mostly moved from the fields into the factories.
B) Women's duties mostly shifted from motherhood to earning an income.
C) Women were seen less as direct producers and more as home managers.

Question 29

Which of the following best describes higher educational opportunities for women by the late 1860s?

A) Most major European universities admitted women.
B) Only a few British universities admitted women.
C) Only one university in Europe admitted women.

Question 30

During their Revolution (1910-1920), Mexicans were fighting against which of the following leaders?

A) Porfirio Diaz
B) Emperor Maximilian
C) Emiliano Zapata

Question 31

What was the objective of nineteenth-century feminism?

Question 32

What impact did the nineteenth¬century industrial economy have on working-class families?

A) It made life much easier as living conditions improved quickly.
B) It was more difficult for families as it often required separation and long hours.
C) Nuclear families drew more closely together thanks to new wealth and leisure time.

Question 33

In 1788, the British began using Australia for which of the following purposes?

A) As a military training ground
B) As a destination for prisoners
C) As a large pastoral estate

Question 34

When did Canada take control of most of its own foreign affairs and diplomacy?

A) 1867
B) 1900
C) 1911

Question 35

What is mass culture?

Question 36

Which of the following best describes relations between British settlers and indigenous Maori people during the nineteenth century?

A) Settlers attempted to take Maori land but Maori resistance led to a treaty compromise.
B) Settlers successfully subjected Maori to their complete control after decades of conflict.
C) Settlers were unable to take control of Maori land and allowed Maori to continue to rule there.

Question 37

Which outside power briefly conquered and ran Mexico from 1861 to 1867?

A) The United States
B) France
C) Gran Colombia

Question 38

Why did the U.S. government violently remove indigenous groups from the U.S. South and Southeast?

A) To make more land available for white settlers
B) To protect indigenous groups from violence by white planters
C) To open a pathway to the west

Question 39

How did the Industrial Revolution increase women's dependency on men?

Question 40

Why had Europe's population grow so quickly by the 1900s?

Question 41

Describe trends in European creative and artistic expression in the late nineteenth century.

Question 42

Describe European scientific achievements in the late nineteenth century.

Question 43

Which of the following arguments did suffragettes make to advocate for the vote?

A) Women were just as capable of making political decisions and should have the same voting rights as men.
B) Only women ought to be given the vote because their nature led them to.
C) Men should be required to consult their wives and daughters before voting on behalf of their entire family.

Question 44

Which was the first European state to give women the right to vote in 1896?

A) Britain
B) France
C) Finland

Question 45

How did the Platt Amendment tie Cuba closer to the United States?

Question 46

Why was the early American republic often at war?

Question 47

What were the key arguments and concepts of Nietzsche's worldviews?

Question 48

Why did so many conflicts erupt in Latin America in the 1800s?

Question 49

What are the key ideas that underpin Manifest Destiny?

Question 50

What was the "Trail of Tears"?

Question 51

Why did the U.S. Civil War break out?

Question 52

Describe American expansion in the Pacific.

Question 53

Describe the process of American expansion.

Question 54

What effect did the Louisiana purchase have on U.S. expansion westwards?

Question 55

What effect did the abolition of the slave trade have on practices of slavery in the United States?

Question 56

Describe U.S. policy toward indigenous groups in U.S. territory after the 1860s.

Question 57

Describe the French intervention in Mexico in the 1860s.

Question 58

How did slavery influence U.S. expansion?

Question 59

What changes to European religious life occurred in the late nineteenth century?

Question 60

How did migrants to the United States participate in American industrialization in the late 1800s?

Question 61

Describe the reasons for the U.S. Civil War. What were the results of the conflict and to what extent did the war resolve the problems that led to war?

Question 62

Which of the following doctrines was propagated for the first time by the Roman Catholic hierarchy in the late nineteenth century?

A) Mary's Immaculate Conception
B) The existence of purgatory
C) Consignment of Protestants to hell

Question 63

Describe the constitution of the early United States. What role was given to the people, and what measures were taken to limit their direct influence in the new government?

Question 64

To which philosophical movement does Schiller's William Tell poem and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony belong?

A) Realism
B) Modernism
C) Romanticism

Question 65

How had the Industrial Revolution affected social life in Europe by 1900? How had it changed the nature and geography of family living?

Question 66

Although politically independent, in what ways was much of Latin America still dependent upon Europe economically?

Question 67

Which of the following is the best description of Nietzsche's thought?

A) Humans live best when they strive for perfection and greatness.
B) Humans live best when they realize that right and wrong do not exist.
C) Humans live best when they strive to live moral lives.

Question 68

What were the primary motivations of the Monroe Doctrine, and how effective was it?

Question 69

How was Australian federation achieved in 1901?

Question 70

How did women's experiences of industrialization and its changes differ to men's experiences? In what ways were they similar?

Question 71

What similarities and differences existed between the development of Canada and Australia in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

Question 72

Through what means did the United States exert its influence in Latin American affairs? What results did these efforts have?

Question 73

Did the United States become a global empire in the late 1800s? Why or why not?

Question 74

How was Canadian confederation achieved in 1867?

Question 75

What are the most important concepts put forward by Darwin's work? What implications did nineteenth-century Europeans think they had, and how did this shape responses to Darwin's research?

Question 76

Why did the U.S. government violently remove so many indigenous peoples from their traditional lands? Where did they remove them to? What results did these policies have for indigenous and settler populations?

Question 77

John Wesley's religious movement promoted which of the following?

A) Reconciliation with the Catholic Church
B) Simple living
C) Anti-colonialism

Question 78

What was the purpose of labor unions in the United States? What effect did they have on industry and who were their supporters?