Deck 20: The Americas and Society and Culture in the West

Question 1

Monroe Doctrine

Answer 1

Answer not provided.

Question 2

What is meant by the term mass society,and what were its main characteristics? Is it accurate to say that the advent of mass society had little or no impact on the lives of the working class,even though it had a major influence on the numbers and position of the middle class? Why or why not?

Answer 2

Answer not provided.

Question 3

"The late nineteenth and early twentieth century in the West was an 'era of anxiety.'" Discuss,with examples.

Answer 3

Answer not provided.

Question 4

Romanticism in the arts was primarily a phenomenon of the first half of the nineteenth century while Realism was mainly a manifestation of the latter nineteenth century.What were the main characteristics of Romanticism and Realism? Were there any relationships of those two movements to the political,social,and economic developments of the century? If so,what?

Question 5

What role did liberalism and nationalism play in Latin America between 1800 and 1870? What were the major economic,social,and political trends in Latin America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Did change or tradition have more influence on economics and politics in Latin America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? How and why?

Question 6

Compare and contrast the most important political,social,and economic developments in the United States between 1860 and 1914.Were they comparable to those taking place in the major European nations during those decades? Why or why not?

Question 7

Was the United States Civil War both the force that ended slavery and,by aiding nationalism,the factor that led to the rise of its imperialism a generation later? Why and how,or why not and how not?

Question 8

Toussaint L'Ouverture

Question 9

Was mass education or mass leisure of greater importance to European societies between the 1880s and 1914? Show how each affected its beneficiaries,and the general population.

Question 10

What intellectual and cultural developments in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries "opened the way to a modern consciousness," and how did this consciousness differ from earlier worldviews?

Question 11

Simón Bolívar

Question 12

Porfirio Díaz

Question 13

caudillos

Question 14

What role did nationalism and liberalism play in the United States and Canada between 1800 and 1870? What economic,social,and political trends were evident in the United States and Canada between 1870 and 1914? What were the similarities and dissimilarities in the development of Latin American nations,the United States,and Canada in the nineteenth century?

Question 15

How is Modernism evident in literature and the arts between 1870 and 1914? How do these literary and artistic products reflect the political and social developments of the age? How did Modernism in literature and the visual arts reflect changes in the goals and underlying assumptions about the nature and role of artistic endeavor between the 1860s and 1914? Were there links between these changes and those in scientific thought and general social conditions? If so,what? If not,why not?

Question 16

Miguel Hidalgo

Question 17

Augustín de Iturbide

Question 18

What are the possible explanations why representative government and democracy was so slow to develop in most Latin American countries? Were the reasons historical? Cultural? Environmental? Economic? Or something else?

Question 19

What were the impacts of the ideas of Darwin,Marx,Freud,and Einstein upon popular culture and the mass society of the early twentieth century? Give specific examples.Which of these seminal intellectuals remains most relevant in the early twenty-first century,and which of the four seems to have the least relevance,and why?

Question 20

How did the impact of the new mass society affect the lives of women,in terms of work opportunities,family life,and the rise of feminism?

Question 21

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher"

Question 22

suffragists

Question 23

Sir Walter Scott

Question 24

Spanish-American War

Question 25

American Civil War

Question 26

English Football Association and the American Bowling Congress

Question 27

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Kubla Khan

Question 28

Florence Nightingale and Clara Barton

Question 29

"mass society"

Question 30

"mass education"

Question 31

Romanticism

Question 32

V.A.Huber and Octavia Hill

Question 33

Francisco Madero

Question 34

Dominion of Canada,1867

Question 35

Emilio Zapata

Question 36

John Macdonald and Wilfred Laurier

Question 37

the Pankhursts and the WSPU

Question 38

the Progressive Era

Question 39

Bertha von Suttner

Question 40

Jacksonian (mass)democracy

Question 41

Vincent van Gogh and Post-Impressionism

Question 42

Charles Dickens

Question 43

Theodor Herzl and Zionism

Question 44

"social Darwinism"

Question 45

Charles Darwin's Origin of Species/The Descent of Man

Question 46

Albert Einstein

Question 47

Houston Stewart Chamberlain and Aryans

Question 48

Gustave Courbet

Question 49

Gothic literature

Question 50

Modernism

Question 51

Realism

Question 52

Sigmund Freud

Question 53

Louis Pasteur,Dimitri Mendeleev,and Michael Faraday

Question 54

Marie and Pierre Curie

Question 55

William Wordsworth

Question 56

Berthe Morisot and Impressionism

Question 57

Pablo Picasso and Cubism

Question 58

Max Planck

Question 59

Casper David Friedrich and Eugène Delacroix

Question 60

Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovery

Question 61

In the United States in the early 1900s,

A) wealth was widely dispersed, with the richest nine percent of the population in 1900 owning only fifteen percent of the wealth.
B) the nation was still primarily agrarian, with over three-fourths of the labor force owning farms.
C) the government had still refused to send troops outside the nation's territory, and would do so until it entered World War I in 1917.
D) socialists were strong enough to push laws dealing with meat inspection and a national health insurance system through Congress under Presidents Wilson and Debs.
E) over forty percent of the population lived in cities.

Question 62

Wassily Kandinsky and abstract expressionism

Question 63

By 1900,the world's richest nation and greatest industrial power was

A) Great Britain.
B) Germany.
C) Russia.
D) the United States.
E) France.

Question 64

The first Mexican emperor was

A) Benito Juarez.
B) Simón Bolívar.
C) Father Miguel Hidalgo.
D) José de San Martín.
E) Augustín de Iturbide.

Question 65

The Mexican ruler from 1876 to 1910 and the man who overthrew him were,respectively,

A) Jaime Cruz and Ernesto Guarracino.
B) Porfirio Díaz and Francisco Madero.
C) Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa.
D) Francisco Madero and Bernardo O'Higgins.
E) Benito Juarez and Venustiano Carranza.

Question 66

Which of the following was not an aspect of nineteenth-century development in Canada?

A) Rebellions against British policy occurred in 1837 in both Upper and Lower Canada.
B) After the 1837 rebellions, the British began to seek ways to satisfy Canadian demands.
C) John Macdonald led a bloody rebellion against the British in 1860.
D) The Dominion of Canada was established in 1867.
E) John MacDonald was the first prime minister of the Dominion of Canada.

Question 67

Emiliano Zapata

A) advocated exterminating the Indians in the northern part of the country while serving as Mexico's "elected caudillo."
B) was the second husband of Florence Nightingale.
C) urged his peasant followers to seize the estates of the Mexican elite.
D) was a close associate of United States President Woodrow Wilson.
E) admired Porfirio Diaz

Question 68

Fought between 1858 and 1861,Mexico's War of Reform was a conflict between

A) the creoles and the peninsulares..
B) indigenous peoples and the descendants of European colonials..
C) agriculturalists and industrialists.
D) a liberal government and an entrenched Catholic clergy..
E) university students and the business community

Question 69

After the nations of Latin America gained their independence in the nineteenth century,their economies became dominated by the

A) Dutch.
B) Americans.
C) British.
D) Spanish.
E) French.

Question 70

Which of the following was not a direct social repercussion of Latin America's export-based economy?

A) modernization of the elites
B) a wholesale reconsideration of production methods.
C) expansion of the economic middle sectors
D) revitalization of smaller, family-owned farms.
E) the elevation of the United States as a national role model.

Question 71

Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright

Question 72

Which of the following was true of developments in the United States through the Civil War?

A) Mass white male electoral participation was instituted during the era of Andrew Jackson.
B) Liberal social policies gave every inhabitant 1000 acres of free land.
C) Westward expansion kept slavery a relatively minor issue until 1870.
D) United States cotton production peaked in 1820 and dropped steadily after that.
E) While lengthy, the Civil War did not involve many major battles or high casualty lists.

Question 73

In the effort to develop adequate housing for Europe's workers,

A) western European governments built public housing complexes beginning in the 1820s.
B) by the 1880s, there was an expansion of the role of government in providing housing.
C) city governments ignored this pressing social need in the years before World War I, except in Tallinn and Johannesburg.
D) the power of the liberal concept of minimized government produced no public action in this area.
E) Britain, notably, did nothing to aid its workers until after the Liverpool riot and fire of 1903.

Question 74

The basis of Latin American wealth,social prestige,and power throughout the nineteenth century was:

A) gold.
B) sugar cane.
C) cattle
D) land
E) heritage

Question 75

The first important American colony was the

A) Samoan Islands.
B) Hawaiian Islands.
C) Philippine Islands.
D) island of Guam.
E) island of Puerto Rico.

Question 76

The European working classes at the end of the nineteenth century constituted almost

A) 25 percent of the population.
B) 40 percent of the population
C) 55 percent of the population.
D) 80 percent of the population.
E) 95 percent of the population.

Question 77

All of the following were direct results of the Spanish-American War EXCEPT:

A) Cuba became an American protectorate.
B) The United States annexed Puerto Rico.
C) American investment in Latin America increased..
D) Haiti gained independence.
E) American military action in Latin America escalated sharply.

Question 78

The liberators of Venezuela and Argentina,respectively,were

A) Simón Bolívar and José de San Martín.
B) Augustín de Iturbide and Toussaint Prado.
C) José de San Martín and Alfonso Stroessner.
D) Santa Ana and Toussaint L'Ouverture.
E) Benito Juarez and Vicente Rojas.

Question 79

United States foreign policy after 1890

A) was characterized by an expansion of American power into the Pacific and the Caribbean.
B) led to an extensive war with the population of the Hawaiian Islands.
C) was characterized by an unbending adherence to traditional isolationist policies.
D) was militarily directed against the French Empire.
E) led to war with Great Britain in 1898.

Question 80

Wilfred Laurier

A) was unsuccessful in developing Canadian industrialization.
B) smoothed relations between Canada's English- and French-speaking populations.
C) developed policies that discouraged European immigration into Canada.
D) was unable to bring a solution to the problem of French language education in Canada.
E) advocated independence for the Cree and Inuit peoples.