Deck 25: Northern Transatlantic Economy and Society, 1815-1914

Question 1

The period 1850-1914 may properly be regarded as an era of European (Global Perspective, pp. 614-615)

A) indecision.
B) toleration.
C) domination.
D) inconsistency.

Answer 1

domination.

Question 2

The author whose writings applied the revolutionary doctrines of the rights of man to include women was

A) Millicent Fawcett.
B) Emmeline Pankhurst.
C) Mary Wollstonecraft.
D) Virginia Wolfe.

Answer 2

Mary Wollstonecraft.

Question 3

The People's Will

A) assassinated Tsar Alexander II.
B) helped usher in a period of political openness in Russia.
C) opposed the emancipation of the serfs.
D) All of these answers are correct.

Answer 3

assassinated Tsar Alexander II.

Question 4

The first European country to adopt a program of social welfare legislation was

A) Germany.
B) France.
C) Britain.
D) Russia.

Question 5

Immigrants who landed at Ellis Island reported for questions about their background and for physical examinations. What percentage were quarantined or turned away? (Image, p. 631)

A) none
B) about 1 percent
C) about 8 percent
D) about 11 percent

Question 6

By the early twentieth century, scientists generally believed that

A) the results of the scientific method were unquestionable.
B) the study of science was secondary to religious ideas.
C) scientific truth was relative to the observer.
D) scientific advance was synonymous with the greater common good.

Question 7

Darwin's explanation of natural selection (Document, pp. 634-635) suggests that

A) natural selection was God's means of making the world more beautiful.
B) natural selection and religion are incompatible.
C) natural selection implies that all people are descendants of Adam and Eve.
D) natural selection describes all beings as special creations of God.

Question 8

Late-nineteenth-century European intellectuals tended to view Islam as

A) a threat to national security.
B) an interesting subject for research.
C) incompatible with science and closed to new ideas.
D) None of these answers are correct.

Question 9

Jamal al-din Al-Afghani was

A) a Mahdist.
B) an Egyptian intellectual who refuted Western criticisms of Islam.
C) a scientist.
D) All of these answers are correct.

Question 10

Why did Europe have more power between 1850 and 1914 than it had had before or has had since?
Conceptual

Question 11

What are some examples of forces opposing industrialization in Europe during the second quarter of the nineteenth century?
Conceptual

Question 12

What was the process of proletarianization in industrializing Europe and America, and how did those workers affected by these changes initially respond to it?
Conceptual

Question 13

How and why did the middle class change in its political and social outlook by the end of the nineteenth century?
Conceptual

Question 14

What was the status of European women in the second half of the nineteenth century? Why did they grow discontented with their lot? To what extent had they improved their position by 1914? What tactics did they use? What were the primary causes of the political emancipation of women?
Conceptual

Question 15

Why and how were Jews emancipated across Europe during the nineteenth century?
Conceptual

Question 16

Discuss the relationship of the labor movement and the socialist movement in any two of the following countries: Britain, France, Germany, and the United States. In which country was the cooperation between the two closest? Least close? Why?
Conceptual

Question 17

What was the status of the industrial proletariat in 1860? Had it improved by 1914? What caused the growth in trade unions and organized mass political parties? How did Europe's socialist movement respond to these administrations?
Conceptual

Question 18

What were the primary arguments made by Karl Marx? Why did Marxism become such a powerful ideological force across Europe during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
Conceptual

Question 19

Compare and contrast the views of the Fabians, Eduard Bernstein, and V.I. Lenin. If you were a European worker during this period, in which country would you want to live? Why?
Conceptual

Question 20

What was the New Immigration into the United States at the turn of the century? What ethnic groups were involved and what challenges did they face? What effect did the immigration have on the United States? On Europe?
Conceptual

Question 21

What were the major causes of Russia's Revolution of 1905? Assess the role of the soviets, zemstvos, Duma, and other organizations in the development of this activity in Russia. Was the revolution a failure for most of the participants? Why?
Conceptual

Question 22

What were Lenin's goals in his book What Is to Be Done? Do you think that political revolutions need to be preceded by the establishment of an intellectual or political base?
Conceptual

Question 23

What were the major changes in European thought at the end of the nineteenth century? How do these changes compare to the original ideas of the Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution? What events in the nineteenth century do you think best account for the changes in European intellectual thought?
Conceptual

Question 24

Compare and contrast attitudes toward the Islamic world in sixteenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century Europe. What were the fundamental changes in the relationship between the Islamic world and the West during this period?
Conceptual

Question 25

Discuss European views of Islam during the late nineteenth century. How did the intellectual views of Europeans affect the treatment of Muslims in their native countries? Was there any opposition to the European view of the Muslim world?
Conceptual

Question 26

How was Bismarck able to stop the ascendancy of socialism in Germany, in particular the SPD? Could Bismarck's approach have been successful in other countries?
Conceptual

Question 27

Why did socialism not succeed in the United States? Which groups or what ideologies addressed the needs of workers? How did the U.S. government react to the plight of American workers?
Conceptual

Question 28

Discuss Freud's conception of the human psyche. How does Freud shatter the notion of a rational human mind? How is the mind organized? What kinds of experiences shape the adult mind?
Conceptual