Deck 10: An Age of Nationalism and Realism, 1850-1871

Question 1

define the following term:
Crimean War

Answer 1

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Question 2

define the following term:
Ottoman Empire

Answer 2

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Question 3

define the following term:
Sevastopol

Answer 3

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Question 4

What were the consequences of the emancipation of Russia's serfs in 1861? What were the limits of their newly acquired freedom?

Question 5

What were the causes and consequences of the Crimean War?

Question 6

define the following term:
Realpolitik

Question 7

define the following term:
Piedmont and the House of Savoy

Question 8

How did Realism differ from Romanticism? How was Realism a reflection of the economic and social realities of Europe during the middle decades of the nineteenth century?

Question 9

Discuss the reform efforts in Great Britain, Russia and the Austrian Empire from 1850 to 1870. How successful were they?

Question 10

How did Napoleon III respond to mounting opposition in the 1860s? How successful was he in maintaining power and control? How did his foreign policy contribute to the unification of Italy and Germany

Question 11

define the following term:
Mexico and Emperor Maximilian

Question 12

Why was slavery a threat to American unity in the mid-nineteenth century?

Question 13

How did the Austrians deal with the problem of Hungarian nationalism in the aftermath of defeat in the Austro-Prussian War?

Question 14

How did Marx explain historical change? How did he apply his theory of historical change to the times in which he lived?

Question 15

define the following term:
Napoleon III

Question 16

define the following term:
Florence Nightingale

Question 17

Compare and contrast Cavour and Garibaldi's vision of a united Italy, as well as Bismarck's goal of a unified Germany. What steps did Cavour, Garibaldi, and Bismarck take to bring about unification in Italy and Germany?

Question 18

How would you explain Britain's relative political stability in the second half of the nineteenth century?

Question 19

define the following term:
Count Camillo di Cavour

Question 20

How did the role of science in society change over the course of the nineteenth century?

Question 21

define the following term:
Count Otto von Bismarck

Question 22

define the following term:
battles of Sadowa and Sedan

Question 23

define the following term:
Queen Victoria

Question 24

define the following term:
Austro-Prussian War

Question 25

define the following term:
"iron and blood"

Question 26

define the following term:
Karl Marx

Question 27

define the following term:
Victor Emmanuel II

Question 28

define the following term:
Giuseppe Garibaldi

Question 29

define the following term:
Dual Monarchy

Question 30

define the following term:
North German Confederation

Question 31

define the following term:
Benjamin Disraeli

Question 32

define the following term:
the Red Shirts

Question 33

define the following term:
Franco-Prussian War

Question 34

define the following term:
Second German Empire

Question 35

define the following term:
mir

Question 36

define the following term:
Alexander II and the serfs

Question 37

define the following term:
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation

Question 38

define the following term:
Ausgleich

Question 39

define the following term:
Reform Act of 1867

Question 40

define the following term:
zemstvos

Question 41

define the following term:
Michael Faraday

Question 42

define the following term:
materialism

Question 43

define the following term:
natural selection

Question 44

define the following term:
Louis Pasteur

Question 45

define the following term:
Marxism

Question 46

define the following term:
Dominion of Canada

Question 47

define the following term:
The Communist Manifesto

Question 48

define the following term:
Realism

Question 49

define the following term:
"First International"

Question 50

define the following term:
Charles Dickens

Question 51

define the following term:
William Thackeray's Vanity Fair

Question 52

define the following term:
Charles Darwin

Question 53

define the following term:
proletariat

Question 54

define the following term:
On the Origin of Species

Question 55

define the following term:
The Danish War

Question 56

define the following term:
Gustave Courbet's The Stonebreakers

Question 57

define the following term:
Jean-François Millet

Question 58

define the following term:
The American Civil War

Question 59

define the following term:
Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary

Question 60

define the following term:
Dmitri Mendeleyev

Question 61

From 1862 to 1866, Bismarck governed Prussia by

A)courting labor unions and the working class.
B)working closely with opposition politicians.
C)popular referendum.
D)ignoring parliament.
E)ignoring King William I.

Question 62

What was one of Napoleon III's great domestic projects?

A)The building of the Eiffel Tower
B)The rededication of the Cathedral of Notre Dame
C)The reconstruction of Paris with broad boulevards, public squares, and municipal utilities
D)The damming of the Seine River below Paris for flood control
E)The construction of the Maginot Line against German militarism

Question 63

What was an overall result of the Crimean War?

A)The maintenance of peace in Europe until World War I
B)Continued Russian expansionism in Europe for the next two decades
C)Increased involvement for Great Britain in continental affairs
D)The destruction of the Concert of Europe and the creation of opportunities for Italian and German national unification
E)The breakup of the Holy Alliance

Question 64

Why was Prussia more likely than Austria to provide leadership in the cause of German unification?

A)Prussia lacked a strong military.
B)Austria had few ethnic Germans living within its borders.
C)Austria feared the creation of a strong German state in central Europe.
D)Prussia was a large multinational empire.
E)Prussia had lagged behind the rest of Europe in industrialization.

Question 65

Who was the romantic nationalist who challenged Cavour for control of southern Italy?

A)Matteotti
B)Mazzini
C)Garibaldi
D)Sforza
E)Cavour

Question 66

Who was the prime minister of Piedmont who organized the Italian unification movement?

A)Giuseppe Mazzini
B)Giuseppe Garibaldi
C)Camillo di Cavour
D)Victor Emmanuel
E)the Duke of Alba

Question 67

After the disappointments of 1848-1849, many Italian nationalists turned to ____ for leadership in the unification of northern Italy.

A)Florence
B)Piedmont
C)Austria
D)Naples
E)Britain

Question 68

Who was the dominant foreign power in Italy prior to unification?

A)France
B)Spain
C)Papal States
D)Savoy
E)Austria

Question 69

What was Napoleon III most interested in during the Second Empire?

A)Fostering the industrial development of France
B)Avoiding wars and foreign adventures
C)Enhancing civil liberties like free speech
D)Encouraging people to get involved in politics
E)Enhancing the position of the Catholic Church in French culture

Question 70

Bismarck is best seen as a

A)realist.
B)romantic.
C)war monger.
D)classical liberal.
E)republican idealist.

Question 71

Which country did Piedmont align with during the Italian War of 1859?

A)Russia
B)England
C)Austria
D)Prussia
E)France

Question 72

define the following term:
organic evolution

Question 73

What was a result of Bismarck's Austro-Prussian War?

A)The incorporation of Austria into the North German Confederation
B)A harsh treaty against Austria that reduced it to a second-rate power
C)The Prussian liberals' disgust over Bismarck's unscrupulous policies
D)The exclusion of Austria from the North German Confederation
E)The immediate establishment of the German Empire

Question 74

What event precipitated the end of the Second French Republic in 1851?

A)Prussia invaded and occupied France.
B)The army overthrew the Republic in a coup.
C)The legislature voluntarily disbanded.
D)A tornado tore about the government buildings.
E)The voters abolished it in a vote.

Question 75

Which two states did German nationalists believe were powerful enough to achieve the unification of Germany?

A)Austria and Prussia
B)Austria and Poland
C)Austria and France
D)Prussia and Italy
E)Italy and France

Question 76

In which area did Napoleon's most disastrous foreign policy adventure occur?

A)The Crimea
B)Italy
C)Palestine
D)Schleswig-Holstein
E)Mexico

Question 77

Bismarck was appointed prime minister by

A)Frederick III.
B)William I.
C)Frederick William II.
D)Otto V.
E)William II.

Question 78

For whom did the Red Shirts fight?

A)Bismarck
B)Cavour
C)Garibaldi
D)Mazzini
E)Marx

Question 79

Which country's incursions into the Black Sea prompted England and France to enter the Crimean War in 1854?

A)Russia
B)Turkey
C)Germany
D)Austria
E)The United States

Question 80

In 1699, the Ottoman Empire lost Hungary, Transylvania, Croatia, and Slovenia to

A)Egypt.
B)Russia.
C)Greece.
D)Austria.
E)Prussia.