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

Question 1

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?

Answer 1

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Question 2

Discuss the role of nationalism and liberalism in the United States and Canada in the nineteenth century. How did each influence the social, economic, and political landscape of these countries? Give specific examples.

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Question 3

The late nineteenth and early twentieth century in the West has been labeled an 'era of both progress and anxiety.' Discuss the meaning of this statement with specific examples.

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Question 4

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 5

How did the experience of middle-class and working-class women differ during the second half of the 19^th century? Based on this difference, which class did the women's movement tend to represent and why?

Question 6

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Toussaint L'Ouverture

Question 7

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?

Question 8

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Monroe Doctrine

Question 9

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creoles

Question 10

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 11

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 and/or why not?

Question 12

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 13

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. Were there any relationships of those two movements to the political, social, and economic developments of the century? If so, which?

Question 14

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 15

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 of another nature?

Question 16

Which of the famous nineteenth and early twentieth century seminal intellectuals ⎯ Darwin,  Freud, and Einstein ⎯ remains most relevant in the early twenty-first century, and which of the four seems to have the least relevance, and why?

Question 17

Compare and contrast the early nationalist movements in Europe and in Latin America. How were they similar and how different? Give specific examples.

Question 18

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Simon Bolívar and Jose de San Martín

Question 19

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Miguel Hidalgo and Augustin de Iturbide

Question 20

What were the factors promoting the rise of nationalism in Western Europe during the 19^th century? Discuss, and give specific examples.

Question 21

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caudillos

Question 22

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Romanticism

Question 23

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English Football Association and the American Bowling Congress

Question 24

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the Progressive Era

Question 25

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mass education

Question 26

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nation-states

Question 27

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Dominion of Canada, 1867

Question 28

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John Macdonald and Wilfred Laurier

Question 29

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Spanish American War

Question 30

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American Civil War

Question 31

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Francisco Madero

Question 32

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the Pankhursts and the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)

Question 33

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suffragists

Question 34

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mass society

Question 35

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mass leisure

Question 36

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Andrew Jackson

Question 37

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1789 Constitution

Question 38

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Porfirio Diaz

Question 39

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Emilio Zapata

Question 40

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Florence Nightingale and Clara Barton

Question 41

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William Wordsworth

Question 42

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Sir Walter Scott

Question 43

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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Question 44

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Gothic literature

Question 45

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Louis Pasteur and Dimitri Mendeleev

Question 46

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Zionism

Question 47

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relativity theory

Question 48

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Charles Darwin's Origin of Species/Descent of Man

Question 49

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Sigmund Freud

Question 50

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natural selection

Question 51

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Realism

Question 52

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psychoanalysis

Question 53

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organic evolution

Question 54

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Social Darwinism

Question 55

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Gustave Courbet

Question 56

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Modernism

Question 57

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Casper David Friedrich

Question 58

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Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovery

Question 59

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Albert Einstein

Question 60

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secularization

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

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 63

During the U.S. Civil War,

A) more than six hundred thousand soldiers on both sides died.
B) the South had the advantage in numbers of troops and other resources.
C) the war began with the goal of ending slavery but became a war to save the Union.
D) the South successfully blockaded Union ports.
E) northerners feared that lack of access to southern cotton would dampen support for the war effort.

Question 64

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Berthe Morisot and Impressionism

Question 65

Mexico's revolt against Spain

A) was largely unsuccessful.
B) was led by Simon Bolívar.
C) resulted in the overthrow of Augustín de Iturbide from power.
D) led to a new government that primarily benefited the elites.
E) brought dramatic political and economic changes.

Question 66

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abstract painting

Question 67

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 68

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 Francesco Madero.
C) Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa.
D) Francesco Madero and Bernardo O'Higgins.
E) Benito Juarez and Venustiano Carranza.

Question 69

In late-19^th century Latin American countries,

A) large landowners increasingly left the political scene.
B) constitutions similar to those in the U.S. and Western Europe were written.
C) voting-rights restrictions were gradually lifted.
D) dictatorships became obsolete.
E) armies ceased to intervene in national politics.

Question 70

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
nationalism

Question 71

In nineteenth century Latin America, the basis of wealth, social prestige, and political power was

A) birth.
B) European ancestry.
C) trade and manufacturing.
D) land.
E) military power.

Question 72

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 73

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) amassed a peasant following and seized the estates of the Mexican elite.
D) was a close associate of United States President Woodrow Wilson.
E) admired Porfirio Diaz

Question 74

All of these statements about Latin America during the late nineteenth century are true EXCEPT

A) foreign investment increased significantly.
B) it was a time of greater prosperity in the region.
C) the upper classes throughout the region retained a tight control over political power.
D) all Latin Americans participated in the prosperity of the era.
E) the United States was becoming the chief foreign investor in the region.

Question 75

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Vincent van Gogh and Post-Impressionism

Question 76

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Emancipation Proclamation

Question 77

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Cubism

Question 78

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middle-class vs. working class

Question 79

Among major changes in Latin America between 1870 and 1910 were

A) a sharp drop in the export of raw materials.
B) a steady increase in industrial production and exports due to massive European and East Asian investment in Latin American industrial facilities.
C) the loss of elite control over government policies.
D) the growth of the middle class.
E) the rise of labor unions in Argentina and Brazil to the point where each was able to elect a trade union leader as president in 1903 and 1905, respectively.

Question 80

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Anti-Semitism