Deck 15: The Global Nineteenth Century

Question 1

What ended the struggle between France and England in the latter's favor was

A) the French and Indian Wars in the United States
B) monarchy's defeat in the French revolution
C) the rise of Enlightenment ideas in France
D) England's growing naval power
E) none of the above

Answer 1

E

Question 2

The purpose of the Concert of Europe was to

A) strengthen the interstate system
B) to keep revolutionary movements from spreading
C) neither a or b
D) both a and b

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The Unites States became a core country in the world-system

A) right after the declaration of independence
B) right after the War of 1812
C) right after "Manifest Destiny" was declared
D) the United States has always been a core country
E) none of the above

Answer 3

E

Question 4

The spread of French Enlightenment ideas was the major motive of the English to

A) suppress the international slave trade
B) support anticolonial movements against the French
C) support anticolonial movements against the Spanish
D) none of the above. It was politically motivated.

Question 5

Which of the following authors would have supported the repeal of the Corn Laws?

A) Franz List
B) Alexander Hamilton
C) Adam Smith
D) Karl Marx

Question 6

The western country that developed its industry the latest was

A) Germany
B) the United States
C) England
D) Belgium

Question 7

The purpose of the Berlin Conference on Africa in 1884-1885 was to

A) sign a treaty between the Germans and the French to settle their boundaries after the Franco-Prussian War
B) gather together the all the members of the Romantic movement to develop a manifesto
C) decide how distribute parts of Africa to European powers
D) decide on a new national flag for Germany

Question 8

The world revolution of 1848 signaled

A) the beginning of the socialist movement
B) the fight for a liberal constitution
C) claims of popular sovereignty
D) industrial technology became prominent in Germany, France and Spain
E) none of the above
F) a, b and c

Question 9

Which of these people was in the forefront of workers movement, the abolitionist movement and the women's movement in 1848?

A) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
B) Karl Marx
C) Nat Turner
D) John Stuart Mill
E) none of the above

Question 10

The cause of the rift between the plantation owners of the South and the English before the American Revolution was

A) the South wanted a tariff policy while the England wanted free trade
B) the English had formed an alliance with the North
C) English industrialization took off and they no longer needed southern cotton
D) the plantation owners wanted to move West
E) none of the above

Question 11

Henry Clay's "American system" was responsible for

A) a national road that linked Baltimore to the Ohio Valley
B) the building of the Erie Canal
C) both a and b
D) neither a or b

Question 12

During Andrew Jackson's presidency in the first half of the 19ᵗʰ century

A) the right to vote was extended to white men without property
B) treaties with native Americans were broken
C) the south and the west formed an alliance
D) the cotton gin expanded the slave system
E) all of the above

Question 13

What brought the Republican Party of Lincoln to power was

A) a moral desire to end slavery
B) a policy of cheap land
C) a protectionist foreign trade policy
D) the alliance with Eastern bankers

Question 14

Chapter 15 shows that the reason slavery ended is because

A) core workers and farmers were threatened by slave labor coming to the west
B) core workers were abolitionists
C) Abraham Lincoln was morally opposed to slavery
D) the abolitionist movement and the women's movement united
E) none of the above

Question 15

What was the most important structural difference between the U.S. civil war and the civil wars that took place in most Latin American countries after their decolonization?

A) the Latin American countries are mostly closer to the equator
B) in the Latin American countries the internal "South" won
C) the civil wars in Latin America did not involve the issue of slavery
D) the civil war in the United States was not very influenced by international relations
E) all of the above

Question 16

Because the plantation owners in the American South traded with English manufacturers, the English supported the plantation owners during the American Civil War.

Question 17

The trade policy of the United States was "free trade" after the Civil War and it has been free trade ever since.

Question 18

Compared to agricultural capitalism the industrial capitalism of the 19ᵗʰ century produced fewer economic depressions.

Question 19

One expression of Marx's Eurocentrism is that he did not consider the exploitation of the periphery by the core countries in his analysis of capitalism. He focused entirely on the exploitation of workers in Europe.

Question 20

Native Americans, unlike the Polynesians, never developed into complex chiefdoms.

Question 21

After the French were defeated in the French and Indian wars of 1763, the French helped the United States against England.

Question 22

The U.S. South was the most successful peripheral capitalist economy in world-history.

Question 23

It was the Republican Party of Lincoln that united western farmers and Northern workers.

Question 24

Before the Civil War the Republican Party never advocated the end of slavery.

Question 25

During its hegemony Britain mainly advanced policies that were intended to maintain a world order that favored British interests but that also could be understood as supporting principles that were advances in general morality.

Question 26

Once formal sovereignty was obtained by non-core countries it has been impossible to exploit and dominate them.

Question 27

British hegemony started with a focus on the provision of financial services.

Question 28

During the 19ᵗʰ century Africa transitioned from and external arena that was a subject of predation by Europeans to a colonized periphery in which colonial powers came to have an interest in the reproduction of an African labor force in Africa.

Question 29

In what ways did the British hegemony illustrate the idea that hegemony is both domination and leadership?

Question 30

The United States was once a colony of England. Yet after it achieved independence England became an ally. With all the European countries to ally with, don't you think a former colonizer would be one of your last choices? So what factors were involved in the United States forming an alliance with England?

Question 31

What are the similarities and differences between tributary imperialism, colonial empires and neocolonial dependency?

Question 32

In what ways were the policies of Britain in the 19ᵗʰ century a cross between the colonial empires and neocolonial dependency?

Question 33

Discuss the ways in which the trajectory of the British hegemony does or does not fit Wallerstein's stages of hegemony as based on consumer goods, capital goods and finance capital.

Question 34

What was the structural basis of the different approaches taken by Britain and the Austro-Hungarian Empire regarding the policies of the Concert of Europe?

Question 35

Discuss the further incorporation of Africa into the modern world-system that occurred in the 19ᵗʰ Century.

Question 36

Why did the gold standard encourage foreign investment in the 19ᵗʰ century?

Question 37

Discuss the trajectory of trade globalization between 1820 and 2010 as shown in Figure 15.1 in the text. What does this reveal about the nature and timing of economic globalization?

Question 38

Discuss the connections between the Taiping rebellion in China and the world revolution of 1848 that occurred in the West.

Question 39

Discuss the consequences of Marx's failure to see the systemic and continuing relevance of the modern core/periphery hierarchy.

Question 40

Describe the trajectory of that part of the world that became the United States in the core/periphery hierarchy of the modern world-system.

Question 41

Discuss how the iteration model of sociocultural evolution can be applied to what happened in the world-system in the 2ⁿᵈ half of the 19ᵗʰ century.