Deck 1: The Rise of Industrial Society in the West

Question 1

Identify the following terms:
the Pankhursts and the Women's Social and Political Union

Answer 1

Answer not provided.

Question 2

Identify the following terms:
narodniks

Answer 2

Answer not provided.

Question 3

Identify the following terms:
the Eiffel Tower

Answer 3

Answer not provided.

Question 4

Identify the following terms:
Otto von Bismarck

Question 5

Identify the following terms:
Henry Ford and the Model T

Question 6

Identify the following terms:
Alexander II and serfdom

Question 7

Identify the following terms:
the dual monarchy/the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Question 8

Identify the following terms:
revolutions of 1848

Question 9

Identify the following terms:
Egypt's Muhammad Ali

Question 10

Identify the following terms:
Guglielmo Marconi

Question 11

Identify the following terms:
the Ottoman Empire and the Balkans

Question 12

Identify the following terms:
cartels and the Rhenish-Westphalian Coal Syndicate

Question 13

Identify the following terms:
Feminism

Question 14

Identify the following terms:
Queen Victoria and the Victorian era

Question 15

Identify the following terms:
Alexander Graham Bell

Question 16

Identify the following terms:
the Wright brothers

Question 17

Identify the following terms:
Narodnaya Volya/the People's Will

Question 18

Identify the following terms:
Consuelo Vanderbilt

Question 19

Identify the following terms:
Britain's National Insurance Act of 1911

Question 20

Identify the following terms:
classical economics and laissez-faire

Question 21

Identify the following terms:
the proletariat

Question 22

Identify the following terms:
Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams

Question 23

Identify the following terms:
Simon Bolivar

Question 24

Identify the following terms:
Max Planck and "quanta"

Question 25

Identify the following terms:
Mikhail Bakunin

Question 26

Identify the following terms:
Modernism

Question 27

Identify the following terms:
France's Third Republic

Question 28

Identify the following terms:
Das Kapital

Question 29

Identify the following terms:
International Workingmen's Association/the First International

Question 30

Identify the following terms:
Canada's Sir Wilfred Laurier

Question 31

Identify the following terms:
Nationalism

Question 32

Identify the following terms:
Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and progressivism

Question 33

Identify the following terms:
Émile Zola and Naturalism

Question 34

Identify the following terms:
Henrik Ibsen

Question 35

Identify the following terms:
"scientific socialism"

Question 36

Identify the following terms:
Charles Darwin and The Origin of Species

Question 37

Identify the following terms:
Albert Einstein and E = mc²

Question 38

Identify the following terms:
Carnegie Steel

Question 39

Identify the following terms:
The Communist Manifesto

Question 40

Identify the following terms:
Isaac Newton and classical physics

Question 41

The Second Industrial Revolution differed from earlier industrialization in

A) making use of electricity as a major source of energy.
B) manufacturing iron rather than steel.
C) the use of the more efficient steam engine rather than unpredictable electricity.
D) following the philosophy of Karl Marx in organizing the economy.
E) being restricted to the United States and Russia instead of the nations of Western Europe.

Question 42

The Industrial Revolution first occurred in

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

Question 43

Of the total European population, the working classes numbered about

A) 25 percent.
B) 40 percent.
C) 50 percent.
D) 80 percent.
E) 95 percent.

Question 44

Identify the following terms:
the Chicago School and Louis H. Sullivan

Question 45

Identify the following terms:
Frank Lloyd Wright

Question 46

Identify the following terms:
Cubism and Pablo Picasso

Question 47

Identify the following terms:
Liberalism

Question 48

By the 1870s, Europeans were

A) abandoni ng free trade and a dopting tariffs.
B) abandoning tariffs in favor of free trade.
C) adopting free trade but abandoning laissez-faire.
D) abandoning capitalism in favor of socialism.
E) looking to Russia as the industrial model to emulate.

Question 49

Cartels

A) encouraged industrial competition.
B) reduced industrial competition.
C) were modern department stores distributing new consumer products.
D) were common in Great Britain but unknown in Germany.
E) were abolished in the late nineteenth century.

Question 50

Identify the following terms:
Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring

Question 51

In comparison with Great Britain, when industrializing most of the European continental nations

A) were able to succeed without an extensive railroad network.
B) depended upon oil rather than coal as an energy source.
C) benefited from greater government support.
D) relied almost entirely on private investment.
E) were socialist rather than capitalist in economic philosophy.

Question 52

By the late nineteenth century , industrialization in Europe differed betwee n

A) Britain and Germany.
B) Europe and the United States.
C) central and western Europe and eastern and southern Europe.
D) coal-powered Europe and electrically-powered Europe.
E) laissez-faire nations and mercantilism nations.

Question 53

In the nineteenth century, Europe's wealthy elite

A) formed about 50 percent of the population.
B) controlled between 30 and 40 percent of its wealth.
C) was made up primarily from the traditional aristocratic landed classes.
D) had turned their backs on industrial and commercial wealth.
E) had succumbed to working class ambitions.

Question 54

In 1889, the world's tallest structure was to be found in the city of

A) Paris.
B) New York.
C) Chicago.
D) London.
E) Berlin.

Question 55

Identify the following terms:
Paul Cézanne

Question 56

In the United States, "the American system" referred to

A) the use of slaves rather and serfs in agricultural production.
B) acquiring colonies in the Pacific rather than in Africa and Asia.
C) the geographical expansion to the west rather than to the east as in Russia.
D) a reliance upon agriculture rather than industry throughout the nineteenth century.
E) the use of interchangeable parts in industrial manufacturing.

Question 57

Identify the following terms:
Expressionism and Vincent van Gogh

Question 58

Identify the following terms:
Impressionism and Claude Monet

Question 59

The inventor of the telephone in 1876 and the person who sent the first radio waves across the Atlantic in 1901 were

A) Thomas Edison and Joseph Swan.
B) Richard Planck and Thomas Brooks.
C) Eastman Kodak and William Gladstone.
D) Alexander Graham Bell and Guglielmo Marconi.
E) John Reith and Baden Powell.

Question 60

The nineteenth century model of the middle-class society was

A) Bismarckian Germany.
B) Napoleonic France.
C) Victorian Britain.
D) Romanov Russia.
E) Carnegie's America.

Question 61

Latin American economies in the nineteenth century grew mainly as the result of

A) the export of raw materials.
B) the export of manufactured products.
C) the domestic consumption of manufactured products.
D) the import of raw materials from Africa and Asia.
E) none of these choices

Question 62

The most powerful ideology of change in nineteenth century Europe was

A) communism.
B) conservatism.
C) liberalism.
D) socialism.
E) nationalism.

Question 63

The Ottoman province that became an independent kingdom in 1830 was

A) Serbia.
B) Romania.
C) Bosnia.
D) Belgium.
E) Greece.

Question 64

The most radical women's rights organization of the early twentieth century was the

A) Women's Social and Political Union.
B) American Federation of Labor.
C) Narodnaya Volya.
D) International Workingmen's Association.
E) Modernist Equality Union.

Question 65

In hopes of transforming Russian society, the narodniks looked to the

A) anarchists.
B) communists.
C) peasants.
D) democrats.
E) tsar.

Question 66

The nation with the greatest foreign investment in Latin America between 1870 and 1913 was

A) the United States.
B) the German Empire.
C) Spain.
D) Great Britain.
E) France.

Question 67

Nineteenth century liberalism was best exemplified by

A) working class men and women.
B) middle class men.
C) the proletariat.
D) aristocratic landowners.
E) middle class men and women.

Question 68

Nineteenth century liberalism included the idea of all of the following except

A) property qualifications for voting.
B) women's suffrage.
C) a government of limited powers.
D) protection of basic civil rights.
E) a constitutional state or government.

Question 69

The nation which suffered from too many political parties and too many cabinet changes was

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

Question 70

The nineteenth century European ruler who was assassinated was

A) Queen Victoria.
B) Tsar Alexander II.
C) Emperor Francis Joseph.
D) Emperor Napoleon III.
E) King Victor Emmanuel.

Question 71

The difficulties of ruling a multi-national empire in the nineteenth century were most apparent in

A) Great Britain.
B) the United States.
C) Austr ia-Hungary.
D) Mexico.
E) the Germanies.

Question 72

The company that produced more steel than all of Great Britain was

A) the Rockefeller Iron Works.
B) the Ford Manufacturing Cartel.
C) Mercedes Benz Ltd.
D) Carnegie Steel.
E) Morgan Guarantee Trust.

Question 73

Nationalist revolts were most common in the nineteenth century in the

A) British Isles.
B) Rhineland.
C) Balkans.
D) Iberian peninsula.
E) Scandinavia.

Question 74

The early twentieth century abandonment of laissez-faire liberal policies was exemplified in

A) the ending of serfdom in Russia.
B) Britain's National Insurance Act of 1911.
C) the creation of the dual monarchy in Austria.
D) the creation of the Rhenish-Westphalian Coal Syndicate.
E) France's Third Republic.

Question 75

In addition to Austria-Hungary, in t he nineteenth century the ideology of nationalism was most destructive to the

A) British Empire.
B) German Empire.
C) American system.
D) Ottoman Empire.
E) Russian Empire.

Question 76

American political progressivism was represented in the presidential administrations of

A) Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge.
B) Grover Cleveland and William McKinley.
C) Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roos evelt.
D) Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln.
E) Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.

Question 77

The architect of the German Empire established in 1871 was

A) Francis Joseph.
B) Napoleon III.
C) Victoria.
D) Otto von Bismarck.
E) Alexander III.

Question 78

The statesman who was able to partially reconcile the two disparate language and culture groups in Canada was

A) William Wallace.
B) Cecil Rhodes.
C) Wilfred Laurier.
D) Lord Durham.
E) Gary Trudeau

Question 79

Which was not a feature of the mass society that emerged by the end of the nineteenth century?

A) compulsory elementary education
B) economic equality
C) urban overcrowding
D) public health problems
E) social and economic polarization

Question 80

The non-European Ottoman province that declared its autonomy and then attempted to modernize in the nineteenth century was

A) Turkey.
B) Egypt.
C) Iraq.
D) Palestine.
E) Arabia.