Chapter 14 Review Quiz

Larry KelleyLauren Hoover

1. In the late 19th century, Major European ideals include all of the following except

a) Improving literacy b) Higher labor productivity c) Higher standard of living d) Toleration of Religious practices

D) Toleration of religious practices

• The ideals of European civilization were in part materialistic. The European people had a higher standard of living. They ate and dressed more adequately and had more sanitary facilities. They possessed ocean liners, railroads and street cars. They also prize knowledge as a civilized attainment. The ideal was profoundly moral derived from Christianity, but know secularized and detached from religon. Therefore, D is the correct answer because it does not follow the same principles as 19th century ideals.

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The Inner Zone included all of the following except…

a) Heavy industryb) Liberalism c) Agricualture d) Scientific Acheivement

C. Agriculture

• There were two Europes: an inner zone and an outer zone. The inner zone was called the Europe of steam, and bounded it by an imaginary line joining Glasgow, Stockholm, Danzig, Trieste, Florence and Barcelona. All heavy European industry was located in the inner zone. Here the railway network was thickest and the wealth of Europe was concentrated in the form both of high living standard and of accumulations of capital. Here were almost all scientific laboratories of science in Europe and the strength of constitutional and parliamentary government including liberalism. The outer zone was more agriculturally based. This makes C the right answer because the inner zone was based on industry, not agriculture.

One of the reasons for European migration from the continent is because of…

a) Prosperity in the new world b) Weather conditions in Europe c) Lack of scientific advancement in Europe d) Revolution in Europe

a) Prosperity in the new world

• Almost 60 million people had left Europe from 1850 to 1940. In Europe there were many conditions propelling emigrants outward. The scientific advancements of the steamship made it easier and cheaper to cross the sea, and the railroad helped people to get to the ports. Economically people could afford to make a long journey to the new world where they could prosper from opportunities in a growing nation. Other reasons included famine, religious persecution, and a new freedom of movement allowing them to travel so easily. A is the correct answer because it embodies the true most general reason that people emigrated from Europe.

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What did urbanization cause?

a) Journalist opinions to become more narrow b) Public opinion, disrespect for tradition, and the

spread of socialism c) Rural populations to become less dense d) Decrease in manufacturing and supplying food

and raw materials

B) Public opinion, disrespect for tradition, and the spread of socialism

• Rural populations in the inner zone became more dense. City life was impersonal and anonymous; people were uprooted, less tied to home or church in the country. They lacked the country person’s feeling of deference for aristocratic families. They lacked the sense of self help characteristic of older rural communities. It was in the city that the daily newspaper press spread rapidly. Articulate public opinion formed in the cities and city people were on the whole disrespectful of tradition, receptive to new ideas, having in many cases deliberately altered their own lives by moving from the country or from smaller towns. Socialism spread among the industrial masses of European cities. B is correct because people began to develop their own opinions therefore disregarding tradition and becoming detached from everything but the state.

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Industrialization in England resulted in all of the following except…

a) New methods of productionb) The expansion of trade according to market

demandc) The reinvestment of profits from manufacturingd) The elimintation of social distinctions between

the middle class and working class

d) The elimintation of social distinctions between the middle class and working class

• The use of steam power, the growth of the textile and metallurgical industries and the advent of the railroad had characterized the early part of the century. Now after 1870 new sources of power tapped, the already mechanized industries expanded, new industries appeared, and industry spread geographically. The middle class tended to be more wealthy than the lower or working class who were responsible for the labor. D is right because the gap between classes became bigger.

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The new world market created

a) Goods and servicesb) Commodities c) Money through investmentd) All of the above

d) All the above

• Never had the earth been so unified economically with each region playing specific roles in a global specialization. Western Europe was the world’s industrial workshop. Other parts of the world supplied other needs. A true world market had been created. Goods, services, commodities, money, capital, people moved back a forth without regard to national boundaries. Articles were bought and sold at uniform world prices. D is correct because the new world market had created all of these things.

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The affects of the Kulturkampf battle for modern civilization in volving Bismarck resulted in all of the following except

a) Liberals joined in the passing of anticlerical lawsb) Put Church leaders back into power c) The Jesuits were expelled d) Catholic bishops were arrested

b) Put Church leaders back into power

• In 1871 Bismarck launched the Kulturkampf or battle for modern civilization. The liberals joined in eagerly and they were strongly anticlerical and disapproved of organized churches and public and private life. Laws were put through imposing restrictions upon Catholic worship and education. The Jesuits were expelled and many catholic bishops throughout Germany were arrested or went into exile. B is the right answer because religion was restricted.

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What was the Irish question?

a) A bitter conflict between Britian and Ireland over the civil and religious greviances

b) An armed conflict that resulted in the annexation of Ireland from Britian

c) A political revolt over the oppression of Irish polticians in Parliament

d) A question that entailed what to do about the potato famine

a) A bitter conflict between Britain and Ireland over the civil and religious grievances

• Britain suffered from one of the most bitter minorities conflicts in Europe – What the British called the Irish question. Ireland, having been incorporated into the UK as a defensive measure against pro-French sympathies in Ireland during the wars of the French revolution. The Irish had many substantial grievances. The Irish peasants were defenseless against the landlords and were obliged to pay tithes to the established church of Ireland. The Irish also wanted home rule or a parliament of their own. A is the correct answer because the Irish had these civil and religious grievances

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The German Empire after 1890 was

a) Slowly moving towards democracy b) Indifferent to the masses on domestic affairs c) More aggressive with foreign affairs and dropped

antisocialist laws d) Moving away from a constitutional crisis

c)More aggressive with foreign affairs and dropped antisocialist laws

• The German empire as put together by Bismarck in 1871 with William I, King of Prussia, as Kaiser, was a federation of monarchies, a union of 25 states, in which the weight of the monarchial Prussia, the Prussian army, and the Prussian landed aristocracy was preponderant. Any socialist laws prohibited socialist meetings and socialist newspaper. In foreign affairs Germany created a more aggressive and ambitious colonial, naval, and diplomatic policy. C is right because Germany became more aggressive with their “new course.”

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The Dreyfus Affair was a political scandal that

a) Resulted in the division France in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

b) Involved the revolt of French peasants over the regime of Captain Dreyfus

c) Resulted in the reunification of the French nationd) Involved Dreyfus’ giving military intelligence to

the British embassy in France

a) Resulted in the division France in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

• In 1894 captain Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer was found guilty of treason by a military court a deported to devils island. Evidence accumulated showed that he was passing military intelligence to a Germany embassy in France. He was later found innocent but the charges were not lifted. The partisans of Dreyfus stubbornly upheld him, both because they believed in justice and because they wished to discredit their antirepublican adversaries. The country became deeply split. Therefore A is the correct answer.

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