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AP Unit 5 Questions
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Term | Definition |
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What is absolutism? | The monarchy controls everything |
What economic theory leaves "every man for himself?" | Capitalism |
What is the root word of imperialism? | Empire |
When did western hemisphere free itself from European control? | By early 1800s |
What is ethnocentrism? | The belief that your culture, race, religon, and government is the best |
What is pride in one's country instead of a specific leader? | Nationalism |
What group of people applied the theory of natural selection to sociology? | Social Darwinists |
What is the "White man's burden?" | Europeans have the moral obligation to teach others hows to be civilized |
Why was China called the Middle Kingdom? | They believed they were at the center of the world |
What are new technologies that were developed in the Industrial Revolution ? | Telegraph, telephone, radio, national postal system, steamship, railroad, trains |
What is a big farm that only produceds one crop? | A plantation system |
What was the Monroe Doctrine? | President Monroe said that Europeans could NOT intervene with countries in the Western Hemisphere |
What made Egypt a significant commerical and political power? | The Suez Canal |
England gets opium from India, and sells it to: | China |
The opium lets what flow out of China? | Silver |
What is Extraterritorality? | A crime is committed in another country by a visitor. The foreign country can not punish the visitor; the home country punishes the person. |
What changed due to the Industrial Revolution? | People moved to cities. |
What improved farming? | The second agricultural revolution 18th century. (Use of modern fertilizer and steam equipment) |
Who is the father of capitalism? | Adam Smith |
What was Adam Smith's philosophy? | The government should NOT interfere with the economy. |
Adam Smith's book about capitalism was called: | Wealth of Nations |
In the second industrial revolution, electricity overtakes steam and coal as: | Power source |
What is Marx's name for the working class? | Proletariat |
What class was born because of the Industrial Revolution? | The working class |
What was Marx's name for the middle class? | Borgeoisse |
What began to be determined more by wealth than family position in unit 5? | Social Status |
Marxism is the same as: | Communism |
The lightbulb created what? | Work shifts. Now people could work into the night. |
Karl Marx wrote what? | Communist Manifesto |
Charles Dickens wrote of what? | Social ills of industrialization |
What did the Ludites do? | Destroyed factory equipment and protested working conditions/wages |
What was the first industrial war? | The United States Civil War |
What is monoculture? | One crop is grown |
What happened in the "Banana Republic?" | US took over islands and forced them to grow bananas. They grew bananas and shiped them to America for cheap prices. |
Why didn't Russian have a real culture? | Mongol rule |
What is the Meiji Restoration? | It turns on the power switch for Industrialization in Japann. |
Who brought huge boats to Japan and forced them to trade? | Commodore Perry |
Who are the zaibatsu? | Super rich families that start businesses in Japan. There were four big rich families that formed companies. |
What doubled in Britian in 1700s? | Population almost doubled 5 million to 9 million |
What are the Enclosure Acts? | Public lands closed off, so people moved to cities |
What made textile revolution possible? | Cottin gin |
What is urbanization? | The shift of people from countryside to city |
What is the Scientific Revolution? | Discovering, learning, evaluating, understanding the natural world |
What is the Industrial Revolution? | Appling that understanding for economic ends |
What does urbanization cause? | Rise of nationalism, colonization, independence movements and revolutions, social unrest, |
What is the Enlightenment? | Thinking rationally |
What is anti-Semitism? | Hate Jews |
What happened in Ireland? | Famine because of a blight on potatoes |
What pushed the migration of people to North/South America from Europe in unit 5? | Famine in Ireland; Anti-Semitism-Russia; Religous toleration; Poverty; Joblessness |
What are pogroms? | The government allows people to kill Jews |
Natural Resources quote about imperialism: | "STEALING IS CHEAPER THAN DEALING!" |
In 1850, Industrial Revolution is over, what happens? | The working class starts to benefit (People get rights) |
Most working women were ___? | Single |
Women were paid __ than men? | less |
What new group forms? | Middle class housewives |
What era idealized women? It showed them how to be prim and proper and spend all of their husbands' money on cute things. | Victorian Age |
What is social mobility? | The ability to move from one class to the next |
Husband= ___ Wife= _____ in most of unit 5. | Husband-wage earner Wife-Homemaker |
Old money from family; What is new money? | New money- you make it |
The lower class is worknig alongside The managers. They can now see the unfairness. They saw elite gain wealth at their expense. This leads to __________ and/or ______________. | labor unions and or communism |
What is a safe haven for former slaves? | Sierra Leone- British colony Liberia- colonization scheme for freed slaves from U.S. |
What is the Emancipation of 1861? | The Russian serfs are freed. They are no longer bound to land. |
Emacipation of serfs was similar to what? | Sharecropping in US. The former serfs now had to pay for land |
What stimulated the awareness of unequal treatment of women? | Enlightenment theories (reason) and active role of women in American and French revolutions |
What is the cult of domesticity? | Stressing women's place in the home- Dominated Western culture. Women felt like they were controlled by being in the home, like a cult. |
What occupations were open to women? | Child care, teaching, domestic household work, nursing |
Domestic means | domocile=home |
What is suffrage? | Voting rights |
What is temperance? | Stop drinking |
What gave women suffrage? | World War I |
What is autocracy? | Self rule= one person rules= dictator |
What is a common theme in revolutions? | Frustration with economic exploitation ("No taxation without representation") |
What is the same thing as the Seven Years War? | French and Indian War |
What was the Common Sense pamphlet about? | US needs to break free from England |
WHEN WAS THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE? | 1776 |
France helped US do what? | Defeat Britian |
Who were the Three Estates in France? | 1st Estate- Clergy; 2nd Estate- Nobles 2%; 3rd Estate- Everybody else 97% |
What was the official start of the French Revolution? | Storming the Bastille |
The Declaration of the Rights of Man was what? | A copycat of the American Bill of Rights |
What did the Declaration of the Rights of man say? | Freedom of the press, freedom of religon, increased voting rights, freedom, equality, rule of law |
What is the rule of law? | No one is above the law |
Constitutional Monarchy was similar to what? | The Mandate of Heaven, but in a legal way |
What is a Republic? | People vote for other people who then decide |
Who took over France after Robespierre was beheaded? | Napoleon |
What is a Coup de tat? | Quick overthrow of the government |
What did the Napoleonic Codes do? | Equality of Frenchmen-All men are citizens |
Who is the first emperor of France? | Napoleon |
In russia, what happens with Napoleon? | Russia lured Napoleon into Moscow, but then burned their own city. Napoleon had no supplies for troops and retreated back to France. |
Napoleon took French army ___ after he was exiled and returned to France? | Waterloo, Belgium |
The French Revolution accomplished what? | It did away with absolute monarchy; Governments had to be more attentive to peoples' needs; creates spirit of nationalism; spread the idea or revolution outside France |
What is Liberalism? | You want as many rights as possible |
Nationalism unites what two countries? | Italy and Germany BECOME COUNTRIES |
What catastrophe happened in Ireland? | Irish potato famine |
What colony in the Americas does France have? | Haiti |
America is to Britain, as ___ is to France. | Haiti |
Where was the first successful slave revolt? | Haiti |
Who sold the Louisisana Territory to US? | Napoleon |
What brought about major change in global power? | The Louisiana Territory was sold to US. It MADE US A WORLD SUPERPOWER! |
El Grito de Dolores is what? | "Cry from Delores!" a declaration by Mexican priest, Father Hidalgo saying the the Spanish had to go! |
Delores is what? | A city where Mexicans "cried for peace." |
Mexican Independence Day is when what happened? | El Grito de Dolores (Call to arms by priest) |
Miguel Hildago was who? | Creole priest who started Mexican Revolution #1 |
Who picked up where Hildago left off? | Jose Morelos |
What happened in 1815? | Jose Morelos was killed |
Sino means what? | China |
What happened during the "Hundred Days of Reform" in China? | Let all people vote, all kids could got to school free, divided rich peoples' land among poor people |
What was the Sino-Japanese War in 1895 over? | China VS. Japan for Korea |
Empress Cixi (Tehsee) of China was who? | Concubine that "ruled" for nephew until he was an adult |
What was Empress Cixi (Tehsee) of China's nick name? | Dragon Lady |
Empress Cixi (Tehsee) of China ruled how? | Oppressive rule; She opposed ALL reform. Pro-Western was treason |
Empress Cixi (Tehsee) of China arrested who? | Her nephew and killed his reformers |
Empress Cixi (Tehsee) of China's nephew did what? | Hundred Days of Reform |
Chinese Revolution of 1911 was a result of what? | It was a backlash against Cixi's Conservatism |
Chinese Revolution did what? | Declaration of a republic |
Unification of China began under who? | Sun Yat-sen |
Who is the father of modern China? | Sun Yat-sen (Nationalist Party) |
Who was Simon Bolivar? | Venezuelan leader |
Bolivar did what? | He was enlightened and educated; he traveled to Europe and United States |
What results from Bolivar's win? | GRAN COLOMBIA- Columbia, Ecuador, and Venezuela |
Who was the leader in Argentina? | Jose de San Martin |
Napoleon invaded Portugal, and what happened? | Portuguses king- John VI flees to Brazil |
John VI leaves his son Pedro where? | In Brazil to rule |
Pedro does what? | Declares independece for Brazil and makes himself emperor |
What advantage did Brazil have when compared to other Latin American countries? | ADVANTAGE OF STABLE MONARCHY DURING INDEPENDENCE |
Effects of Latin American independece movements: | Europe kicked out of Latin American |
Who had power in Russia? | Czars had absolute power |
1860s- Alexander I did what? | Emancipation Edict- abolished serfdom |
In Russia, what happened to freed serfs? | They were given small plots of land, and had to give huge payments to the government. It was hard to improve situation |
Some arts began to flourish in Russia after: | Serfs freed |
What was Russification? | All Russians HAD TO learn Russian language and convert to Orthodox Christianity |
Anyone who did not convert to Orthodox Christianity in Russia, was: | Persecuted, especially Jews |
Moderates in Russia march on czar's palace peacefully and ask for reform. What happens? | Nicholas II sends his troops against protesters- Bloody Sunday- 1905 |
The educated Indians ___ | Wanted freedom |
What is formed in India? | Indian National Congress |
Who was the Italian nationalist who kicked out Spain and united Italy? | Giuseppi Garibaldi |
What was Garibaldi's (Italy) army called? | Red Shirts |
Where is Prussia located? | Within Germany |
Prussia and other kingdoms become: | Germany |
Germany and Austiran Empire were NOT united since when? | Holy Roman Empire |
Who united Germany? | Otto von Bismarck |
What is UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE? | EVERYONE CAN VOTE ALL COLORS BOTH GENDERS |
Who fought the Crimean War? | Russia VS Ottoman Empire |
Who wins Crimean War? | Ottomans win with the help of France and England |
Women were viewed as what in Japan 1890? | Second class citizens |
Japan became what during their industrialization? | "AMERICA EAST" |
What injustice happened in Nagasaki? | Temperatures in a working factory were too hot, and the workers were shot for trying to escape |
What is Feminism? | WOMEN ARE EQUAL TO MEN |
WHO IS THE MOTHER OF FEMINISM? | MARY WOLSTONECRAFT |
WHO WAS MARY WOLSTONECRAFT? | ENGLISH WRITER AND MOTHER OF MODERN FEMINISM |
WHAT WAS MARY WOLSTONECRAFT'S MAIN IDEA? | EDUCATION IS THE KEY TO ENDING GENDER INEQUALITY |
When did women get suffrage? | WWI |
What replaced agriculture as largest part of economy? | Industrialization |
What is a Marxism quote? | Rich people have always taken advantage of the poor people |
Utopian socialists say what? | With good planning and regulation- everyone can be happy |
Workers would overthrow, which would lead to ___? | Communism (A revolution was necessary) |
Who gets what in COMMUNISM? | GOODS ARE DISTRIBUTED BY NEED |
WHO GETS WHAT IN SOCIALISM? | GOODS ARE DISTRIBUTED BY HOW HARD YOU WORK |
WHO CONTROLS RESOURCES IN SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM? | GOVERNMENT |
What caused imperialism:? | Need for raw materials, and markets for goods |
United States protected the AMEICAS FROM EUROPEAN THREAT with what? | MONROE DOCTRINE |
What is social darwinism? | The people who are most technologically and culturally advanced should coquer other people |
What does the sun never sets on the British Empire mean? | Britian had so many colonies that the sun actually never set on the entre british empire. |
Who were the sepoys? | Indian Soldiers that were body guards for the British East India Company in India |
What was a rumor that made the sepoys furious? | Bullet cartridges were greased with pork and beef fat - both forbidden to Hinus and Muslims |
Britain took over India after ___? | Sepoy Mutiny |
Britain had a huge influence in what Asian country? | China |
What Asian country remained independent because of their AWESOME kings? | Thailand |
Thailand was a buffer (middle ground) free zone between what? | Between British Burma and French Indochina |
Why did USA want Phillipines? | Prevents Japanfrom having a naval base over here; US colony now; moral obligation to help poor yellow brothers |
What happened in the Spanish Ameican War of 1898? | Americans and Natives overthrew Spanish; USA annexation of Phillipines |