Question 1

American Revolution

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Colonists wanted to govern their own affairs. They boycotted imports, defied taxes, and fought the revolutionary war from 1775-1783. This launched a global age of revolutions.

Question 2

French Revolution

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Caused by mismanagement by the monarchy which left France poor and starve, isolation of the King from his people, resentment at the privileges of the nobility, and the opportunity that was presented to the people.

Question 3

Haitian Revolution

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Haiti was governed by France but didn’t receive the same rights. Haiti became the first independent black African American state that abolished slavery through revolution.

Question 4

Latin American Revolution

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The people wanted political independence and the unification of all Spanish states into a confederation, similar to the Untied States.

Question 5

Seven Years War

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The British and French battled each other in Europe and India in a contest for imperial supremacy. The British victory ensured that the British would dominate global trade in the coming century.

Question 6

Industrialization

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A process that transformed agrarian and handcrafted centered economies into economies distinguished by industry and machine manufacture.

Question 7

Demographic Transition

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Birth rate declined due to voluntary birth control through contraception which caused lower population growth. Families chose to have fewer offspring because they cost more in an industrial society than in agrarian society.

Question 8

Gender Roles During Industrialization

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Men worked as mangers or wage laborers, but also enjoyed leisure activities such as watching sports, gambling, or meeting at pubs. Women roles were shifted to the home.

Question 9

Child Labor

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Families needed the wages that children made. In places like England, laws were passed that regulated child labor in which children worked from dawn until dark, and were beaten to be kept awake.

Question 10

Marx and Engels

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Believed that capitalists caused the social problems of the nineteenth century and that socialism would lead to a fair, just, egalitarian society that was more humane than the capitalist order.

Question 11

Opium Trade and War

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The East India Company grew opium that was exchanged for Chinese silver coins. The Chinese wished to put an end to this trade which upset the British and sparked the Opium War which lasted from 1839-1842.

Question 12

Meiji Restoration

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Drew inspiration from the German constitution in drafting a governing document for Japan, abolished the samurai class, converted grain tax into fixed money tax, created modern transportation, communication, and educational infrastructure.

Question 13

Imperialism

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Oversea colonies served as a reliable source of income and raw materials, strategic locations were necessary for political and military reasons, spreading of religion. Examples: British in India, Europeans in Africa, U.S. in Pacific and Latin America.

Question 14

Berlin Conference

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1885 - Agreement that any European state could establish African colonies after notifying others of its intentions.

Question 15

Steam Power

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Most crucial technological breakthrough of the early industrial era. Steam engines burned coal to boil water, create steam and power machines that performed work.

Question 16

Transcontinental Migration

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50 million Europeans migrated to America, which caused rapid industrialization.

Question 17

Railroad

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Most important technological development of the later nineteenth century, linked all U.S. regions and created an integrated national economy.

Question 18

Social Darwinism

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Scientific theories of evolution to justify European imperialists over subject peoples; races that competed better in the natural world and evolved to higher states than the less fit.

Question 19

Decline of the Ottomans

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Military decline that led to territorial losses, lacked the resources to maintain costly bureaucracy. Only kept alive because Europeans could not agree on how to dispose of the empire without upsetting the European balance of power.

Question 20

Taipang Program

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Abolition of private property, communal wealth shared according to needs, prohibition of foot binding and concubinage, free public education, simplified written language, and literacy for the masses.

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