Exam 18: An Unsettled World, 1890-1914

Compare the ways in which people in India, sub-Saharan Africa, and China fought against western pressure during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

How did German chancellor Otto von Bismarck seek to defuse socialist activism in his country?

Economic conditions in late nineteenth-century Europe and America resembled Adam Smith's vision of laissez-faire capitalism.

In order to establish a modern national identity, both Indian and Latin American intellectuals turned to which of the following?

Analyze the impact of worldwide mass migrations between 1840 and 1914 on the economies and societies of the places in which the migrants settled.

The Boxer Rebellion targeted foreigners and foreign symbols.

One effect of the Anglo-Boer War was that the horrors the British perpetrated led them to question their belief in themselves as enlightened colonial rulers.

Compare the overthrow of the Díaz government in Mexico with the overthrow of the Qing dynasty in China. What were the circumstances of each revolution, and what ideas drove them? What role did nationalism play in each case?

In Latin America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which of the following upset traditional racial hierarchies?

What role did the US government play in response to the 1894 Pullman Strike?

Which of the following was a direct response to anxiety over a loss of dominance by people of European descent in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

Which of the following was a common response to class conflict in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century western Europe?

Which of the following ideas was part of Sun Yat-sen's program?

Which of the following questions challenged Chinese intellectuals at the turn of the twentieth century?

Which of the following was the most enduring legacy of the Mexican Revolution?

One result of the emergence of popular culture was

In Europe at the turn of the twentieth century, which of the following was a manifestation of anxiety about race?

Between 1840 and 1914, which of the following led to large-scale migration within individual industrialized states' national boundaries?

Nineteenth-century Hindu intellectuals incorporated both Hindu and Islamic traditions into their vision of Indian identity.

Which of the following contributed to the Qing dynasty's downfall?