Deck 17: C: Atlantic Revolutions, Global Echoes 1750-1914

Question 1

Which of the following is true of the women's movement by the early 1900s?

A) It had secured widespread voting rights for women across Europe.
B) In the most industrialized countries of the West,it had become a mass movement.
C) Large numbers of working-class women had gained entrance to universities.
D) There was an international feminist movement that linked the entire world.

Answer 1

In the most industrialized countries of the West,it had become a mass movement.

Question 2

How did the end of the international slave trade affect Africa?

A) International pressure compelled African states to abolish slavery.
B) Reliance on slave labor increased in West and East Africa.
C) Production of labor-intensive cash crops dropped significantly.
D) Trade in North Africa shifted from Europe to Pacific Oceania.

Answer 2

Reliance on slave labor increased in West and East Africa.

Question 3

In contrast to North America,the creole elites who led the independence movement in Latin America faced the fear that

A) Spain and Portugal would involve the colonies in their wars.
B) the Catholic Church was gaining too much control over the government.
C) the lower classes and nonwhites would rise up in rebellion.
D) new colonists from Spain and Portugal would take over.

Answer 3

the lower classes and nonwhites would rise up in rebellion.

Question 4

In which of the countries shown on Map 16.3 did the only completely successful slave revolt in world history occur?

A) Haiti
B) Mexico
C) Peru
D) Bolivia

Question 5

Which of the following is true about women's participation in the French Revolution?

A) Women took on leading roles in the revolutionary government.
B) Women were unified in their defense of Queen Marie Antoinette.
C) Women joined in the major events of the revolution.
D) Women spoke out against the violence of the revolution.

Question 6

What did freedom mean in postrevolutionary Haiti?

A) Establishment of political rights for all
B) Independence and the end of slavery
C) Equality for both blacks and whites
D) Equality for both men and women

Question 7

In the nineteenth century,nationalism in Europe fueled

A) the abolition of the slave trade.
B) the feminist movement.
C) a competitive drive for colonies in Asia and Africa.
D) the collapse of European overseas empires by the 1890s.

Question 8

Why have the Atlantic revolutions been described as democratic revolutions?

A) Their overall thrust was to extend political rights further than ever before.
B) Their common objective was to end the slave trade and abolish slavery.
C) They fought for universal human rights for all,regardless of race or sex.
D) They permanently eliminated the monarchy as a viable political system.

Question 9

Some feminists based their arguments for women's rights on the role of women as

A) laborers.
B) professionals.
C) revolutionaries.
D) mothers.

Question 10

Which of the following was an outcome of the American Revolution?

A) Political authority shifted from colonial elites to small farmers.
B) Enlightenment ideals were rejected as part of a quest for stability.
C) Universal voting rights were established in the former colonies.
D) Existing democratic tendencies in the colonial societies were accelerated.

Question 11

What did the Atlantic revolutions share?

A) The same outcome and time period
B) Causes triggered by similar conditions
C) A unified opposition to slavery
D) A common political vocabulary

Question 12

In response to Napoleon's conquest and reform of European lands outside France,the people in the conquered lands

A) eagerly embraced Napoleon as their emperor but rejected the reforms.
B) accepted many of the reforms but revolted against French control.
C) refused to accept the reforms and fought bitterly against French control.
D) refused to accept the reforms but passively tolerated French control.

Question 13

Which of the following elements of the French Revolution did Napoleon preserve?

A) Religious intolerance
B) Aristocratic privileges
C) Revolutionary violence
D) Secular legal code

Question 14

Which of the following arguments made the cause of abolition widely acceptable in the nineteenth century?

A) Slavery,as a form of serfdom,perpetuated feudalism.
B) Slavery hindered the international socialist movement.
C) Slavery was no longer necessary for economic progress.
D) Slavery made Africans wealthy at the expense of Europeans.

Question 15

The American Revolution erupted as a response to increasing

A) British control over the economic affairs of the colonies.
B) social tensions between colonial elites and yeoman farmers.
C) population pressure on the land.
D) popular demands for decolonization.

Question 16

In contrast to the American Revolution,the French Revolution

A) drew on Enlightenment ideas about liberty.
B) sought to re-create society from scratch.
C) sought to preserve existing liberties.
D) experienced no participation by women.

Question 17

Which of the following is one reason why the Spanish American revolutions took longer and were more difficult than the (North)American Revolution?

A) Language barriers between colonies and mother countries
B) Greater wealth in Spanish America than in British America
C) Divisions of class,race,and region within Spanish America
D) The greater stability and wealth of the monarchy in Spain

Question 18

The Atlantic revolutions were inspired by the Enlightenment belief that political and social arrangements

A) were driven by economic forces.
B) could be improved by human action.
C) should be regulated by church authority.
D) were justified by the divine right of kings.

Question 19

Which of the following was an effect of the Haitian Revolution throughout the Atlantic world?

A) The movement to abolish slavery collapsed as fear of free slaves grew.
B) Slave owners and whites were filled with a deep caution and fear.
C) Runaway slaves from Jamaica and Louisiana sought refuge in Haiti.
D) The French Revolution's principles were discredited and lost influence.

Question 20

Which of the following is an example of the influence of nationalism outside the Euro-American world in the nineteenth century?

A) The fragmentation of China into colonies
B) The "Egypt for the Egyptians" movement
C) The dissolution of the Indian National Congress
D) The rise of the Ottoman Empire as a Muslim state

Question 21

How did the Atlantic revolutions influence subsequent movements that spread throughout Europe in the nineteenth century?

A) All were committed to republicanism and social equality.
B) All favored extending equal voting rights to women.
C) All sought to reestablish national monarchies.
D) All resulted in the disappearance of overseas empires.

Question 22

What did the leaders of the various independence movements in Latin America do to gain the support of the general population?

A) Preserve regional identities and racial divisions to appease popular demands
B) Challenge the Catholic Church's control over colonial politics and society
C) Abolish the feudal system of landownership and institute a land-to-the-tiller program
D) Appeal to nativist feelings by defining all those born in the Americas as Americanos

Question 23

Which of the following was used by intellectuals in nineteenth-century Europe to argue for women's rights?

A) Civic nationalism
B) Maternal feminism
C) Biological differences
D) Social Darwinism

Question 24

Which of the following reflects an understanding of the nation associated with civic nationalism in the nineteenth century?

A) A multiethnic empire opposed to imperialism and war
B) A socialist collective committed to the ideas of Marxism
C) An international forum where individuals can file their grievances against their governments
D) A diverse group of people who assimilate into the dominant culture of a particular territory

Question 25

Which of the following was a result of the end of slavery in the Atlantic world?

A) The economic prospects of former slaves greatly improved.
B) Patterns of global migration shifted from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
C) New forms of dependent labor like sharecropping emerged.
D) Civil wars erupted in West and North Africa.

Question 26

Which of the following represents a way that governments in the nineteenth century instilled national loyalties in their citizens?

A) Rewarding charity work
B) Spreading local dialects
C) Sponsoring public rituals
D) Encouraging family ties

Question 27

What common set of circumstances contributed to the abolition of slavery in the Atlantic world and the end of serfdom in Russia in the nineteenth century?

A) Demands for suffrage,labor shortages,and pacifist sentiments
B) Fear of rebellion,economic inefficiency,and moral concerns
C) Campaigns for civil rights,Marxist ideas,and nativist feelings
D) Spread of imperialism,economic protectionism,and racist ideas

Question 28

Which of the following represents the influence of nationalism in the nineteenth century?

A) The political unification of Germany and Italy
B) The creation of the United States of Latin America
C) The extension of the vote to women in New Zealand
D) The end of feudalism,slavery,and suffrage

Question 29

In countries outside Western Europe and the United States,arguments for women's rights were often linked with

A) strengthening the nation.
B) temperance movements.
C) Christianity and imperialism.
D) nativism and abolitionism.

Question 30

The Atlantic revolutions challenged the absolute and divine authority of

A) nations.
B) republics.
C) monarchies.
D) empires.