Deck 20: The Americas and Society and Culture in the West

Question 1

The United States seized control of the Hawa2an Islands from Spain in 1898.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

All of the following were direct results of the Spanish-American War EXCEPT:

A)Cuba became an American protectorate.
B)The United States annexed Puerto Rico.
C)American investment in Latin America increased..
D)Haiti gained independence.
E)American military action in Latin America escalated sharply.

Answer 2

Haiti gained independence.

Question 3

Fought between 1858 and 1861, Mexico's War of Reform was a conflict between

A)the creoles and the peninsulares..
B)indigenous peoples and the descendants of European colonials..
C)agriculturalists and industrialists.
D)a liberal government and an entrenched Catholic clergy..
E)university students and the business community

Answer 3

a liberal government and an entrenched Catholic clergy..

Question 4

The person who proposed quantum theory was Max Planck.

Question 5

Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man argued for adaptation to the environment through a process of natural selection.​

Question 6

An example of Post-Impressionism in art was Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night.

Question 7

The commitment by Western nations to mass education was fueled by the need for skilled workers.​

Question 8

After the nations of Latin America gained their independence in the nineteenth century, their economies became dominated by the

A)Dutch.
B)Americans.
C)British.
D)Spanish.
E)French.

Question 9

In the United States in the early 1900s,

A)wealth was widely dispersed, with the richest nine percent of the population in 1900 owning only fifteen percent of the wealth.
B)the nation was still primarily agrarian, with over three-fourths of the labor force owning farms.
C)the government had still refused to send troops outside the nation's territory, and would do so until it entered World War I in 1917.
D)socialists were strong enough to push laws dealing with meat inspection and a national health insurance system through Congress under Presidents Wilson and Debs.
E)over forty percent of the population lived in cities.

Question 10

The first Mexican emperor was

A)Benito Juarez.
B)Simón Bolívar.
C)Father Miguel Hidalgo.
D)José de San Martín.
E)Augustín de Iturbide.

Question 11

The Women's Social and Political Union was a radical suffragette organization in England in the earth twentieth century.

Question 12

The liberators of Venezuela and Argentina, respectively, were

A)Simón Bolívar and José de San Martín.
B)Augustín de Iturbide and Toussaint Prado.
C)José de San Martín and Alfonso Stroessner.
D)Santa Ana and Toussaint L'Ouverture.
E)Benito Juarez and Vicente Rojas.

Question 13

The War of Reform in Mexico saw the Church protecting the indigenous population against the military and ​Liberal government.

Question 14

The Mexican ruler from 1876 to 1910 and the man who overthrew him were, respectively,

A)Jaime Cruz and Ernesto Guarracino.
B)Porfirio Díaz and Francisco Madero.
C)Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa.
D)Francisco Madero and Bernardo O'Higgins.
E)Benito Juarez and Venustiano Carranza.

Question 15

Simón Bolívar freed southern South America from Spanish rule and became dictator of Chile.

Question 16

Emiliano Zapata

A)advocated exterminating the Indians in the northern part of the country while serving as Mexico's "elected caudillo."
B)was the second husband of Florence Nightingale.
C)urged his peasant followers to seize the estates of the Mexican elite.
D)was a close associate of United States President Woodrow Wilson.
E)admired Porfirio Diaz

Question 17

The basis of Latin American wealth, social prestige, and power throughout the nineteenth century was:

A)gold.
B)sugar cane.
C)cattle
D)land
E)heritage

Question 18

The first real hero of Mexican independence was Miguel Hidalgo.

Question 19

By 1900, the world's richest nation and greatest industrial power was

A)Great Britain.
B)Germany.
C)Russia.
D)the United States.
E)France.

Question 20

In recognition of her non-violent and pacifist techniques, the suffragette Emmeline Pankhurt was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905.

Question 21

The first European nation to grant women the right to vote was

A)Spain.
B)Britain.
C)France.
D)Norway.
E)Estonia.

Question 22

The discoverer of the germ theory of disease was

A)Michael Faraday.
B)Dmitri Mendeleev.
C)Marie Curie.
D)Louis Pasteur.
E)Jackson Kavorkian.

Question 23

Which of the following was not an aspect of nineteenth-century development in Canada?

A)Rebellions against British policy occurred in 1837 in both Upper and Lower Canada.
B)After the 1837 rebellions, the British began to seek ways to satisfy Canadian demands.
C)John Macdonald led a bloody rebellion against the British in 1860.
D)The Dominion of Canada was established in 1867.
E)John MacDonald was the first prime minister of the Dominion of Canada.

Question 24

Which of the following statements is not true?

A)Mendeleev classified all of the then-known elements on the basis of their atomic weights.
B)Technological development before 1700 depended heavily on scientific research.
C)Nineteenth-century scientific discoveries resulted from earlier technological advances.
D)Nineteenth-century scientific advancement helped to foster secularization.
E)The theory of organic evolution, based on natural selection, demonstrated materialism.

Question 25

Realism in the arts

A)preferred the exotic to the ordinary.
B)preferred poetry rather than prose.
C)never involved itself in social issues.
D)was the sole domain of the French.
E)was typified by the work of Courbet and Flaubert.

Question 26

Charles Darwin presented a theory of evolution that

A)claimed humans were aggregations of atomic attraction and radiomagnetic induction.
B)stated that all living things are involved in a struggle to survive.
C)excluded human beings from the process of natural selection.
D)strengthened the concept of the universe possessing purpose and design.
E)made human beings unique entities in the natural world.

Question 27

Professional mass sporting events provided people with

A)"bread and circuses," as both Marx and Bismarck, ironically, noted.
B)a direct, participatory role in the events they attended.
C)highly organized activities with extensive rules and officials to enforce them.
D)professional rugby matches staged by the American League.
E)an extension of their normal Sunday religious activities.

Question 28

The cities whose population grew from 172,000 to 2,700,000 and from 960,000 to 6,500,000 during the 1800s, respectively, were

A)New York and Tokyo.
B)Paris and London.
C)Berlin and Milan.
D)Berlin and London.
E)Batavia and Shanghai.

Question 29

Wilfred Laurier

A)was unsuccessful in developing Canadian industrialization.
B)smoothed relations between Canada's English- and French-speaking populations.
C)developed policies that discouraged European immigration into Canada.
D)was unable to bring a solution to the problem of French language education in Canada.
E)advocated independence for the Cree and Inuit peoples.

Question 30

The radical suffragette in England who demanded votes for women was

A)Bertha von Suttner.
B)Emmeline Pankhurst.
C)Elizabeth Pool Sanford.
D)Nora Helmer.
E)Victoria Rex.

Question 31

An early leader in the drive to professionalize nursing for women was

A)Francoise Jourdain in Belgium.
B)Amalie Jones in Great Britain.
C)Clara Barton in the United States.
D)Nora Ibsen in Norway.
E)Sylvia Pankhurst in Germany.

Question 32

Which of the following is not an example of Romanticism?

A)Gustave Courbet's The Stonebreaker
B)Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
C)Edgar Allen Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher"
D)Caspar David Friedrich's Man and Woman Gazing at the Moon
E)Eugene Delacroix's Women of Algiers

Question 33

The first important American colony was the

A)Samoan Islands.
B)Hawaiian Islands.
C)Philippine Islands.
D)island of Guam.
E)island of Puerto Rico.

Question 34

The creator of "relativity theory" was

A)Max Plank.
B)Albert Einstein.
C)Louis Sullivan.
D)Enrico Fermi.
E)Ludwig Holstein.

Question 35

Of the following nations, which was the first to grant women the right to control their own property?

A)Italy.
B)Germany.
C)Britain.
D)France.
E)Belgium.

Question 36

A central characteristic of all Romantic painting was a

A)desire to have art avoid the artist's inner emotions.
B)desire to create art that showed the artist's inner feelings.
C)desire to reflect classical timelessness.
D)hatred of emotional influence.
E)an objective portrayal of the "real" world.

Question 37

Which of the following was not an incentive to promote mass education?

A)The German policy of restricting literacy to the upper and middle classes.
B)The reinforcement of moral values and social discipline.
C)The development of a trained workforce.
D)The reinforcement of nationalism and its associated loyalties.
E)The gradual spread of political democracy.

Question 38

The first male-dominated occupation to be entered by women was

A)architecture.
B)teaching.
C)jurisprudence.
D)manufacturing.
E)nursing.

Question 39

Compulsory elementary education included all of the following except it

A)was supported by employers' growing needs for skilled workers.
B)was predominantly administered by female teachers after the 1880s.
C)dramatically increased adult literacy in western Europe.
D)produced a new mass culture that, in turn, created new forms of mass leisure.
E)sparked revolution in Germany against Otto von Bismarck.

Question 40

In the effort to develop adequate housing for Europe's workers,

A)western European governments built public housing complexes beginning in the 1820s.
B)by the 1880s, there was an expansion of the role of government in providing housing.
C)city governments ignored this pressing social need in the years before World War I, except in Tallinn and Johannesburg.
D)the power of the liberal concept of minimized government produced no public action in this area.
E)Britain, notably, did nothing to aid its workers until after the Liverpool riot and fire of 1903.

Question 41

The physicist who maintained that a heated body radiates energy in irregular packets that he called "quanta" was

A)Enrico Fermi
B)Albert Einstein.
C)Max Planck.
D)Charles Darwin.
E)Pierre Curie.

Question 42

Which of the following was not true about European Jews in the late-nineteenth century?

A)Jews were widely represented among law and medical students in some countries.
B)Anti-Semitism was widespread throughout the societies in which they lived.
C)Anti-Semitism prevented them from achieving any professional success.
D)Zionism developed out of their desire to create their own nation-state.
E)Their migration to Palestine was opposed by the Turks, who controlled the region.

Question 43

The late nineteenth century advocate of a separate Jewish state was

A)Albert Einstein.
B)Theodor Herzl.
C)Adolph Hitler.
D)Houston Stewart Chamberlain.
E)Max Planck.

Question 44

The first Cubist painting was painted by

A)Pablo Picasso.
B)Claude Monet.
C)Vincent Van Gogh.
D)Vasily Kandinsky.
E)Felix Dzerzhinsky.

Question 45

The American Federalist economic program was most influenced by ​

A)​Thomas Jefferson
B)​Andrew Jackson
C)​Alexander Hamilton
D)​John Marshall
E)​James Madison

Question 46

Which of the following pairings is correct?

A)Berthe Marisot - Cubist
B)Émile Zola - Abstractionist
C)Wasily Kandinsky - Abstract
D)Gustav Flaubert - Romanticism
E)Charles Dickens - Surrealism

Question 47

What was the reason for issuing the Monroe Doctrine?​

A)​To stop competing cotton interests in Latin America.
B)​To use the principal of Manifest Destiny to expand into South America.
C)​To prevent further European expansion in the Western Hemisphere.
D)​To allow the US to use newly independent Latin American countries for raw materials in industrialization.
E)​To allow American bounty hunters to have jurisdiction in Latin America over runaway slaves.

Question 48

The US Constitution committed the country in the nineteenth century to the two principal influences of ​

A)​nationalism and democracy.
B)​imperialism and capitalism.
C)​capitalism and nationalism.
D)​nationalism and liberalism.
E)​industrialism and liberalism.

Question 49

Which of the following was a motivation for the breakdown into Civil War in the United States?​

A)​Perpetuation of slavery in the South.
B)​Rejection of the election of Abraham Lincoln.
C)​Passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
D)​Repeal by the southern states of the US Constitution.
E)​All of these.

Question 50

One of the issues of economic imbalance in Latin America was ​

A)​the monopoly of land by the wealthy elite.
B)​government protection of the landed elite in seizing common lands.
C)​increase of debt peonage
D)​landowners grew crops for export while the masses lacked land to grow food staples.
E)​all of these.

Question 51

Which of the following was an Impressionist artist?

A)Berthe Morisot
B)Vincent van Gogh
C)Gustav Dore
D)Pablo Picasso
E)Caspar David Friedrich

Question 52

The most significant change in modern family life was the ​

A)​entrance of more middle class women into professional occupations.
B)​decline in the number of offspring born to the average woman.
C)​creation of free time activities to reinforce family values.
D)​translocation into unhealthy urban centers.
E)​higher age of marriage in both men and women after 1871.

Question 53

Bernardo O'Higgins became the first supreme dictator of Chile after ​

A)​overthrowing the Portuguese with the aid of Giuseppi Garabaldi
B)​routing the Spanish at the Battle of Chihuahua with support of Tupac Amaru.
C)​San Martin leading forces through Peru and surprising the Spanish at the Battle of Chacabuco
D)​Irish nationalist forces were forced into exile by the British, and sought to displace Britain economically in Latin America
E)​none of these.

Question 54

The architect who pioneered the modern American home was:

A)Louis H.Sullivan.
B)David Adler.
C)George D.Mason.
D)Charles N.Agree
E)Frank Lloyd Wright

Question 55

Freud

A)based his ideas on a firm belief in the immutable rationality of human personality.
B)challenged the nineteenth-century belief in progress with his stress on irrational and unconscious forces operating within a man life.
C)advanced the ideas of the id, the wunderkind, and the quanta to explain human behavior.
D)was the leading European proponent of Social Darwinism.
E)coauthored Die Volk with Houston Stewart Chamberlain.

Question 56

The example that most signified American ​expression of traditional liberal beliefs was the

A)​construction of new public universities.
B)​establishment of reservations for relocated Native American tribes.
C)​lowering the property qualifications for suffrage.
D)​building detention schools and penal institutions.
E)​permitting women to retain their own property.

Question 57

​Between 1898 and 1934, US military forces were sent to all the following regions EXCEPT​

A)​Mexico
B)​Argentina
C)​Cuba
D)​Guatemala
E)​Panama

Question 58

The artist who painted Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was

A)Picasso.
B)Kandinsky.
C)Pissaro.
D)Manet.
E)Monet.

Question 59

The first post-colonial state in Latin America was ​

A)​Haiti
B)​Mexico
C)​Argentina
D)​Brazil
E)​Dominican Republic

Question 60

Social Darwinism was given

A)a psychological dimension by Sigmund Freud.
B)a racial interpretation by Houston Stewart Chamberlain.
C)a scientific interpretation by Max Planck.
D)an economic interpretation by Adam Smith.
E)an artistic interpretation by Vincent von Gogh.

Question 61

Identify the following terms.
Monroe Doctrine

Question 62

The first serious questioning of the mechanical conception of the universe is found in the works of ​

A)​Albert Einstein
B)​Nels Bohr
C)​Marie Curie
D)​Nicola Tesla
E)​Thomas Edison

Question 63

Identify the following terms.
Francisco Madero

Question 64

Identify the following terms.
caudillos

Question 65

Identify the following terms.
1789 U.S. Constitution

Question 66

The Realist who portrayed the middle and lower classes in Britain's ​early industrial age was

A)​Charles Dickens
B)​George Orwell
C)​George Sands
D)​Charles Darwin
E)​Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Question 67

Identify the following terms.
John Macdonald and Wilfred Laurier

Question 68

Identify the following terms.
Porfirio Díaz

Question 69

Identify the following terms.
American Civil War

Question 70

Identify the following terms.
Florence Nightingale and Clara Barton

Question 71

Identify the following terms.
the Progressive Era

Question 72

Identify the following terms.
Jacksonian (mass) democracy

Question 73

Identify the following terms.
V.A.Huber and Octavia Hill

Question 74

Identify the following terms.
Dominion of Canada, 1867

Question 75

Identify the following terms.
Miguel Hidalgo

Question 76

The artistic group at the turn of the century that argued than an objective knowledge of the world was impossible was the​

A)​symbolists
B)​expressionists
C)​fauvists
D)​impressionists
E)​cubists

Question 77

Identify the following terms.
Emilio Zapata

Question 78

Identify the following terms.
Spanish-American War

Question 79

Identify the following terms.
Toussaint L'Ouverture

Question 80

Identify the following terms.
"mass society"