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

Question 1

How did the experience of middle-class and working-class women differ during the second half of the 19^th century? Based on this difference,which class did the women's movement tend to represent and why?

Answer 1

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Question 2

What were the factors promoting the rise of nationalism in Western Europe during the 19^th century? Discuss,and give specific examples.

Answer 2

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Question 3

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Miguel Hidalgo and Augustin de Iturbide

Answer 3

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Question 4

Compare and contrast the early nationalist movements in Europe and in Latin America.How were they similar and how different? Give specific examples.

Question 5

How did the impact of the new mass society affect the lives of women,in terms of work opportunities,family life,and the rise of feminism?

Question 6

Compare and contrast the most important political,social,and economic developments in the United States between 1860 and 1914.Were they comparable to those taking place in the major European nations during those decades? Why and/or why not?

Question 7

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creoles

Question 8

Which of the famous nineteenth and early twentieth century seminal intellectuals¾Darwin,Marx,Freud,and Einstein¾remains most relevant in the early twenty-first century,and which of the four seems to have the least relevance,and why?

Question 9

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Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin

Question 10

Was mass education or mass leisure of greater importance to European societies between the 1880s and 1914? Show how each affected its beneficiaries,and the general population.

Question 11

Was the United States Civil War both the force that ended slavery and,by aiding nationalism,the factor that led to the rise of its imperialism a generation later? Why and how,or why not and how not?

Question 12

Romanticism in the arts was primarily a phenomenon of the first half of the nineteenth century while Realism was mainly a manifestation of the latter nineteenth century.Were there any relationships of those two movements to the political,social,and economic developments of the century? If so,which?

Question 13

The late nineteenth and early twentieth century in the West has been labeled an 'era of both progress and anxiety.' Discuss the meaning of this statement with specific examples.

Question 14

How did Modernism in literature and the visual arts reflect changes in the goals and underlying assumptions about the nature and role of artistic endeavor between the 1860s and 1914? Were there links between these changes and those in scientific thought and general social conditions? If so,what? If not,why not?

Question 15

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Monroe Doctrine

Question 16

Did change or tradition have more influence on economics and politics in Latin America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? How and why?

Question 17

What are the possible explanations why representative government and democracy was so slow to develop in most Latin American countries? Were the reasons historical,cultural,environmental,economic,or of another nature?

Question 18

Is it accurate to say that the advent of mass society had little or no impact on the lives of the working class,even though it had a major influence on the numbers and position of the middle class? Why or why not?

Question 19

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Toussaint L'Ouverture

Question 20

What were the impacts of the ideas of Darwin,Marx,Freud,and Einstein upon popular culture and the mass society of the early twentieth century? Give specific examples.

Question 21

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Bertha von Suttner

Question 22

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Emilio Zapata and his Plan of Ayala

Question 23

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"mass education"

Question 24

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V.A.Huber and Octavia Hill

Question 25

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Francisco Madero

Question 26

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John Macdonald and Wilfred Laurier

Question 27

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Romanticism

Question 28

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Florence Nightingale and Clara Barton

Question 29

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English Football Association and the American Bowling Congress

Question 30

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American Civil War

Question 31

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1789 Constitution

Question 32

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the Progressive Era

Question 33

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Spanish American War

Question 34

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"mass society"

Question 35

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the Pankhursts and the WSPU

Question 36

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Porfirio Diaz

Question 37

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suffragists

Question 38

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Dominion of Canada,1867

Question 39

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Jacksonian democracy

Question 40

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caudillos

Question 41

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Realism

Question 42

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Charles Darwin's Origin of Species/Descent of Man

Question 43

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Albert Einstein

Question 44

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Gothic literature

Question 45

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William Wordsworth

Question 46

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Marie and Pierre Curie

Question 47

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Casper David Friedrich and Eugene Delacroix

Question 48

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Gustave Courbet

Question 49

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Louis Pasteur,Dimitri Mendeleev,and Michael Faraday

Question 50

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"social Darwinism"

Question 51

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Sigmund Freud

Question 52

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Max Planck

Question 53

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Charles Dickens

Question 54

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Theodor Herzl and Zionism

Question 55

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Houston Stewart Chamberlain and Aryans

Question 56

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Modernism

Question 57

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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher"

Question 58

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Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovery

Question 59

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan"

Question 60

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Sir Walter Scott

Question 61

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Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright

Question 62

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Wassily Kandinsky and abstract expressionism

Question 63

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 64

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 65

In nineteenth century Latin America,the basis of wealth,social prestige,and political power was

A)birth.
B)European ancestry.
C)trade and manufacturing.
D)land.
E)military power.

Question 66

Which of the following was true of developments in the United States through the Civil War?

A)Mass white male electoral participation was instituted during the era of Andrew Jackson.
B)Liberal social policies gave every inhabitant 1000 acres of free land.
C)Westward expansion kept slavery a relatively minor issue until 1870.
D)United States cotton production peaked in 1820 and dropped steadily after that.
E)While lengthy,the Civil War did not involve many major battles or high casualty lists.

Question 67

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 68

All of the following were true about Latin America during the late nineteenth century except

A)foreign investment increased significantly.
B)it was a time of greater prosperity in the region.
C)the upper classes throughout the region retained a tight control over political power.
D)all Latin Americans participated in the prosperity of the era.
E)the United States was becoming the chief foreign investor in the region.

Question 69

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Romantic and Gothic literature

Question 70

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 71

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Berthe Morisot and Impressionism

Question 72

In nineteenth century Latin America

A)Creoles frequently opposed both the mestizos and the Indians.
B)the first Mexican Revolution had significant mass support,which caused creoles and peninsulars to unite to crush the peasants.
C)Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla seized power in Argentina and used his power to exterminate the native population.
D)both a and b
E)both b and c

Question 73

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Pablo Picasso and Cubism

Question 74

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 75

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Vincent van Gogh and Post-Impressionism

Question 76

Among major changes in Latin America between 1870 and 1910 were

A)a sharp drop in the export of raw materials.
B)a steady increase in industrial production and exports due to massive European and East Asian investment in Latin American industrial facilities.
C)the loss of elite control over government policies.
D)the modernization of elites and growth of the middle class.
E)the rise of labor unions in Argentina and Brazil to the point where each was able to elect a trade union leader as president in 1903 and 1905,respectively.

Question 77

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Middle-class vs.working class women

Question 78

In late-19^th century Latin American countries

A)large landowners increasingly left the political scene.
B)constitutions similar to those in the U.S.and Western Europe were written.
C)voting-rights restrictions were gradually lifted.
D)dictatorships became obsolete.
E)armies ceased to intervene in national politics.

Question 79

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Nationalism

Question 80

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 Francesco Madero.
C)Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa.
D)Francesco Madero and Bernardo O'Higgins.
E)Benito Juarez and Venustiano Carranza.