Chapter 28: Revolutions and National States
The guiding principles of the French revolution are summed up in the phrase:
"liberty, equality, fraternity."
The Industrial Revolution began in
Great Britian
The main spark for the outbreak of the Mexican-American War in 1845 was the United States' acceptance of the new state...
Texas
Russians
Which was NOT a main goal of imperialism?
Exploration
What was NOT one of the principles built into the government of the newly formed American state?
the equality of all inhabitants
The dominant form of industrial organization by the end of the nineteenth century was
The factory system
Which of the future states was NOT passed from Mexico to the United States as a part of the 1848 Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo?
(A) Louisiana (B) California (C) Texas
(D) New Mexico
Lousiana
The capitulations were unfair agreements between the western Europeans and the _______ that gave the Europeans extraterritoriality and exempted them from local law.
Ottomans
Which was NOT a factor promoting imperialism?
Educational technologies
In August 1789, the National Assembly expressed the guiding principles of the French revolution by issuing...
the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
Henry Bessemer's innovations made it possible to produce cheaper
steel
Qubec, Ontario, Nova Socia, and New Brunswick were joined together as the Dominion of Canada (by the)
by the British North America Act of 1867
What is NOT true about the capitulations?
They were imposed on the Ottomans by the Europeans
The Boers were
Dutch settlers in the souther tip of Africa
The Declaration of Independence's contractual view of political structure, in which the government drew its authority from "the consent of the governed," was influenced most heavily by...
John Locke
Beginning in the nineteenth century, industrializing lands experienced a social change known as the demographic transition when
the fertility rate began a marked decline
In Canada, The War of 1812
simulated a new sense of Canadian unity against an external threat
As part of the Russian reforms, during the reign of Alexander II the goverment created zemstovs,
which where elected district assemblies
The key figures behind the uprising in 1857 in India were
disgrunted sepoy troops
The revolutions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century helped to spread Enlightenment ideals and...
encouraged consolidation of national states
The use of machine tools to produce large quantities of interchangeable parts was developed by
Eli Whitney
The victory of the northern states in the U.S. Civil War meant that
the federal government would have greater authority in the American republic
The prime minister behind the Russian industrialization was
Sergei Witte
"Concessionary companies" refers to a system of colonial rule that employed
private companies granted terrirory and contol over taxation and labor for mining, construction, or agricultural projects