Corrections

Unit 5 Test Corrections

2. The French Revolution undermined traditional monarchy as well as the power of the Catholic Church and the hereditary aristocracy, however, it did not create an enduring form of representative democracy.

5. Women did not gain the rights to vote until the late 19th century, did not get access to higher education and were not allowed into colleges until after the civil war, and women outnumbered men but the amount of women getting married barely changed. However, women did find it hard to balance work and their responsibilities to their family since family responsibilities were all they were “good for” in the past.

7. Technology gave industrial peoples an upper hand over nonindustrial peoples, politics, money, and religion did not because nonindustrial peoples were not as advanced and couldn’t defend themselves as well as an industrialized civilization could.

9. This poem relates to imperialism of non-Western countries because it is a warning to the United States about what it should expect when it tries to become an imperial power.  Kipling felt that the US was embarking on its first real imperial action when it took control of the Philippines after the Spanish-American War. The excerpt from the test means that the work of civilizing the imperialized peoples will be very difficult. 

11. The system described was most similar to the conditions of Russian peasants under Tsarist rule, not, the system of labor in England under Queen Victoria, the relationship of North American colonists with Great Britain before 1776, and the alliance between a lord and his king during the Middle Ages in Europe.

13. The complete lack of an educational system was the significant impediment not the dependence on the labor serfs, restrictions on work times imposed by the Orthodox Church, and the perpetuation of serfdom.

16.  Colonialism is the basis of the concept of mercantilism, which is an imperial idea that suggests that colonies exist for the benefit of the mother country and should be governed accordingly. 

19. The answer is A because Britain was just as impacted as other western countries. Western Europe was devastated as a whole.

20. The answer is A because increasing the slave trade was of no significance since there were machines taking the places of the slaves in labor.

21. The answer is C because steamboats, railroads, telegraphs, telephones, automatic rifles, and antiseptics all made possible waves of European imperialism in Africa and Asia.

22. The answer is C because both empires managed to successfully isolate themselves from the ideals ad philosophies of the West.

24. The answer is A because the French Revolution brought on many changes but creating a representative democracy wasn’t one of them.

25. The answer is A because in Western Europe religious innovations managed to stay the same and be little to not touched or tweaked.

28. The answer is D because Britain failed to colonize isolated Japan, but did however successfully colonize Africa and the Middle East.

30. The answer is B because coerced labor was not ended in Russia and the US until the 1800s.

31. The answer is A because Brazil was a diminished, unsuccessful monarchy rather than a republic like in Mexico, which is how they distinguished themselves from multiple countries.

32. The transformation of economic systems from agricultural to manufactural caused there to be less of a need for slaves due to the fact that machines did the job way faster and did less damage.

33. The answer is A because the worldwide population was not as affected by the declination of epidemic disease.

34. The answer is B because the origin of these ideas can be traced to the criticism of capitalists/free enterprise by Karl Marx. He is known for being a German philosopher and revolutionary socialist.

35. The answer is A because imperialism’s economic motives didn’t include the growing wealth of small business owners in the colonies.

36. The answer is A because the Industrial Revolution sparked a greater need for cheap raw materials.

38. Mechanization sped up the elongated process of manufacturing goods by hand which saved producers times but also got rid of many jobs until people learned how to operate these machines.

40. The answer is A because the French and Latin had the Republic belief in common.

42. Carefully regulating businesses, protecting workers, and not interfering in businesses aren’t what Adam Smith was trying to propose in The Wealth of Nations. What he does propose is the government should do but rather that they should leave businesses alone, except for enacting protective tariffs.

43. Due to the demand for raw materials, India changed drastically to only/mostly exporting raw materials, such as cotton.

44. The Unites States and Latin America both experienced a large increase in immigration from Europe.

46. When India came to be ruled directly by the British government, the Sepoys Revolution turned drastically.

47. The trans-Atlantic slave trade stopped because of the increase in moral opposition to slavery industrialized nations.

48. In North and South America the desire of a majority of revolutionary leaders to create a politically united hemisphere was common.

50. The answer is B because protecting private property is the main job/focus of government.

51. The Spanish-American War was a conflict fought between the US and Spain that resulted in the US obtaining many formerly Spanish ruled countries.

52. The answer is A because democracy is the type of government best suited for the chart since a democracy is the belief that powers should be divided between different branches so that government does not become too strong.

54. The answer is B because having the upper hand in military and transportation allowed Europe to stay in control.

55. The answer is C because religious divisions of Islam had nothing to do with the decline of the Ottoman Empire.