Question 1

For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. 
Ottoman Empire

Accepted Answer

The Ottoman Empire was a state that cont

Question 2

How would you explain Britain's relative political stability in the second half of the nineteenth century?

Accepted Answer

Britain's relative political stability i

Question 3

How did the Austrians deal with the problem of Hungarian nationalism in the aftermath of defeat in the Austro-Prussian War?

Accepted Answer

After the defeat in the Austro-Prussian

Question 4

Compare and contrast the roles of Cavour, Mazzini, and Garibaldi in the unification of Italy. Whose role was most important and why?

Accepted Answer

The roles of Cavour, Mazzini, and Gariba

Question 5

The American Civil War (1861-1865)

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A) was ended by the Missouri Compromise. 
B) was highly destructive due to the equal balance of forces between North and South. 
C) was a clear precursor of "total war" in the twentieth century. 
D) did not completely eradicate slavery in all of the states due to local referendums on the question. 
E) led to the adoption of the Bill of Rights. 
A) was ended by the Missouri Compromise. 
B) was highly destructive due to the equal balance of forces between North and South. 
C) was a clear precursor of "total war" in the twentieth century. 
D) did not completely eradicate slavery in all of the states due to local referendums on the question. 
E) led to the adoption of the Bill of Rights.

Question 6

The Danish War was fought over

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A) control of the Baltic Sea. 
B) Alsace-Lorraine. 
C) the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. 
D) Saxony and Mecklenburg. 
E) Bavaria. 
A) control of the Baltic Sea. 
B) Alsace-Lorraine. 
C) the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. 
D) Saxony and Mecklenburg. 
E) Bavaria.

Question 7

Otto von Bismarck belonged to which class?

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A) the working class 
B) the industrial middle class 
C) the Junker class 
D) the gentry 
E) the lower middle class 
A) the working class 
B) the industrial middle class 
C) the Junker class 
D) the gentry 
E) the lower middle class

Question 8

For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. 
Count Camillo di Cavour

Accepted Answer

Count Camillo di Cavour was a leading fi

Question 9

For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. 
"First International"

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The "First International," formally know

Question 10

For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. 
Count Otto von Bismarck

Accepted Answer

Count Otto von Bismarck, also known as O

Question 11

Vera Zasulich's successful use of violence against the tsarist regime in Russia led

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A) Karl Marx to write positively about the role of women in revolution. 
B) to her public denunciation by the reform group Land and Freedom. 
C) to her execution as a traitor. 
D) to the assassination of Tsar Alexander II by radicals known as the People's Will. 
E) to her exile to Great Britain. 
A) Karl Marx to write positively about the role of women in revolution. 
B) to her public denunciation by the reform group Land and Freedom. 
C) to her execution as a traitor. 
D) to the assassination of Tsar Alexander II by radicals known as the People's Will. 
E) to her exile to Great Britain.

Question 12

In your opinion, what force or forces played the most important role in reviving the progress of European social and political reform in the later nineteenth century?

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In my opinion, the most important force

Question 13

According to Darwin, all organisms

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A) are descended from three distinct foundation organisms. 
B) evolve from complexity toward simplicity. 
C) evolved over a long period of time from earlier and simpler forms of life. 
D) existed shortly after the earth came into existence. 
E) except human beings follow general rules of biological development. 
A) are descended from three distinct foundation organisms. 
B) evolve from complexity toward simplicity. 
C) evolved over a long period of time from earlier and simpler forms of life. 
D) existed shortly after the earth came into existence. 
E) except human beings follow general rules of biological development.

Question 14

Which statement best describes the First International?

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A) It failed due to Marx's preoccupation with Das Kapital . 
B) It became the largest working-class trade union in Europe in the nineteenth century. 
C) It was rejected by Marxism as a "bourgeois-dominated institution." 
D) It served as a type of umbrella organization for all European labor interests. 
E) It led the various revolutionary movements in the uprisings of 1848. 
A) It failed due to Marx's preoccupation with Das Kapital . 
B) It became the largest working-class trade union in Europe in the nineteenth century. 
C) It was rejected by Marxism as a "bourgeois-dominated institution." 
D) It served as a type of umbrella organization for all European labor interests. 
E) It led the various revolutionary movements in the uprisings of 1848.

Question 15

For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. 
Gustave Courbet's The Stonebreakers

Accepted Answer

Gustave Courbet's "The Stonebreakers" wa

Question 16

In which city was William I proclaimed Kaiser, or emperor, of the Second Reich in 1871?

Accepted Answer

A) Berlin 
B) Frankfort 
C) Paris 
D) Versailles 
E) Rome 
A) Berlin 
B) Frankfort 
C) Paris 
D) Versailles 
E) Rome

Question 17

Who was the leading realist novelist of the nineteenth century?

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A) Rudyard Kipling 
B) Gustave Flaubert 
C) Thomas Gainsborough 
D) Gustave Courbet 
E) Anthony Powell 
A) Rudyard Kipling 
B) Gustave Flaubert 
C) Thomas Gainsborough 
D) Gustave Courbet 
E) Anthony Powell

Question 18

The final act of Italian unification occurred in 1870 when

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A) Garibaldi's Red Shirts defeated the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. 
B) Savoy was defeated with the aid of Prussian troops. 
C) Rome became the capital city following the withdrawal of French troops. 
D) Piedmont took control of Lombardy as a result of French abandonment of Venice. 
E) the pope renounced any territorial claims in all of Italy. 
A) Garibaldi's Red Shirts defeated the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. 
B) Savoy was defeated with the aid of Prussian troops. 
C) Rome became the capital city following the withdrawal of French troops. 
D) Piedmont took control of Lombardy as a result of French abandonment of Venice. 
E) the pope renounced any territorial claims in all of Italy.

Question 19

For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. 
Realpolitik

Accepted Answer

Realpolitik is a political approach that

Question 20

Charles Darwin was influenced by Thomas Malthus's theory of population that claimed that more individuals are born than can possibly survive and that thus there must be a struggle for existence.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 22: An Age of Nationalism and Realism, 1850-1871

For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. Ottoman Empire

How would you explain Britain's relative political stability in the second half of the nineteenth century?

How did the Austrians deal with the problem of Hungarian nationalism in the aftermath of defeat in the Austro-Prussian War?

Compare and contrast the roles of Cavour, Mazzini, and Garibaldi in the unification of Italy. Whose role was most important and why?

The American Civil War (1861-1865)

The Danish War was fought over

Otto von Bismarck belonged to which class?

For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. Count Camillo di Cavour

For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. "First International"

For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. Count Otto von Bismarck

Vera Zasulich's successful use of violence against the tsarist regime in Russia led

In your opinion, what force or forces played the most important role in reviving the progress of European social and political reform in the later nineteenth century?

According to Darwin, all organisms

Which statement best describes the First International?

For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. Gustave Courbet's The Stonebreakers

In which city was William I proclaimed Kaiser, or emperor, of the Second Reich in 1871?

Who was the leading realist novelist of the nineteenth century?

The final act of Italian unification occurred in 1870 when

For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. Realpolitik

Charles Darwin was influenced by Thomas Malthus's theory of population that claimed that more individuals are born than can possibly survive and that thus there must be a struggle for existence.

The Ancient Near East: The First Civilizations

The Ancient Near East: Peoples and Empires

The Civilization of the Greeks

The Hellenistic World

The Roman Republic

The Roman Empire

Late Antiquity and the Emergence of the Medieval World

European Civilization in the Early Middle Ages, 750-1000

The Recovery and Growth of European Society in the High Middle Ages

The Rise of Kingdoms and the Growth of Church Power

The Later Middle Ages: Crisis and Disintegration in the Fourteenth Century

Recovery and Rebirth: the Age of the Renaissance

Reformation and Religious Warfare in the Sixteenth Century

Europe and the World: New Encounters, 1500-1800

State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century

Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: the Scientific Revolution and the Emergence of Modern Science

The Eighteenth Century: an Age of Enlightenment

The Eighteenth Century: European States, International Wars, and Social Change

A Revolution in Politics: the Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon

The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society

Reaction, Revolution, and Romanticism, 1815-1850

Mass Society in an Age of Progress, 1871-1894

An Age of Modernity, Anxiety, and Imperialism, 1894-1914

The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution

The Futile Search for Stability: Europe Between the Wars, 1919-1939

The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War II

Cold War and a New Western World, 1945-1965

Protest and Stagnation: The Western World, 1965-1985

After the Fall: The Western World in a Global Age Since 1985

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