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APW Take Home Quiz: Chapters 23 24 25DUE DATE MONDAY 3/31/14QUIZ ON

MONDAY 3/3/14PLEASE INCLUED PAGE NUMBERS FOR ANSWERS

Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

____ 1. What caused The "crisis of legitimacy" that undermined colonial authority in Latin America?

____ 2. What was the Junta Central? And what did they do?

____ 3. Who initially led the overthrow of the Venezuelan, Mexican, and Bolivian colonial governments?

____ 4. Who objected to the Junta Central in Spanish America?

____ 5. Who created Gran Colombia, and what did it unify?

____ 6. Why were Loyalists disappointed after awaiting the return of the Spanish king, Ferdinand IV, to the throne?

____ 7. What led to the independence of Argentina?

____ 8. Who were Jose de San Martin's most effective troops?

____ 9. In 1810, what was Spain's richest and most populous American colony?

____ 10. Why was the colonial administrator in Mexico overthrown?

____ 11. What was the profession of the Mexican revolutionaries Jos Mara Morelos and Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla?

____ 12. Identify at least four significant preconditions for revolution in Mexico.

____ 13. Describe the rise and fall of Morales, Hidalgo, and Iturbide.

____ 14. What did Emperor Pedro I of Brazil publish an article about?

____ 15. When did the Independence in Brazil first occur?

____ 16. What were the two areas in Latin America that retained monarchy, initially?

____ 17. What was a significant difference in colonial political experiences between the British colonies and Latin
American colonies?

____ 18. What was the main problem facing Latin American independence movement?

____ 19. Identify at least four similarities shared by Venezuelan leader Jos Antonio Pez and American Andrew
Jackson.
____20. What created the Dominion of Canada with a central government in Ottawa?



____ 21. Why was the United States election of 1824 controversial?

____ 22. What threatened the unity of the United States?

____ 23. What did US western expansion rely upon?

____ 24. Identify at least four areas lost by Mexico in the nineteenth century?

____ 25. What did the Mexican government do to settle Texas in northeastern Mexico?

____ 26. In the 1820's, Argentina and Brazil fought each other for control of what?

____ 27. Who drove a French army out of Mexico?

____ 28. What happened to Amerindians after the American Revolution?

____ 29. Who was the Shawnee leader who created a large organized alliance of Amerindians of the Ohio River Valley
and Great Britain?

____ 30. What was the Trail of Tears?

____ 31. How did the Plains Indians successfully resist U.S. expansion?

____ 32. Which event systematically demonstrated the resistance by Native Americans to U.S. government relocation
policy?


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____ 33. What was a major advantage that Amerindians in Argentina and Chile had in checking settlers' southern
expansion?

____ 34. Why were the Mapuche tribes ultimately defeated in their attempt to resist the Chilean military campaigns?

____ 35. What was the Caste War?

____ 36. What were people called who wanted slavery to be outlawed?

____ 37. What was the main argument to end slavery?

____ 38. Which political faction were the most vocal protestors of slavery?

____ 39. Despite emancipation of slaves in the United States, what were some of the harsh conditions that African
Americans lived under?

____ 40. What did the Paraguayan War helped to do? How?

____ 41. Why were Caribbean settlers not enthusiastic about independence from European imperial governments?

____ 42. What did the British do after the profitability of sugar plantations declined?

____ 43. Which Caribbean island did Slavery last the longest?

____ 44. What caused France's support for slavery to decrease?

____ 45. Where did most of the immigrants from Asia after 1850 go?

____ 46. What was one of the more popular destinations for European immigration?

____ 47. By 1880, how did Canada reduce Asian immigration?

____ 48. What were some of the Canadian efforts to assimilate immigrants?

____ 49. The modification of the language, customs, values, and behaviors of a group as a result of contact with people
from another culture is called ____________________.

____ 50. Where was the Women's Rights Convention held?

____ 51. How did working-class women transform gender relations?

____ 52. What was one of the largest demands in "women's rights" in America?

____ 53. Because Canada did not allow women to enter medical school before 1895, where did that country's first
women doctors receive their degrees?

____ 54. What was the only Western hemisphere nation to industrialize?

____ 55. The Industrial Revolution created new demand for metals such as copper, zinc, and tin that led to what?

____ 56. Which form of technology was perhaps the most critical feature to economic integration?

____ 57. Identify at least four technological improvements that changed the Argentinean cattle industry at the end of
the nineteenth century?

____ 58. What exemplified the economic success of the United States in the nineteenth century?

____ 59. What was much of Cuba's dense forest cut for?

____ 60. Who was the naturalist who worked for environmental preservation?

____ 61. When confronted with the choice of economic growth or environmental protection, what did most nations do?

____ 62. Who were the Mamluks?

____ 63. Who became the leader of Egypt after the failure of the French, Mamluk, and Ottoman governments?

____ 64. Identify at least four of Muhammad Ali accomplishments of modernization.

____ 65. Identify at least four of the earliest reforms of the Ottoman Empire.

____ 66. Who were the most persistent opponents of early Ottoman reforms?



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____ 67. What allowed Serbia to become independent of the Ottoman Empire in 1805?

____ 68. Why did the ulama oppose Selim III's reforms?

____ 69. What did the war for Greek independence resulted in?

____ 70. After the war for Greek independence, what did Mahmud II do?

____ 71. What did the Tanzimat proclamations do?

____ 72. Which area did the shari'a retain legal control over?

____ 73. What was the preferred language of the reformed educational system in the Ottoman Empire?

____ 74. What caused the Janissary corps to be officially disbanded?

____ 75. Identify at least four examples of westernization.

____ 76. What did the Ottoman reforms do?

____ 77. What did Women's property rights in the Ottoman Empire do?

____ 78. What was the root cause of the Crimean War?

____ 79. Who assisted Russia in the Crimean War against the Ottoman Empire?

____ 80. What was the significance of the Crimean War was?

____ 81. Why did the fez become a part of Turkish military dress?

____ 82. Although the Ottoman Empire emulated European modernization and stimulated commerce and urbanization,
it was unable to solve which major problem?

____ 83. How was the Ottoman Empire significantly weakened financially?

____ 85. What was a significant impediment to Russian economic modernization?

____ 86. Identify at least four factors that hindered reforms in Russia?

____ 87. What did the construction of a railroad in Russia rely on?

____ 88. How did the Russian government view industrialization?

____ 89. What was the major reason the Russian state resisted industrialization?

____ 90. What was the doctrine of Pan-Slavism?

____ 91. Why was the process of modernization in Russia in the nineteenth century accomplished more smoothly than
in the Ottoman Empire?

____ 92. Russian imperial expansion in the 19
th
century was focused on which direction?

____ 93. When Tsar Alexander I died in 1825, what did reformers in the military provoke?

____ 94. What did Intellectuals pressing for reform in Russia want?

____ 95. Who were the main force opposing westernization in Russia?

____ 96. What caused population pressures in China during the late Qing Empire?

____ 97. How did the British respond when Britain was unable to obtain enough tea to meet its demand and China did
not import enough British goods?

____ 98. What did the British do when the Qing banned the importation of opium?

____ 99. Who were the Qing land forces called and what did the Opium War expose about them?

____ 100. What provided the British military advantage in the Opium War?

____ 101. Explain the result of the Treaty of Nanking.

____ 102. What did "Most-favored-nation status" mean?




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____ 103. What led to the Taiping Rebellion in the Guangxi region?

____ 104. Who was the founder of the Taiping (Great Peace) Movement?

____ 105. What role did women play in the Taiping Rebellion?

____ 106. What was the significance of the Taiping Rebellion?

____ 107. What did The Nguni peoples of southeastern Africa traditionally pursue?

____ 108. The Zulu kingdom arose primarily because of _________.

____ 109. What were the kingdoms of Lesotho and Swazi created to do?

____ 110. What did the Zulu succeed in creating?

____ 111. The largest of the mew Muslim reform movements occurred in which area?

____ 112. What perpetuated the African slave trade?

____ 113. What was one of the chief attractions in the Sokoto Caliphate?

____ 114. What shaped Muhammad Ali's creation of modern Egypt?

____ 115. How was the Egyptian modernization paid for?
What

____ 116. What thwarted the Egyptian cotton exports?

____ 117. Where did Emperor Twodros of Ethiopia assistance in the local manufacture of weapons from?

____ 118. What was a significant difference in Ethiopian identification compared to other African nations?

____ 119. What was the cause of the French invasion of Algeria?

____ 120. In addition to intruding into Africa militarily, what else were European explorers doing?

____ 121. Who was David Livingstone?

____ 122. Why did the slave trade end?

____ 123. Ironically, the British were the world's greatest slave traders and later what did they become?

____ 124. What did Africans who wanted European manufactured goods do when the slave trade ended?

____ 125. What was the most successful export from West Africa after abolition?

____ 126. Who were "Recaptives"?

____ 127. What radically altered the social structure of the coastal trading communities?

____ 128. Where di Western African nations see cultural influence from the west?

____ 129. Why was Eastern African states referred to as "secondary empires"?

____ 130. Who created one of the largest personal empires in the ivory exchange market?

____ 131. Although the East India Company was founded in 1600, how did the British gradually colonize India?

____ 132. How was the power of India divided?

____ 133. What were Sepoys?

____ 134. What was the "Bombay Presidency"?

____ 135. What was the British raj?

____ 136. What were the critical features for Britain's control of India at the local level?

____ 137. What was the British invocation of "tradition" in India used for?

____ 138. How did the EIC transform the Indian economy?

____ 139. What prevented the Sepoy Rebellion in 1857 from becoming a full-scale revolution?

____ 140. Why was the Sepoy Rebellion a turning point in the history of India?

____ 141. What changes took place in the wake of the Sepoy Rebellion?

____ 142. Explain the Indian Civil Service system.


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____ 143. What was one of the most significant reasons for the expansion of India's trade?

____ 144. What characterized the Indian railroad system by 1870?

____ 145. What was the deadliest disease in India?

____ 146. Who was the first reformer to advocate Pan-Indian nationalism?

____ 147. How did the Indian National Congress initially seek more rights for Indians?

____ 148. Where was the first secular school for Indian women founded?

____ 149. Discuss how the progress in womens rights in India was made?

____ 150. What was a significant method of instilling nationalism?

____ 151. Why was Cape Colony initially important to the British?

____ 152. Identify the Dutch overseas possessions taken over by the British to incorporate into their "Eastern Empire.

____ 153. What was the migration of Afrikaners from British-ruled Cape Colony for fertile land in the north is called?

____ 154. What was the underlying goal of British imperialism in the mid-nineteenth century?

____ 155. What was a significant impetus to increasing global commercial expansion in the nineteenth century?

____ 156. Who were the first British settlers in Australia?

____ 157. Discuss how Britain encouraged self-government in the South Pacific settler colonies?

____ 158. Where did new plantation workers come from after the British slave emancipation in 1834?

____ 159. How long did plantation workers serve contracts of indenture?

____ 160. Why did most indentured servants leave their home?
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