Unit 5 and 6 Overview

“Americans today . . . who live within the Spanish system occupy a position in society no better than that of serfs destined for labor, or at best they have no more status than that of mere consumers. Yet even this status is surrounded with galling restrictions, such as being forbidden to grow European crops, or to store products which are royal monopolies, or to establish factories of a type the Peninsula itself does not possess. To this add the exclusive trading privileges, even in articles of prime necessity, and the barriers between American provinces, designed to prevent all exchange of trade, traffic, and understanding.”

Simón Bolívar, Jamaica Letter, 1815

The following stimulus most likely supports what kind of question?

• The Enlightenment Movement

• The Age of Revolutions

• The Industrial Revolution

• The Age of Imperialism

This image was used by late 19th and early 20th century scientists to support what erroneous science?

• Social Darwinism

• Communism

• Socialism

• Industrialization

Which of the following was a major social change that took place in the colonization efforts of European imperialist powers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century?

• Most imperialist powers began to portray their colonization efforts as merely temporary interventions.

• Most imperialist powers sought to tie their efforts more closely to religion.

• Most imperialist powers began to seek direct control of large inland areas.

• Most imperialist powers expected the indigenous natives to adopt their European cultures and routines.

The author of the cartoon above most likely...

• feared that industrial technology would dominate people’s lives.

• believed the steam engine would be vital to Britain’s success.

• thought industrialization would destroy the upper class.

• applauded technology’s ability to make life easier.

Which of the following was the main factor leading to the fall of Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate and the rise of the Meiji government?

• Pressure from an increasingly powerful China.

• Large-scale radical peasant rebellions.

• Economic instability and hyperinflation.

• Pressure from Western powers.

“In the past, at the end of the Han, Tang, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, bands of rebels were innumerable, all because of foolish rulers and misgovernment, so that none of these rebellions could be stamped out. But today [the emperor] is deeply concerned and examines his character in order to reform himself, worships Heaven, and is sympathetic to the people. He has not increased the land tax, nor has he conscripted soldiers from households. . . . It does not require any great wisdom to see that sooner or later the [Taiping] bandits will all be destroyed.”

Zeng Guofan, Chinese official to Great Britain,proclamation against the Taiping rebels

The situation in China was likely influenced by which of the following?

• The absolutist notion of the divine right of kings.

• The Buddhist notion of avoiding violence against any living thing.

• Rising defiance to European Occupation of China.

• The Daoist notion of being in harmony with nature.

According to the political cartoon above, how did the British see the Indian natives?

• Equals to themselves having accepted British customs.

• Above them as they were the indigenous people of India.

• Beneath them as conquered subjects to the English crown.

• They didn't really acknowledge them at all as their focus was on resources.

Based on the information in the documents above, it can be inferred that...

• society lowered the political status of men as the status of women improved.

• the Industrial Revolution was a turning point for women’s roles in society.

• working conditions were safe and profitable for lower class women.

• women became equal wage earners in the family during this time period.