AP World Spring Benchmark #2 Study Guide 2025

Which of the following is an implicit claim that the author makes in the second paragraph?

• A

  In some cases, governments need to stifle freedom of speech.

• B

  Religion has been a force holding back the progress of humanity.

• C

  Man’s natural condition is one of suffering and a struggle for survival.

• D

  Loyalty to one’s nation is the greatest virtue a person can aspire to have.

Together with access to coal deposits, which environmental factor most directly contributed to Great Britain’s early industrialization?

• A

  Its location on an island group separate from continental Europe

• B

  Its abundance of iron ore

• C

  Its cold climate, unsuitable for cultivating many crops

• D

  Its plentiful domestic sources of gold and silver

Unlike the four scenes in the top two rows of the lithograph, the inclusion of the two scenes in the bottom row is best explained by

• A

  state-sponsored industrialization policies motivated by social welfare programs

• B

  the technological innovations of the second industrial revolution

• C

  resistance to industrialization by organized labor motivated by socialist philosophy

• D

  the mathematical and physical discoveries of the Scientific Revolution

The rapid growth of industrial output in Russia during the 1890s was most likely comparable to the growth of industrial output in which other state during the same period?

• A

  The Ottoman Empire

• B

  Qing China

• C

  Meiji Japan

• D

  Brazil

The rapid growth of nineteenth-century industrial cities such as Manchester is best understood in the context of which of the following economic developments?

• A

  The increases in agricultural productivity that freed up laborers for work in factories

• B

  The adoption of protective legislation for workers that encouraged people to seek industrial jobs

• C

  The abolition of slavery that made plantation agriculture less profitable

• D

  The migration of people from colonial areas to Europe in search of better economic opportunities

Laissez-faire means

• more government involvement in business

• government should stay out of business

• government should control all of the prices

• government should control workers salaries

The Industrial Revolution started in

• France

• United States

• Japan

• Britain

This philosopher wrote in The Two Treatises of Government that everyone has the right to life, liberty, and property.

• Thomas Hobbes

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• John Locke

• Baron Montesquieu

Locke argued that we had 3 main natural rights. What are they? (Select 3)

• Life

• Liberty

• Pursuit of Happiness

• Property

What was Karl Marx's primary reason for disliking capitalism?

• He believed that it stopped workers from organizing in unions.
• He believed that it made a few people rich and many people very poor.
• He believed that it stopped the government from protecting workers rights.
• He believed that it robbed people of their freedom.