AP World: Unit 5 Revolutions

Question 1

How did the end of slavery affect the lives of the former slaves?

Accepted Answer

Political Equality would not be achieved for many years, Economic lives barely improved, leading to debt slavery

Question 2

What were the achievements / limitations of 19th century feminism?

Accepted Answer

Women attended universities, growing literacy, divorce laws, In most cases, women failed to secure the right to vote

Question 3

What was NOT revolutionary about the American Revolution?

Accepted Answer

Sought to keep the pre-existing liberties of the colonies

Question 4

Which of these is NOT a reform made during the Tanzimat Era?

Accepted Answer

Democracy became a model for the empire

Question 5

What were the most important long-term outcomes of the Atlantic Revolutions?

Accepted Answer

Support for abolition and universal suffrage grew

Question 6

What accounts for the end of Atlantic slavery during the 19th century?

Accepted Answer

Enlightenment thinkers were critical of its practice, Christians believed it to be against God's will

Question 7

How did Karl Marx understand the Industrial Revolution?

Accepted Answer

As a class struggle between the oppressor and oppressed, As a necessary step to end bourgeoisie dominance

Question 8

How did the French Revolution differ from the American Revolution?

Accepted Answer

Tensions with distant power vs conflicts within society, Extent of violence

Question 9

How were the Spanish American revolutions shaped by American, French and Haitian revolutions?

Accepted Answer

Napoleon's post-Revolution conquests weakened colonial rule, The Revolutions showed that unrest can get dangerous/violent

Question 10

What made Britain the breakthrough point of the Industrial Revolution?

Accepted Answer

Highly commercialized, economic innovation, coal/iron ore

Question 11

China's Self-Strengthening Movement failed because:

Accepted Answer

The Qing empress Cixi opposed changes.

Question 12

How did the Industrial Revolution mark a sharp break with the past?

Accepted Answer

Created new classes of people in society -- the middle class, Unprecedented jump in manufacturing and innovation

Question 13

What was distinctive about the Haitian Revolution?

Accepted Answer

Only fully successful slave revolt

Question 14

What was common to industrialization everywhere?

Accepted Answer

Unprecedented urbanization and changes in class structures

Question 15

What did NOT happen to Japan during the Meiji Period?

Accepted Answer

more isolated

Question 16

What are Labor Unions?

Accepted Answer

Workers that formed to represent its members’ interests., It negotiates with issues such as pay., Laws that will benefit or protect their workers., It negotiates with issues such as working hours.

Question 17

How did the ideas of the Enlightenment contribute to the Atlantic revolutions?

Accepted Answer

Encouraged people to question traditional authorities, Provided intellectual ideas like equality & free trade

Question 18

Who did Marx's ideas have greatest impact on in the industrializing world of the 19th century?

Accepted Answer

Radical trade unionists & middle class intellectuals

Question 19

In what respects did the roots of the Industrial Revolution lie within Europe?

Accepted Answer

The independence of European states and merchant classes

Question 20

How did the Industrial Revolution transform British society?

Accepted Answer

Landowning aristocrats declined, upper middle class benefit, Urbanization transformed cities

AP World: Unit 5 Revolutions

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AP World: Unit 5 Revolutions

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