AP World: Unit 5 Revolutions

Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

Support for abolition and universal suffrage grew

Question 2

What was distinctive about the Haitian Revolution?

Accepted Answer

Only fully successful slave revolt

Question 3

Indiana Jones' greatest fear is...

Accepted Answer

snakes

Question 4

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 5

How did the French Revolution differ from the American Revolution?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 6

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 7

What were the differences between industrialization in the United States and that in Russia?

Accepted Answer

US had no political party representing working classes, Russia had a violent social revolution through Marxism

Question 8

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 9

What was NOT revolutionary about the American Revolution?

Accepted Answer

Sought to keep the pre-existing liberties of the colonies

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 11

How did the Industrial Revolution transform British society?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 12

What was common to industrialization everywhere?

Accepted Answer

Unprecedented urbanization and changes in class structures

Question 13

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

Accepted Answer

The independence of European states and merchant classes

Question 14

What made Britain the breakthrough point of the Industrial Revolution?

Accepted Answer

Highly commercialized, economic innovation, coal/iron ore

Question 15

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 16

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 17

What caused the revolutionary situation in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century?

Accepted Answer

Czar/Tsar ruled tyrannically, Industrialization's harsh conditions

Question 18

Why did Marxist socialism NOT take root in the United States?

Accepted Answer

US had a stronger economy, US had a higher level of home ownership

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 20

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

Questions 20