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Question 1 of 66

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This President sought to make slavery a crime and in 1801 passe the act which banned the import of slaves to the United States

Select one of the following:

  • George Washington

  • John Adams

  • Thomas Jefferson

  • Abraham Lincoln

Explanation

Question 2 of 66

1

The First country to take slaves from Africa was

Select one of the following:

  • Spain

  • Portugal

  • England

  • France

Explanation

Question 3 of 66

1

How many million Africans were shipped to the Americas between 1500s and 1800s?

Select one of the following:

  • 8 million

  • 10 million

  • 12 million

  • 14 Million

Explanation

Question 4 of 66

1

The Majority of kidnapped Africans were already slaves in Africa

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 5 of 66

1

What two European Countries were the most involved in trade in india?

Select one of the following:

  • England and France

  • Britain and Holland

  • Portugal and Britain

  • Portugal and Spain

Explanation

Question 6 of 66

1

This system was meant to help regulate European trade in China

Select one of the following:

  • British East India Company

  • Jesuit

  • Shogunate

  • Canton

Explanation

Question 7 of 66

1

Initially Europeans wanted _________ and from India?

Select one of the following:

  • Spices and Jewels

  • Jewels and Textiles

  • Spices and Textiles

  • Tea

Explanation

Question 8 of 66

1

THis "good" was used by Europeans to shift the balance of Trade with China

Select one of the following:

  • Tea

  • Porcelian

  • Opium

  • Slaves

Explanation

Question 9 of 66

1

Many Japanese were converted to this religion by imperialist forces

Select one of the following:

  • Protestantism

  • Christianity

  • Judaism

  • Islam

Explanation

Question 10 of 66

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What commodity did the Japanese initially get from the portuguese which was used to make Japan an imperial force?

Select one of the following:

  • Slaves

  • Opium

  • Guns

  • Jesuits

Explanation

Question 11 of 66

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The man responsible for the independence of Central American Countries from Spain was...

Select one of the following:

  • Thomas Jefferson

  • George Washington

  • Joseph Brant

  • Simon Bolivar

Explanation

Question 12 of 66

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Mercantilism is

Select one of the following:

  • Another name for Imperialism

  • A way to Strengthen trade within your own empire at the expense of other empires

  • The process of establishing control over indigenous peoples

  • Essential for the flow of good between countries

Explanation

Question 13 of 66

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The man who created the title of Czar/Tsar was

Select one of the following:

  • Ivan the Terrible

  • Peter the Great

  • Vlad the Impaler

  • Tsar Nicholas

Explanation

Question 14 of 66

1

This event greatly influenced the Haitian Revolution

Select one of the following:

  • American Revolution

  • Execution of King Louis XVI

  • French Revolution

  • Exile of Napoleon

Explanation

Question 15 of 66

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He began to modernize and opened thinking to the west reforms

Select one of the following:

  • Ivan the Terrible

  • Peter the Great

  • Vlad the Impaler

  • Tsar Nicholas

Explanation

Question 16 of 66

1

Slaves who established their freedom in Haiti did so in the face of __ to ___ Odds

Select one of the following:

  • 10 to 1

  • 15 to 1

  • 17 to 1

  • 20 to 1

Explanation

Question 17 of 66

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The empire that invaded India in 1526 and dominated and Indian politics for much of the sixteenth and seventeeth centuries was the:

Select one of the following:

  • Hindu Empire

  • Mughal Empire

  • British Empire

  • Spanish

Explanation

Question 18 of 66

1

The Dominant relgion of India is:

Select one of the following:

  • Hindusim

  • Islam

  • Sikhism

  • Veddas

Explanation

Question 19 of 66

1

The first European to come to India were the...

Select one of the following:

  • Spanish

  • British

  • CHinese

  • Portugese

Explanation

Question 20 of 66

1

Europeans produced no goods which the indians wanted to buy so they had to pay in:

Select one of the following:

  • Opium

  • Spices

  • SIlver

  • Diamonds

Explanation

Question 21 of 66

1

The first unified Chinese empire was created in 202 CE by the:

Select one of the following:

  • Monghol

  • Ming Dynasty

  • Mughals

  • Qin Dynasty

Explanation

Question 22 of 66

1

1500 _____________ was the least centralized state in East Asia

Select one of the following:

  • Japan

  • China

  • Vietnam

  • Korea

Explanation

Question 23 of 66

1

Matteo Ricci was:

Select one of the following:

  • A colleague of Marco Polo

  • Jesuits who worked to build connections between China and the West

  • President of the Dutch East India Company

  • Portuguese Explorer

Explanation

Question 24 of 66

1

Brginning in the mid-1600s, East Asian countries devoloped a policy of _______________.

Select one of the following:

  • Inclusiveness

  • Free market trade

  • Seclusion

  • Equality

Explanation

Question 25 of 66

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Janissaries were:

Select one of the following:

  • Muslims who made made a poligrimage to Mecca

  • Governors of Ottoman provinces

  • Elite Soldiers recruited from Christian famallies

  • Scholars who made Islamic science the envy of the world

Explanation

Question 26 of 66

1

Millets were

Select one of the following:

  • Military units

  • Semi-autonomous Islamic, Jewish, Orthodox, and Armenian religious communities

  • Division of the papacy

  • Forms of Ghazi, or Relgious War

Explanation

Question 27 of 66

1

Under the rule of Sulayman the Magnificent, the ottmans managed to conquer Belgrade but fialed to move beyond:

Select one of the following:

  • Constantniople

  • Bucharest

  • Cario

  • Vienna

Explanation

Question 28 of 66

1

The treaty of Karlowitz in 1699 was:

Select one of the following:

  • An alliance of the Ottomans and Austrians against the Russians

  • Made France the Ally of the Ottoman Empire

  • Required the Ottomans to give up territory and showed they were now weaker than their European Rivals

  • Forced Austria to pay tribute to Sulayman

Explanation

Question 29 of 66

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Under "Ivan the Terrible" ( 1533-1584) this system was established

Select one of the following:

  • Czar

  • Kievan Rus

  • Imperialism

  • Serfdom

Explanation

Question 30 of 66

1

"Peter the Great"opened Russia to the West by defenting this army at the Battle of Poltava in 1709

Select one of the following:

  • Sweden

  • Austria

  • THe Ottomans

  • Poland

Explanation

Question 31 of 66

1

The Navel battle that destroyed any hope Napoleon had for invading England was:

Select one of the following:

  • Trafalgar

  • Waterloo

  • Liepzig

  • Lepanto

Explanation

Question 32 of 66

1

The boycott of English by Napoleon was:

Select one of the following:

  • The code Napoleon

  • The Treaty of Campo Formio

  • The Continental System

  • The congress system

Explanation

Question 33 of 66

1

The Peace Settlement after the Napoleonic wars was made at the Congrss of:

Select one of the following:

  • Berlin

  • London

  • Vienna

  • Versailles

Explanation

Question 34 of 66

1

The declaration of independence is historically significant because:

Select one of the following:

  • it ended British control of North America

  • It was the First time of Authority of a monarch was questioned

  • It ended the America Revolution

  • It was the first time that a people proclaimed freedom from a sovereign authority and the right to constitute a new independent state

Explanation

Question 35 of 66

1

Which of the following were key supporters of the 13 colonies in the American Revolution?

Select one of the following:

  • Spain and France

  • England and France

  • Spain, Austria and Russia

  • England and Great Britian

Explanation

Question 36 of 66

1

In the 1700s, most territory in india controlled by the British was run by:

Select one of the following:

  • Parliament

  • The British East India Company

  • The army

  • Directly by the King

Explanation

Question 37 of 66

1

Following independence movements in Spanish America in the 1820s, the only two territories left of Spanish Empire in America were:

Select one of the following:

  • Brazill and Mexico

  • Mexico and Venzuela

  • Puerto Rico and Cuba

  • Cuba and Mexico

Explanation

Question 38 of 66

1

The only country where a slave revolt successfully abolished slavery was in:

Select one of the following:

  • Jamaica

  • Haiti

  • Cuba

  • THe United states

Explanation

Question 39 of 66

1

Which industry was first transformed by the industial revolution?

Select one of the following:

  • Pottery

  • Mining

  • Textile

  • Lumber

Explanation

Question 40 of 66

1

Divsion of Labour in the industrial revolution

Select one of the following:

  • Slowed the process of production

  • Increased the importance of slave labour and unskilled tasks

  • Meant that women and children lost their importance in the labour force

  • Led to an increase in cottae industries

Explanation

Question 41 of 66

1

The industrial Revolution started in

Select one of the following:

  • The United states

  • France

  • Britain

  • Peter the Great;s Russia

Explanation

Question 42 of 66

1

The following countries made up the Quadruple Alliance:

Select one of the following:

  • Spain, Portugal, England and France

  • Spain, Portugal, Russia and Prussia

  • Austria, England, France, and Russia

  • England, Austria, Russia, and Prussia

Explanation

Question 43 of 66

1

Who became King of the French following the July 1830 revolution?

Select one of the following:

  • Louis XVII

  • Charles X

  • Louis Napoleon

  • Louis Phillipe

Explanation

Question 44 of 66

1

Nineteenth century Liberal thought saw power vested in the people, though "the poeple" often meant:

Select one of the following:

  • Only men

  • Men who owned property

  • The Aristocracy

  • Universal sufferage

Explanation

Question 45 of 66

1

Liberal revolutions saw the

Select one of the following:

  • Sale of church lands and abolition of privilage by birth.

  • Extension of the vote to 60% of the population.

  • Return of absolute monarchy.

  • Return of the French Revolution.

Explanation

Question 46 of 66

1

The poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 meant the creation of

Select one of the following:

  • Factories

  • Workhouses

  • The Anglican Church

  • The constitution

Explanation

Question 47 of 66

1

Chartism or the Chartist movement in England sought

Select one of the following:

  • A return of conservatism

  • The forceful imposition of free trade

  • A limit to the opium trade

  • Parlimentary democracy and constitional reform.

Explanation

Question 48 of 66

1

The result of the Opium war of 1840 was

Select one of the following:

  • British control of Hong Kon, low tariffs and increased trade with China

  • Increase in Opium trade and the defeat of Britian

  • Higher tariffs and greater trade restrictions

  • Chinese authorities criminalized the use of opium and attempted to bans iports.

Explanation

Question 49 of 66

1

Before 1848 the only nationalist movements that had any measure of sucess were in:

Select one of the following:

  • France and England

  • Belguim and Greece

  • The Ottoman Empire

  • The Austrian Empire

Explanation

Question 50 of 66

1

The Revolution of 1848 began in

Select one of the following:

  • London

  • Madrid

  • Belgium

  • Paris

Explanation

Question 51 of 66

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One Major failure of the revolutions of 1848 was that the revolutionaries

Select one of the following:

  • Could not remain united

  • could not replicate the sucess of the French Revolution

  • Wanted too much too fast

  • Saw Constitutional as ineffective

Explanation

Question 52 of 66

1

Unficiation in italy started in

Select one of the following:

  • Turin

  • Sicily

  • Naples

  • Piedmont

Explanation

Question 53 of 66

1

In order to unite italy, count Camillo di Cavour would have to enlist the help of

Select one of the following:

  • Russia against Austria

  • France against Austria

  • Russia against France

  • France against Russia

Explanation

Question 54 of 66

1

The last part of Italy to be united was

Select one of the following:

  • Piedmont

  • The papal States

  • Rome

  • Sicily

Explanation

Question 55 of 66

1

Realpolitik was the policy employed by Bismarck to united Germany, it focused upon:

Select one of the following:

  • A peace as a means of achieving stability on the European continent

  • Nationalism and liberalism

  • Compromise

  • The poltics of reality

Explanation

Question 56 of 66

1

Bismark saw the role of war in

Select one of the following:

  • First defeatig austria then uniting Germany against the common enemy of France

  • In Purely Machiavellian Terms

  • No way obtaining peace

  • Forming the balance of power that set the stafe for World War one

Explanation

Question 57 of 66

1

Karl Marx identified four types of societies which had existed in the West

Select one of the following:

  • Socialist, communist, Anarchist, utiltarian

  • Primtive, ancient, feudal, capitalist

  • Primary, secondary, tertiary, utopian

  • England, Britian, France, Spain

Explanation

Question 58 of 66

1

According to Marx, social change happens

Select one of the following:

  • Because of the overthrow of the proletariat

  • At the hands of bourgeois

  • At the expense of communist thought

  • By class conflict beteen those who control the means of production and those who do not.

Explanation

Question 59 of 66

1

Marx felt that parliamentary system would not properly respresent that needs of workers because

Select one of the following:

  • Capialist would not give up control of the state without a fight

  • Not all workers could vote

  • It was formed by the proletariat

  • Socialists could not agree

Explanation

Question 60 of 66

1

Socialism is

Select one of the following:

  • a Poltical and economic system aimed towards achieving utopia

  • The polar opposite of communism

  • A massive program of social upheaval

  • A poltical and ecomonic system aimed in which production is controlled by a central democratically elexted authority.

Explanation

Question 61 of 66

1

According to utiltitarianism, the test for value of an instition or law was its usefulness in contributing to the greatest __________ of all people

Select one of the following:

  • Freedom

  • Wealth

  • Happiness

  • Protection

Explanation

Question 62 of 66

1

In the 1880s, the country was one of the first to use income contributions to help pay for a national social security system

Select one of the following:

  • England

  • France

  • Germany

  • Italy

Explanation

Question 63 of 66

1

Which statement best desribes the state of Catholcism by the late 1800s

Select one of the following:

  • church land had been returned and church attendance was increasing

  • The pope initiated a catholicism revival and celebrated the unification of italy

  • Church were extending their control over secular education

  • The pope was ensconced in the Vatican, church lands ahd been confiscated and social welfare was being taken over by the state.

Explanation

Question 64 of 66

1

Zionism advocated:

Select one of the following:

  • An increased in anti semitism.

  • The cration of a jewish homeland in Palestine

  • Vindication for the Dreyfus affair

  • Communist revolution

Explanation

Question 65 of 66

1

The Meiji restoration resulted in:

Select one of the following:

  • Increased power for the shogunate

  • A centralized government, industrializations and a strong military

  • More US control

  • Japan being defeted by China

Explanation

Question 66 of 66

1

China reformed in the late 19th and early 20th century to strengthen

Select one of the following:

  • China against the west and westernized Japan

  • the ties between China and Japan

  • Chinese cultural revoltuions

  • Tienamin Square

Explanation

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