5 Steps to a 5: 500 AP World History: Modern Questions to Know by Test Day by Adam Stevens

Author:Adam Stevens
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Published: 2020-03-10T16:00:00+00:00

—Newspaper drawing of Luddittes smashing a power loom in 1812

353. The Luddite movement of early nineteenth-century England is best seen as

(A) A reaction to the Industrial Revolution

(B) A reaction to Communist ideology

(C) Supporters of Social Darwinism

(D) A reaction to population increases

354. How did Karl Marx suggest the workers ought to resolve their conflict with their employers?

(A) Return to life as a rural peasant and take up subsistence farming similar to life before industrialization

(B) Continue his efforts to smash the machines and return the economy to the era of small-scale handicraft production

(C) Take up arms, establish rule of the proletariat and institute public ownership of the means of production

(D) Cooperate with industrial capitalists to boost efficiency and output for the benefit of the state

In spite of the fact that we have no such fleet as we should have, we have conquered for ourselves a place in the sun. It will now be my task to see to it that this place in the sun shall remain our undisputed possession, in order that the sun’s rays may fall fruitfully upon our activity and trade in foreign parts, that our industry and agriculture may develop within the state and our sailing sports upon the water, for our future lies upon the water. The more Germans go out upon the waters, whether it be in races or regattas, whether it be in journeys across the ocean, or in the service of the battle flag, so much the better it will be for us. . . . As head of the Empire I therefore rejoice over every citizen, whether from Hamburg, Bremen, or Lübeck, who goes forth with this large outlook and seeks new points where we can drive in the nail on which to hang our armor. . . .

—Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany in a speech to the North German Regatta Association, 1901.

355. The speech by Wilhelm II best illustrates which of the following patterns of the period, 1750–1900?

(A) The growing demand for settler colonists to alleviate population pressures

(B) The establishment of transoceanic empires by industrial powers

(C) The rise of resistance movements opposing imperialism

(D) The use of religious ideologies to justify the imperial expansion

356. The speech by the German Kaiser Wilhelm II aligns most strongly with which of the following beliefs?

(A) Social Darwinism

(B) Marxism

(C) Appeasement

(D) Industrialization

357. Which of the following was a new Western motive for overseas territorial expansion in the industrial era?

(A) Missionary drive to convert non-Western peoples to Christianity

(B) Seizure of land to be put to use raising cash crops

(C) Drive to dominate sources of precious minerals and metals

(D) Need for raw materials for factory production

358. Which answer choice best captures the changes historians associate with what is termed the “second industrial revolution”?

(A) Industrialization outside of England

(B) Shift to nuclear power in the West after World War II

(C) Central role of heavy industry and electrical power

(D) Rapid urbanization associated with factory production

359. Which choice lays out the correct order in which the Industrial Revolution began and spread?

(A) Great Britain, United States,

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