Question 1

Bismarck goaded the Austrians into war in 1866 with the occupation of

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A)  Lorraine.
B)  Bavaria.
C)  Saxony.
D)  Schleswig-Holstein.
E)  Hesse-Darmstadt.F) All of the above
G) B) and D)

Question 2

The nation state of Germany was founded at the conclusion of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

What reasons does the author give to convince the reader that Continental industrialization came of age between 1850 and 1871? How did Continental industrialization differ from that of Britain?

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Question 4

define the following term:
-Gustave Courbet's The Stonebreakers

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Question 5

Among the policies of Camillo di Cavour was all of the following except

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A)  encouraging the development of roads, canals, and railroads in Piedmont.
B)  fostering business enterprise by expanding credit.
C)  stimulating investment in new industries.
D)  securing an alliance with Napoleon III.
E)  dramatically reducing government expenditures on the military.F) A) and C)
G) C) and D)

Question 6

define the following term:
-Hegel's dialectic

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Question 7

The American Civil War (1861-1865)

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A)  was ended by the Missouri Compromise.
B)  was highly destructive due to the equal balance of forces between North and South.
C)  was a clear precursor of "total war" in the twentieth century.
D)  did not completely eradicate slavery in all of the states due to local referendums on the question.
E)  led to the adoption of the Bill of Rights.F) B) and C)
G) A) and C)

Question 8

How did the expansion of scientific knowledge affect the Western worldview and the everyday lives of Europeans during the mid-nineteenth century? How does this expansion of scientific knowledge differ from that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?

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The expansion of scientific knowledge du...

Question 9

Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in

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A)  1850.
B)  1853.
C)  1861.
D)  1863.
E)  1865.F) A) and B)
G) None of the above

Question 10

In your opinion, what force or forces played the most important role in reviving the progress of European social and political reform in the later nineteenth century?

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Question 11

England and France entered the Crimean War in 1854 because they feared growing influence in the Mediterranean by

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A)  Russia.
B)  the Ottoman Empire.
C)  Prussia.
D)  Austria.
E)  the United States.F) All of the above
G) D) and E)

Question 12

Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man

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A)  is filled with expressions of doubt and hesitancy over the new evolutionary theories.
B)  proposed the first theory of genetic mutations.
C)  argued for the animal origins of human beings, who had evolved by adapting to their environment over time.
D)  placed humans in the center of a rational universe.
E)  predicted the extinction of man and the rise of a new creation that would dominate nature.F) B) and D)
G) A) and D)

Question 13

The dominant foreign power in Italy prior to unification was

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A)  France.
B)  Spain.
C)  Papal States.
D)  Savoy.
E)  Austria.F) C) and E)
G) All of the above

Question 14

The First International

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A)  failed due to Marx's preoccupation with Das Kapital .
B)  became the largest working-class trade union in Europe in the nineteenth century.
C)  was rejected by Marx as a "bourgeois-dominated institution."
D)  served as a type of umbrella organization for all European labor interests.
E)  led the various revolutionary movements in the uprisings of 1848.F) C) and D)
G) A) and B)

Question 15

define the following term:
-Second German Empire

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Question 16

What were the aims and accomplishments of Bismarck and Cavour? Which statesman faced the greatest challenges, and who was most successful in overcoming challenges? Be specific.

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Question 17

Compare and contrast the practice of Realpolitik in the leadership of Napoleon III of France and Otto von Bismark of Prussia. What were their strengths and weaknesses as leaders, and what were their achievements?

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Realpolitik, a term coined by Bismarck h...

Question 18

define the following term:
-Reform Act of 1867

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The Reform Act of 1867 was a significant...

Question 19

Otto von Bismarck, the Prussian-born leader of German unification,

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A)  instituted the Zollverein , the German customs union that drove industrial development.
B)  followed a rigid plan for national unification at all costs.
C)  was a liberal from lower class origins who used politics to achieve his reform goals.
D)  practiced Realpolitik in conducting domestic and foreign policy.
E)  relied upon the diplomatic and military support of the Habsburgs in the Austro-Prussian War.F) B) and C)
G) C) and E)

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define the following term:
-Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Exam 22: An Age of Nationalism and Realism, 1850-1871

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define the following term: -Gustave Courbet's The Stonebreakers

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Otto von Bismarck, the Prussian-born leader of German unification,

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The nation state of Germany was founded at the conclusion of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871.

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define the following term: -Hegel's dialectic

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Compare and contrast the practice of Realpolitik in the leadership of Napoleon III of France and Otto von Bismark of Prussia. What were their strengths and weaknesses as leaders, and what were their achievements?

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define the following term: -Kansas-Nebraska Act

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The American Civil War (1861-1865)

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The First International

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