STUDY GUIDE 8A: CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
THE AGE OF NATIONALISM, 1850-1914
1. The first state to enact social welfare legislation was
a. England. b. Germany. c. France. d. the United States.
2. The negative aspect of the emergence of the responsive national state was
the
a. responsiveness of parliamentary government.
b. growing loyalty to the state.
c. expansion of the electoral franchise.
d. channeling of national sentiment in a militaristic direction.
3. The first and most important of the Great Reforms in Russia was the
a. abolition of serfdom.
b. creation of local elected government.
c. establishment of a national parliament.
d. legalization of private property.
4. The Russo-Japanese War of 1904—1905 resulted in
a. vast territorial gains for the Russians.
b. multiclass and nationalist revolution in Russia.
c. resounding defeat for the Japanese.
d. Russia's regaining its prestige.
5. Edward Bernstein argued
a. for a return to revolutionary tactics.
b. that Magyarization was beneficial for Hungary.
c. that the working class should use the electoral process.
d. that the Jews controlled industry.
6. The institution for local government established by the Great Reforms in
Russia was the
a. duma. b. stolypin. c. zemstvo. d. soviet.
7. The phrase blood and iron is most closely associated with
a. Napoleon III. c. the religious rivalry in Ireland.
b. Russian modernization. d. Bismarck.
8. The popular mayor of Vienna who combined Austrian anti-Semitism and
"Christian socialism" was
a. Karl Lueger. c. Hermann Baumgarten.
b. Edward Bernstein. d. Benjamin Disraeli.
9. A typical example of the conversion of German liberals to Bismarck's brand
of nationalism was
a. Sergei Witte. c. Karl Lueger.
b. Edward Bernstein. d. Hermann Baumgarten.
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10. Bismarck's Kulturkampf was directed primarily against German
a. socialists. b. Catholics. c. liberals. d. intellectuals.
11. The term peculiar institution refers to
a. Russian serfdom.
b. slavery in the United States.
c. married women teachers in the French Third Republic.
d. socialist revisionism.
12. Louis Napoleon's election as president of the Second Republic and then
hereditary emperor was a product of all of the following except his
a. famous name. c. anti-Catholic beliefs.
b. protection of property. d. positive program.
13. Louis Napoleon believed that society could best be served by
a. parliamentary government.
b. a balance between legislative and executive branches of government.
c. Iaissez-faire economic and social policies.
d. a strong national leader.
14. The success of Napoleon III's system was based on all of the following
except
a. a successful foreign policy.
b. economic intervention.
c. close attention to electoral politics.
d. sensitivity to public opinion.
15. Pope Pius IX's Syllabus of Errors indicated his
a. displeasure with Bismarck's Kulturkampf.
b. rejection of almost all modern trends.
c. commitment to Italian unification.
d. hatred of both American slavery and Russian serfdom.
16. National unity was achieved in northern Italy by
a. diplomacy and war.
b. popular revolution.
c. a combination of diplomacy, war, and popular rebellion.
d. the coalition between the papacy and Cavour.
17. In order to force Austria to give up its territory in Italy, Cavour
secured an alliance with
a. the pope. b. Prussia. c. the Hungarians. d. France.
18. The leader of the "Red Shirts" was
a. Giuseppe Garibaldi. c. Father Gioberti.
b. Emilio Cavour. d. Victor Emmanuel.
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19. The Zollverein was
a. a revolutionary nationalist movement in Germany.
b. a customs union among the German states.
c. the province that served as a pretext for war between Prussia and
Austria.
d. the Russian elected assembly.
20. The cash crop that revitalized the slave economy of the southern United
States in the nineteenth century was
a. tobacco. b. sugar cane. c. cotton. d. rice.
21. The struggle between King William I and the Prussian parliament revolved
around
a. the territories of Schleswig and Holstein.
b. universal suffrage.
c. Austria's participation in a unified German state.
d. the military budget and taxation.
22. In the new North German Confederation, voting rights
a. extended to the working classes.
b. were nonexistent.
c. were limited to the aristocracy and the upper middle class.
d. were limited in Prussia but extensive elsewhere.
23. In response to Bismarck's taxation policies and the Austro-Prussian War
of 1866
a. the urban working classes rebelled.
b. middle-class liberals became more critical of him.
c. middle-class liberals adopted Bismarck's brand of nationalism.
d. German Catholics formed a political party to protect their interests.
24. All of the following are consequences of the Franco-Prussian War except
a. the completion of German unification.
b. the collapse of the French Second Empire.
c. an upsurge of German nationalistic pride.
d. a wave of social reform in Germany.
25. The impetus for the Great Reforms in Russia was
a. its defeat in the Crimean War.
b. its defeat in the Russo-Japanese War.
c. domestic political and social agitation.
d. the revolution of 1905.
26. The greatest impediment to nation building in the United States was
a. its weak "colonial" economy.
b. regional differences exacerbated by slavery.
c. the lack of common ancestry among its citizens.
d. the intellectual legacy of the American Revolution.
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27. Factors that contributed to the North's victory in the American Civil War
included all of the following except
a. the ineffective leadership of Southern generals.
b. Northern industrial superiority.
c. the larger population of the North.
d. the sense of national purpose in the North.
28. The greatest weakness of Reconstruction in the South was
a. that it did not grant blacks the right to vote.
b. the ease with which Confederate leaders resumed their old positions
of authority.
c. the lack of land reform.
d. the inability of Northern leaders to decide the scope of
Reconstruction.
29. With the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881,
a. all modernization stopped.
b. political modernization sped up.
c. political modernization continued, but only at the local level.
d. economic modernization continued to speed along.
30. Witte's greatest innovation was
a. using the West to catch up with the West.
b. putting Russia on the gold standard.
c. protecting Russian industry with tariffs.
d. constructing the trans-Siberian railroad.
31. The French Third Republic encouraged young women teachers to marry for
all of the following reasons except
a. to provide a contrast to the celibate nuns and priests who had
dominated primary education.
b. the belief that married couples could cope with potential isolation
in provincial France.
c. to appease Catholic criticism of the secular schools and teachers.
d. the hope that these women would set a good example.
32. Bismarck's social reforms were motivated primarily by
a. the depression.
b. his fear and distrust of socialism.
c. humanitarian concern for the suffering of the urban poor.
d. the failure of his Kulturkampf against German Catholics.
33. All of the following were important factors in the stability of the Third
Republic in France except
a. the abolition of trade unions.
b. sweeping educational reform.
c. colonial expansion.
d. the skill and moderation of political leaders in the early years of
the Republic.
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34. The Dreyfus affair
a. revived the prestige of the French army.
b. drove a wedge between Catholics and anti-Semites.
c. revived republican distrust of Catholicism.
d. fanned the flames of French imperialism.
35. Between 1906 and 1914, Parliament
a. gave the vote to most adult males.
b. substantially lowered taxes on the rich.
c. resolved the violent problems of Ireland.
d. passed extensive social welfare measures.
36. The English failed to resolve the problem of Ireland because of
a. the rivalry between Irish Catholics and Protestants.
b. the economic depression in England.
c. World War I.
d. the poverty in Ireland.
37. The most severe problem facing the Habsburg monarchy in the late
nineteenth century was
a. its economy.
b. competing nationalism.
c. its exclusion from central European affairs.
d. its relationship with Russia.
38. The International Working Men's Association
a. was an example of Catholic labor unionism.
b. was proposed by Bismarck to counter the growth of the Social
Democratic party.
c. collapsed after Marx supported the Paris Commune.
d. was a revisionist socialist organization..
39. Supporters of the protective tariffs in Germany included all of the
following except
a. peasants. b. workers. c. manufacturers. d. large landowners.
40. According to her own testimony, presented in Listening to the Past, the
political views of Adelheid Popp
a. had at first been very nationalistic.
b. were formed by her father's socialist past.
c. remained very sympathetic to the royal families.
d. were the result of her expulsion from the Catholic church.