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Chapter 22: Political Upheavals and Social Transformations, 1815-1850

Multiple Choice Quiz

Multiple Choice Quiz

This activity contains 18 questions.

	The potato originated in the   "Derry Ring" of western Ireland. state of Idaho southeastern area of Europe; essentially the Balkan region. Rockies of Colorado in North America. Andean highlands in South America.

	The potato was ideal for European cultivation for all of the following reasons except   it grew well in damp, cool climates, and required little land. it provided an excellent supplement for a fish diet. it was high in vitamins, minerals, and carbohydrates. the vegetable could be easily planted and harvested. it tasted good.

	The peasants of what country relied on the potato exclusively for sustenance?   Prussia Italy France Ireland Scotland

	The leaders of Russia, Austria, Prussia, and France shared with the British foreign secretary the vision of Europe as   an opportunity to restore Napoleonic reforms. an experiment in democratic principles of government. huge tracts of land. the united front for international harmony and western technology. a machine that must be kept in running order.

	The expressed purpose of the Holy Alliance was to   renounce war and protect the Christian religion. punish the infidels in Jerusalem. unite eastern Europe against the democratic forces of the West. protect Europe against future French aggression. preserve the status quo.

	Which of the following men was a conservative?   David Ricardo Jeremy Bentham Samuel Taylor Coleridge Karl Marx Edmund Burke

	The two main tenets of nineteenth-century liberalism were   maintenance of the status quo without reform. abolition of monarchy and support for democracy. freedom of the individual and corruptibility of authority. democracy and a state-controlled economy. from each according to his talents, to each according to his needs.

	Jeremy Bentham's utilitarianism   promoted the view that population grew geometrically while food supplies grew arithmetically. asserted that wages would stabilize at subsistence levels. argued for "the greatest happiness for the greatest number." promised only heartache for its followers. demanded workers' cooperatives be created in place of a market economy.

	For romantics, virtue lay in   working within a controlled medium and within accepted conventions. tight geometric forms. the supremacy of reason. the beauty of untamed nature and the inspiration produced by the release of human emotions. the classical forms of art and literature.

	The nationalists of the first half of the nineteenth century were often   radicals who called for working-class revolution. conservatives waving the flag of hard-line politics. members of the Old Regime. liberals attempting to overthrow tyrannical regimes. romantics who valued the vernacular and folklore.

	Which of the following best illustrates Proudhon's social vision?   The new industrial society would be based on a centralized government of workers. Individuals would search for their true "inner selves" to create a collective cultural identity. Society would be controlled via espionage, censorship, and repression. Industrialization would be modified, so that the workers could profit directly from the fruits of labor. He advocated more power for standing monarchs.

	The socialist visions of Fourier, Saint-Simon, and Proudhon became   successful, functional realities by 1850. causes for revolution throughout eastern Europe. part of the tradition of utopian thinking. building-blocks for the Leninist-Stalinist state during the nineteenth century. basis for derision among the salons of Paris.

	In 1830 Belgians demanded all the following rights except   their own language. the right to bargain through the arbitration process. their own Catholic religion. independence from the Netherlands. constitutional rights.

	The Polish revolt of 1830 resulted in   Russia's intrusion and the crushing of the revolt. acknowledgement by the major powers of the Polish right to independence. new elections nationwide. eventual anarchy and chaos and the establishment of a dictatorship under Vaclav Havel. a three-nation oversight agreement that created an independent, neutral Poland.

	The French Revolution of 1848 resulted in   Louis-Philippe's abdication and the proclamation of the Second Republic. the crushing of the revolt by the National Guard. a stalemate. a significant shift to the right with the coup of General Boulanger. only slight reform and ongoing national tax burdens.

	The national workshops established under the Provisional Government of 1848   were dissolved leading to a brief insurrection of Parisian workers. allowed French workers to seize control of the 1848 revolution. solved chronic problems of unemployment in France. produced finished products that improved French foreign trade. still exists today in Avignon.

	The Italian revolution of 1848 failed because of   the intervention of British forces. the various Italian parties continued to identify with regional rather than national concerns. the Austrian's withdrawal from the confederation of revolutionaries. lack of a cohesive political platform. the opposition of Italian intellectuals.

	The revolutions of 1848 are significant in that they   provided little change to the countries involved. spelled the end of the concert of Europe. proved that European powers were still capable of concerted action to maintain the status quo. signaled the domination of democratic forms of government. created new national entities within central Europe.

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