Final Exam Review First Semester

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Final Exam ReviewFirst Semester
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Chapter One

• Multiple Choice
• Under Pericles, Athenians participated in a
  ______ democracy.
• Which statement best summarizes the differences
  between Sparta and Athens?
• The Hellenistic civilization combined
• Socrates used his Socratic Method to
• Pax Romana refers to Romes
• The Laws of the Twelve Tables made it possible
  for the first time for plebians to
• Who led the Israelites in their exodus from Egypt
  back to Canaan?
• What set the Jews apart from other people of the
  Roman empire?
• Gods covenant with the Israelites was a promise
  to protect them and also provide
• Jesus parents returned to their ancestoral city
  when Augustus Ceasar called for a
• In A.D. 313, The Edict of Milan issued
• ______, a Jew from Asia Minor, played the most
  influential role in the spread of Christianity.

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Chapter Two

• Matching
• Thomas Jefferson
• popular sovereignty
• Diderot
• Montesquieu
• laissez faire

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Chapter Three

1. Louis XVI was forced to dismiss his financial
   advisor, Jaques Necker, when Necker proposed
2. In 1789, the delegates to the Estates-General
   that broke away and declared themselves to be the
   National Assembly were from the
3. Participants in the Tennis Court Oath swore to
   continue meeting until they were able to bring
   about
4. The women who marched on Versailles refused to
   leave until the king agreed
5. In the Declaration of Pilnitz, the king of
   Prussia and emperor of Austria said
6. Robespierre believed France could achieve a
   republic of virtue only through
7. During the Reign of Terror, trials and executions
   were carried out under the authority of
8. After overthrowing the Directory in 1799,
   Napoleon and his followers set up a three-man
   governing board called the
9. The Continental System was a form of
10. What war tactic helped the Russians defeat
    Napoleon?
11. A major goal of the decision makers at the
    Congress of Vienna was to

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Chapter Four

1. The Concert of Europe was an agreement to
2. Father Miguel Hidalgos el Grito de Delores was
   a
3. What event in Europe in 1808 encouraged
   widespread rebellion in Latin America?
4. Liberals strongly supported laissez faire
   economics as the best way to
5. In the 1700s, Latin American political and social
   life was dominated by the
6. For a short time after liberation from Spanish
   rule, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Panama were part of
   a single nation called
7. Unlike revolutions in other Latin American
   countries, Haitis fight for freedom was
8. Creating a homeland for people who shared a
   common heritage was a goal of

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Chapter Five

1. The development of steam power enabled the growth
   of
2. The putting-out system was a method of
3. The people who lived in tenements in industrial
   cities were part of the
4. Laws called factory acts were passed in the
   early 1800s to
5. Which of the following was a long-term result of
   the Industrial Revolution?
6. According to socialists, the solution to poverty
   and injustice was
7. Which group established communities where all
   work is shared and all property is owned in
   common?

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Chapter Six

1. A production method in which workers repeatedly
   perform one task in the manufacturing process is
   called
2. The popular saying a mans home is his castle
   reflected what middle-class value of the late
   1800s?
3. What theory applied the idea of natural selection
   to the development of business and society?
4. Romanticism can be described as a revolt against
   the Enlightenments emphasis on
5. An artist of the mid-1800s who portrayed the
   harsh lives of slum dwellers was probably using
   what artistic style?
6. What limited the effectiveness of women involved
   in the temperance movement?
7. The Bessemer process was a method for producing

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Chapter Nine

1. Which of the following was a Social Darwinist
   argument in favor of western imperialism?
2. Ethiopia was able to maintain its independence
   under King Melenik II because
3. In the Ottoman Empire, tensions between Turkish
   nationalists and ethnic groups seeking
   independence sparked the genocide against the
4. Rifle cartridges greased with animal fat from
   cows and pigs caused the Sepoys to refuse to load
   their guns because it violated their _______
   customs and traditions.
5. The treaty of Nanjing was the first of a series
   of unequal treaties, in which Britain gained
   control of
6. Which of the following was one of Sun Yixians
   Three Principles of the People?

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Chapter Ten

1. Which of the following was a result of the
   Russo-Japanese War?
2. What was a result of the treaty that ended the
   Spanish-American War?
3. The first British colonists to settle Australia
   in large numbers were
4. Japan gained control of Taiwan as the result of
5. Siam avoided becoming a European colony by
6. The Platt Amendment gave the United States the
   right to intervene in the affairs of
7. The United States gained control of the land for
   the Panama Canal by
8. The United States gained control of Texas after
   armed conflict with the forces of
9. _______ helped open a liberal reform in Mexico
   known as La Reforma.
10. The American continents are henceforth not to be
    considered as subject for future colonization by
    any European powers. This quote above expresses
    the main idea of