Chapter 24 Quiz C with References

. In a nation, citizens feel allegiance towards _____.

An absolute monarch.

A constitutional monarch.

A growing economy.

One another.

. Emancipation of their slaves was one of the keys to developing nationalism in Latin American states.

True.

False.

. The Crimean War revealed that _____ was a major Russian weakness.

Serfdom.

The size of its military.

Winter.

Its powerful middle class.

. In both Italy and Germany, the majority of the citizens of the new nation-states saw themselves as belonging to that nation before the states were founded.

True.

False.

. US nationalism developed thanks to _____.

A shared language.

A shared goal of expansion.

Rejection of slavery and racial difference.

All of the above.

. Japan's Meiji Restoration was very effective, but was still followed by unrest and disorder.

True.

False.

. Business imperialism was based on _____.

Economic control.

Political control.

military conquest.

All of the above.

. _____ rose against British rule in the Indian Uprising.

Indian troops

Oppressed peasants.

Dispossessed aristocrats.

Discontented merchants.

. The Suez Canal was built by _____ to shorten the route to India.

The British.

The Indians.

The Ottomans.

The French.

. Japan escaped European domination by becoming an industrial nation.

True.

False.

. A small number of British soldiers defeated a much larger Sudanese army at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898 thanks to the power of _____.

Faith.

Machine guns.

Superior strategy.

Disease.

. The main beneficiaries of empire were _____.

Nations as a whole.

The middle classes who got jobs administering them.

The colonized people who adopted modern ideas and institutions.

Wealthy individuals who invested in colonies and the goods sold to them.

. 19th century migrants left their homes _____.

In search of opportunity.

Because of economic desperation.

Fleeing persecution.

All of the above

. Ethnic diasporas are a sprinkling of people who share an ethnic identity among those of another identity.

True.

False.

. Migration had little impact on culture.

True.

False.

. Public education became a crucial ingredient of national development.

True.

False.

. Indigenous people were universally treated as _____.

Founding members of society.

The true owners of the land.

Remnants of barbarism

Odd and barbaric but fascinating.

. Nineteenth century women were universally treated as national symbols but denied the rights of citizenship.

True.

False

. _____ were content to wait for the rights of citizenship until the majority felt they were deserved.

Enslaved people.

Women.

Indigenous people.

None of the above.

. The movement which advocated for the founding of a Jewish nation-state in Palestine was _____.

Zionism.

Anti-Semitism.

Anti-Arabism.

Nationalism.

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