Chapter five

Question 1

Did the British government have legitimate reasons for initiating the Second Opium War?

Answer 1

No, the ship that was selling opium that was boarded by Chinese officials did not have the proper papers to sell opium and the British used this as a excuse to start another war.

Question 2

What was the Taiping Rebellion?

Answer 2

The second bloodiest conquest in history, it happened at around the same time as the American civil war. The Chinese people wanted the leader to stand up to the European powers but he didn’t so they tried to take him out.

Question 3

What was some of the improvements in European cities during the late 1800s and why were they significant?

Answer 3

Living conditions, and sewage systems, fridges were made to last longer.

Question 4

What was the difference between Marxists and Utopian Socialists?

Answer 4

Working conditions for most people were not great, the working class started to demand better conditions. Utopian Socialists thought they could make a perfect working class world, Marxists instead believe that this couldn’t happen and that the only way this could happen was a revolution.

Question 5

What was the Meiji Restoration and what changes occurred in Japan?

Answer 5

United States arrived in Japan with their war ships and force the Japanese to trade with the world. The Japanese decided to modernize while keeping culture. The samurai were not happy with this and revolted.

Question 6

Who was the “Iron Chancellor” and what did he do?

Answer 6

Otto von Bismark was the prime minister of Prussia, he started three wars one of them being the Franco-Prussian war in order to unite Germany under Prussia absolute rule.

Question 7

What was the first war for German unification?

Answer 7

The first war was against Denmark and they win Holstein and Schlesien in 1866.

Question 8

What was the second war for German unification?

Answer 8

The second war was the Austro-Prussian war and they beat them in six weeks and now Austria will not be part of Germany and the kingdoms that sided with Austria are now apart of Prussia.

Question 9

What was the third war for German unification?

Answer 9

The third war was the Franco-Prussian war with France and the rest of the German kingdoms are part of Germany under Prussia rule.

Question 10

What happened to the “Balance of power” that was established in Europe during the Congress of Vienna?

Answer 10

The creation of a unified Germany the balance of power was upset. Germany is now threating Britain and its position as number one power in the world.

Question 11

What was “Das Kapital”

Answer 11

Karl Marx’s book describing why capitalism will collapse from within and turn into communism.

Question 12

What do the Pacific Railway Acts and the Suez Canal have in common?

Answer 12

Pacific Railway Act was a railroad linking LA with New York. The Suez Canal links London with India. They both link places.

Question 13

Was Louis Riel a hero, traitor, or lunatic?

Answer 13

To the first nations and the French he was a hero, to the rest of Canada he was a traitor. He went against the Canadian government but was a hero to some.

Question 14

Why were the Horatio Alger’s stories popular in the United States?

Answer 14

He was a author who made popular of the myth of the American dream.

Question 15

What was the Franco-Prussian war?

Answer 15

Bismark manipulated Napoleon the 3rd of France declare war on Prussia, Prussia beat France and unified Germany and France revolted and became a republic once and for all.

Question 16

What were the terms of the peace treaty that ended the Franco- Prussian war?

Answer 16

Billion Franks to Germany, Alsaice, and Lorraine which Germany takes.

Question 17

What was the result of the British Ballot Act of 1872?

Answer 17

Secret Ballots.

Question 18

What was the 1874 Factory Act?

Answer 18

The factory act limits the working week to 56.5 hours.

Question 19

What is a example of Secularism?

Answer 19

Secularism is usually a liberal value in which the rights of others that are respected, it’s a separation of church/religion and state/government.

Question 20

What happened to Czar Alexander II after he introduced domestic reforms to Russia?

Answer 20

He got killed because he was actually doing good for Russia.

Question 21

What happened to Edison Electric and what does the company produce?

Answer 21

They also made military weapons.

Question 22

Why was American President Garfield assassinated?

Answer 22

Garfield was more worried about healing the bad feelings between the north and south than enforcing the laws that protected African-American rights.

Question 23

What was the “Secret Treaties” and why were they dangerous?

Answer 23

The 2 alliances are formed that will lead to the first World War, on one side the triple alliances is Germany. Austria- Hungary, and Italy and on the other side is called the triple entente which is Russia, France, and Britain.

Question 24

What was the immigration laws in the United States during the late 1800s?

Answer 24

The Chinese exclusion act and they start putting head taxes.

Question 25

What is a pogrom?

Answer 25

Is a mod either approved or condoned by the Russian government against people that were different.

Question 26

Why does the television character "Cartmen as Hitler" make the comment "I'm listening" on the Richard Wagner page?

Answer 26

Wagner was a famous anti-Jewish opera writer who wrote plays about how Germans were better and Hitler grew up listening to him.

Question 27

What was Frederick Nietzsche's concept "Superman" and was he anti-Semitic?

Answer 27

Nietzsche presents the idea of ubermensch and Hitler will use his ideas to justify that the Germans were better.

Question 28

What was the Maxim Machine Gun?

Answer 28

A gun that made killing people very easy.

Question 29

What is the difference between Colonialism and Imperialism?

Answer 29

Colonialism- people from the mother country settle in the colony Imperialism- Have few people from the mother country settle in the colony

Question 30

Why was Industrialization a significant cause of Imperialism?

Answer 30

For resources so they needed to take over other countries to get them.

Question 31

What did Europeans discover as they explored Africa?

Answer 31

There was people, about 700 societies.

Question 32

What is Social Darwinism and who developed the theory?

Answer 32

Social Darwinism was the idea that we came from monkeys and that the African- American weren't fully developed. Herbert Spencer made this theory.

Question 33

What is "White-mans burden"?

Answer 33

Rudyard made the "White-mans burden" followed by "the jungle book"

Question 34

What happened at the Berlin Conference of 1885?

Answer 34

Delegates of 15 nations, but no Africans, met in Berlin February 2nd, 1885 to divide Africa among themselves. The European powers agreed on ground rules governing the race for colonies. No power could simply declare a region its colony unless it exercised effective control over the colony.

Question 35

What was the Conference of Berlin Mandate?

Answer 35

European nations establish a "mandate" requiring agreeing to provide/civilize the "backwords" occupants in their territories.

Question 36

What was two methods Europeans utilized to colonize people around the world?

Answer 36

Subjugation- Europeans employed technological advances in travel and weaponry in their subjugation of indigenous people and Divide and Conquer.

Question 37

What is three methods used in a plunder economy?

Answer 37

1.Expropriated the land of the indigenous people 2.They used the soil and subsoil for their own profit 3.They exploited the population for labour

Question 38

Besides capitalism what is imperialism fuelled by?

Answer 38

The British.

Question 39

What was the underlying cause of the French-Sino War?

Answer 39

The war between France and China to try and control Vietnam, this will lead to the Vietnam war in the 1960s.

Question 40

What was one of the most significant reasons for constructing the Canadian transcontinental railway?

Answer 40

So Americans couldn't occupy Canada and so we can get people to settle on the boarder.

Question 41

Why did the Canadian government believe the "Indian Treaties" were required?

Answer 41

Because we couldn't take the land by force fast enough before the Americans got there so we had to make treaties.

Question 42

Why did the Canadian Pacific Railway agree to construct the railroad and what was the result?

Answer 42

They were going to get the land among the railway. The CPR became rich when people wanted to buy this land.

Question 43

Why were the Chinese workers hired to construct the pacific portion of the railway?

Answer 43

The pacific portion of the railway was hard to make because of the mountains and people would've wanted more money so we got cheap Chinese labour "slaves"

Question 44

What was the Chinese Head Tax?

Answer 44

After the railway was made we didn't want the Chinese people here anymore but the Chinese people that were here wanted to bring their family so in 1885 we charged them 50$ per person to bring over, in 1900 they increased it to 100$ then 500$.

Question 45

Was Bismark imperialistic?

Answer 45

Bismark was not, but the kaiser (German king) was. Bismark knew that if Germany formed a empire Germany would have Britain as a foe, the kaiser wouldn't listen and became a empire and Britain was a foe.

Question 46

What was the United States bison population in 1790 and in 1889?

Answer 46

It went from 20 million to 139.