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ap euro ch. 15

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Between 1846 and 1932, how many citizens did Europe lose to emigration?
about 50 million
After 1910, population growth in Europe ___
Declined or stayed the same
One of the main destinations in Africa for many Europeans was ___
South Africa
Popular destinations in the Americas for many Europeans were ___
the United States, Canada, and Brazil
What labor-related term was coined in the latter half of the nineteenth century?
unemployment
The first bicycles were made of ___
wood
The first major public power plant in Europe was constructed in ___
Great Britain
What country was a leader in forging the link between scientific research and industrial development?
Germany
The petite bourgeoisie was made up of ___
white-collar workers
During the second half of the nineteenth century, the middle classes ___
grew increasingly diverse
Small shop owners considered which of the following a threat?
department stores
Which of the following was considered a white-collar worker?
lower-level government bureaucrat
Starting around midcentury, urban planners devised cities that were dominated by ___
commerce, government, and entertainment venues
Who did Napoleon III appoint to redesign Paris, with a partial goal of widening the streets to make for an easier response to insurrections?
Baron Georges Haussmann
By 1910, which European city had the highest population?
London
In the nineteenth century, cholera struck ___
all classes
Which of the following groups offered economic incentives to build housing for the poor?
businesses and philanthropists
Most countries prohibited women from becoming ___ until after World War I.
lawyers
The name given to the practice by Russian police and right-wing groups of conducting riots against the Jews was ___
pogrom
In the last two decades of the nineteenth century, many Jews in Germany began experiencing the effects of ___
organized anti-Semitism
The emancipation of Jews brought ___
equal or nearly equal citizenship and social status
Anti-Semitism was strongest under ___ rule in the late 1800s.
Russian
The emancipation of the Jews began in the ___
eighteenth century and was never fully completed
The Fabian Society ___
was Britain's most influential socialist group
Count Sergei Witte ___
worked to industrialize Russia
What was a key contributory factor to the migration of Europeans in the 1800s?
the emancipation of peasants
After 1885, emigration patterns in Europe changed in terms of ___
emigrant's country of origin
European migration .___ Europe because ___
benefited; it relieved social and population pressures
The Second Industrial Revolution was characterized by ___
the development of new industries on the Continent
The Second Industrial Revolution was associated with ___
steel, chemicals, and electricity
Which of the following lagged behind other European countries, economically, in the late 1800s?
the Balkans and the Ottoman Empire
The economic slump of the late 1800s was essentially one of ___
supply exceeding demand
The petite bourgeoisie were squeezed between the ___ and the ___
middle class; working class
After 1848, the middle classes' interest in revolutions ___
declined in favor of protecting their status
The petite bourgeoisie ___ middle class
aspired to become
Middle-class reformers targeted which of the following issues as an impediment to a healthy and politically stable population?
housing conditions
One of the ways that urban reconstruction in France was political is it ___
created thousands of government and private sector jobs
Napoleon III's primary goal in redesigning Paris was to ___
make it less protester-friendly
Progress in Europe that enabled married women to own property came first in ___
Great Britain
Which of these tended to provide some options for women after around 1900?
wage-earning and divorce
One of the two major developments affecting the economic lives of women during the Second Industrial Revolution was ___
a large expansion in the variety of available jobs
Which of the following was true about family law in most European countries?
The father had the right to take his children from their mother.
Following the revolutions of 1848, the experience of and opportunities for Jews in Europe ___
generally improved
By the end of the nineteenth century, most Jews in Western Europe ___
considered anti-Semitism a minor and temporary problem
During the late nineteenth century, the primary issue that confronted socialist parties throughout Europe was ___
whether desired goals required revolution or through democratic reform
The International Working Men's Association, known as the First International, ___
was short-lived but had a profound impact on socialist efforts in Europe
The socialist movement in France was characterized by ___
a divided effort with two main opposing factions
During the last half of the nineteenth century, workers felt less need to protest in the streets and riot because ___
they used new institutions to express their demands
Which of the following is considered a strong trigger for the Russian Revolution of 1905?
the Bloody Sunday shootings
Bismarck attempted to persuade German workers to oppose socialism by ___
implementing programs that offered a paternalistic alternative to socialism
Which of these was true about Europe between 1860 and 1914?
socialism was a major political force
Which of these was the major push factor driving migration from Europe in the 1800s?
a population boom
Public health laws can be seen as supporting ___ at the expense of ___
public health; private rights
Which of these best describes European women's legal and economic status around 1900?
improving, with some major goals achieved
In What Is to Be Done?, Vladimir Lenin argued for implementation of ___
a modified version of Marx's socialist revolution
Around 1850, most European emigrants were from Great Britain, ___, and Scandinavia.
German states
___ steel production eclipsed that of Britain in 1893.
German
The British engineer ___ discovered the process of manufacturing steel cheaply in big quantities
Henry Bessemer
In the nineteenth century, the ___ set consumer tastes for most of the society.
Middle classes
In the late nineteenth century, the middle and lower classes started seeking housing in ___
Suburbs
In 1910, Paris had a population of nearly ___ million.
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The Napoleonic Code made French women in effect legal ___
minors
In Great Britain, ___ led the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
Millicent Fawcett
In 1894, the ___, was founded to fight for women's rights in Germany.
Union of German Women's Organizations
Legal discrimination and prejudice against Jews continued until World War I in ___
Russia
___ is hostility toward or prejudice against Jews.
Anti-Semitism
___ was a wealthy Jewish man from London who was elected to Parliament several times but who failed to be seated because he would not take the Christian oath.
Lionel Rothschild
The British feminist ___, along with her daughters, organized the Women's Social and Political Union in 1903.
Pankhurst
Socialist participation in the French cabinet was called ___
Opportunism
The doctrines put forth by Eduard Bernstein, known as ___, which questioned whether Marx was right to demand revolution, were eventually rejected by German socialists.
Revisionism
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