5.2 Practice MCQs

Group 1

Source 1.1

• Haiti was an isolated colony with very limited contact with other colonies.

• Haiti was an extension of the British mainland.

• Haiti was part of a collection of colonies in the Caribbean and Latin America.

• The Haitian Revolution set the stage for the French Revolution.

• movement that was fed by Enlightenment thought.

• movement that had its roots in religious freedom.

• movement that rejected the Enlightenment.

• slave rebellion that failed to attain its goals.

Group 2

• The large-scale use of slavery in the Americas by European powers

• Traditional slavery in the African interior

• European adoption of Amerindian coercive labor systems

• Impressment of African sailors by European navies

• It failed to gain any level of independence from Portugal

• It was led by slaves who claimed royal blood for themselves

• It put a member of the ruling family in charge of the newly independent nation

• It was a military coup that was supported by both laborers and the elites

Group 3

• Bolívar opposed the use of Native Americans and Africans as forced laborers in Latin America.

• Bolívar rejected Spanish mercantilist policies that restricted free trade in Latin America.

• Bolívar was alarmed by the excessive consumerism in the Spanish empire.

• Bolívar hoped to undo the effects of the Columbian exchange.

• Mulatto shopkeepers

• Plantation slaves

• Amerindian miners

• Creole elites

Group 4

• Relying on statistical data to determine the true conditions of slavery

• Illustrating the damage of slavery by quoting from written slave narratives

• Using sarcasm to highlight the weakness of the proslavery arguments

• Providing evidence to corroborate the newspapers’ position

• the government of Brazil had adopted Enlightenment political principles

• Brazilian laws continued to be dictated from Portugal

• Brazilian slaves were inspired to seek further rights by the example of the Haitian Revolution

• in terms of granting political liberties to its citizens, Brazil was more progressive than most Latin American countries

• invoking religious ideas of the equality of all humans in the eyes of God

• educating the public about the ways in which relying on slave labor led to delayed industrialization

• explicitly rejecting Social Darwinist ideas and other racially based arguments for slavery

• exposing the discrepancy between the idea of universal human rights and the persistence of slavery

Group 5

• Mercantilists

• Absolutists

• Laissez-faire capitalists

• Enlightenment thinkers

• having a shared language and religion were more important than sharing a contiguous territory in determining who could be citizens within the nation

• only those born within the territory of the nation and those who shared a common historical origin should be included as citizens within the nation

• political power could only be exercised through the popular will of the nation’s citizens

• people from separate national groups with distinct cultural traditions could be equal citizens within the same state

• In his writings, Kersaint advocates for encouraging the willing migration of Africans to French colonies rather than their enslavement.

• As an officer in the French navy, Kersaint had participated in military campaigns against the British in the Caribbean and during the American Revolution.

• At the time of the French Revolution, Kersaint owned plantations and other property in the French Caribbean.

• In a pamphlet written shortly before the French Revolution began, Kersaint called for abolishing the traditional privileges of the French nobility in France and its colonies.

Group 6

• societal norms that assigned women lower status than the status of men

• nationalistic ideals that mobilized Japanese men to support imperial expansion

• middle-class ideals that motivated women to seek work outside the household

• Buddhist principles that emphasized the spiritual equality of men and women

• Adopting a socialist system of government to reduce economic inequalities in Japanese society

• Providing greater educational opportunities to increase women’s economic independence

• Industrializing the Japanese economy to increase the standard of living for all Japanese citizens

• Returning Japan’s political order to the way it was under the Tokugawa Shogunate

• The Haitian Revolution

• The French Revolution

• The American Civil War

• The Second World War