assignment 2:
ASSIGNMENT 2
NAME: _____________________________
CLASS TIME: 9:00 11:00
Using your textbook, answer the following questions. If you turn in your assignment early you will receive two points extra credit.
1. The two countries that used nationalism to unite internally in the late nineteenth century were ____________________ and ____________________.
2. In the 19th century, European ____________________ supported representative government, government dominated by the propertied classes and laissez-faire economics.
3. ____________________ is the believe that one is part of a nation, defined as a community with its own language, traditions, culture, customs, and history, and it becomes the primary focus of one’s loyalty and identity.
4. The ____________________ ____________________ of 1825 was important because it ended the influence of liberalism in Russian politics.
5. After the 1830 Revolution in France, ____________________ ____________________ was called the king of the French rather than of France.
6. The ____________________ ____________________ Bill expanded the British electorate by over 200,000.
7. ____________________ is considered the first large-scale European working-class political movement seeking political reforms that would favor the British workers during the 1830s and 1840s.
8. From the 1860s onward, Irish nationalists sought ____________________ ____________________ or local control of Ireland.
9. As a result of the 1848 Revolution in France, ____________________ comes to power and created the Second Empire.
10. The ____________________-____________________ Bill of 1854 stated that the people of each new state would vote on whether slavery would be allowed.
11. The ____________________ Amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery.
12. The ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ Act of 1867 created a Canadian federation.
13. The ____________________ __________ was significant because it led to the end of the Concert of Europe.
14. Italian unity was achieve by ____________________ ____________________ of Piedmont in the north and by ____________________ ____________________ of Sicily in the south.
15. Regarding German unification, Otto von Bismarck favored the ____________________ solution to unification.
16. ____________________ was the process whereby independent artisans and factory workers lost control of the means of production and the conduct of their own trades to the owners of capital.
17. By 1882, Great Britain had passed the Married Women's __________ Act, which allowed married women to own property in their own right.
18. By the end of the nineteenth century, most working-class ____________________ were employed in the textile and garment industries.
19. Organized riots against Jews in Russia were known as ____________________ .
20. The author whose writings applied the revolutionary doctrines of the rights of man to include women was ____________________ ____________________.
21. By about 1900, ____________________ ____________________ included both skilled and unskilled workers.
22. According to _____ ____________________ ____________________, the revolutionary class was composed of the proletariat.
23. The ____________________ were British Socialists who sought to achieve socialism through gradual, peaceful, and democratic means.
24. The most successful pre–World War I ____________________ party was the German SPD.
25. The ____________________ _____ assassinated Tsar Alexander II.
26. The faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party led by Vladimir Lenin was called the ____________________ .
27. The first European country to adopt a program of social welfare legislation was ____________________ .
28. ____________________ in the United States sought to reform political life and introduce more efficient government.
29. In 1892 the American government opened an immigration station on _______________ _______________ in New York harbor to process immigrants from Europe.
30. According to Darwin, ____________________ ____________________ is the process by which only the organisms best adapted to their environment tend to survive and reproduce.
EXTRA CREDIT QUESTIONS:
1. In the year ____________________, a series of spontaneous liberal and nationalistic revolutions, revolts and uprisings broke out across Europe.
2. The movement to create a Jewish state in Palestine is known as ____________________ .
3. _________ _______________ pioneered the quantum theory of energy.
SECTION II: Answer TWO of the following questions and write a complete essay for each. (10 points possible for each essay—20 points total.) The essays must be type-written, double-spaced, one-inch margins.
1. Nationalism had a variable effect on European and world politics in the nineteenth century. Name three situations in which nationalism played a different role each time. How would you assess the overall impact of nationalism on Europe? Is it, on balance, a positive or a negative force?
2. Discuss the sectional difficulties in the United States from 1800 to 1840. What were the main issues and what compromises took place?
3. What were the major changes in European thought at the end of the nineteenth century? How do these changes compare to the original ideas of the Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution? What events in the nineteenth century do you think best account for the changes in European intellectual thought?
4. What was the process of proletarianization in industrializing Europe and America, and how did those workers affected by these changes initially respond to it?
NAME: _____________________________
CLASS TIME: 9:00 11:00
Using your textbook, answer the following questions. If you turn in your assignment early you will receive two points extra credit.
1. The two countries that used nationalism to unite internally in the late nineteenth century were ____________________ and ____________________.
2. In the 19th century, European ____________________ supported representative government, government dominated by the propertied classes and laissez-faire economics.
3. ____________________ is the believe that one is part of a nation, defined as a community with its own language, traditions, culture, customs, and history, and it becomes the primary focus of one’s loyalty and identity.
4. The ____________________ ____________________ of 1825 was important because it ended the influence of liberalism in Russian politics.
5. After the 1830 Revolution in France, ____________________ ____________________ was called the king of the French rather than of France.
6. The ____________________ ____________________ Bill expanded the British electorate by over 200,000.
7. ____________________ is considered the first large-scale European working-class political movement seeking political reforms that would favor the British workers during the 1830s and 1840s.
8. From the 1860s onward, Irish nationalists sought ____________________ ____________________ or local control of Ireland.
9. As a result of the 1848 Revolution in France, ____________________ comes to power and created the Second Empire.
10. The ____________________-____________________ Bill of 1854 stated that the people of each new state would vote on whether slavery would be allowed.
11. The ____________________ Amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery.
12. The ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ Act of 1867 created a Canadian federation.
13. The ____________________ __________ was significant because it led to the end of the Concert of Europe.
14. Italian unity was achieve by ____________________ ____________________ of Piedmont in the north and by ____________________ ____________________ of Sicily in the south.
15. Regarding German unification, Otto von Bismarck favored the ____________________ solution to unification.
16. ____________________ was the process whereby independent artisans and factory workers lost control of the means of production and the conduct of their own trades to the owners of capital.
17. By 1882, Great Britain had passed the Married Women's __________ Act, which allowed married women to own property in their own right.
18. By the end of the nineteenth century, most working-class ____________________ were employed in the textile and garment industries.
19. Organized riots against Jews in Russia were known as ____________________ .
20. The author whose writings applied the revolutionary doctrines of the rights of man to include women was ____________________ ____________________.
21. By about 1900, ____________________ ____________________ included both skilled and unskilled workers.
22. According to _____ ____________________ ____________________, the revolutionary class was composed of the proletariat.
23. The ____________________ were British Socialists who sought to achieve socialism through gradual, peaceful, and democratic means.
24. The most successful pre–World War I ____________________ party was the German SPD.
25. The ____________________ _____ assassinated Tsar Alexander II.
26. The faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party led by Vladimir Lenin was called the ____________________ .
27. The first European country to adopt a program of social welfare legislation was ____________________ .
28. ____________________ in the United States sought to reform political life and introduce more efficient government.
29. In 1892 the American government opened an immigration station on _______________ _______________ in New York harbor to process immigrants from Europe.
30. According to Darwin, ____________________ ____________________ is the process by which only the organisms best adapted to their environment tend to survive and reproduce.
EXTRA CREDIT QUESTIONS:
1. In the year ____________________, a series of spontaneous liberal and nationalistic revolutions, revolts and uprisings broke out across Europe.
2. The movement to create a Jewish state in Palestine is known as ____________________ .
3. _________ _______________ pioneered the quantum theory of energy.
SECTION II: Answer TWO of the following questions and write a complete essay for each. (10 points possible for each essay—20 points total.) The essays must be type-written, double-spaced, one-inch margins.
1. Nationalism had a variable effect on European and world politics in the nineteenth century. Name three situations in which nationalism played a different role each time. How would you assess the overall impact of nationalism on Europe? Is it, on balance, a positive or a negative force?
2. Discuss the sectional difficulties in the United States from 1800 to 1840. What were the main issues and what compromises took place?
3. What were the major changes in European thought at the end of the nineteenth century? How do these changes compare to the original ideas of the Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution? What events in the nineteenth century do you think best account for the changes in European intellectual thought?
4. What was the process of proletarianization in industrializing Europe and America, and how did those workers affected by these changes initially respond to it?
