Modern World History MCQs

A. museums, opera houses and city halls.

B. textile factories.

C. railway stations.

D. suburban middle class homes.

A. It made cotton more profitable ( )

B. It drove planters out of business ( )

C. It made the land more fertile ( )

D. It made slavery unprofitable ( )

A. financial independence.

B. living modestly and soberly.

C. merit and character.

D. conspicuous consumption.

A. Eli Whitney – Cotton Gin ( )

B. Robert Fulton – Steamboat ( )

C. Samuel Morse – Telephone ( )

D. Samuel Colt – Revolver ( )

A. led to a sharp decline in canal building ( )

B. hindered the development of railroads in the South and West ( )

C. Brought the West into the national economy ( )

D. led to a decline in the port cities of the Northeast ( )

A. early nineteenth-century artistic and cultural developments in the Ottoman Empire

B. the heightened European interest in the east specifically Egypt

C. cultural nationalism in China and Japan

D. None of the above

A. helped Europe redefine its identity

B. abolished Ottoman rule in the Balkan

C. preserved an Ottoman foothold in Southeastern Europe

D. brought Serbia and Greece into a mutual alliance

A. liberals

B. socialists

C. anarchists

D. republic

A. territorial treaty signed by Prussia and Russia

B. treaty that partitioned Poland among the great powers

C. pledge by Russia to help Italy get rid of the Carbonari

D. pact between Austria, Russia and Prussia to aid one another to suppress one another

A. workers, artisans, students and writers

B. middle-class Jacobins

C. the nobility and the army

D. students