AP World Final Study Guide
1.Natural rights, right to rebellion, government should derive their authority from the consent of the governed- which
Enlightenment philosophe was best known for these ideas?
2.What happened to King Louis XVI as a result of the French Revolution?
3. The system of social organization in France would have placed the clergy in which estate?
4.What factors contributed to the financial crisis that triggered the French Revolution?
5.Which ruler was associated with popular authoritarianism?
6.Aside from the brutal conditions on Saint Domingue, what other factor contributed to the Haitian Revolution?
7.Support for the Haitian revolution was found in the gens de couleur. Who were they?
8.From whom did Greece win its independence in 1830?
9.Who benefited the most from the Industrial Revolution?
10.Which American agricultural industry increased the demand for slave labor in the 19th century?
11. Adam Smith's argument challenged the prevailing economic model of the time, which was:
12.How did Thomas Malthus attribute to the misfortunes of the working class?
13.Why did Britain discourage the efforts of Egypt to industrialize?
14. What was Britain's main strategy to eliminate competition in trade?
15.What did Mexican revolutionaries José María Morelos and Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla have in common?
16. What did Morales, Hidalgo, and Iturbide all have in common?
17.What were some similarities shared by Venezuelan leader José Antonio Páez and American Andrew Jackson?
18.Which issue threatened the unity of the United States in the 19th century?
19.Contrary to popular belief, Cinco de Mayo is NOT Mexican Independence Day. So what is it?
20.What happened to Amerindians after the American Revolution?
21. How did working-class women transform gender relations in the 19th century?
22.One of the largest demands in "women's rights" in America took the form of:
23. What were the Mamluks?
24.Who was Muhammad Ali (not the boxer)?
25.The preferred language of the reformed educational system in the Ottoman Empire was…
26. Which group was excluded from Ottoman westernization reforms?
27. What was the root cause of the Crimean War?
28. What were the Slavophiles?
29.What did Britain do when it was unable to obtain enough tea to meet its demand and China did not import enough
British goods?
30.What did the Opium War expose about the Qing land forces (the Bannermen)?
31.What religion inspired the founder of the Taiping (Great Peace) Movement, Hong Xiquan?
32.What was the world’s bloodiest civil war?
33.What was a significant difference in Ethiopian identification compared to other African nations?
34.Why did the slave trade end?
35.Why is it ironic that the British became the most aggressive suppressers of the slave trade?
36.How did the British East India Company transform the Indian economy?
37.What prevented the Sepoy Rebellion in 1857 from becoming a full-scale revolution?
38. Who was the first reformer to advocate Pan-Indian nationalism?
39.What strategy did the Indian National Congress employ to seek more rights for Indians?
40.Who were the first British settlers in Australia?
41. Why did most indentured servants leave their homes?
42.How did the chemical dye industry hurt tropical nations such as India?
43.Which industries did Britain control by 1900?
44.How was the home regarded during the Victorian Age?
45. How were women impacted by the invention of the typewriter and telephone in the 1880
46.What ideology questioned the sanctity of private property?
47.How did workers around the world seek change?
48.Who was the most successful leader of Italian unification efforts?
49.What land seizure was a significant point of dispute between France and Germany?
50.Who was Matthew Perry (not Chandler from Friends or Ron Clark)
51. How did leaders of Meiji Japan plan to remain free from Western imperialism?
52. What strategy did Meiji rulers use to strengthen Japan?
53.Which concept maintained that social and radical differences resulted from natural processes?
54.What convinced many Euro-Americans that Western ideas, customs, and culture were superior to non-Western
lifestyles?
55. What was the most harmful aspect of the Western sense of cultural superiority?
56.Why was imperialism so popular with the western general public?
57.Which minerals were in great demand during the new Industrialization?
58.What is the “firepower gap?”
59. What is “colonialism?”
60.What was a tactic taken by colonial administrations to gain cooperation of indigenous people?
61. Egyptian modernization brought an accumulation of foreign debt. What did this cause?
62.What made Belgian colonialism so different than that of the rest of Europe?
63.Why did the British want to expand to southern Africa?
64.What were descendants of Dutch settler in South Africa called?
65. What was South Africa's 1913 Natives Land Act intended to do?
66. Where did the most successful African resistance against Europeans take place?
67.What contributed to the Ethiopian victory over Italy at Adowa?
68. Why did Southeast Asia have great economic potential?
69.What were the side effect of the two benefits of colonial rule to Southeast Asia (peace and food)?
70.Who was the imperial "winner" of the contenders for the Philippines?
71. What was free-trade imperialism in Latin America?
72. What were the results of the Spanish-American War?
73. Why was war considered a good thing at the start of the twentieth century?
74. The early-twentieth-century system of alliances pitted the British, French, and Russians against…
75. How did Africans contribute to WWI?
76.What methods were used to gain support for the war effort during WWI and WWII?
77.What problem did the Russian army face during the war?
78. What motivated Japan to invade Manchuria?
79. What were gulags?
80.What was Mao Zedong's policy toward women?
81.One of the fiercest battles on the Eastern front between USSR and Germany was at…
82.Significant internal conflict was found in India among which two groups?
83. What was Mohandas Gandhi known as by his supporters?
84. How did British rule in India change in the 1920s?
85.Which countries were permanent members in the United Nations Security Council?
86. What is apartheid?
87. What did most of the leaders of African independence movements have in common?
88.Because the Cold War isolated and excluded Japan from world political issues, what was Japan able to do?
89.What was the goal of the EPA Environmental Protection Agency?
90.Which country was engaged in an "unwinnable war" with Afghanistan in the 1980s?
91. What factors caused divisions in communist states by the 1980s and 1990s?
92.The Soviet Union was dissolved in what year?
93. Who was Buzz Aldrin
94. What is the movie Hotel Rwanda about?
95.Twenty-eight million of the 40 million people infected with the HIV virus live in which continent?
96.What is the most influential technology of the last three decades?
97. What did efforts to preserve the environment include in the 20th century?
98. What is the most successful of the regional trade associations in the 20th/21st century?
99.What was the stated purpose of the United States' invasion of Iraq?
100. What is the most important factor in making Western culture available to the rest of the world?