HISTORY 105 EXAM 3 2025 MCGLONE – TAMU
EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS | A+
GRADE
reasons behind China's decline in the nineteenth century - ans -- economic
problems
- british tried to gain access to the trade markets but the emperor declined
- wanted to remain isolated and was stuck in there ways
- banned opium trading which caused opium wars
- other countries started to take advantage of political instability to create
unequal treaties
Origins of Industrial Revolution - ans -mass production of goods using machines
rather than hand power due to new technologies; began in England due to
availability of workers , natural resources ( coal , iron ore), expansive canal
network and navigable rivers , wealthy individuals willing to invest money in new
businesses and government encouraged capitalistic efforts
Japan's approach to the challenge of western encroachment - ans -- open to the
changes
- engaged with other parts of china which created a buffer
- allowed people to learn
German Unification - ans -In the 19th-century, various independent German-
speaking states, led by the chancellor of Prussia Otto von Bismarck, unified to
create a Germanic state. The state expanded with von Bismarck's military exploits
against Austria, France and Denmark. Unification was complete by 1871 with the
Prussian king, Wilhelm, named the first leader of Germany.
The labor force of the early rural textile - ans -primarily composed of orphaned
children
Sino-Japanese War - ans -(1894-1895) Japan's imperialistic war against China to
gain control of natural resources and markets for their goods. It ended with the
Treaty of Portsmouth which granted Japan Chinese port city trading rights,
control of Manchuria, the annexation of the island of Sakhalin, and Korea became
its protectorate.
, Summary of Cavour's contributions to Italian unification - ans -- Financial
improvement of Piedmont (147-1859)
- Involving Piedmont in Crimean War (1854-1856)
- Securing French alliance at Plombieres (1858)
- Provoking Austro-Franco War (1859)
- Securing plebiscites for annexation of central duchies (1860)
- Overall thanks to Cavour Northern Italy was unified
Sardinia - ans -southern-most large island in the Tyrrhenian Sea west of Italy
Garibaldi - ans -Italian patriot whose conquest of Sicily and Naples led to the
formation of the Italian state (1807-1882).
Great Revolt of 1857 - ans -The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major, but
ultimately unsuccessful, uprising in India between 1857-58 against the rule of the
British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of
the British Crown.
Child Labor Laws - ans -Laws passed over many decades, beginning in the 1830s,
by state and federal governments, forbidding the employment of children and
young teenagers, except at certain carefully specified jobs.
Fermentation - ans -A catabolic process that makes a limited amount of ATP from
glucose without an electron transport chain and that produces a characteristic
end product, such as ethyl alcohol or lactic acid.
Chartists - ans -English reformers who wanted changes like universal male
suffrage; the secret ballot; and payment for members of Parliament, so that even
workingmen could afford to enter politics. This group supported a document
called the People's Charter.
EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS | A+
GRADE
reasons behind China's decline in the nineteenth century - ans -- economic
problems
- british tried to gain access to the trade markets but the emperor declined
- wanted to remain isolated and was stuck in there ways
- banned opium trading which caused opium wars
- other countries started to take advantage of political instability to create
unequal treaties
Origins of Industrial Revolution - ans -mass production of goods using machines
rather than hand power due to new technologies; began in England due to
availability of workers , natural resources ( coal , iron ore), expansive canal
network and navigable rivers , wealthy individuals willing to invest money in new
businesses and government encouraged capitalistic efforts
Japan's approach to the challenge of western encroachment - ans -- open to the
changes
- engaged with other parts of china which created a buffer
- allowed people to learn
German Unification - ans -In the 19th-century, various independent German-
speaking states, led by the chancellor of Prussia Otto von Bismarck, unified to
create a Germanic state. The state expanded with von Bismarck's military exploits
against Austria, France and Denmark. Unification was complete by 1871 with the
Prussian king, Wilhelm, named the first leader of Germany.
The labor force of the early rural textile - ans -primarily composed of orphaned
children
Sino-Japanese War - ans -(1894-1895) Japan's imperialistic war against China to
gain control of natural resources and markets for their goods. It ended with the
Treaty of Portsmouth which granted Japan Chinese port city trading rights,
control of Manchuria, the annexation of the island of Sakhalin, and Korea became
its protectorate.
, Summary of Cavour's contributions to Italian unification - ans -- Financial
improvement of Piedmont (147-1859)
- Involving Piedmont in Crimean War (1854-1856)
- Securing French alliance at Plombieres (1858)
- Provoking Austro-Franco War (1859)
- Securing plebiscites for annexation of central duchies (1860)
- Overall thanks to Cavour Northern Italy was unified
Sardinia - ans -southern-most large island in the Tyrrhenian Sea west of Italy
Garibaldi - ans -Italian patriot whose conquest of Sicily and Naples led to the
formation of the Italian state (1807-1882).
Great Revolt of 1857 - ans -The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major, but
ultimately unsuccessful, uprising in India between 1857-58 against the rule of the
British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of
the British Crown.
Child Labor Laws - ans -Laws passed over many decades, beginning in the 1830s,
by state and federal governments, forbidding the employment of children and
young teenagers, except at certain carefully specified jobs.
Fermentation - ans -A catabolic process that makes a limited amount of ATP from
glucose without an electron transport chain and that produces a characteristic
end product, such as ethyl alcohol or lactic acid.
Chartists - ans -English reformers who wanted changes like universal male
suffrage; the secret ballot; and payment for members of Parliament, so that even
workingmen could afford to enter politics. This group supported a document
called the People's Charter.
