Question 1

What was the Declaration of Independence?

Accepted Answer

A document stating the American desire to be free from Britain

Question 2

What were the New Zealand Wars?

Accepted Answer

A series of conflicts between the indigenous Maori and British colonizers in New Zealand

(Maori were united, but British won)

Question 3

What was the French Revolution?

Accepted Answer

A period of major social upheaval in France

(replaced the former government, killing Louis XVI)

Question 4

What was the Bastille in the French Revolution?

Accepted Answer

A former prison in Paris that represented the abuses of the French monarchy

(capturing it represented the end of the former government)

Question 5

What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?

Accepted Answer

A French statement of basic human rights

Influential on modern ideas

(part of the first part of French Revolution)

Question 6

What was the Reign of Terror?

Accepted Answer

A period in the French Revolution where the government executed thousands of opponents of the revolution

Question 7

Who became emporer of France after the French Revolution?

Accepted Answer

Napoleon Bonaparte

Question 8

How was France involved with Haiti?

Accepted Answer

Haiti was a former sugar and coffee colony of France

Question 9

Who were the Maroons?

Accepted Answer

Descendants of slaves in many parts of the Americas

(won freedom earlier than other slaves)

Question 10

Who was Toussant L'Ouverture?

Accepted Answer

Haitian general and former slave that created an independent government in Haiti

Question 11

What was the Haitian Revolution?

Accepted Answer

A slave uprising in Haiti that freed it from France and abolished slavery

Question 12

Who was Simon Bolivar?

Accepted Answer

Venezuelan soldier that led revolutions against the Spanish in Latin America

(The Bolivar Revolutions)

Question 13

Who was Lola Rodriguez de Tio?

Accepted Answer

Female poet that critiqued Spain's exploitative rule over Puerto Rico

Question 14

What was the Propaganda Movement in the Philippines?

Accepted Answer

A period of time when Filipinos called out for reforms under Spanish rule

(led to the Philippine Revolution in 1896)

Question 15

What was the Italian unification?

Accepted Answer

A political and social movement that unified the Italian Peninsula into one state

Question 16

What was realpolitik?

Accepted Answer

Belief in practical policies, rather than moral or ideological considerations

(used in the Italian unification)

Question 17

Who was Giuseppe Mazzini?

Accepted Answer

Head of the Italian revolution and unification

Question 18

What was the German unification?

Accepted Answer

The unification of individual German states into the German Empire

Question 19

Who was Otto von Bismarck?

Accepted Answer

Leader of the German unification, creating the German Empire

Question 20

What two new powers emerged in Europe in the late 1800s?

Accepted Answer

Germany and Italy

(both unified many smaller states into big ones, making them new powers)

Question 21

How did Greece become independent from the Ottomans?

Accepted Answer

The Ottomans slowly became weaker, while Greece was exposed to the Enlightenment

Combined with Greek nationalism and help of other nations, Greek became independent

Question 22

What was Ottomanism?

Accepted Answer

An Ottoman movement that tried to unify the empire

(ended up further splitting the empire)

5.2 - Revolutions, AP World History: Modern Flashcards