Reactions to the Industrial Economy/AP Exam Practice

Topic 8 AP Exam Practice

Multiple-Choice Questions

Questions 1 to 3 refer to the passage below.

“We have now received Her Majesty’s decree to devote ourselves fully to China’s revitalization, to suppress vigorously the use of the terms new and old, and to blend together the best of what is Chinese and what is foreign. The root of China’s weakness lies in harmful habits too firmly entrenched, in rules and regulations too minutely drawn, in the overabundance of inept and mediocre officials and in the paucity of truly outstanding ones, in petty bureaucrats who hide behind the written word and in clerks and yamen runners [administrative clerks] who use the written word as talismans [an object that brings good luck] to acquire personal fortunes, in the mountains of correspondence between government offices that have no relationship to reality, and in the seniority system and associated practices that block the way of men of real talent.”

Qing Reform Edict, January 29, 1901

1. Which segment of Chinese society seems to be the focus of this excerpt from the Reform Edict?

(A) The military
(B) The emperor
(C) Civil servants
(D) Peasants

2. Which of the following was most similar to the ideas in the source?

(A) The concept of concessions
(B) The principle of extraterritoriality
(C) The Open Door Policy
(D) The Self-Strengthening Movement

3. How did the Boxer Rebellion lead to the Reform Edict?

(A) The failure of the Boxer Rebellion persuaded many members of the Chinese government to support more extensive reforms.
(B) The Boxers were the “inept and mediocre officials” that the edict was trying to remove.
(C) The success of the Boxer Rebellion against the Qing opened the way for more significant reforms to be enacted.
(D) The Boxers shifted their efforts from trying to drive foreigners out of China to serving as efficient government officials.

Short-Answer Questions

1. Use the poster below to answer all parts of the question that follows.

American Federation of Labor, Library of Congress

(A)(A) Describe ONE way in which the poster reflects the intellectual ideas of the period 1750–1900.

(B)(B) Describe ONE way in which the development of industrialization contributed to the development of trade unions in the period 1750–1900.

(C)(C) Explain ONE historical situation in the period 1750–1900, other than the one illustrated in the poster, in which groups of people influenced changes in industrial societies.

2. Answer all parts of the question that follows.

(A)(A) Explain ONE way in which the ideas of Karl Marx compare to the ideas of John Stuart Mill.

(B)(B) Explain ONE way in which reactions to Ottoman reform is similar to reactions to Japanese reform in the period 1750–1900.

(C)(C) Explain ONE way in which Western European influenced reform in China in the period 1750–1900.

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