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Example Questions
Example Question #471 : Sat Subject Test In World History
The so-called "Auspicious Incident" involved the rebellion of which part of Ottoman society in the nineteenth century?
The Sepoys
The Sipahis
The Janissaries
The Barbary Pirates
The Keshiks
The Janissaries
The "Auspicious Incident" occurred in the Ottoman Empire in 1826. It involved the rebellion of certain members of the Ottoman military called Janissaries. The rebellion was put down brutally, and the Ottoman Empire disbanded all of the Janissaries, replacing them with more modern regiments. It is likely you did not know this answer, but you should have been able to guess based on a knowledge of what "Janissaries" were within the Ottoman Empire. Janissaries were young Christian boys, often kidnapped during Ottoman wars, and trained to serve their lives in the Ottoman military. The Ottomans employed Janissaries in many battles throughout this time period.
Example Question #1 : Discovery And Settlement Of The Americas
Which of these groups were the first to settle the Hudson River Valley?
The French
The Portuguese
The English
The Dutch
The Spanish
The Dutch
The Dutch were the first to found colonies in the Hudson River Valley, the area comprising most of modern-day New York. They founded the colony of New Amsterdam, which would become New York City, in the early seventeenth century.
Example Question #2 : Discovery And Settlement Of The Americas
Prior to the arrival of Columbus in the fifteenth century, which of these groups is believed to have arrived in North America?
The French
The Chinese
The Gauls
The Celts
The Vikings
The Vikings
The Vikings, led by the famous Leif Erikson, are believed to have arrived in what is modern-day Nova Scotia and Newfoundland in the eleventh century, four centuries before the arrival of the Dutch, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Example Question #1 : Discovery And Settlement Of The Americas
Where were the first European colonies in the New World established?
Florida
Virginia
Honduras
Hispaniola
Brazil
Hispaniola
The first European colonies in the New World were established in Hispaniola on the initial voyages of Columbus in 1492 and 1493. The island of Hispaniola is now shared by the modern-day countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Example Question #1 : North And South America
According to the Monroe Doctrine, the United States
Would aid France in any future conflict with another European power.
Had a divine right and mandate to expand across the whole of the North American continent.
Would aid Britain in any future conflict with another European power.
Would intervene if any European power tried to establish new colonies in the American hemisphere.
Could establish imperial colonies in the South Pacific.
Would intervene if any European power tried to establish new colonies in the American hemisphere.
The Monroe Doctrine was issued in 1823 following the independence of several South American countries. It stated that if the European powers tried to reestablish colonial control over South or Central America then the United States would intervene.
Example Question #4 : North And South America
Manifest Destiny states that __________.
the United States should police the involvement of European nations in Central and South America
the United States is fated to spread across the whole North American continent
the British will one day return to claim their former American colonies
there is fluidity and mobility in the American social and economic system
the United States should avoid getting involved in European conflicts
the United States is fated to spread across the whole North American continent
Manifest Destiny is an important and influential mythology of the early American Republic. Proponents of Manifest Destiny argued that the United States was fated to spread and expand across the whole North American conflict. Manifest Destiny was an important driving myth in the massive westward expansion of American settlers in the nineteenth century.
Example Question #1 : The American Revolution
The Declaration of Independence was written by __________.
Alexander Hamilton
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
The Declaration of Independence, in which the American colonies published a series of grievances against the colonial rule of the British Empire, was written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776.
Example Question #1 : The American Revolution
The Revolutionary War emerged over issues regarding __________.
the quartering of British troops in the homes of aristocrats in the American colonies
the right of the British government to tax the American colonists
economic stagnation in the American colonies following the French and Indian War
the British government's refusal to honor freedom of religious practice in the American colonies
the overthrow of the Puritan government at the end of the British Civil War
the right of the British government to tax the American colonists
The term Revolutionary War is generally used to describe the military campaign between 1775 and 1783, however in terms of a political revolution the period actually began in 1765 when the American colonists first officially rejected the right of the British government to levy taxes against the American colonists. You probably remember the rallying cry "no taxation without representation" from your various classes in American history. This was the central issue that led to the American War of Independence.
Example Question #3 : The American Revolution
The ideas of which philosophers influenced the American Revolution?
Abbe Sieyes' belief in the importance of working people being represented by their government
Thomas Hobbes' belief in the need for absolute monarchy
John Locke's belief in a government that responded to the needs of the people
John Stuart Mill's belief in utilitarianism and the promotion of happiness
Karl Marx's belief in the importance of worker-run industry
John Locke's belief in a government that responded to the needs of the people
All of these philosophers rose to prominence after the American Revolution, save Hobbes and Locke. Hobbes promoted absolute monarchy, something that the American Revolution fought against. Locke's ideas about a government that responded to the needs of its people influenced the American Revolution.
Example Question #251 : 1500 C.E. To 1900 C.E.
A direct cause of the Spanish American Wars of Independence in the early nineteenth century was
military intervention by the Spanish government in colonial affairs.
slave revolts.
Native American revolts.
new taxes on colonial products.
the Napoleonic invasions of Spain.
the Napoleonic invasions of Spain.
Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France, invaded Spain in 1807, deposing the King and throwing the country into general chaos. This dissolution of authority made colonial governments assert their own authority over their own lands. By 1833, when King Ferdinand VII of Spain died and the Spanish government renounced claims, only Puerto Rico and Cuba remained as Spanish possessions in the Americas.
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