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Chapter 31: Societies at Crossroads Reading Questions
Read the ENTIRE chapter with UNDERSTANDING and answer the following questions.
1. What factors led to the decline of the Ottoman Empire’s military? (name at least three) (707-709)
2. How did the Ottoman Empire lose the Balkan States? (707)
3. How did Egypt get its independence from the Ottomans? (707)
4. How did European industrialization hurt the Ottomans? (708)
5. Describe Capitulations. (708-709)
6. Why was Sultan Selim III unable to remodel his army after European models? (709)
7. What led to the end of the Janissaries? (709)
8. What was the name of the Sultan who tried to reform the Ottoman Empire (hint: they’re already talking about him in the chapter)?
9. What was the Tanzimat Era? AND list the changes they made (710)
10. Abdül Hamid established himself as a despot and attempted many European?style reforms. How did these ultimately limit his power? (710-712)
11. Who are the Young Turks? How did the Young Turks spread their message? (710-712)
12.What did the Young Turks want? (710-712)
13.In Russia, who was freed in this period? And Who freed them? (713)
14. What was the Crimean War? (713)
15.What did the Witte Industrialization Program do in an attempt to industrialize quickly? (714)
16.Russia began industrializing as quickly as they count. How did this lead to problems within Russia? (714-715)
17.What did anarchists believe? (715)
18.How did the tsarist authorities respond to the radical calls for reform? (715-716)
19.The Russo?Japanese War ended with… (716-717)
20. Describe the Revolution of 1905. (717)
21 .After the Revolution of 1905, what concession did the Romanov dynasty finally make to the people? (717)
22.British officials had a difficult time obtaining Chinese goods. To solve this problem, the British chose to sell what commodity in China? (717)
23.How did Great Britain react when China outlawed the drug trade? (717-718)
24.What were the “Unequal Treaties?” (718)
25.What did the Taiping rebels want? (721)
26.What were the effects of the Taiping Rebellion? (721-722)
27.What were the basic beliefs of the Self?Strengthening Movement? (722)
28. What are spheres of influence? List the ones given. (723)
29. What was the Hundred Days Reform? (723)
30.What did the Boxers want? (723)
31.How did the Boxer Rebellion end? (724) Name at least two results of the Boxer Rebellion.
32.Give four reasons Japan was struggling in the 1800s. (724)
33.How did Commodore Matthew C. Perry of the United States convince the Japanese to open their ports and sign a treaty of friendship? (725)
34.How did the acceptance of Commodore Perry’s terms change Japan’s government? (725)
35.What was the Meiji Restoration? (725)
36.The Meiji Restoration was followed by the Meiji Reformation ? how did the Meiji government change Japan’s relationship with European/American technology? 725-726)
37.As the Meiji government reformed Japan, what happened to the daimyo
and the samurai of the old system? (726)
38.The Japanese created a constitutional monarchy and created the Diet. What was the Japanese Diet? (726)
39.How did the emperor retain his power in spite of the Diet’s existence? (726)
40.Like the other nations we studied, Japan had problems due to industrialization, and Japan’s people responded in much the same way as the others we’ve studied. How did the Meiji government deal with protestors and union members? (727)
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