Question 1

After the French were defeated in the French and Indian wars of 1763, the French helped the United States against England.

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This is true. After the French and Indian War, which ended in 1763, France had lost its American colonies to England but remained bitter about the loss. When the American Revolution started in 1775, France saw an opportunity to weaken its rival, England, and provided military and financial support to the United States.

Question 2

The U.S. South was the most successful peripheral capitalist economy in world-history.

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According to historian Charles Post, the U.S. South was the most successful peripheral capitalist economy in world-history due to its profitable agriculture-based economy built on slave labor, which was able to generate immense wealth for the planter class and the region as a whole. However, this economic success was built on the exploitation and oppression of enslaved Africans, which ultimately contributed to the region's downfall during the Civil War.

Question 3

It was the Republican Party of Lincoln that united western farmers and Northern workers.

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Question 4

Before the Civil War the Republican Party never advocated the end of slavery.

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The Republican Party was founded in 1854 with the goal of opposing the expansion of slavery into new territories.

Question 5

During its hegemony Britain mainly advanced policies that were intended to maintain a world order that favored British interests but that also could be understood as supporting principles that were advances in general morality.

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During its colonial period, Britain did advance policies that were intended to maintain a world order that favored British interests. However, many of these policies also aimed to spread values such as democracy, liberalism, and free trade that were seen as advances in general morality at the time.

Question 6

Once formal sovereignty was obtained by non-core countries it has been impossible to exploit and dominate them.

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Obtaining formal sovereignty does not automatically end the possibility of exploitation and domination by core countries through economic, political, or military influence. Power imbalances and inequalities often persist even after the achievement of political independence.

Question 7

British hegemony started with a focus on the provision of financial services.

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British hegemony initially grew through maritime trade, colonial expansion, and the industrial revolution, rather than starting with a focus on financial services.

Question 8

During the 19ᵗʰ century Africa transitioned from and external arena that was a subject of predation by Europeans to a colonized periphery in which colonial powers came to have an interest in the reproduction of an African labor force in Africa.

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This statement accurately describes the shift in European interest and actions towards Africa in the 19th century. Prior to this time, Africa was primarily viewed as a source of raw materials and slaves, while in the 19th century colonial powers began to establish formal colonial control over territories in Africa and sought to create a stable and productive labor force within those territories.

Question 9

In what ways did the British hegemony illustrate the idea that hegemony is both domination and leadership?

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Question 10

The United States was once a colony of England. Yet after it achieved independence England became an ally. With all the European countries to ally with, don't you think a former colonizer would be one of your last choices? So what factors were involved in the United States forming an alliance with England?

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Question 11

What are the similarities and differences between tributary imperialism, colonial empires and neocolonial dependency?

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Question 12

In what ways were the policies of Britain in the 19ᵗʰ century a cross between the colonial empires and neocolonial dependency?

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Question 13

Discuss the ways in which the trajectory of the British hegemony does or does not fit Wallerstein's stages of hegemony as based on consumer goods, capital goods and finance capital.

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Question 14

What was the structural basis of the different approaches taken by Britain and the Austro-Hungarian Empire regarding the policies of the Concert of Europe?

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Question 15

Discuss the further incorporation of Africa into the modern world-system that occurred in the 19ᵗʰ Century.

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Question 16

Why did the gold standard encourage foreign investment in the 19ᵗʰ century?

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Question 17

Discuss the trajectory of trade globalization between 1820 and 2010 as shown in Figure 15.1 in the text. What does this reveal about the nature and timing of economic globalization?

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Question 18

Discuss the connections between the Taiping rebellion in China and the world revolution of 1848 that occurred in the West.

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Question 19

Discuss the consequences of Marx's failure to see the systemic and continuing relevance of the modern core/periphery hierarchy.

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Question 20

Describe the trajectory of that part of the world that became the United States in the core/periphery hierarchy of the modern world-system.

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Quiz 15: The Global Nineteenth Century