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What was a major political consequence of Britain’s Reform Act of 1867?

A
It abolished all property qualifications for voting in Britain.
B
It increased the number of eligible male voters and encouraged broader party organization.
C
It gave women the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
D
It replaced political parties with direct rule by trade unions.

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Which change best describes the historical significance of the social-insurance programs introduced in Germany between 1883 and 1889?

A
It shifted some responsibility for illness, injury, and old age from charity toward the state.
B
It eliminated poverty and class conflict throughout Europe.
C
It provided identical benefits to every European resident.
D
It ended the need for workers to organize politically.

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In what Gregorian year did the Representation of the People Act enfranchise some women in British parliamentary elections?

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Public-health reform transformed health from mainly a private or charitable concern into a matter of .

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Which development most directly helped political leaders mobilize ordinary citizens in a mass political system?

A
Private court patronage with no public campaigning
B
Hereditary officeholding by aristocratic families
C
Newspapers, party branches, membership dues, and mass rallies
D
Withdrawal from national politics into isolated local communities

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True or false: The social-insurance systems created before 1914 eliminated poverty and class conflict in Europe.

A
True
B
False

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What term described artists who sought radical formal or social innovation in the early twentieth century?

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Select all the developments that acted as integrating forces in European society by 1914.

A
Mass education created broader national cultures.
B
Newspapers and railways connected distant populations.
C
Political parties incorporated millions into national institutions.
D
Social reform linked citizens to central governments.
E
Class conflict separated workers from property owners.
F
Multiethnic empires faced demands for autonomy or independence.

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Germany’s programs against sickness, industrial accidents, old age, and invalidity formed an early comprehensive system of .

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Why did governments sometimes support social reform even when employers resisted state intervention?

A
To return political authority entirely to local charities
B
To prevent industrialization and restore agrarian society
C
To make all workers owners of factories and land
D
To reduce support for socialism and revolution

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Select all the attitudes toward modernity that the material associates with modernist culture.

A
Optimism that technology could bring progress and liberation
B
Anxiety about impersonality, violence, and spiritual emptiness
C
Rebellion against established institutions and conventions
D
Escapism through fantasy, primitivism, mysticism, or idealized tradition
E
A single commitment to restoring academic rules in art
F
A uniform rejection of all political experimentation

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Explain why European society could be both more integrated and more deeply divided by 1914. How did modernization create a crisis of the prewar order?

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What does the Pan-German League illustrate about the possible direction of nationalism in mass politics?

A
It defined nationalism exclusively as support for parliamentary reform.
B
It linked national identity to ethnic homogeneity and exclusion of supposed internal enemies.
C
It rejected national identity in favor of international class solidarity.
D
It treated all linguistic and religious groups as equally essential to the nation.

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True or false: According to the material, class conflict necessarily produced revolution rather than compromise or reform.

A
True
B
False

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A political movement creates local branches, collects membership dues, publishes newspapers, holds rallies, and organizes voters across the country. Which development does this pattern most clearly illustrate?

A
It returned political decision-making to monarchs and aristocrats.
B
It organized large constituencies through parties, branches, newspapers, rallies, and membership networks.
C
It replaced elections with rule by factory inspectors.
D
It restricted political communication to elite salons and parliaments.

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What broader principle was established by the gradual expansion of factory legislation, despite weak enforcement and employer resistance?

A
Employers were required to transfer factory ownership to trade unions.
B
Economic growth became illegal when it involved wage labor.
C
Economic freedom did not give employers unlimited authority over human bodies and working conditions.
D
All adult workers immediately received identical legal protections.

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Why did the German government introduce sickness, accident, old-age, and invalidity insurance between 1883 and 1889?

A
It combined limited worker protection with an effort to strengthen loyalty to the state and weaken revolutionary socialism.
B
It abolished class conflict by giving every worker equal wealth and political power.
C
It transferred responsibility for sickness and old age entirely to private charities.
D
It was designed primarily to expand women's parliamentary representation.

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True or false: The prewar order was described as being in crisis because older institutions struggled to contain the demands created by modernization, not because European society had already completely collapsed before 1914.

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True
B
False

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In what year did Britain pass the National Insurance Act that created contributory insurance against sickness and unemployment for specified groups of workers? Enter the year in YYYY format.

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What term described artists who sought radical formal or social innovation rather than simply following established academic conventions? Enter the artistic term in English, using one or two words.