AP®︎ World History: Topic 9.5 Practice Test
Prepare for your quiz, test, or the AP exam with focused practice questions on Topic 9.5 of AP World History – Calls for Reform and Responses After 1900.
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Topic 9.5
Question 1 Easy
The term "Global Age" refers to an era characterized primarily by which of the following?
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Topic 9.5: Calls for Reform and Responses After 1900
Thematic Focus: Social Interactions and OrganizationSIO
The process by which societies group their members and the norms that govern the interactions between these groups and between individuals influence political, economic, and cultural institutions and organization.
Learning Objective: Unit 9: Learning Objective E
Explain how social categories, roles, and practices have been maintained and challenged over time.
Historical Developments: KC-6.3.III.i
Rights-based discourses challenged old assumptions about race, class, gender, and religion.
Historical Developments: KC-6.3.III.ii
In much of the world, access to education as well as participation in new political and professional roles became more inclusive in terms of race, class, gender, and religion.
Historical Developments: KC-6.3.II.C
Movements throughout the world protested the inequality of the environmental and economic consequences of global integration.
Illustrative Examples specific knowledge students should know & demonstrate
- The U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, especially as it sought to protect the rights of children, women, and refugees
- Global feminism movements
- Negritude movement
- Liberation theology in Latin America
- The right to vote and/or to hold public office granted to women in the United States (1920), Brazil (1932), Turkey (1934), Japan (1945), India (1947), and Morocco (1963)
- The rising rate of female literacy and the increasing numbers of women in higher education, in most parts of the world
- The U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1965
- The end of apartheid
- Caste reservation in India
- Greenpeace
- Professor Wangari Maathai's Green Belt Movement in Kenya
- World Fair Trade Organization
