7th Grade Final Exam Flashcards
French aristocrats and nobles were members of the _____ estate?
2nd
French Clergy were members of the _____ Estate?
1st
French peasants and merchants were members of the _____ Estate?
3rd
Name the French king and queen during the French Revolution?
Louis XVI and Marie Antounette
Name the French writer who described and endorsed the Enlightenment ideals
Voltaire
Name the important French document that stated the rights of all French men and citizens
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Name the committee that led France’s revolutionary government and resulted in the Reign of Terror
Committee of Public Safety
Name the army general who became the dictator of France
Napoleon Bonaparte
In what country did the French lose 500,000 men to the Grand Army due to harsh weather and enemy soldiers?
Russia
Hungry revolted against what European country?
Austria
Name the chancellor of Prussia who united all German territories into one country
Otto von Bismarck
Who was the first kaiser of the United Germany?
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Many British farmers moved to the _____ during the 18th and 19th centuries
City
Who invented the reaping machine?
Cyrus McCormick
Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
Who improved the steam engine?
James Watt
Who used patents to control the sales of inventions?
Richard Arkwright
Name the dominant nation in Europe after Napoleon’s defeat?
Great Britain
The 1833 Factory Act placed limits on?
Child Labor
Name the first known religious group to fight against the salve trade
Quakers
Name the man who led the British parliament to end the British slave trade
William Wilberforce
Name the American who published the first known article in the American colonies that supported the freeing of slaves
Thomas Paine
Name the American abolitionist who was once a slave in Maryland
Frederick Douglas
Define Suffrage
The right to vote
Name the British Prime Minister who increased the number of eligible British voters
Benjamin Disraeli
Before voting rights in Britain, the privilege to vote was based on
Land ownership
Anti-semitism is hatred towards
Jews
The Dreyfus Affair occurred in which country?
France
What was Dreyfus accused of doing?
Passing military secrets to the Germans
Who described Russian life in the book War and Peace?
Leo Tolstoy
What British author wrote about hardships in England’s Industrial Age?
Charles Dickens
Name the French chemist who stemmed the spread of several diseases
Louis Pasteur
Who wrote The Descent of Man and Origin of Species?
Charles Darwin
Who invented the automobile?
Henry Ford
Who was the first to patent the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
Who was the first to patent the telegraph?
Samuel Morse
Name 3 things that the Fante Confederation promoted in Africa
Education, Self Rule, and improving the lives of their people
Menelik was the ruler of what African country
Ethiopia
Name the African general who used modern weaponry to defend the Wassoulou Empire
Samori Ture
Name the British explorer and missionary who discovered the waterfalls that were later named for the queen of England
David Livingstone
Victoria Falls is located near what river?
Zambezi River
Name the Scottish missionary who preached the gospel in South Africa for 53 years
Robert Moffat
Name the 1st African bishop in the Anglican Church
Samuel Ajayi Crowther
Early British trade in Africa centered around what trade?
Slave Trade
In 1868, what African scholar disproved claims of the racial inferiority of the black man?
John Africanus Horton
Leopold was the imperialist king of what European country?
Belgium
Ethiopia defeated what European country and resisted colonization?
Italy
Name the ruler that laid the foundation for modern Turkey
Mahmud II
What imperial ruler oppressed Russia’s peasants by legalizing the sale of serfs separately from the land?
Catherine the Great
Napoleon’s army suffered great losses due to harsh winter weather while retreating
Russia
Britain and France competed for control of what Asian country?
India
Robert Clive won a key victory at the Battle of ____
Plassey
By winning the ______ War, Britain gained control of much of India
Seven Year
With only 3,000 men, what British general routed a large Indian force?
Robert Clive
Jonathan Goforth was a missionary to _______
China
The Asian country that escaped European imperialism by serving as a buffer between French and British Territories
Siam
Commodore Matthew Perry pressured what Asian country to open for trade and end it’s isolation?
Japan
Meiji means_______
“Enlightened Rule”
The Austrian heir to the throne who was assasinated and it started WWI
Archduke Francis Ferdinand
Define “stalemate”
when large numbers of troops die without major gains for either side
In the 1800’s and 1900’s, the Ottoman Empire tried to eliminate what group of people?
Armenians
Define total war
War in which all resources of a country are devoted to destroying the enemy
Name the treaty that was signed and ended WWI
Treaty of Versaille
Name the Nazi leader
Adolf Hitler
Name the 1st Russian communist dictator
Vladimir Lenin
Name the 2nd Russian Communist Dictator who developed the Five-Year Plan and killed many Christians
Joseph Stalin
Woodrow Wilson led in the formation of what organization?
League of Nations
Name the leader of the Chinese Communist Party
Mao Zedang
Name the father of Modern Physics
Albert Einstein
In the 1930’s, what American President established a number of federal agencies that were supposed to create jobs and bring America out of the Great Depression?
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Emperor of Japan during WWII
Emperor Hirohito
Japanese general who expanded his country’s military power
Hideki Tojo
Define Appeasement
Avoiding conflict by making concessions or giving them something
The President of the USA during WWII that died shortly before the war ended
Franklin Roosevelt
British Prime Minister who tried to avoid war by giving in to Hitler’s demands
Neville Chamberlain
Hitler called his German empire the _____
Third Reich
What country maintained its policy of isolation from European conflicts at the beginning of WWII?
USA
Who led German forces in Africa?
Erwin Rommel
Who was the supreme allied commander in the Pacific?
General Douglas MacArthur
Victory in Europe day was
May 8th, 1945
The US dropped two atomic bombs in what country?
Japan
The Nazis killed almost 1 million _______ at the concentration camp in Auschwitz
Jews
Japan wrote a constitution and developed a democratic government after WWII under what man’s leadership?
General Douglas MacArthur
Konrad Adenauer established a free market in what country?
West Germany
Name the first communist dictator of China
Mao Zedang
Chaing Kai-shek founded the Republic of China on what island?
Taiwan in 1949
In 1962, the Soviet Union placed nuclear missiles in what country?
Cuba
Mohatma Gandhi helped what country achieve independence from Great Britain?
India
Who attacked Israel the day after it declared its independence?
Arab forces of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Iraq
The Jews overwhelmed a superior Arab force in what short war?
Six-Day War
Great Britain’s first woman Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher
The Solidarity Movement was an anti-communist labor movement in what country?
Poland
Soviet leader who allowed private ownership of industry, released political prisoners, and became the first Soviet president
Mikhail Gorbachev
American President who helped spread democracy to other countries and promoted the Space Defense Initiative
Ronald Reagan
Name the resources that remains the main source of energy for transportation, heat, and electricity
Oil
Define Single Market
Enables states to trade with one another without restriction
The CFA franc is a currency used on what continent?
Africa
An economic union of what continent combines 8 countries into trade cooperation
Africa
Why was the internet first developed in the USA?
To enable the military to continue to communicate following a nuclear attack
Al Qaeda and the Taliban are radical organizations that practice what religion?
Islam
Saddam Hussein invaded what country in 1990 and seized its oil reserves?
Kuwait
What religious group persecutes Christians in North Africa?
Muslims