Ch20 - Terms

Question 1

What is the Great Exhibition?

Answer 1

the first world’s fair

Question 2

What is suffrage?

Answer 2

the right to vote

Question 3

What does the Reform Bill of 1832 allow?

Answer 3

It allowed middle-class males to vote.

Question 4

What were two political parties in the Parliament during the mid-19th century?

Answer 4

Liberal and Conservative

Question 5

What ministry was founded by William Booth and was located in the darkest slums of London?

Answer 5

Salvation Army

Question 6

What was the YMCA when it was founded?

Answer 6

It was founded to minister to the spiritual needs of young men in the cities.

Question 7

What is diplomacy?

Answer 7

Strategic negotiations between nations

Question 8

What document made Canada a self-governing commonwealth (federation of states) in 1867?

Answer 8

British North America Act

Question 9

What was considered a tool of British settlement in India?

Answer 9

East India Company

Question 10

What was the name of the 1857 uprising among native soldiers in the British army over the religious traditions of India?

Answer 10

Sepoy Rebellion

Question 11

What act wrested away the last vestiges of political authority from the East India Company and gave full political control of India to the British government in 1858?

Answer 11

India Act

Question 12

What was the “Great Trek”?

Answer 12

a journey over 1,000 Boers who left the Cape Colony to establish two new republics to the northeast of the colony - Transvaal and the Orange Free State

Question 13

What event in 1851 greatly escalated the rate of colonization in Australia?

Answer 13

The Australian Gold Rush

Question 14

What is the British Commonwealth of Nations?

Answer 14

as association of nations acknowledging the British monarch as their symbolic head

Question 15

What act officially joined England and Ireland in 1800?

Answer 15

Act of Union

Question 16

Which act allowed Irish Catholics to vote and sit in Parliament?

Answer 16

Catholic Emancipation Act

Question 17

Explain Darwinism.

Answer 17

The philosophy of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin in his book “On the Origin of Species”

Question 18

What is socialism?

Answer 18

the system in which the government owns or controls a nation’s economy

Question 19

What is modernism and what did it cause?

Answer 19

religious liberalism; caused church leasers to be more concerned with attacking social injustices and working toward total democracy than with bringing people to a personal salvation through Jesus Christ

Question 20

What is materialism?

Answer 20

the idea that matter is the only reality and that everything in the world, including thought, will, and feeling, must be explained in terms of matter.

Question 21

What are Christian Socialists?

Answer 21

a group who wanted benevolent social reform but did not want to take the Bible literally

Question 22

What are Chartists?

Answer 22

an organization of laborers who demanded immediate voting rights for all men

Question 23

What is the Fabian Society?

Answer 23

a group of British socialists who taught that socialism should be achieved gradually through a series of reforms