Chapter 10

Question 0

In what year did the American Civil War begin?

Answer 0

1861

Question 1

In the late 1700s, Parliament created how many Canadian provinces?

Answer 1

2, upper and lower canada

Question 2

Seneca Falls, New York, hosted what kind of a convention in 1848?

Answer 2

First womens’ rights convention

Question 3

The Dreyfus affair in France exposed what social problem in that country?

Answer 3

Anti-Semitism

Question 4

US troops captured what Mexican city, causing surrender?

Answer 4

Mexico City

Question 5

What American inventor is associated with the automobile assembly line?

Answer 5

Henry Ford

Question 6

What American inventor is associated with the telegraph?

Answer 6

Guglielmk Marconi

Question 7

What American inventor is associated with the telephone?

Answer 7

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 8

What Anerican inventors are associated with the airplane?

Answer 8

Orville and Wilbur Wright

Question 9

What did the Emancipation Proclamation declare?

Answer 9

abolishment of slavery in the south

Question 10

What disaster visited the Irish in the 1840s?

Answer 10

The Great Famine

Question 11

What does suffrage mean?

Answer 11

right to vote

Question 12

What event effectively doubled the size of the size of the United States in 1803?

Answer 12

The Louisiana Purchase

Question 13

What is the English word for native populations?

Answer 13

aborigines

Question 14

What is the term for the belief that the US should extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific?

Answer 14

Manifest Destiny

Question 15

What is the word for the belief in a Jewish homeland?

Answer 15

Zionism

Question 16

What Mexican territory was the site of conflict with the US in the 1830s?

Answer 16

Texas

Question 17

What scientific idea is associated with Charles Darwin?

Answer 17

evolution

Question 18

What scientific idea is associated witb Gregor Mendel?

Answer 18

genetics

Question 19

What scientific idea is associated with Louis Pasteur?

Answer 19

he was credited with bacteria and that heat kills bacteria in liquids (Pasteurization)

Question 20

What scientific idea is associated with the Curies?

Answer 20

they were credited radioactivity, polonium, and radium

Question 21

What was the primary source of the conflict between the Irish and the British?

Answer 21

Catholic vs Protestant

Question 22

Who was Queen of England through most of the 1800s?

Answer 22

Queen Victoria

Question 23

Who was the most famous and influential of all American inventors?

Answer 23

Thomas Edison

Question 24

Who were the original British settlers in Australia?

Answer 24

convicts