Chapter 10

Question 1

What did the people’s charter of 1838 petition for?

Answer 1

suffrage for all men and annual parliamentary elections

Question 2

Who were the zionists?

Answer 2

jews who worked for a homeland in Palestine

Question 3

What was captain Alfred Dreyfus accused of in the Dreyfus affair?

Answer 3

selling military secrets

Question 4

What did it mean to be a dominion?

Answer 4

it meant that a country was domestically self-governing but part of the British empire

Question 5

Why did Great Britain establish a penal colony in Australia?

Answer 5

to relieve overcrowding in English prisons

Question 6

To which country did the most Irish emigrants go during the great famine?

Answer 6

united states

Question 7

How were most of the territory west of texas obtained by the united states

Answer 7

Mexican-American war

Question 8

Who was the american inventor and industrialist who made factory production more efficient by introducing the assembly line?

Answer 8

hnery ford

Question 9

What did the emancipation proclimation do?

Answer 9

declared all slaves in the confederate states as free

Question 10

What concept is the theory of evolution based on?

Answer 10

natural selection

Question 11

Before the reform act of 1832 who were the only british citizens who could vote?

Answer 11

owners of large landholdings

Question 12

Which of the following reforms did not occur in great britain by the early 1900?

Answer 12

annual elections to the house of commons were held

Question 13

What form of goverment did france adopt in 1875?

Answer 13

republic

Question 14

Which 2 lands did captain look claim for great britain in 1770?

Answer 14

australia and new zealand

Question 15

During the early 1900’s was the british woman who formed the womans social and political union?

Answer 15

emmeline pankhurst

Question 16

Which of the following political reforms occured in new zealand in 1893?

Answer 16

woman suffrage

Question 17

How did california and much of the southwest become part of the u.s.?

Answer 17

mexican lession

Question 18

What policy or action led to the trail of tears?

Answer 18

indian removal act of 1830?

Question 19

What event provoked the seccesion of the southern states from the u.s.?

Answer 19

election of abraham lincoln

Question 20

Why was the work of louis pasteur important in the history of medicine?

Answer 20

he found that bacteria caused diseases

Question 21

How did the democratic reforms in great britain change the goverment?

Answer 21

most adult males gained the right to vote by 1884, british monarchs became symbolic rulers with no political power, political power shifted greatly to the elected house of commons

Question 22

Which of the following was true of womens fight for suffrage?

Answer 22

some women participated in hunger strikes

Question 23

How might the french goverment of the late 1800s and early 1900s be characterized?

Answer 23

unstable

Question 24

Which of the following influenced the formation of upper and lower canada?

Answer 24

cultural conflicts btwn the british and french

Question 25

Why did australia and new zealand want to become dominions of great britain rather than independent nations?

Answer 25

they wanted the protection of the british empire

Question 26

What does the phase manifest destiny mean?

Answer 26

the american people had the right and the duty to rule north america from coast to coast

Question 27

What promise by abraham lincoln frightened southern states into seceding?

Answer 27

to stop the spread of slavery

Question 28

What impact did the civil war have on the post war american economy?

Answer 28

the war speeded up the pace of industrilization

Question 29

What effect did the major inventions of the 19th century have on peoples lives in industrialized nations?

Answer 29

car telephone and electricity helped ease ways of living

Question 30

Which of the following was not a reason for the rise of mass culture?

Answer 30

the assembly line