Chapter Ten

Question 1

The right to vote

Answer 1

Suffrage

Question 2

A popular movement to press for more rights

Answer 2

Chartist Movement

Question 3

Figure who presided over all this historic change

Answer 3

Queen Victoria

Question 4

System of government that divides and lasted over 60 years

Answer 4

Third Republic

Question 5

A controversy in France centered about the imprisonment of a Jewish army officer Alfred Dreyfus

Answer 5

Dreyfus Affair

Question 6

Prejudice against Jews

Answer 6

Anti-Semitism

Question 7

The long history of excite and persecution convinced them that they should work for a separate homeland in Palestine

Answer 7

Zionism

Question 8

In the British empire, a nation allowed to govern its own domestic affairs

Answer 8

Dominion

Question 9

A Polynesian people who settled on New Zealand islands

Answer 9

Maoris

Question 10

People who inhabited Australia also called native peoples

Answer 10

Aborigines

Question 11

A place where convicts were sent to serve their sentences as an alternative prison

Answer 11

Penal colony

Question 12

Local control over internal matters only

Answer 12

Home rule

Question 13

The idea that the United States had the right and duty to rule North America from Atlantic to Pacific Ocean

Answer 13

Manifest destiny

Question 14

1860 president who ended all slavery in United States, also was in civil war between north and south

Answer 14

Abraham Lincoln

Question 15

Withdraw

Answer 15

Secede

Question 16

War between north and south over slavery in United States

Answer 16

U.S. Civil War

Question 17

Declared that all slaves were free in confederate states

Answer 17

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 18

Separation of blacks and whites in the south

Answer 18

Segregation

Question 19

A line of workers who each put a single piece on an unfinished cars as they passed on a moving belt

Answer 19

Assembly line

Question 20

The appeal of art, writing, music and other forms of entertainment to a much larger audience

Answer 20

Mass culture

Question 21

English biologist who created the theory of evolution

Answer 21

Charles Darwin

Question 22

Idea of change through natural selection

Answer 22

Theory of evolution

Question 23

a mineral called pitchblende released a powerful energy called…

Answer 23

Radioactivity

Question 24

The study of human mind and behavior

Answer 24

Psychology

Question 25

What political reforms had the effect of expanding democracy for men in Britain?

Answer 25

The reform bill passed in 1832 which allowed about 1 in 5 men the right to vote instead of only men who owned land, People’s charter let all men vote

Question 26

How did the Women’s Social and Political Union call attention to its cause?

Answer 26

Besides peaceful demonstrations and parades, its members heckled government speakers, cut telegraph wires, and committed arson

Question 27

What cultural conflict caused problems for Canada?

Answer 27

Religious and cultural differences between Roman Catholic French and Protestant English speaking colonists

Question 28

How did Australia’s early history differ from that of other British colonies?

Answer 28

It was a penal colony where prisoners were sent to serve their sentences

Question 29

Why did the British government pass a home rule bill for Southern Ireland only?

Answer 29

Because they weren’t very many Protestants there to get left out. Catholics would overpower the Protestants in the north so they didn’t give it to the north

Question 30

In what different ways did the United States gain territory in the 1800s?

Answer 30

Louisiana purchase from France, Florida from Spain

Question 31

How did the North and South differ economically? Why was the issue of slavery so divisive?

Answer 31

North-factories, transportation, didn’t want slavery
South-farms, needed slavery for business purposes
North didn’t need slaves to support their factories but the south needed slaves to work their farms

Question 32

What was Darwin’s principle of natural selection? Why did many people oppose his theory of evolution?

Answer 32

Populations tend to grow faster than the food supply and so must compete for food. It contradicted the account of creation in the Bible

Question 33

What contributions did each of the following scientists make?
Mendel, Dalton, Mendeleev, Marie Curie, Rutherford

Answer 33

Mendel- discovered the pattern of the way certain traits are inherited
Dalton- discovered theory of atoms and compounds
Mendeleev- discovered the periodic table
Marie Curie- discovered radioactivity
Rutherford-discovered atoms were surrounded by electrons

Question 34

How did Pavlov and Freud contribute to the study of psychology?

Answer 34

Pavlov concluded that an animals reflex’s could be changed or conditioned through training
Freud concludes forces such as memory, desires, and impulse help shape behavior, created therapy called psychoanalysis