Chapters 23 &24

Question 1

Who created the light bulb

Answer 1

Thomas Edison

Question 2

created the model t car and the assembly line

Answer 2

Henry Ford

Question 3

businesses that worked together to control prices and production levels

Answer 3

cartels

Question 4

Why did Germany become so successful in the second industrial revolution

Answer 4

because they had the ability to use the new technology to create goods unlike Britain where the cost was too great

Question 5

piece working where the worker was paid by piece and could work from home

Answer 5

sweating

Question 6

a world wide day of strike where people would strike around the world

Answer 6

Second International

Question 7

idea that government is unnecessary and that no government is better than any government

Answer 7

anarchism

Question 8

this man’s goal was better housing conditions for the world

Answer 8

V.A. Huber

Question 9

founded the boy scouts

Answer 9

Robert Balden-Powell

Question 10

What was the purpose of the boy scouts

Answer 10

to toughen up the boys

Question 11

Why did the liberals support public education

Answer 11

it was important to personal and social improvement

Question 12

used sensationalism and tried to make stories more important than they really are (similar to the tabloids today)

Answer 12

yellow press

Question 13

How did Britain increase their number of voters

Answer 13

anyone who paid taxes were allowed to vote

Question 14

This man was the representative of the Irish in the British Parliament

Answer 14

Charles Parnell

Question 15

What was the Irish Question

Answer 15

Whether or not Ireland should be treated like a colony or not

Question 16

radical republican government that fought against the French government

Answer 16

Commune

Question 17

Why wasn’t Italy really united

Answer 17

because they had powerful families that would fight each other in factions

Question 18

How did Bismarck steal the thunder of the liberals

Answer 18

because he would change his mind and apply their changes before they could do anything about it

Question 19

How did Bismarck loose his job

Answer 19

the King William II didn’t want Bismarck telling him what to do

Question 20

How did the Hungarians try and solve the nationality problem

Answer 20

force everyone to be like them

Question 21

discovered radium which gave off radiation and discovered the atom

Answer 21

Marie Curie

Question 22

blamed Christianity for the world’s problems

Answer 22

Fredrich Nietzsche

Question 23

Field that Sigmund Freud developed

Answer 23

psychology

Question 24

application of Darwin’s theory’s to social interaction

Answer 24

Social Darwinism

Question 25

What factors worked against organized religions

Answer 25

the church rejected the ideas developed by scientists

Question 26

rejection of displaying things as accurately as possible

Answer 26

Modernism

Question 27

women that wrote about alcoholism

Answer 27

Emile Zola

Question 28

`Major form of literature by the symbolists

Answer 28

poetry

Question 29

artist's impression of the changing lite in nature

Answer 29

impressionism

Question 30

impressionist painter

Answer 30

Claude Monet

Question 31

painter in Spain who cut off his ear

Answer 31

Pablo Picasso

Question 32

what was the first goal of the women's right's movement

Answer 32

protections for women in the case of divorce and becoming a widow

Question 33

women's rights leader that wanted public demonstrations to create attention to the cause

Answer 33

Emmeline Pankhurst

Question 34

hatred of the Jews

Answer 34

anti-Semitism

Question 35

belief that the Jews should return to Palestine

Answer 35

Zionism

Question 36

newspaper writer who organized an effort to move the Jews to Palestine

Answer 36

Theodor Herzl

Question 37

man framed for selling secrets to Germany

Answer 37

Alfred Dreyfus

Question 38

created the Russian Industrialization Movement

Answer 38

Sergi White

Question 39

protest at the Russian winter palace

Answer 39

Bloody Sunday

Question 40

Russian tsars way of appealing to what the people wanted

Answer 40

October Manifesto

Question 41

What was the major problem in Canada

Answer 41

Language

Question 42

idea that the white man must care for the people of inferior races

Answer 42

White Man's Burden

Question 43

poet who wrote about the white man's burden

Answer 43

Rudyard Kipling

Question 44

Dutch people of South Africa

Answer 44

Boers

Question 45

a Scottish missionary in Africa

Answer 45

David Livingstone

Question 46

What was David Stanley before he looked for David Livingstone

Answer 46

newspaper writer

Question 47

African nations not concurred by Europe

Answer 47

Liberia and Ethiopia

Question 48

Why was Russia's war with Japan embarrassing

Answer 48

they lost

Question 49

other countries influencing China and how they run their government

Answer 49

Sphere's of Influence

Question 50

policy that stated the United States would trade with anyone in Asia

Answer 50

Open Door Policy

Question 51

US admiral that forced Japan to trade with us

Answer 51

Commodore Matthew Perry

Question 52

Things that the USA won in the Spanish American War

Answer 52

Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines

Question 53

Chinese rebellion against the United States

Answer 53

Boxer Rebellion

Question 54

Chinese revolutionary that overthrew the Chinese government

Answer 54

Sun Yat-sen

Question 55

equivalent to the knights of Japan

Answer 55

samurai

Question 56

Indian tradition that the husband's die when the wives do

Answer 56

sati

Question 57

What did France want back after the Franco-Prussian War

Answer 57

the Alsace-Lorraine

Question 58

how did William II screw up what Bismarck worked so hard for

Answer 58

he decided to end his alliance with Russia

Question 59

alliance that was a part of Britain, France, Italy and Russia

Answer 59

Triple Entente