global vocab quiz

Question 1

What was Emmeline Pankhurst a leading advocate of?

Answer 1

Women’s suffrage in the UK

Question 2

The Reform Bill of 1832 did what

Answer 2

This bill abolished tiny districts, gave representation to cities, gave the vote to small landowners, tenant farmers, shopkeepers, householders

Question 3

Chartist Movement

Answer 3

This movement was to gain political rights and influence for the working classes.

Question 4

What British colony famously began as a penal colony?

Answer 4

Australia

Question 5

What British colony made up of English and French-speaking people became a self-governing “Dominion” in 1867?

Answer 5

Canada

Question 6

What is the term used to describe the native people of Australia?

Answer 6

Aborigines

Question 7

What is the native people who lived in New Zealand before Europeans arrived?

Answer 7

Maori

Question 8

In what country did the Dreyfus Affair take place?

Answer 8

France

Question 9

What do we call prejudice and hatred of Jews simply because they are Jews?

Answer 9

anti-semitism

Question 10

What is the term for the Jewish nationalist movement that formed in the 19th century?

Answer 10

Zionism

Question 11

What crime was Albert Dreyfus “J’accused” of?

Answer 11

selling military secrets to Germany

Question 12

Reform Bill of 1832

Answer 12

expanded voting rights for middle class men in Britain

Question 13

Parliament

Answer 13

Britains law-making body

Question 14

Chartist Movement

Answer 14

a push for political reforms like universal male suffrage, gain political rights and influence for the working classes

Question 15

Queen Victoria

Answer 15

British monarch during the 19th century reforms and empire expansion

Question 16

Emmeline Pankhurst

Answer 16

leader of the british women’s suffrage movement

Question 17

Dreyfus Affair

Answer 17

A scandal exposing anti semitism in France

Question 18

Anti Semitism

Answer 18

Discrimination against Jewish people

Question 19

Zionism

Answer 19

Movement for a Jewish homeland in Palestine

Question 20

Settler Colonies

Answer 20

Colonies with European settlers, often displacing natives

Question 21

British colony of English and French-speaking people that became a self-governing “Dominion” in 1867

Answer 21

Canada

Question 22

Local control over political affairs

Answer 22

Self Government

Question 23

Began as a British penal colony, later gained self rule

Answer 23

Australia

Question 24

British colony with self rule and treaties with Maori

Answer 24

New Zealand

Question 25

A colony for prisoners

Answer 25

Penal Colony

Question 26

Irish Home Rule

Answer 26

Movement for Irish self government

Question 27

Great Famine

Answer 27

Irish famine caused by potato crop failure

Question 28

What does IRA stand for and what is it

Answer 28

Irish Republican Army

Militant group for Irish independence

Question 29

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

Answer 29

Manifest Destiny

Question 30

Name one of three conservative groups in France who had generally opposed democracy and were discredited by the Dreyfus Affair?

Answer 30

Monarchists, Military and the Church

Question 31

What country lost a war with the United States in 1848 and gave up lots of land as a result?

Answer 31

Mexico

Question 32

What legal change was made in the 13th amendment for the United States Constitution?

Answer 32

The end of slavery

Question 33

What did the United States purchase from France in 1803 almost doubling the area of the country?

Answer 33

Louisiana Purchase

Question 34

The American Civil War began with the attack on this place in 1861.

Answer 34

Fort Sumter, Charleston South Carolina

Question 35

The US civil war was fought by…. over….

Answer 35

The North and South

over slavery and states rights

Question 36

Secede

Answer 36

Southern states leaving the union

Question 37

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 37

Lincoln’s 1863 declaration freeing confederate slaves

Question 38

Reconstruction

Answer 38

Post civil war rebuilding and integration of the south

Question 39

immigration

Answer 39

movement of people to a new country