history exam

Question 1

Transatlantic Trade Route

Answer 1

enslaved Africans into the americas

Question 2

Middle Passage

Answer 2

Triangular Trade Across the Atlantic

Question 3

Declaration of Rights of Man + citizen

Answer 3

rights, liberty, equality

Question 4

national assembly 1791

Answer 4

had greater control over church + king

Question 5

robespierre

Answer 5

leader of the committee of the public safety

Question 6

3 estates

Answer 6

1. clergy ( highest class / wealthy)
2. nobitlites ( mid class )
3. commoners ( peasants / other)

Question 7

Marie Antoinette

Answer 7

” Let them eat cake” - referring to the class conflict

Question 8

Tennis Court Oath

Answer 8

Meetings would be held and the 3rd estate was not aloud in meetings at all

Question 9

The bastille

Answer 9

stormed to free prisoners + to get ammunition

Question 10

The steam engine

Answer 10

powered huge factories, allowed deeper mines, and moved a transport network.

Question 11

waterframe

Answer 11

Installed in water powered factories, the machine could spin large quantities of cotton yarn

Question 12

open door policy

Answer 12

called for protection of equal privileges for all countries trading with China and for the support of Chinese

Question 13

matthew perry

Answer 13

a U.S. naval officer who headed an expedition that forced Japan in 1853–54 to enter into trade and diplomatic relations with the West after more than two centuries of isolation

Question 14

Monroe doctrine

Answer 14

warned European powers not to interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere.

Question 15

panama canal

Answer 15

a constructed waterway that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans across the Isthmus of Panama

Question 16

triple entente

Answer 16

a diplomatic alignment of Great Britain, France, and Russia in the decade leading up to World War I

Question 17

triple alliance

Answer 17

a defensive military alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.

Question 18

gavarillo princip

Answer 18

assignation of the archduke

Question 19

wwl started in 1914

Question 20

unrestricted submarine warfare

Answer 20

a type of naval warfare in which submarines sink merchant ships such as freighters and tankers without warning

Question 21

lusitania

Answer 21

a British passenger ship that was owned by the Cunard Line and was first launched in 1906.

Question 22

Treaty - Brest - Litovsk

Answer 22

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk resulted primarily in Russia’s withdrawal from World War I

Question 23

Zimmerman note

Answer 23

a coded message sent to Mexico, proposing a military alliance against the United States.

Question 24

armistice

Answer 24

was the ceasefire that ended hostilities between the Allies and Germany on 11 November 1918.