History quiz

Question 1

What is Industrialization?

Answer 1

the development of industries in a country or a region on a wide scale.

Question 2

What is Industrial discipline?

Answer 2

is the act of doing the right thing on the sop floor.

Question 3

What is the Sadler Report?

Answer 3

written in 1832, was a document made to expose the substandard working conditions of children working in textile factories, as well as women.

Question 4

What is the Standard of living?

Answer 4

The degree of wealth and material comfort available to a person or a community.

Question 5

Who was Charles Dickens?

Answer 5

a British novelist, journalist, editor, illustrator and a social commentator. he write classics such as Oliver Twist, A Christmas Coral and a Tale of Two Cities.

Question 6

What did the farming of cotton show?

Answer 6

in 1830 there was a cotton speculation where Mississippi had reveled the creaks in the slave economy through their farming.

Question 7

Liberalism, what is it?

Answer 7

In the 19th century Liberalism had become the preeminent reform movement, this was when liberals propelled the long campaign that abolished Britain’s slave trade and slavery itself.

Question 8

What is Nationalism?

Answer 8

was an essential characteristic in the European politics, philosophy, and culture. this created the decline in monarchies and the rise of liberal democratic movements.

Question 9

What is Romanticism?

Answer 9

characterized by its emphasis on emotion and individualism as well as glorification of all the past and nature, preferring the medieval rather than the classical.

Question 10

natural selection?

Answer 10

the process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring. The theory of its action was first fully expounded by Charles Darwin and is now believed to be the main process that brings about evolution.

Question 11

Who is Charles Darwin?

Answer 11

English naturalist whose scientific theory of evolution by natural selection became the foundation of modern evolutionary studies.

Question 12

What is Social Darwinism?

Answer 12

a 19th-century theory, inspired by Darwinism, by which the social order is accounted as the product of natural selection of those persons best suited to existing living conditions and in accord with which a position of laissez-faire is advocated.

Question 13

What is the Bourgeoisie?

Answer 13

the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes.

Question 14

What is mass consumption?

Answer 14

In a society of mass consumption, the average level of consumption is very high and most of the people consume a large amount of goods.

Question 15

What is Imperialism?

Answer 15

a policy of extending a country’s power and influence through diplomacy or military force.

Question 16

What is Opium Wars?

Answer 16

were two wars in the mid 19th century involving Great Qing and the British Empire and concerning the British imposition of tried of opium upon China.

Question 17

Who is Mohandas Gandhi?

Answer 17

Indian lawyer, politician, social activist, and writer who became the leader of the nationalist movement against the British rule of India.

Question 18

What was the Berlin Conference?

Answer 18

Also known as the Congo Conference, regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period and coincided with Germany’s sudden emergence as an imperial power.

Question 19

What was the Monroe Doctrine?

Answer 19

United States policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas beginning in 1823. … At the same time, the doctrine noted that the U.S. would recognize and not interfere with existing European colonies nor meddle in the internal concerns of European countries.

Question 20

What is the Panama Canal?

Answer 20

is an artificial 82 km (51 mi) waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a conduit for maritime trade.

Question 21

what was the sepoy mutiny?

Answer 21

Indian Mutiny, also called Sepoy Mutiny or First War of Independence, widespread but unsuccessful rebellion against British rule in India in 1857–59.

Question 22

what is suffragette?

Answer 22

a woman seeking the right to vote through organized protest.

Question 23

Suez Canal, what is it?

Answer 23

The Suez canal is a waterway connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez. The canal is used by European maritime trade companies to exchange goods with India, China and South East Asia.

Question 24

What were the settlement colonies?

Answer 24

are large groups of people from one country living together in a new country.

Question 25

what was the Boer War?

Answer 25

also known as the south African war and was the first war of Independence that was fought between great Britten and the two Boer republics.

Question 26

who was Samory Toure?

Answer 26

was the leader of the Islamic Empire, the Wassoilou Empire, in West Africa. He resisted the movement of the French colonial expansion in the 19th century and fought to stop the french from taking his homeland for over 18 years.

Question 27

Simon Bolivar: The Great Liberator

Answer 27

he never saw freedom as a end in itself. he beloved that the government existed to maximize human happiness.

Question 28

what is taiping rebellion?

Answer 28

The Taiping Rebellion was a civil war in southern China waged against the ruling Manchu Qing dynasty.Led by Hong Xiuquan, it is estimated that at least 20 million people died, mainly civilians, in one of the deadliest military conflicts in history.

Question 29

Pan African Conference, what is it?

Answer 29

was the first time that many influential African Americans had gathered from all parts of the globe to discus slavery.

Question 30

Indentured Labour, what is it.

Answer 30

Indentured workers signed a contract where they agreed to work abroad for 5 or more years. they were supposed to receive wadges a small amount of land and sometimes return passage to where they were from after their contract ended, this rarely happened.

Question 31

what is laissez faire ?

Answer 31

a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering.
abstention by governments from interfering in workings of the free market.

Question 32

who is karl Marx?

Answer 32

was a philosopher, author, social theorist and economist famous for his theories about capitalism and communism.

Question 33

who where the Proletariat?

Answer 33

workers or working class people, regarded collectively (often used with reference to Marxism).

Question 34

what is sociology?

Answer 34

the study of the development, structure, and functioning of human society.

Question 35

who is Elbert Einstein?

Answer 35

was a German mathematician and physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. In 1921, he won the Nobel Prize for physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect

Question 36

what is relativity?

Answer 36

the absence of standards of absolute and universal application.

Question 37

what is communism?

Answer 37

a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is public owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

Question 38

what is the communist manifesto?

Answer 38

is an 1848 political pamphleteer by German philosophers Karl Marx and Fredric Engels.

Question 39

what is utilitarianism?

Answer 39

the doctrine that actions are right if they are useful or for the benefit of a majority.

Question 40

what is antisemitism?

Answer 40

hostility to or prejudice against Jews.

Question 41

what was the russe-Japanese war?

Answer 41

DescriptionThe Russo-Japanese War was fought during 1904–1905 between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and Korea.

Question 42

Spanish american war?

Answer 42

The Spanish–American War was an armed conflict between Spain and the United States in 1898.

Question 43

the boxer rebellion, what was it?

Answer 43

The Boxer Rebellion, Boxer Uprising, or Yihetuan Movement was an anti-imperialist, anti-foreign, and anti-Christian uprising that took place in China between 1899 and 1901, toward the end of the Qing dynasty