World History Term 2 Midterm Exam

Question 1

The revolutionary leader who was a master of
guerrilla warfare:

Answer 1

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Question 2

The movement to end slavery:

Answer 2

Abolitionism

Question 3

South American military leader who led the fight
for freedom from Spain:

Answer 3

Simón Bolívar

Question 4

Prime minister who tried to unite Germany:

Answer 4

Otto von Bismarck

Question 5

Led the liberal party in Britain:

Answer 5

William Gladstone

Question 6

Political ideas in the mid-1800s that helped shape Europe were nationalism and political ________

Answer 6

Reform

Question 7

In the United States, nationalism led to westward ________

Answer 7

Expansion

Question 8

By 1830, Irish protests against British rule won them the right to vote and sit in Britain’s Parliament, but not the right to ________

Answer 8

Self-Rule

Question 9

After a period of revolts across Europe in 1848, Louis ____________________ was
elected president and then later emperor of France.

Answer 9

Napoleon

Question 10

Czar Alexander II of Russia had factories built, improved farming, and freed the ____________________.

Answer 10

Serfs (basically agricultural slaves/labourers)

Question 11

Designed a steam engine to power machines:

Answer 11

James Watt

Question 12

Economic system based on the use of machinery
for production of goods:

Answer 12

Industrialism

Question 13

Discovered a way to use coal to turn iron ore into
pure iron:

Answer 13

Henry Cort

Question 14

Money invested in a business:

Answer 14

Capital

Question 15

Invented the spinning jenny:

Answer 15

James Hargreaves

Question 16

The Industrial Revolution began officially in:

Answer 16

Great Britian

Question 17

One important cause of the Industrial Revolution was a movement that allowed landowners to fence off their land, called:

Answer 17

Enclosure Laws

Question 18

Which two natural resources did Great Britain have in large supply that helped fuel the rise of industry there?:

Answer 18

Coal and Iron

Question 19

What carried raw materials, finished goods, and people faster and cheaper than any other early invention?:

Answer 19

Steam-Powered Locomotive

Question 20

Entrepreneurs took on financial risks and created industries by:

Answer 20

bringing together capital, labor, and new industrial inventions.

Question 21

Observed that plants and animals change over
time in order to adapt and survive:

Answer 21

Charles Darwin

Question 22

The belief that all people have basic rights of
equality and freedom of speech:

Answer 22

Liberalism

Question 23

The belief that competition among social classes
harms society:

Answer 23

Socialism

Question 24

Physicist who discovered that space and time are
relative:

Answer 24

Albert Einstein

Question 25

Showed that killing harmful germs could prevent
many diseases

Answer 25

Louis Patseur

Question 26

The rapid growth of cities during the Industrial Revolution was called:

Answer 26

Urbanization

Question 27

The Industrial Revolution greatly changed the lives of women and created more
opportunities for leisure and improving themselves through:

Answer 27

Education

Question 28

__________ and Friedrich Engels wrote The Communist Manifesto:

Answer 28

Karl Marx

Question 29

The mid-1800s artistic movement known as ____________________ showed life by focusing on ordinary people and settings.

Answer 29

Realism

Question 30

_______________ discovered the radioactive element radium.

Answer 30

Marie Curie