Year 8 End of Year Fact Test Flashcards
Revise these cards to test your knowledge of a range of topics that you have studied in History this year. If you are unsure of a fact, check your book or with your teacher. Try to memorise these. You will have a test on THESE facts in class.
Which countries form the United Kingdom?
England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
What does the word ‘Empire’ mean?
A group of territories under one rule.
Name one African tribe/Kingdom from before the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Songhay, Benin, Malian, Ashanti
Who was the richest man ever to have lived on earth?
Mansa Musa (Mali Empire, West Africa, 1300s)
Name one example of a good British ships brought back from the Caribbean islands?
Sugar, rum, tobacco, coffee.
How much room did a slave had on the middle passage in a ‘tight’ pack ship on a journey lasting weeks-months?
Approx. 1.5 metres square.
When did the Zong Court case take place?
1781
What shape represents the Transatlantic Slave trade?
Triangle
Whose motto was, ‘By command of the King and Parliament of England’?
The East India Company
Who was given the title Empress of India?
Queen Victoria
What is the name of the diamond that some people want returned to India?
Koh-i-Noor
Give one cause of the Sepoy Rebellion in 1857
Indian troops fighting other Indians for the British, high taxes, high rents, British violence/torture, religious beliefs.
What was the Apartheid?
A policy of discrimination based on race in South Africa used against black people
Which country introduced the concentration camp into warfare during the Boer War?
Britain
Who ‘discovered’ South Africa for Britain?
Cecil Rhodes
What was the banned organisation Nelson Mandela belonged to called
African National Congress
How many colonies did America originally have?
13
What event happened on 14th July to start the French Revolution?
Storming of the Bastille
Who was Louis XVI’s wife?
Marie Antoinette
Who abdicated the throne as a result of the Russian Revolution?
Tsar Nicholas II
What was Chartism?
A working class political movement in Britain.
What famous individual became known as a martyr to the suffragette movement?
Emily Davison
What is a dictatorship?
A government led by one leader with no political opposition
What was the organisation set up for young males in Germany by the Nazis?
The Hitler Youth
What did Hitler promise people when he came to power?
Work and Bread
What was the main tool the Nazis used to gain support during their rise to power?
Propaganda
What type of lifestyle did the Sioux have?
Nomadic
Who made a historical mistake about American the ‘Indians’?
Christopher Columbus (he thought he was in India).
Name one way the Sioux used the buffalo
Clothing, Shoes, Tipis, Cooking
What did early explorers call the Great Plains of the USA?
The Great American Desert
