Worksheetsworld history
Total questions: 53
Worksheet time: 27mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
´What was the Renaissance?
a)
the art
b)
A rebirth of classical learning in the 1300’s
c)
fight between USA and USSR
d)
political change
2.
´Explain Humanism
a)
new world
b)
enlightenment of people and natural rights
c)
Idea that humans can be perfected through education and we can achieve (accomplishments
d)
education and freedom
3.
´What is mercantilism?
a)
money ,euros
b)
market
c)
exchange of new world and old world
d)
Mother country exploits colonies for
resources-
finished good are sold to the colonies
4.
´What economic system sees the mother country exploiting her colonies for financial gain?
a)
Mercantilism
b)
traditional
c)
capitalism
d)
market
5.
´What started the Protestant Reformation in 1517?
a)
newton
b)
Boyle
c)
Martin Luther posted his 95 These
on the church door
d)
lenin
6.
´What does Heliocentric mean?
a)
Sun is the center of the universe
b)
sun is the center of the earth
c)
center of table
d)
center of the galaxy
7.
´Who argued for a heliocentric model of the universe?
a)
boyle
b)
Galileo
c)
copernicus
d)
pasteur
8.
´The Scientific Revolution was based on what? (What did humans need to do to record facts?)
a)
prediction
b)
argument
c)
hypothesys
d)
Observation and experimentation
9.
´Inductive reasoning, new models of the universe and laws of physics and chemistry are part of which revolution?
a)
wwi
b)
potestant revolution
c)
Scientific Revolution
d)
cold war
10.
´What is Adam Smith best remembered for?
a)
market and capitalism
b)
Law of supply and demand
c)
freedom
d)
speach
11.
´What does laissez-faire ask governments to do?
a)
Not interfere with trade or buisness
b)
not violence
c)
goods
d)
trade between countries
12.
´Explain Rousseau and Locke’s view of government:
a)
liberty
b)
natural rights
c)
governent has total control
d)
Government must have the consent of the
governed
13.
´What Natural Right is Voltaire best remembered for?
a)
liberty
b)
free speech
c)
vote
d)
right since of your birth
14.
´What movement heavily influenced Thomas Jefferson when he wrote the Declaration of Independence?
a)
scientific
b)
protestant
c)
Enlightenment
d)
renaissance
15.
´Place these in order from oldest to newest: Independence in Latin American, Enlightenment, French Revolution, and American Revolution
a)
american revolution, french rev, enlightenment, latin rev,
b)
Enlightenment, American Rev, French Rev, Latin Amer
c)
enlightennment, american rev, latin amer, french rev,
d)
none
16.
´What was one similarity between the American and the French Revolution?
a)
Belief in Natural Rights
b)
belief in food
c)
free speech
d)
belief in market
17.
´What where the 3 estates in France before the revolution? Which had all the power? Which had all the land?
a)
tan largo
b)
nose
c)
1st and 2nd Estate had all the power AND most of the land – but smaller population compared to the 3rd Estate.
d)
hueva jaja
18.
´Which estate paid all the taxes in France before the revolution?
a)
peasants
b)
4rd state- peasants
c)
2do state -peasants
d)
3rd
Estate - peasants
19.
´What effects did the Napoleonic Code have on France after the Reign of Terror?
a)
deseases
b)
Brought stability to France
c)
genocide
d)
wwii
20.
´What did Jose de San Martin do for Latin America?
a)
began the WWII
b)
protestan rev
c)
Led armies against the Spanish
d)
new changes and rights
21.
´What scientist discovered germs?
a)
Pasteur
b)
copernicos
c)
galieleo
d)
boyle
22.
´What is James Watt remembered for?
a)
diseases
b)
His work on the steam engine
c)
electricity
d)
train
23.
´What invention in the late 1700’s allowed Europeans to travel faster and further?
a)
cars
b)
horse
c)
train
d)
Steam Engine
24.
´What were some of the consequences of the Scientific Revolution?
a)
globalization
b)
Church lost power, led to the Industrial
Rev, pushed globalization
c)
mercantilism
d)
capitalism
25.
´Why was England able to have the Industrial Revolution first?
a)
more coal
b)
had more resources
c)
Surplus of food and more free time away
from the farms
d)
to much soil
26.
´Karl Marx’s book directed workers to do WHAT to the wealthy capitalist factory owners?
a)
anti-semistm
b)
Overthrow the capitalist bosses
c)
right of people
d)
red book
27.
´What did Marx believe about private property?
a)
middle property
b)
total property
c)
Abolish all private property
d)
rural property
28.
´How did the Suez Canal help Britain control its colonies?
a)
Could protect territories faster/easier
b)
protect themselves
c)
protect resources
d)
protect theri families
29.
´How did European imperialism help cause World War I?
a)
resources
b)
fights for colonies
c)
Tension over land, resources and fights
for new colonies
d)
fights for natural rights
30.
´What did European imperialist want in Africa? (Do NOT say people!)
a)
no weapons
b)
weak people
c)
africa was poorest
d)
Africa’s natural resources
31.
´What were the causes of World War I? (MAIN)
a)
moral, aliances, invasion, natural
b)
Militarism, alliances, imperialism,
nationalism
c)
xD
d)
nose
32.
´What were the causes of World War II? (TRAIL)
a)
muy grande
b)
Treaty of Versailles, re-armament,
appeasement, invasion of Poland,
Failure of the League of Nations
c)
no me gusta escribir
d)
IDK
33.
´Which nations were in the Triple Alliance?
a)
none
b)
germany
c)
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
d)
austria-hungary
34.
´How did unrestricted submarine warfare bring the United States into World War I?
a)
US grew tired of Germany sinking US ships
b)
everything grow up
c)
ships
d)
weapons
35.
´Who led the October Revolution in Russia in 1917?
a)
Mao
b)
Lenin
c)
rossueou
d)
truman
36.
´The Great Depression was kick started by which major event in October, 1929?
a)
:D
b)
The Stock Market Crash
c)
no se me ocurre nada
d)
tacos
37.
´What are the six characteristics of fascism?
a)
One political party, extreme militarism
AND nationalism, secret police,
All powerful leader, state control of
media
b)
...
c)
<3
d)
6:
38.
´What does Totalitarian mean?
a)
medium
b)
little
c)
Dictator who controls all aspects of life
– TOTAL control
d)
total, president
39.
´What is anti-Semitism?
a)
contadiction
b)
Hatred towards Jews or the Jewish faith
c)
bad
d)
better
40.
´What was Hitler’s “Final Solution”?
a)
death
b)
genocide to Jews
c)
discrimation
d)
Extermination of all the Jews
41.
´How led the British during World War II?
a)
luter
b)
gorbachev
c)
Churchill
d)
laden
42.
´Which US president dropped the atomic bomb on Japan?
a)
Truman
b)
truman
c)
mao
d)
gorvachev
43.
´Define the Cold War.
a)
winter
b)
something cold
c)
A period of political and military
tension between the USSR
and the USA from 1947 to 1991.
d)
polar
44.
´What was the Marshall Plan?
a)
paid to countries
b)
A US plan to rebuild Western Europe after
World War II
c)
finalcial change
d)
help
45.
´What two wars were actually a part of the Cold War?
a)
north and south vietnam
b)
south and north korean
c)
all wars
d)
Korean War – Vietnam War
46.
´Define “arms race”.
a)
powerful
b)
weapons
c)
A build-up of nuclear weapons between the
USA and the USSR
d)
bad
47.
´What was the Great Leap Forward?
a)
Plan to rapidly industrialize China with
5 years by Mao
b)
:M
c)
luis
d)
samuel
48.
´Name the four people who helped bring down communism in the USSR and other Soviet satellite nations the 1980s?
a)
luis
b)
voltaire
c)
rooselvelt
d)
Gorbachev, Pope John Paul II, Walesa and Reagan
49.
´Which leader issued Glasnost and Perestroika?
a)
truman
b)
Gorbachev
c)
mao
d)
rooseltvet
50.
´What is non-violence? Who used it?
a)
Civil disobedience to bring about
social/economic/political
change.
Gandhi used it.
b)
:D
c)
hueva
d)
examen :(
51.
´Gandhi, Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr. all used _____________ ___________________ to bring about change.
a)
civil power
b)
civil war
c)
Civil disobedience
d)
jajajaj
52.
´Why is Nelson Mandela famous?
a)
First non-white president of South Africa – helped end Apartheid
b)
genocide
c)
nose
d)
second step
53.
´Who was Osama bin Laden?
a)
Leader of 9-11 terrorist organization
b)
jaja nose
c)
feo
d)
estupido
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