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Modern World: Chapter 11

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Britain was a constitutional monarchy in the early 1800s and which house in Parliament was set up by hereditary nobles and high-ranking clergy?

a)

House of Lords

b)

House of Commons

c)

House of Representatives

d)

House of Rich Brits

2.

During the Industrial Revolution, millions of people were moving to the cities. You then had these large landowners in these depopulated rural areas still controlling the Parliament. These rural areas were known as...

a)

rotten boroughs

b)

rotten potatoes

c)

rotten townships

d)

rotten municipalities

3.

Which political party represented the businessmen and the middle class looking for reform?

a)

Whig Party

b)

Tory Party

c)

Anglican Party

d)

Conservative Party

4.

This act enlarged the electorate, got rid of the rotten boroughs, but did little to help the urban and rural workers

a)

The Great Reform Act of 1832

b)

The Reform Act of 1867

c)

The Reform Act of 1884

d)

The Reform Act of 1885

5.

This term refers to a local self-government. *Hint: think of the Irish

a)

home rule

b)

secret ballot

c)

rotten boroughs

d)

coalition

6.

This term refers to an alliance of different political parties.

a)

coalition

b)

home rule

c)

rotten boroughs

d)

tithing

7.

This movement in Britain demanded the secret ballot however Parliament did not pass it for many years.

a)

Fabian

b)

Chartist

c)

Zionism

d)

Marxism

8.

This man was a leader in the Irish nationalist movement but was more of a moderate nationalist...

a)

Charles Stewart Parnell

b)

Adam Smith

c)

Emmeline Pankhurst

d)

Daniel O'Connell

9.

Which prominent figure in Britain called women's suffrage a "mad, wicked folly."

a)

Emmeline Pankhurst

b)

Queen Victoria

c)

Benjiman Disraeli

d)

Charles Edward Trevelyan

10.

Which of the following was not included in the social welfare laws that protected workers

a)

accident health

b)

unemployment insurance

c)

old-age pensions

d)

repeal of the Corn Laws

11.

This man wrote a book and fought for free trade and believed in laissez-faire ideas...

a)

Adam Smith

b)

Benjamin Disraeli

c)

Daniel O'Connell

d)

William Gladstone

12.

In Britain they had old laws they never updated and eventually had over 200 crimes that were punishable by death. These crimes are referred to as...

a)

capital offenses

b)

capital defenses

c)

capital colonies

d)

penal offenses

13.

When looking at the French, who had the real power in their govt.? *Hint: same title as a Prime Minister

a)

Premier

b)

President

c)

Governor

d)

Provincial Leader

14.

This canal linked the Mediterranean Sea with the Indian Ocean...

a)

Suez Canal

b)

Egyptian Canal

c)

Napoleon Canal

d)

Alsace Canal

15.

Otto von Bismarck manipulated the French into a war. What was this war called?

a)

Franco-Russo War

b)

Franco-Bavarian War

c)

Franco-Prussian War

d)

Franco-German War

16.

This man called for Jews to form their own separate state and used the term Zionism to help spread this idea

a)

Theodor Herzl

b)

Alfred Dreyfus

c)

Otto von Bismarck

d)

Maximilian (the Hapsburg Prince)

17.

This popular British political party was mainly made up of socialists and union members...

a)

Labour Party

b)

Liberal Party

c)

Conservative Party

d)

Whig Party

18.

Which newly formed country did Napoleon III hope to control with the help of Maximilian?

a)

Mexico

b)

Cuba

c)

Honduras

d)

Colombia

19.

French politics and society were scarred as a result of the Dreyfus Affair which grew out of...

a)

a hatred for all Germans

b)

anti-Semitism

c)

a fear for a powerful middle class

d)

a hatred for Italian nationalism

20.

This Russian word means to designate an attack and in the 1880s they focused on Jews living in the country...

a)

pogroms

b)

programs

c)

pilgrims

d)

gettos