WorksheetsModern World: Chapter 11
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Britain was a constitutional monarchy in the early 1800s and which house in Parliament was set up by hereditary nobles and high-ranking clergy?
House of Lords
House of Commons
House of Representatives
House of Rich Brits
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...
rotten boroughs
rotten potatoes
rotten townships
rotten municipalities
Which political party represented the businessmen and the middle class looking for reform?
Whig Party
Tory Party
Anglican Party
Conservative Party
This act enlarged the electorate, got rid of the rotten boroughs, but did little to help the urban and rural workers
The Great Reform Act of 1832
The Reform Act of 1867
The Reform Act of 1884
The Reform Act of 1885
This term refers to a local self-government. *Hint: think of the Irish
home rule
secret ballot
rotten boroughs
coalition
This term refers to an alliance of different political parties.
coalition
home rule
rotten boroughs
tithing
This movement in Britain demanded the secret ballot however Parliament did not pass it for many years.
Fabian
Chartist
Zionism
Marxism
This man was a leader in the Irish nationalist movement but was more of a moderate nationalist...
Charles Stewart Parnell
Adam Smith
Emmeline Pankhurst
Daniel O'Connell
Which prominent figure in Britain called women's suffrage a "mad, wicked folly."
Emmeline Pankhurst
Queen Victoria
Benjiman Disraeli
Charles Edward Trevelyan
Which of the following was not included in the social welfare laws that protected workers
accident health
unemployment insurance
old-age pensions
repeal of the Corn Laws
This man wrote a book and fought for free trade and believed in laissez-faire ideas...
Adam Smith
Benjamin Disraeli
Daniel O'Connell
William Gladstone
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...
capital offenses
capital defenses
capital colonies
penal offenses
When looking at the French, who had the real power in their govt.? *Hint: same title as a Prime Minister
Premier
President
Governor
Provincial Leader
This canal linked the Mediterranean Sea with the Indian Ocean...
Suez Canal
Egyptian Canal
Napoleon Canal
Alsace Canal
Otto von Bismarck manipulated the French into a war. What was this war called?
Franco-Russo War
Franco-Bavarian War
Franco-Prussian War
Franco-German War
This man called for Jews to form their own separate state and used the term Zionism to help spread this idea
Theodor Herzl
Alfred Dreyfus
Otto von Bismarck
Maximilian (the Hapsburg Prince)
This popular British political party was mainly made up of socialists and union members...
Labour Party
Liberal Party
Conservative Party
Whig Party
Which newly formed country did Napoleon III hope to control with the help of Maximilian?
Mexico
Cuba
Honduras
Colombia
French politics and society were scarred as a result of the Dreyfus Affair which grew out of...
a hatred for all Germans
anti-Semitism
a fear for a powerful middle class
a hatred for Italian nationalism
This Russian word means to designate an attack and in the 1880s they focused on Jews living in the country...
pogroms
programs
pilgrims
gettos
