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Democracy & Progress Ch 10

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The _________ eased the property requirements so that well-to-do men in the middle class could vote.

a)

Emancipation Proclamation

b)

Reform Bill of 1832

c)

Suffrage Bill of 1755

d)

Chartists Movement

2.

_____ is the right to vote.

a)

Suffrage

b)

anti-semitism

c)

dominion

d)

emancipation

3.

_____ is prejudice against Jews.

a)

Chartists

b)

Emancipation

c)

Anti-semitism

d)

home rule

4.

For Jews, the long history of exile and persecution convinced them to seek a permanent homeland in a movement called ________.

a)

dominion

b)

home rule

c)

penal colony

d)

zionism

5.

The British government established _______ in Australia where convicts were sent to serve their sentences.

a)

dominion

b)

zionism

c)

home rule

d)

penal colonies

6.

In the 1840's, _________ experienced one of the worst famines of modern history. 1 million of the 8 million people here died of starvation. 1.5 million fled to the United States and Europe.

a)

Ireland

b)

Britain

c)

France

d)

Aborigines

7.

__________is the idea that the United States had the right and duty to rule North America from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

a)

Secession

b)

Emancipation Proclamation

c)

Home Rule

d)

Manifest Destiny

8.

When Abraham Lincoln became president and promised to stop the spread of slavery, many southern states began to _______, or withdraw, from the Union.

a)

join

b)

succeed

c)

secede

d)

home rule

9.

The _________ eased the property requirements so that well-to-do men in the middle class could vote.

a)

Emancipation Proclamation

b)

Reform Bill of 1832

c)

Suffrage Bill of 1755

d)

Chartists Movement

10.

_____ is the right to vote.

a)

Suffrage

b)

anti-semitism

c)

dominion

d)

emancipation

11.

_______ discovered radium and polonium, two radioactive elements, and did important work on radioactivity.

a)

Marie and Pierre Curie

b)

Willbur Wright

c)

Mendel

d)

Darwin

12.

__________. broke new ground in psychology by experimenting and concluding that human actions can be changed through training.

a)

Curie

b)

Pavlov

c)

Mendel

d)

Darwin

13.

___________ the appeal of art, writing, music, and other forms of entertainment to a larger audience.

a)

Mass culture

b)

Home rule

c)

Emancipation Proclamation

14.
Charles Darwin came up with this theory 
a)
Natural Selection
b)
Mutation
15.
To adjust to a changing environment
a)
Mutation
b)
Adapt
16.

Expanding for a growing population.

a)

Imperialism

b)

Manifest Destiny

c)

Humanitarianism

d)

Social Darwinism

17.

What is the term for a government's "hands-off" approach to the economy?

a)

socialism

b)

laissez-faire

c)

tariff

d)

philanthropy