WorksheetsChapter 26 - World History
Total questions: 58
Worksheet time: 29mins
Who developed the theory of evolution?
Charles Darwin
Guglielmo Marconi
Ivan Pavlov
Marie Curie
Who developed the germ theory of disease along with discovering and naming bacteria
Sigmund Freud
Louis Pasteur
Marie Curie
Charles Darwin
Who invented the telephone?
Thomas Edison
Henry Ford
Guglielmo Marconi
Alexander Graham Bell
Who won Nobel Prizes for both Physics and Chemistry?
Marie Curie
Sigmund Freud
Thomas Edison
Ivan Pavlov
Who started a well-staffed research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey?
Alexander Graham Bell
Henry Ford
Thomas Edison
Wilbur Wright
Who believed that human actions were often unconscious reactions to experiences and could be changed by training?
Charles Darwin
Sigmund Freud
Ivan Pavlov
Guglielmo Marconi
Who was a pioneer in the field of making motion pictures?
Thomas Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
Guglielmo Marconi
Henry Ford
Who made use of the assembly line to make his factory highly efficient?
Thomas Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
Henry Ford
Wilbur Wright
Who invented the first practical electric light bulb?
Alexander Graham Bell
Henry Ford
Thomas Edison
Wilbur Wright
Who participated in identifying and naming radioactivity?
Sigmund Freud
Ivan Pavlov
Louis Pasteur
Marie Curie
Who invented the first radio?
Guglielmo Marconi
Ivan Pavlov
Sigmund Freud
Alexander Graham Bell
Who helped to invent the first airplane?
Henry Ford
Wilbur Wright
Thomas Edison
Ivan Pavlov
Who wrote the controversial book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection?
Thomas Edison
Sigmund Freud
Charles Darwin
Marie Curie
Who created psychoanalysis, based on the idea that the unconscious mind has a powerful influence on behavior?
Ivan Pavlov
Louis Pasteur
Charles Darwin
Sigmund Freud
In 1836, Texas fought for its independence from
Mexico
Canada
the United States
Great Britain
In the Gadsden Purchase, the United States purchased land from
Spain
Mexico
Great Britain
France
The term manifest destiny describes something that is both inevitable and
proper
common to everyone
clearly apparent
God's will
The first country to give full voting rights to women was
the United States
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
The pogroms that took place in Russia were fueled by
anti-Semitism
Zionism
communsim
voting rights
Queen Victoria was forced to
share her power with Parliament
accept a less powerful role for the monarchy
share her power with a king
preside over a growing empire
The only country to allow women to vote before 1900 was
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
the United States
The Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829 affected the rights of Roman Catholics who lived in
United Kingdom
Scotland
Great Britain
Ireland
The outbreak of the Civil War was a direct result of the
election of Abraham Lincoln
Confederate attack on Fort Sumter
secession of the Southern states
issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation
The Trail of Tears was the forced westward migration of the Cherokee from Georgia to
Arizona
California
Missouri
Oklahoma
Which of the following was true of women’s fight for suffrage?
Some women participated in hunger strikes.
Some women secretly voted.
The secret ballot was used.
Women's suffrage began in Germany.
Which of the following influenced the formation of Upper and Lower Canada?
abolition of slavery in half of Canada
cultural conflicts between the British and French
a war between France and Britain
Native American land rights
What does the phrase manifest destiny mean?
The United States had the right to expand its territory to any continent.
The British government should always have a say in U.S. foreign affairs, but not domestic.
Native Americans should keep all their lands from coast to coast.
The American people had the right and the duty to rule North America from coast to coast.
What impact did the Civil War have on the postwar American economy?
The economy failed due to disease.
The war caused railroad building.
The war speeded up the pace of industrialization.
The economy suffered due to immigration.
Which of the following was NOT a reason for the rise of mass culture?
construction of the railroad
shorter work day
increase in literacy
public education
How might the French government of the late 1800s and early 1900s be characterized?
unique
strict
ideal
unstable
Why did Australia and New Zealand want to become dominions of Great Britain rather than independent nations?
They could not defeat the native people.
They wanted the protection of the British Empire.
They wanted more British immigrants.
They needed help writing a constitution.
What promise by Abraham Lincoln frightened Southern states into seceding?
to build more factories in the north
to help southern plantations succeed
to stop the spread of slavery
to allow women the right to vote
What effect did the major inventions of the 19th-century have on people’s lives in industrialized nations?
Car, telephone, and electricity helped ease ways of living.
Work days increased because of higher technological demands.
Inventions gave people more time to spend working.
The demand of goods increased.
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
allowed slaves the right to own property
gave slaves the right to vote
allowed slaves to return to Africa
declared all slaves in the Confederate states as free
During the early 1900s, who was the British woman who formed the Women’s Social and Political Union?
Sylvia Tarth
Emmeline Pankhurst
Marie Curie
Mary Wollstonecraft
What form of government did France adopt in 1875?
republic
democracy
socialist
dictatorship
Which of the following political reforms occurred in New Zealand in 1893?
woman suffrage
secret ballot
home rule
minority suffrage
How did California and much of the Southwest become part of the United States?
Louisiana Purchase
Gadsden Purchase
Mexican Cession
Annexation of Texas
What event provoked the secession of the Southern states from the United States?
attack on Fort Sumter
the Emancipation Proclamation
election of Abraham Lincoln
the secession of the Southern states
What did The People’s Charter of 1838 petition for?
suffrage for all men and annual parliamentary election
suffrage for all men and women and annual parliamentary election
suffrage for women and annual parliamentary elections
suffrage for non-landowning men
To which country did the most Irish emigrants go during the Great Famine?
France
Great Britain
the United States
Australia
How was most of the territory west of Texas obtained by the United States?
Mexican-American War
Gadsden Purchase
Louisiana Purchase
Texas Annexation
a Polynesian people who had settled in New Zealand around A.D. 800 whose culture was based on farming, hunting, and fishing
Maori
Moana
Aborigine
Zionism
a movement founded in the 1890s to promote Jewish self-determination and the establishment of a Jewish state in the ancient Jewish homeland
dominion
Zionism
pogroms
Chartist movement
the republic that was established in France after the downfall of Napoleon III and ended with the German occupation of France during World War II
home rule
Third Republic
penal colony
Chartist movement
an unofficial nationalist military force seeking independence for Ireland from Great Britain
Zionism
Aborigine
Irish Republican Army
Maori
the idea, proposed by Charles Darwin in 1859, that species of plants and animals arise by means of a process of natural selection
home rule
psychology
anti-Semitism
theory of evolution
a control over internal matters granted to the residents of a region by a ruling government
home rule
manifest destiny
psychology
segregation
the right to vote
dominion
suffrage
segregation
anti-Semitism
to withdraw formally from an association or alliance
secede
segregation
home rule
assembly line
in the British Empire, a nation (such as Canada) allowed to govern its own domestic affairs
home rule
dominion
segregation
radioactivity
a form of energy released as atoms decay
mass culture
home rule
psychology
radioactivity
in 19th-century Britain, members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections, including suffrage for all men
dominion
Third Republic
Chartist movement
segregation
the study of the human mind and human behavior
secede
anti-Semitism
radioactivity
psychology
a colony to which convicts are sent as an alternative to prison
penal colony
Zionism
Third Republic
assembly line
prejudice against Jews
psychology
segregation
anti-Semitism
theory of evolution
the production of works of art and entertainment designed to appeal to a large audience
mass culture
penal colony
radioactivity
psychology
a member of any of the native people of Australia that were nomadic and fished, hunted, and gathered food
Zionism
Maori
Moana
Aborigine
