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Chapter 26 - World History

Total questions: 58

Worksheet time: 29mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who developed the theory of evolution?

a)

Charles Darwin

b)

Guglielmo Marconi

c)

Ivan Pavlov

d)

Marie Curie

2.

Who developed the germ theory of disease along with discovering and naming bacteria

a)

Sigmund Freud

b)

Louis Pasteur

c)

Marie Curie

d)

Charles Darwin

3.

Who invented the telephone?

a)

Thomas Edison

b)

Henry Ford

c)

Guglielmo Marconi

d)

Alexander Graham Bell

4.

Who won Nobel Prizes for both Physics and Chemistry?

a)

Marie Curie

b)

Sigmund Freud

c)

Thomas Edison

d)

Ivan Pavlov

5.

Who started a well-staffed research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey?

a)

Alexander Graham Bell

b)

Henry Ford

c)

Thomas Edison

d)

Wilbur Wright

6.

Who believed that human actions were often unconscious reactions to experiences and could be changed by training?

a)

Charles Darwin

b)

Sigmund Freud

c)

Ivan Pavlov

d)

Guglielmo Marconi

7.

Who was a pioneer in the field of making motion pictures?

a)

Thomas Edison

b)

Alexander Graham Bell

c)

Guglielmo Marconi

d)

Henry Ford

8.

Who made use of the assembly line to make his factory highly efficient?

a)

Thomas Edison

b)

Alexander Graham Bell

c)

Henry Ford

d)

Wilbur Wright

9.

Who invented the first practical electric light bulb?

a)

Alexander Graham Bell

b)

Henry Ford

c)

Thomas Edison

d)

Wilbur Wright

10.

Who participated in identifying and naming radioactivity?

a)

Sigmund Freud

b)

Ivan Pavlov

c)

Louis Pasteur

d)

Marie Curie

11.

Who invented the first radio?

a)

Guglielmo Marconi

b)

Ivan Pavlov

c)

Sigmund Freud

d)

Alexander Graham Bell

12.

Who helped to invent the first airplane?

a)

Henry Ford

b)

Wilbur Wright

c)

Thomas Edison

d)

Ivan Pavlov

13.

Who wrote the controversial book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection?

a)

Thomas Edison

b)

Sigmund Freud

c)

Charles Darwin

d)

Marie Curie

14.

Who created psychoanalysis, based on the idea that the unconscious mind has a powerful influence on behavior?

a)

Ivan Pavlov

b)

Louis Pasteur

c)

Charles Darwin

d)

Sigmund Freud

15.

In 1836, Texas fought for its independence from

a)

Mexico

b)

Canada

c)

the United States

d)

Great Britain

16.

In the Gadsden Purchase, the United States purchased land from

a)

Spain

b)

Mexico

c)

Great Britain

d)

France

17.

The term manifest destiny describes something that is both inevitable and

a)

proper

b)

common to everyone

c)

clearly apparent

d)

God's will

18.

The first country to give full voting rights to women was

a)

the United States

b)

Canada

c)

Australia

d)

New Zealand

19.

The pogroms that took place in Russia were fueled by

a)

anti-Semitism

b)

Zionism

c)

communsim

d)

voting rights

20.

Queen Victoria was forced to

a)

share her power with Parliament

b)

accept a less powerful role for the monarchy

c)

share her power with a king

d)

preside over a growing empire

21.

The only country to allow women to vote before 1900 was

a)

Canada

b)

Australia

c)

New Zealand

d)

the United States

22.

The Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829 affected the rights of Roman Catholics who lived in

a)

United Kingdom

b)

Scotland

c)

Great Britain

d)

Ireland

23.

The outbreak of the Civil War was a direct result of the

a)

election of Abraham Lincoln

b)

Confederate attack on Fort Sumter

c)

secession of the Southern states

d)

issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation

24.

The Trail of Tears was the forced westward migration of the Cherokee from Georgia to

a)

Arizona

b)

California

c)

Missouri

d)

Oklahoma

25.

Which of the following was true of women’s fight for suffrage?

a)

Some women participated in hunger strikes.

b)

Some women secretly voted.

c)

The secret ballot was used.

d)

Women's suffrage began in Germany.

26.

Which of the following influenced the formation of Upper and Lower Canada?

a)

abolition of slavery in half of Canada

b)

cultural conflicts between the British and French

c)

a war between France and Britain

d)

Native American land rights

27.

What does the phrase manifest destiny mean?

a)

The United States had the right to expand its territory to any continent.

b)

The British government should always have a say in U.S. foreign affairs, but not domestic.

c)

Native Americans should keep all their lands from coast to coast.

d)

The American people had the right and the duty to rule North America from coast to coast.

28.

What impact did the Civil War have on the postwar American economy?

a)

The economy failed due to disease.

b)

The war caused railroad building.

c)

The war speeded up the pace of industrialization.

d)

The economy suffered due to immigration.

29.

Which of the following was NOT a reason for the rise of mass culture?

a)

construction of the railroad

b)

shorter work day

c)

increase in literacy

d)

public education

30.

How might the French government of the late 1800s and early 1900s be characterized?

a)

unique

b)

strict

c)

ideal

d)

unstable

31.

Why did Australia and New Zealand want to become dominions of Great Britain rather than independent nations?

a)

They could not defeat the native people.

b)

They wanted the protection of the British Empire.

c)

They wanted more British immigrants.

d)

They needed help writing a constitution.

32.

What promise by Abraham Lincoln frightened Southern states into seceding?

a)

to build more factories in the north

b)

to help southern plantations succeed

c)

to stop the spread of slavery

d)

to allow women the right to vote

33.

What effect did the major inventions of the 19th-century have on people’s lives in industrialized nations?

a)

Car, telephone, and electricity helped ease ways of living.

b)

Work days increased because of higher technological demands.

c)

Inventions gave people more time to spend working.

d)

The demand of goods increased.

34.

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

a)

allowed slaves the right to own property

b)

gave slaves the right to vote

c)

allowed slaves to return to Africa

d)

declared all slaves in the Confederate states as free

35.

During the early 1900s, who was the British woman who formed the Women’s Social and Political Union?

a)

Sylvia Tarth

b)

Emmeline Pankhurst

c)

Marie Curie

d)

Mary Wollstonecraft

36.

What form of government did France adopt in 1875?

a)

republic

b)

democracy

c)

socialist

d)

dictatorship

37.

Which of the following political reforms occurred in New Zealand in 1893?

a)

woman suffrage

b)

secret ballot

c)

home rule

d)

minority suffrage

38.

How did California and much of the Southwest become part of the United States?

a)

Louisiana Purchase

b)

Gadsden Purchase

c)

Mexican Cession

d)

Annexation of Texas

39.

What event provoked the secession of the Southern states from the United States?

a)

attack on Fort Sumter

b)

the Emancipation Proclamation

c)

election of Abraham Lincoln

d)

the secession of the Southern states

40.

What did The People’s Charter of 1838 petition for?

a)

suffrage for all men and annual parliamentary election

b)

suffrage for all men and women and annual parliamentary election

c)

suffrage for women and annual parliamentary elections

d)

suffrage for non-landowning men

41.

To which country did the most Irish emigrants go during the Great Famine?

a)

France

b)

Great Britain

c)

the United States

d)

Australia

42.

How was most of the territory west of Texas obtained by the United States?

a)

Mexican-American War

b)

Gadsden Purchase

c)

Louisiana Purchase

d)

Texas Annexation

43.

a Polynesian people who had settled in New Zealand around A.D. 800 whose culture was based on farming, hunting, and fishing

a)

Maori

b)

Moana

c)

Aborigine

d)

Zionism

44.

a movement founded in the 1890s to promote Jewish self-determination and the establishment of a Jewish state in the ancient Jewish homeland

a)

dominion

b)

Zionism

c)

pogroms

d)

Chartist movement

45.

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

a)

home rule

b)

Third Republic

c)

penal colony

d)

Chartist movement

46.

an unofficial nationalist military force seeking independence for Ireland from Great Britain

a)

Zionism

b)

Aborigine

c)

Irish Republican Army

d)

Maori

47.

the idea, proposed by Charles Darwin in 1859, that species of plants and animals arise by means of a process of natural selection

a)

home rule

b)

psychology

c)

anti-Semitism

d)

theory of evolution

48.

a control over internal matters granted to the residents of a region by a ruling government

a)

home rule

b)

manifest destiny

c)

psychology

d)

segregation

49.

the right to vote

a)

dominion

b)

suffrage

c)

segregation

d)

anti-Semitism

50.

to withdraw formally from an association or alliance

a)

secede

b)

segregation

c)

home rule

d)

assembly line

51.

in the British Empire, a nation (such as Canada) allowed to govern its own domestic affairs

a)

home rule

b)

dominion

c)

segregation

d)

radioactivity

52.

a form of energy released as atoms decay

a)

mass culture

b)

home rule

c)

psychology

d)

radioactivity

53.

in 19th-century Britain, members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections, including suffrage for all men

a)

dominion

b)

Third Republic

c)

Chartist movement

d)

segregation

54.

the study of the human mind and human behavior

a)

secede

b)

anti-Semitism

c)

radioactivity

d)

psychology

55.

a colony to which convicts are sent as an alternative to prison

a)

penal colony

b)

Zionism

c)

Third Republic

d)

assembly line

56.

prejudice against Jews

a)

psychology

b)

segregation

c)

anti-Semitism

d)

theory of evolution

57.

the production of works of art and entertainment designed to appeal to a large audience

a)

mass culture

b)

penal colony

c)

radioactivity

d)

psychology

58.

a member of any of the native people of Australia that were nomadic and fished, hunted, and gathered food

a)

Zionism

b)

Maori

c)

Moana

d)

Aborigine