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Migration, Empires and the People

Total questions: 80

Worksheet time: 52mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When did the Vikings invade?

a)

793

b)

723

c)

567

d)

834

2.

Why was England useful to the Vikings?

(a)  

3.

Who was the first King of England?

a)

King Cnut

b)

Queen Elizabeth II

c)

Alfred the Great

d)

William the Conqueror

e)

Aethelred

4.

Who created the North Sea Empire?

(a)  

5.

When did Henry II become King of England?

a)

1150

b)

1152

c)

1154

d)

1156

6.

Name one of the French regions that was part of the Angevin Empire

(a)  

7.

When did the Angevin Empire end?

a)

1193

b)

1205

c)

1221

d)

1216

8.

What did King John sign in 1215?

(a)  

9.

Name one of the Kings during the Hundred Years war

(a)  

10.

What killed people during the Hundred Years war?

a)

dysentery

b)

pestilence

c)

the Black Death

d)

smallpox

11.

What year did Christopher Columbus "find" the West Indies?

(a)  

12.

What did Elizabeth I call her legal pirates?

a)

plunderers

b)

pirates

c)

friends

d)

privateers

13.

Who was the first person to take slaves from Africa to America (known as the father of the slave trade)?

a)

Sir Leopold Fitz

b)

Sir John Hawkins

c)

Sir Edward Robinson

d)

Sir Walter Raleigh

e)

Sir Francis Drake

14.

What percent profit could be made from slave trade?

(a)  

15.

Which of these was not a product of the slave trade?

a)

medicine

b)

tobacco

c)

cotton

d)

sugar cane

16.

What year did King Charles I buy Barbados, and who from?

a)

1623

b)

Germans

c)

1624

d)

1625

e)

Spanish

17.

When was the slave trade banned?

(a)  

18.

What year was slavery abolished?

a)

1845

b)

1807

c)

1849

d)

1833

19.

Name a city that benefitted from the slave trade

(a)  

20.

Which colony was founded in 1607?

a)

Roanoke, Virginia

b)

New Plymouth, Massachusetts

c)

Jamestown, Virginia

d)

Washington, New York

21.

Which of these was not a reason for fleeing to America?

a)

better water

b)

overcrowding in Britain

c)

religious persecution

d)

wealth

22.

What disease killed 50% of native Americans in 1620?

(a)  

23.

What year was the Navigation Acts?

(a)  

24.

What did the Stamp Act of 1765 tax?

a)

all goods leaving the country

b)

official paper

c)

stamps

d)

letters

25.

When was the first congress held?

a)

1781

b)

1769

c)

1776

d)

1774

26.

Who was the leader of the American colonies?

a)

George Washington

b)

Alexander Hamilton

c)

Lord Cornwallis

d)

Lord Kitchener

e)

Hercules Mulligan

27.

What year was the American Declaration of Independence?

(a)  

28.

Where was the Battle that ended the American War of Independence in 1781?

a)

Washington

b)

Yorktown

c)

New York

d)

Georgia

29.

How much money did the British lose in the American War of Independence?

a)

80 billion

b)

70 million

c)

80 million

d)

70 billion

30.

What is the name given the French Protestants escaping persecution in France in 1500's?

a)

Hugonaughts

b)

Hugenuts

c)

Huguenots

d)

Protestants

31.

What name is given to the killing of 3000 French Protestants in August 1572?

a)

St Bartholomew's day massacre

b)

St Valentine's day massacre

c)

St Bernadette's day killing

d)

St Georges day murder

32.

What year was the Edict of Nantes?

a)

1601

b)

1592

c)

1582

d)

1598

33.

Who destroyed the Edict of Nantes in 1685?

a)

Edward XII

b)

Philip XI

c)

Louis XIV

d)

Henri IV

34.

Which part of Ireland was made British by James I?

(a)  

35.

Which of these was not a name given to the people living the Scottish Highlands?

a)

clans

b)

jacobites

c)

catholics

d)

highlanders

36.

Who won the Battle of Plassey in 1757?

a)

Philip Bruff

b)

Cecil Rhodes

c)

Robert Clive

d)

Bertie Pelham

e)

Anthony Eden

37.

What year was the Government of India act?

(a)  

38.

What does EIC stand for?

a)

East Indian Communication

b)

East Indian Cattle

c)

East India Climate

d)

East India Company

39.

What date was the Indian Rebellion?

a)

24/7/1863

b)

10/5/1857

c)

9/6/1875

d)

5/3/1859

40.

Name a group of Indians who stayed loyal to the British during the Indian rebellion

(a)  

41.

What was one positive impact that the British had on India?

(a)  

42.

What was one negative impact that the British had on India?

(a)  

43.

What was the name of the meeting where European countries decided who would take which part of Africa in the Scramble for Africa?

a)

the Roman deal

b)

the Berlin conference

c)

the Munich agreement

d)

the African conference

44.

What year was the Suez Canal built?

a)

1867

b)

1868

c)

1869

d)

1870

45.

Which British Prime Minister bought the Suez Canal off the Egyptians?

a)

Robert Peel

b)

Benjamin Disraeli

c)

John Russel

d)

William Gladstone

e)

Clement Attlee

46.

What was the name of Cecil Rhodes company?

a)

De Gold

b)

De Diamonds

c)

De Brokers

d)

De Beers

47.

What year did the first Boer war

END?

(a)  

48.

What years was the second Boer war?

a)

1889-1901

b)

1899-1902

c)

1889-1902

d)

1899-1901

49.

What tactics did the Boers use during the second Boer war?

(a)  

50.

Who used the scorched earth policies in the Boer war?

a)

Colonel Kitner

b)

Major Kransinski

c)

Lieutenant Karoll

d)

Officer Krupke

e)

General Kitchener

51.

How many Boer civilians died in the concentration camps?

a)

23000

b)

38000

c)

28000

d)

35000

52.

What year were free school meals introduced?

a)

1902

b)

1903

c)

1904

d)

1905

e)

1906

53.

Where were British convicts sent in the 100-1800's?

a)

Africa

b)

Australia

c)

India

d)

Brazil

54.

Did Australia become a dominion?

a)

yes

b)

no

55.

What year was the Potato famine?

(a)  

56.

What nickname was given to Irish workers in England?

(a)  

57.

What 1905 act limited Jewish migration to Britain?

a)

aliens act

b)

jewish migration act

c)

religious migration act

d)

migration of workers act

58.

Which of these supermarkets was set up by Jewish migrants?

a)

Asda

b)

Booths

c)

Sainsburys

d)

Tesco

59.

How many years did a former slave have to work before they could move (the indenture system)?

a)

2

b)

4

c)

5

d)

10

60.

How many people moved using the indenture system between 1841 and 1910?

(a)  

61.

What date did the Empire Windrush ship arrive in Britain?

a)

3/1/1948

b)

23/8/1948

c)

17/5/1948

d)

22/6/1948

62.

Who organised the first Notting Hill Carnival?

(a)  

63.

What year was the Race Relations Act?

a)

1963

b)

1964

c)

1965

d)

1966

64.

Which act was ended by the Commonwealth Immigration Act in 1962?

a)

Immigration Act

b)

Migration of the Empire Act

c)

British Nationality Act

d)

Race Relations Act

65.

How many Ugandan Asians and Kenyan

Asians moved to Britain when African colonies gained independence?

a)

60,000

b)

70,000

c)

80,000

d)

90,000

66.

When was the Partition?

a)

1947

b)

1938

c)

1950

d)

1953

67.

What was the Gold Coast renamed when it gained independence?

(a)  

68.

What was the name of the Egyptian President during the Suez Crisis?

a)

Isaih Kenen

b)

Anthony Eden

c)

Abdelfattah Elsisi

d)

Charles de Gaulle

e)

Gamal Nasser

69.

What year was the Suez Crisis

a)

1947

b)

1956

c)

1934

d)

1973

70.

How large was the exclusion zone during the Falklands War?

a)

300km

b)

280km

c)

320km

d)

210km

71.

What was the name of the ship sunk outside of the exclusion zone?

(a)  

72.

What was the name of the Argentinian Dictator?

a)

President Sousa

b)

General Galtieri

c)

General Belgrano

d)

President Mendoza

e)

General Leonas

73.

When did Britain join the EU?

a)

1951

b)

1957

c)

1969

d)

1973

74.

What does ECSC stand for?

a)

Europe Climate Saving Committee

b)

European Coal and Steel Community

c)

European Cattle Stock and Coal

75.

What country joined the EU in 2013?

(a)  

76.

How many migrants moved to Britain at the end of the Cold War?

a)

34,000

b)

600,000

c)

270,000

d)

98,000

77.

Which question do you have to say how useful a source is?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

4

78.

Which question do you have to explain the significance of something?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

4

79.

Which question do you have to explain two ways in which things were similar?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

4

80.

Which question do you have to explain what the main reason for migration was?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

4