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Age of Industrialization and Imperialism

Total questions: 41

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Liberalism

a)

Right to vote

b)

supported government protection of individual rights and civil liberties.

c)

withdrawal from the Union

d)

issued by Lincoln to free slaves in rebelling states

2.

Suffrage

a)

Right to vote

b)

supported government protection of individual rights and civil liberties.

c)

withdrawal from the Union

d)

issued by Lincoln to free slaves in rebelling states

3.

Total war

a)

opposed all violence

b)

political groups organized to support a common cause through military action

c)

military and civilians targeted for destruction

d)

Involving an entire continent

4.

Anarchist

a)

Opposes all government

b)

political groups organized to support a common cause

c)

military and civilians targeted for destruction

d)

A form of government where the decisions are voted upon by the people

5.

The Industrial Revolution had brought what to Great Britain?

a)

Different foods

b)

People

c)

Wealth and power

d)

Poverty

6.

Between 1868 and 1894, which two prime ministers dominated British affairs through the Victorian era.

a)

Alfred Dreyfus and Jean-Jacques Dessalines

b)

Louis Philippe and Charles XI

c)

Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

d)

Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone

7.

In 1848 a women’s rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York, organized by

a)

Alfred Dreyfus and Jean-Jacques Dessalines

b)

Louis Philippe and Charles XI

c)

Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

d)

Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone

8.

William Gladstone

a)

A leader of the Liberal Party

b)

Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of State

c)

A leader of the Conservative Party

d)

A known anarchist

9.

Benjamin Disraeli

a)

A leader of the Liberal Party

b)

Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of State

c)

A leader of the Conservative Party

d)

A known anarchist

10.

The "Citizen King"

a)

A leader of the Liberal Party

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

A leader of the Conservative Party

d)

Louis Philippe

11.

Who led Britain to gain control of the Suez Canal and made Queen Victoria the Empress of India?

a)

William Gladstone

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Benjamin Disraeli

d)

Louis Philippe

12.

One of his achievements was passage of the Education Act of 1870, which created a national elementary education system

a)

William Gladstone

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Benjamin Disraeli

d)

Louis Philippe

13.

The ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment gave US women the right to do what?

a)

Divorce

b)

Have children vaccinated

c)

Right to vote

d)

Own land

14.

Two important developments grew out of the Crimean War. Modern field hospitals to care for those wounded in battle came into use, and introduced professional nursing of the wounded, who is credited with help made these developments happen?

a)

Napoleon

b)

Florence Nightingale

c)

Otto Von Bismark

d)

Toussaint L'Ouverture

15.

United the German states

a)

Napoleon

b)

Florence Nightingale

c)

Otto Von Bismark

d)

Toussaint L'Ouverture

16.

What is the period of technological improvements that increased crop productivity occuring during the 18th and early 19th centuries in Europe called?

a)

Crop rotation

b)

Agricultural Industrialization

c)

Industrial Revolution

d)

enclosure movement

17.

Wealthy farmers bought land from small farmers, then benefited from economies of scale in farming huge tracts of land, this is called?

a)

Crop rotation

b)

Agricultural Industrialization

c)

Industrial Revolution

d)

enclosure movement

18.

The sequence of four crops (wheat, turnips, barley and clover) and a un-planted field (allows the soil to rebuild nutrients and produce more crops), included a fodder crop and a grazing crop, allowing livestock to be bred year-round.

a)

Crop rotation

b)

Agricultural Industrialization

c)

Industrial Revolution

d)

enclosure movement

19.

This move from human and animal power to machine power changed people's relationship to their work as well as where and how they lived is called?

a)

Crop rotation

b)

Agricultural Industrialization

c)

Industrial Revolution

d)

enclosure movement

20.

Who invented the seed drill and horse hoe?

a)

Eli Whitney

b)

Henry Ford

c)

Jethro Tull

d)

JP Morgan

21.

Who utilized the Assembly line concept to speed up production?

a)

Eli Whitney

b)

Henry Ford

c)

Jethro Tull

d)

JP Morgan

22.

Who invented the concept for interchangeable parts?

a)

Eli Whitney

b)

Henry Ford

c)

Jethro Tull

d)

JP Morgan

23.

An economic system in which individuals or corporations, rather than the government control production.

a)

Communism

b)

Socialism

c)

Nationalism

d)

Capitalism

24.

A political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole is called?

a)

Communism

b)

Socialism

c)

Nationalism

d)

Capitalism

25.

Factory workers lived in shabby apartments called?

a)

Government housing

b)

Tenements

c)

Flop houses

d)

Cottage industry housing

26.

What ship blew up in the Havana Harbor effectively starting the Spanish-American War

a)

USS Battleship Texas

b)

USS Battleship Ohio

c)

USS Battleship New York

d)

USS Battleship Maine

27.

Imperialism

a)

Large groups of people from one country living together in a new place

b)

A few European officials ruled the non-Europeans

c)

Local ruler kept their title, Europeans really controlled the area

d)

One country takes control of another country

e)

Not a colony or a protectorate, but an area in which one nation had a special interest

28.

Spheres of Influence

a)

Large groups of people from one country living together in a new place

b)

A few European officials ruled the non-Europeans

c)

Local ruler kept their title, Europeans really controlled the area

d)

One country takes control of another country

e)

Not a colony or a protectorate, but an area in which one nation had a special interest

29.

Protectorates

a)

Large groups of people from one country living together in a new place

b)

A few European officials ruled the non-Europeans

c)

Local rulers kept their title, Europeans really controlled the area

d)

One country takes control of another country

e)

Not a colony or a protectorate, but an area in which one nation had a special interest

30.

Dependent colonies

a)

Large groups of people from one country living together in a new place

b)

A few European officials ruled the non-Europeans

c)

Local rulers kept their title, Europeans really controlled the area

d)

One country takes control of another country

e)

Not a colony or a protectorate, but an area in which one nation had a special interest

31.

Settlement colonies

a)

Large groups of people from one country living together in a new place

b)

A few European officials ruled the non-Europeans

c)

Local rulers kept their title, Europeans really controlled the area

d)

One country takes control of another country

e)

Not a colony or a protectorate, but an area in which one nation had a special interest

32.

Who wrote "The White Man’s Burden"?

a)

Ernest Hemingway

b)

E. Bronte

c)

Rudyard Kipling

d)

Robert Frost

33.

What would be an economic motive for Imperialism?

a)

New People

b)

Spiritual conversion

c)

Raw materials and new markets

d)

spread of western culture

34.

What would be a cultural motive for Imperialism?

a)

New People

b)

Spiritual conversion

c)

Raw materials and new markets

d)

spread of western culture

35.

Suez Canal connected which bodies of water

a)

Mediterranean and red sea

b)

Atlantic and pacific

c)

Baltic sea and Atlantic ocean

d)

Mediteranean and Black Sea

36.

Suez Canal connected which bodies of water

a)

Mediterranean and red sea

b)

Atlantic and pacific

c)

Baltic sea and Atlantic ocean

d)

Mediteranean and Black Sea

37.

The Panama Canal connected which bodies of water

a)

Mediterranean and red sea

b)

Atlantic and pacific

c)

Baltic sea and Atlantic ocean

d)

Mediteranean and Black Sea

38.

British Businessman who moved inland from Cape Colony and founded DeBeers (a diamond company)

a)

Dr. Livingston

b)

Rudyard Kipling

c)

Cecil Rhodes

d)

William Gladstone

39.

South African war where the British win

a)

Rhodesian War

b)

Diamond War

c)

Boer War

d)

Tanzanian War

40.

Who was Queen Liliuokalani?

a)

Ruler of the Philippines

b)

Ruler of Hawaii

c)

Ruler of the Samoan Islands

d)

Ruler of Cuba

41.

Ruler of Mexico for over 30 years into the 1900's

a)

Emilio Aquinaldo

b)

Liliuokalani

c)

Porfirio Diaz

d)

Pancho Villa