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World History midterm review

Total questions: 66

Worksheet time: 33mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Public Health Act of 1848

a)

Law created to prevent Cholera and other diseases

b)

English Bill of Rights

c)

Maximillien Robespierre responsible for this period of French Revolution

d)

Spread of the Industrial revolution in Europe

2.

Natural Resources, overseas trade, increased labor pool, supportive government, and navigable waterways

a)

Causes of Socialism

b)

Steel, Electricity, and Giant Corportaions

c)

Cause of Cholera

d)

Causes of British Industrial Revolution

3.

Force China to trade with the West

a)

Objective of the spheres of influence

b)

Result of robespierre's reign of terror

c)

Causes of the english civil war

d)

Legacies of the napoleonic era

4.

Type of government Thomas Hobbes recommended

a)

Absolute Monarchy

b)

Divine Right

c)

Dictatorship

d)

Papal States

5.

Example of better farming methods used during the Agricultural Revolution to increase food supply

a)

Enclosure movement

b)

Crop rotation

c)

Capitalism

d)

Urbanization

6.

The idea from John Locke that Thomas Jefferson used in the "Declaration of Independence"

a)

Objective of the spheres of influence

b)

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property

c)

Democracy, freedom, liberty, and the free press

d)

Legacies of the napoleonic era

7.

Type of imperialism in China

a)

Cause of cholera

b)

Open door policy

c)

Spheres of influence

d)

Causes of socialism

8.

Parliament's legislation limiting the King's power to suspend laws and tax the people

a)

Petition of Right

b)

English Bill of Rights

c)

Declaration of Independence

d)

Magna Carta

9.

Hostility and prejudice against Jews through out history

a)

Capitalism

b)

Nationalism

c)

Fascism

d)

Anti-Semitism

10.

Where Napoleon's costliest defeat in terms of loss of material and men, that largely led to his downfall happened.

a)

Germany

b)

Italy

c)

Russia

d)

France

11.

Declaration of the Third Estate that they would continue to meet until a constitution was established

a)

Tennis Court Oath

b)

National Convention

c)

Civil Constitution Of The Clergy

d)

Storming The Bastille

12.

Machine used by the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror to punish those opposed to the Revolution

a)

Bourgeoisie

b)

Poisoning

c)

Guillotine

d)

Bastille

13.

Event that partitioned Africa

a)

Munich Conference

b)

Yalta Conference

c)

Congress Of Vienna

d)

Berlin Conference

14.

crowded, unsanitary living conditions

a)

Spheres of Influence

b)

Cause of Cholera

c)

Causes of Socialism

d)

Causes of British Industrial Revolution

15.

Garibaldi appealed to this in his farewell speech after leading the fight for Italian unification

a)

Capitalism

b)

Romanticism

c)

Anti-semitism

d)

Nationalism

16.

Canals and railroads leading to resources and factories to move products to trading ports

a)

Prussia formed an alliance to seize Schleswig and Holstein from Denmark

b)

Example of infrastructure in Great Britain to aid in development

c)

Similarity of the Sepoy Rebellion and the Boxer Rebellion

d)

Unstable leadership in France allowed a military dictator to seize power

17.

Consequence of pig and pork fat on cartridges issued to Indian soldiers

a)

Russo-turkish War

b)

Industrial Revolution

c)

Sepoy Rebellion

d)

Boxer Rebellion

18.

Remained politically independent, but became economically dependent on the United States and Europe

a)

Nationalism

b)

Causes of british industrial revolution

c)

Impact of Imperialism on Latin American countries

d)

Baron de Montesquieu's "the Spirit Of laws"

19.

Government powers should be separated

a)

Absolute monarchy

b)

Baron de Montesquieu's "The Spirit of Laws"

c)

English bill of rights

d)

Rousseau's "the social contract"

20.

Social inequality, economic crisis, political inequality, and ideas of enlightenment

a)

Results of the Napoleonic Wars

b)

Causes of the English Civil War

c)

Congress of Vienna

d)

Causes of the French Revolution

21.

The difference of the outcome between the revolutions in France and the United States

a)

Unstable leadership in France allowed a military dictator to seize power

b)

Reasons for building locks and digging the Galliard Cut for the Panama Canal

c)

Rousseau's "The Social Contract"

d)

Similarity of the Sepoy Rebellion and the Boxer Rebellion

22.

An act that limited the factory workday for children between nine and thirteen years of age to eight hours and that of adolescents between fourteen and eighteen years of age to twelve hours.

a)

Mines Act of 1842

b)

Reform Bill of 1832

c)

Factory Act of 1833

d)

Enclosure Act of 1834

23.

First Industrial Revolution technology

a)

Steel, electricity, sky scrapers, and giant corporations

b)

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property

c)

Results of the Meiji restoration

d)

Iron, steam, and Textile industry

24.

Industrial Revolution, hard working condition, low wages, and growing social inequality

a)

Cause of Cholera

b)

Causes of Socialism

c)

Capitalism

d)

What was Marxism Like?

25.

result from overseas trade

a)

Increase in available capital

b)

Diamonds, gold, and oil

c)

Infrastructure

d)

Textile industry inventors

26.

John Kay, James Hargreaves, and Samuel Compton

a)

Causes of british industrial revolution

b)

Reasons for imperialism

c)

Textile industry inventors

d)

Example of economic crisis

27.

The government derives its power from the people

a)

Rousseau's "The Social Contract"

b)

English bill Of Rights

c)

Baron de montesquieu's "the spirit of laws"

d)

Absolute monarchy

28.

First popular protest of the French Revolution

a)

Tennis Court Oath

b)

Great Fear

c)

Reign of Terror

d)

Storming the Bastille

29.

British abolitionist against the slave trade

a)

William Wilberforce

b)

John Stuart Mill

c)

William Lloyd Garrison

d)

George Whitefield

30.

Type of government that Louis XIV and Peter the great would support

a)

Capitalism

b)

Divine Right

c)

Dictatorship

d)

Absolute Monarchy

31.

the spread of cultural elements from one society to another...i.e. language

a)

Crop rotation

b)

Culture

c)

Cultural trait

d)

Cultural diffusion

32.

Direct result of the Sepoy Rebellion

a)

Baron de Montesquieu's "The Spirit of Laws"

b)

Cape Colony, South Africa

c)

Reasons for building locks and digging the Galliard Cut for the Panama Canal

d)

East India Company relinquished control of India to Britain

33.

European imperialism

a)

East India Company relinquished control of India to Britain

b)

The result from the idea of Social Darwinism

c)

Objective of the spheres of influence

d)

Alaska, Cuba Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Philippine Islands, and Canary Islands

34.

"We must say openly that indeed the higher races have a right over the lower races..." Jules Ferry

a)

Objective of the spheres of influence

b)

An example of Social Darwinism

c)

Anti-semitism

d)

Causes of socialism

35.

Diamonds, gold, and oil

a)

Objective of the spheres of influence

b)

Reasons for imperialism

c)

Largest exports from Africa that aided imperialism

d)

An example of social darwinism

36.

Abolished feudal system, modern education, system, constitutional government, and industrialization

a)

Effects of the Industrial Revolution

b)

Results of the Meiji Restoration

c)

Spheres of Influence

d)

Realism

37.

Emotional 19th century European artistic movement that arose as a reaction to the industrialization and the Enlightenment's focus on reason

a)

Capitalism

b)

Realism

c)

Nationalism

d)

Romanticism

38.

Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions may be founded only upon the general good

a)

Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, and Manchester during the Industrial Revolution

b)

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property

c)

Law created to prevent Cholera and other diseases

d)

Article from "The French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen" that describes the reaction to the French Estates (Three Estates)

39.

The Congress of Vienna redrawing the borders of Europe in an attempt to maintain a balance of power

a)

Result of Robespierre's Reign of Terror

b)

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property

c)

Capitalism

d)

The change in the borders of France during the early 19th century was a result of

40.

Type of economic system advocated by Adam Smith in "Wealth of Nations"

a)

Capitalism

b)

Nationalism

c)

Socialism

d)

Communism

41.

Demand for raw materials, spread of Christianity, and acquisition of new markets

a)

Militarism

b)

Reasons for Imperialism

c)

Nationalism

d)

patriotism

42.

Fenced off land for the wool industry, forced people to move to towns, and enabled factories to have enough workers

a)

Crop Rotation

b)

Two-field System

c)

Enclosure Movement

d)

Industrial Revolution

43.

Changes in elevation including mountains

a)

Reasons for building locks and digging the Galliard Cut for the Panama Canal

b)

East India Company relinquished control of India to Britain

c)

Similarity of the Sepoy Rebellion and the Boxer Rebellion

d)

Prussia formed an alliance to seize Schleswig and Holstein from Denmark

44.

Last region to unify with Italy

a)

Crusades

b)

Magna Carta

c)

Absolute Monarchy

d)

Papal States

45.

Increase in real wages, cheaper goods, advances in medicine, rise of middle class, general rise in the standard of living, and worker safety regulations

a)

Pure Aestheticism

b)

Effects of the Industrial Revolution

c)

Legacies of the Napoleonic Era

d)

Crop Rotation

46.

Bismark quote refering to the power struggle between Prussia and Austria over Germany

a)

Prussia formed an alliance to seize Schleswig and Holstein from Denmark

b)

"I wish only to express my conviction that, in the not so distant future, we shall have to fight for our existence against Austria."

c)

Similarity of the Sepoy Rebellion and the Boxer Rebellion

d)

Example of economic crisis

47.

Religious differences between Protestants and Catholics, disagreements over the divine authority of the king, and legal questions over taxation

a)

Causes of the English Civil War

b)

Causes of the French Revolution

c)

Results of the Late Renaissance

d)

Accomplishments of Peter the Great

48.

Limited the power of the Monarch

a)

Suez Canal

b)

Magna Carta

c)

Mayflower Compact

d)

Parliament

49.

Reign of Terror

a)

Maximillien Robespierre responsible for this period of French Revolution

b)

Iron, steam, and Textile industry

c)

Industrial Revolution

d)

Causes of the English Civil War

50.

Examples of U.S. imperialism

a)

Alaska, Cuba Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Philippine Islands, and Canary Islands

b)

England

c)

Example of infrastructure in Great Britain to aid in development

d)

Spheres of influence

51.

Where the Zulu wars took place

a)

Causes Of The English Civil War

b)

Papal States

c)

Objective Of The Spheres Of Influence

d)

Cape Colony, South Africa

52.

The foreigners/settlers that the Zulu nation fought in southern Africa

a)

Dutch and English

b)

Spanish and Quakers

c)

Spain and France

d)

French and Dutch

53.

Developed in Britain first and spread based on geographic proximity to Britain

a)

Spread of the Industrial revolution in Europe

b)

Causes of the English Civil War

c)

Steel, electricity, and giant corportaions

d)

Causes of the French Revolution

54.

played a vital role in Britain's industrial development

a)

Economy

b)

Infrastructure

c)

Capitalism

d)

Rail System

55.

Poor harvests caused food prices to soar leading to increased hunger and poverty

a)

Sepoy Rebellion

b)

Causes of socialism

c)

Example of economic crisis

d)

Result of robespierre's reign of terror

56.

reduced time and cost of trade with India

a)

Magna Carta

b)

Erie Canal

c)

Panama Canal

d)

Suez Canal

57.

Civil Code of Law, Establishment of the Concert of Europe, and establishment of an independent government in Haiti

a)

Legacies of the Napoleonic era

b)

Causes of the english civil war

c)

Rousseau's "the social contract"

d)

Effects of the Industrial revolution

58.

They resisted foreign influence in their country

a)

Textile industry inventors

b)

Rousseau's "The Social Contract"

c)

Similarity of the Sepoy Rebellion and the Boxer Rebellion

d)

East India Company relinquished control of India to Britain

59.

Demand for popular sovereignty driven by nationalism

a)

John locke "two treatises of government"

b)

Common cause of the Revolutions of 1858

c)

Common cause of the Revolutions of 1838

d)

Common cause of the Revolutions of 1848

60.

An example of Realpolitik

a)

Largest exports from Africa that aided imperialism

b)

Reasons for building locks and digging the Galliard Cut for the Panama Canal

c)

East India Company relinquished control of India to Britain

d)

Prussia formed an alliance to seize Schleswig and Holstein from Denmark

61.

Industrial centers that created a large number of jobs resulting in rapid urbanization

a)

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property

b)

Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, and Manchester during the Industrial Revolution

c)

Spread of the Industrial revolution in Europe

d)

Storming the Bastille

62.

natural rights

a)

John Locke "Two Treatises of Government

b)

Causes Of the English civil War

c)

Causes of british industrial revolution

d)

English bill of rights

63.

Meaning of the Tyger in William Blake's poem of the same name

a)

Sepoy Rebellion

b)

Capitalism

c)

Factory System

d)

Industrial Revolution

64.

Second Industrial Revolution technology

a)

Iron, steam, and textile industry

b)

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property

c)

Steel, electricity, sky scrapers, and giant corporations

d)

Effects of the industrial revolution

65.

Committee of Public safety made widespread use of the guillotine leading to thousands of public executions

a)

Objective of the Spheres of Influence

b)

Causes of the English Civil War

c)

Causes of the US Civil War

d)

Result of Robespierre's Reign of Terror

66.

It split society into only two classes

a)

Enclosure Movement

b)

Iron, steam, and Textile industry

c)

Result of Robespierre's Reign of Terror

d)

How Marx and Engle Felt the modern bourgeois modified the existence of class struggle in the "Communist Manifesto"