Ch26 Age of Democracy and Progress

Question 1

What is the term for self-government of domestic affairs while remaining part of an empire?

Accepted Answer

Dominion

Question 2

What field is associated with the study of the human mind and behavior?

Accepted Answer

Psychology

Question 3

Who invented the telephone?

Accepted Answer

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 4

What scandal divided France from the beginning of the Third Republic until its end in 1906?

Accepted Answer

The Dreyfus Affair

Question 5

Which term means a withdrawal from the Union?

Accepted Answer

Secede

Question 6

In 1875 the French National Assembly set up a republic style of government called...

Accepted Answer

Third Republic

Question 7

Who flew the first flying machine in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina?

Accepted Answer

Wright Brothers

Question 8

What document said that slaves in the Confederate states were free if they could make it north?

Accepted Answer

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 9

Who invented the lightbulb and phonograph?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Edison

Question 10

Who came up with the periodic table of elements?

Accepted Answer

Dmitri Mendeleev

Question 11

Which Queen sat on the throne of England for 64 years?

Accepted Answer

Queen Victoria

Question 12

Art, writing, & music that appeal to a larger audience is known as...

Accepted Answer

Mass Culture

Question 13

What is the name for Charles Darwin's theory that organisms evolve over time?

Accepted Answer

Theory of Evolution

Question 14

What was the name of the unofficial military force seeking independence for Ireland?

Accepted Answer

Irish Republican Army

Question 15

What term describes a series of workers and machines manufacturing items in a factory?

Accepted Answer

Assembly Line

Question 16

What war was fought between the southern and northern United States?

Accepted Answer

Civil War

Question 17

When James Cook visited Australia he came across a sparsely populated people known as?

Accepted Answer

Aborigines

Question 18

What is another term for the right to vote?

Accepted Answer

Suffrage

Question 19

Name for the belief America had the right to rule from the Pacific to Atlantic Ocean?

Accepted Answer

Manifest Destiny

Question 20

The U.S. bought the lower continental states from Mexico in an agreement known as...

Accepted Answer

Gadsden Purchase

Question 21

Which movement, named after the People's Charter, was started by workers who couldn't vote?

Accepted Answer

Chartists Movement

Question 22

Who was President of the United States during the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Abraham Lincoln

Question 23

What was the militant organization for women’s rights called?

Accepted Answer

Women’s Social and Political Union

Question 24

Feelings of prejudice specifically against Jews is also known as...

Accepted Answer

Anti-semitism

Question 25

Ireland experienced a famine after what staple crop failed due to fungus?

Accepted Answer

Potatoes

Question 26

What is the name for the new energy Marie and Pierre Curie discovered in pitchblende?

Accepted Answer

Radioactivity

Question 27

What is the name of a place where convicts were sent to service their prison sentences?

Accepted Answer

Penal Colony

Question 28

What term did the Irish use for "local control over internal matters only"?

Accepted Answer

Home Rule

Question 29

What was the name of the Polynesian people who settled in New Zealand around 500 A.D.?

Accepted Answer

Maori

Question 30

Which state did the U.S. go to war with Mexico over?

Accepted Answer

Texas

Question 31

Who made cars affordable and promoted the use of the assembly line?

Accepted Answer

Henry Ford

Question 32

Who discovered that heat kills bacteria leading to the sterilization process for milk?

Accepted Answer

Louis Pasteur

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