Ch26 Age of Democracy and Progress

Question 1

Which term means a withdrawal from the Union?

Accepted Answer

Secede

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

The Dreyfus Affair

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

Assembly Line

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

Gadsden Purchase

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

Third Republic

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

Radioactivity

Question 7

Who came up with the periodic table of elements?

Accepted Answer

Dmitri Mendeleev

Question 8

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

Accepted Answer

Women’s Social and Political Union

Question 9

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

Accepted Answer

Irish Republican Army

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

Wright Brothers

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

Penal Colony

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

Anti-semitism

Question 13

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

Accepted Answer

Mass Culture

Question 14

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

Accepted Answer

Henry Ford

Question 15

Who invented the lightbulb and phonograph?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Edison

Question 16

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

Accepted Answer

Texas

Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

Theory of Evolution

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

Chartists Movement

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

Louis Pasteur

Question 20

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

Accepted Answer

Potatoes

Question 21

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

Accepted Answer

Manifest Destiny

Question 22

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

Accepted Answer

Civil War

Question 23

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

Accepted Answer

Home Rule

Question 24

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

Accepted Answer

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 25

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

Accepted Answer

Aborigines

Question 26

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

Accepted Answer

Abraham Lincoln

Question 27

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

Accepted Answer

Psychology

Question 28

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

Accepted Answer

Queen Victoria

Question 29

What is another term for the right to vote?

Accepted Answer

Suffrage

Question 30

Who invented the telephone?

Accepted Answer

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 31

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

Accepted Answer

Maori

Question 32

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

Accepted Answer

Dominion

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