Gr10 Q2 Review - Dec2021

Question 1

When Britain began colonizing Australia, it sent its convicted criminals there.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

The people in Australia were the first to devise ___________

Accepted Answer

Secret ballots

Question 3

The appeal of art, writing, music and other forms of entertainment to a larger audience is known as ___________________

Accepted Answer

Mass culture

Question 4

A missionary from Scotland, traveled with a group of Africans deep into central Africa to promote Christianity, he was _

Accepted Answer

David Livingston

Question 5

Henry Ford was a mechanic and an inventor of the T-Model Ford Car.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

Henry Stanley set out to explore Africa and trace the course of the Congo River, after finding Dr. Levingston.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

Many Europeans believed they were better than others. The belief that one race is superior to another is called…………

Accepted Answer

Racism

Question 8

Psychology is the study of the human mind and behavior.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

For many years, Irish peasants had depended on corn as their mainsource of food.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 10

On April 12, 1861, Confederate forces fired on _____________________, a federal fort in Charleston, South Carolina

Accepted Answer

Fort Sumter

Question 11

What became a big business in Australia in the 1800s?

Accepted Answer

Wool export

Question 12

Great Famine was a time of widespread starvation in Ireland caused by the destruction of sheep herds.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 13

The ………lost the Battle of Ulundi and their kingdom to the British

Accepted Answer

Zulu

Question 14

Mention 3 of Edison's inventions.

Accepted Answer

Light bulb, phonograph, motion picture camera

Question 15

Mendeleev created the Periodic Table.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

By the _____ of 1830, the federal government forced emigrants living in the East to move to the west

Accepted Answer

Indian Removal Act

Question 17

Industry in norterh USA depended on Slaves.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 18

The Austrian doctor ______________ believed that an unconscious minddirects how people think and act.

Accepted Answer

Sigmund Freud

Question 19

Louisiana Purchase doubled the the size of USA and extended its borders to the Rocky Mountains.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 20

Who were the unhappy countrymen in the primary resource? Where are they going?

Accepted Answer

Cherokee - Oklahoma

Question 21

Manifest Destiny says that USA had the right & duty to rule North America from Atlantic -Pacific

Accepted Answer

True

Question 22

Pavlov was sent by the British Parliament to investigate rebellions in Canada.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 23

According to the idea of natural selection, populations tend to grow _______________.

Accepted Answer

Faster than the food supply and so people must compete for food

Question 24

The French won the French and Indian War against Britain.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 25

Oregon was the first territory to be added to USA after 1783.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 26

During the Boer War, many black South Africans were captured by the British and placed in _____, where over 14,000 died.

Accepted Answer

Concentration Camps

Question 27

In which direction did USA expand to reach the Pacific ocean?

Accepted Answer

West

Question 28

In Canada, the main religion of the French settlers was Christian Orthodox.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 29

In 1836, American settlers in Texas fought for its independence from Spain.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 30

Stanley’s explorations sparked the interest of ………… of Belgium.

Accepted Answer

King Leopold II

Question 31

The ____________ was an unofficial military force seeking independence fore Ireland.

Accepted Answer

Irish Republican Army

Question 32

The Great famine caused the death of about one million people in Ireland.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 33

In 1846, after signing a treaty with USA, Italy gave part of Oregon territory that made USA stretch

Accepted Answer

False

Question 34

___________ and his brother helped to invent the first airplane.

Accepted Answer

Wilbur Wright

Question 35

Why did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?

Accepted Answer

Stop Europe from helping the south

Question 36

The first European country to colonize Canada was ______________.

Accepted Answer

France

Question 37

What was the Great Trek?

Accepted Answer

Boers moving north

Question 38

Group of people who traveled into Africa to promote Christianity were called -------------------- .

Accepted Answer

Missionaries

Question 39

The seizure of a country or territory by a stronger country is called ----------------- .

Accepted Answer

imperialism

Question 40

During the Boer war, the British countered by burning Boer farms and imprisoning women and children in ---------------

Accepted Answer

Diseas-ridden concentration camps

Question 41

Aborigines are the longest ongoing culture in the world. They fished, hunted, gathered food

Accepted Answer

True

Question 42

When Lincoln became president, the southern states began to secede from the union of states.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 43

What was Edison's most important invention?

Accepted Answer

Research laboratory

Question 44

Marconi's invention was the first radio.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 45

n the early 1800s, fires discouraged European exploration.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 46

Australia was inhabited by _________, who fished, hunted and gathered food.

Accepted Answer

Aboringines

Question 47

As part of the settlement of the Mexican-American War, Mexico ceded ______ and a huge area

Accepted Answer

California

Question 48

The major conflict between the Maori and Europeans was over ___________?

Accepted Answer

land

Question 49

The Germ Theory of disease was developed by Marie Currie.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 50

Australia was the first nation of the world to give full suffrage to women.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 51

Durham suggested that Upper and Lower Canada could not be reunited.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 52

In 1884–85, Fourteen European nations met at the ……………..to lay down rules for the division of Africa.

Accepted Answer

Berlin Conference

Question 53

A Zulu chief, named ….used highly disciplined warriors & good military organization to create a large centralized state.

Accepted Answer

Shaka

Question 54

The Aboringines were the native people of New Zealand.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 55

Mexico ceded Florida to USA.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 56

The two sections of Canada were ________________.

Accepted Answer

Upper and Lower

Question 57

The Chokwe devoted themselves to collecting -----------------------

Accepted Answer

ivory and beeswax

Question 58

The Home Rule Bill for Ireland, in 1914, was postponed because of WWII.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 59

Sea Captain, Vasco De Gamma, discovered Australia and New Zealand for Britain.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 60

The Belgian Congo, as the colony later became known, was 80 times larger than Belgium.

Accepted Answer

True

Gr10 Q2 Review - Dec2021

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Gr10 Q2 Review - Dec2021

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