World Studies: Scary Semester one Review!

Question 1

What is a “cottage industry”?

Accepted Answer

manufacturing business operated from home

Question 2

Who mostly made up the second estate?

Accepted Answer

nobility

Question 3

How many hours did people work in the factory for?

Accepted Answer

12-16 hours, six days a week

Question 4

Who was the enlightenment thinker that heavily influenced the Declaration of Independence?

Accepted Answer

John Locke

Question 5

What social class benefited the most from the industrial revolution?

Accepted Answer

middle class

Question 6

Who is the Austrian woman that was nicknamed as “Madame Deficit”?

Accepted Answer

Marie Antoinette

Question 7

What is the heliocentric theory

Accepted Answer

the sun is the center of the universe

Question 8

Who was the scientist who studied physics and the laws of gravity?

Accepted Answer

Isaac Newton

Question 9

Who wrote the communist manifesto?

Accepted Answer

Karl Marx

Question 10

Who was the Scientist who was sentenced to house arrest because he taught that the sun was at the center of the universe

Accepted Answer

Galileo Galilei

Question 11

Who was the leader of the reign of terror?

Accepted Answer

Maximilien Robespierre

Question 12

What killed Robespierre?

Accepted Answer

guillotine

Question 13

Which Enlightenment thinker wrote the Leviathan

Accepted Answer

Thomas Hobbes

Question 14

What was the device that was used to end King Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette’s life?

Accepted Answer

guillotine

Question 15

What was the lavish palace that King Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette lived at?

Accepted Answer

Versailles

Question 16

What is the geocentric theory

Accepted Answer

the earth is in the center of the universe

Question 17

Who was the author of the encyclopedia

Accepted Answer

Denis Diderot

Question 18

Name of the scientist who came up with the scientific method?

Accepted Answer

Francis Bacon

Question 19

What was the name of the French document that promised freedom to all men and equal rights?

Accepted Answer

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

Question 20

Who was the enlightenment thinker who came up with the idea of separation of powers?

Accepted Answer

Montesquieu

Question 21

an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.

Accepted Answer

Capitalism

Question 22

What were the conditions like in factories?

Accepted Answer

unsafe, horrible, and harsh

Question 23

Who mostly made up the first estate?

Accepted Answer

clergy

Question 24

What were living conditions in tenements like?

Accepted Answer

it was horrible, very cramped and they were hotbeds of disease and illness

Question 25

What was the name of the political club of radicals that wanted to eliminate the king?

Accepted Answer

Jacobins

Question 26

How were women treated differently from men in the factories?

Accepted Answer

less pay for the same amount of work

Question 27

Who mostly made up the third estate?

Accepted Answer

everyone else

Question 28

Where did the industrial revolution first take place?

Accepted Answer

England

Question 29

How did the enlightenment thinker Thomas Hobbes view life?

Accepted Answer

solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short

Question 30

Look! There's a building, what type of building is this?

Accepted Answer

tenement

World Studies: Scary Semester one Review!

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World Studies: Scary Semester one Review!

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