Vocab
The prejudice against Jews is called...
Anti-Semitism
This monarch was forced to accept a less powerful role, like ceremonial head of government, for the monarchy
Queen Victoria
Nomadic inhabitants of Australia
Aborigines
13th Amendment
Why was the work of Louis Pasteur important in the history of Medicine?
A) He published "The Origin of Species"
B)He discovered radium and polonium
C)He created psychoanalysis
D) He found that bacteria caused diseases
D) He found that bacteria caused diseases
Jews who worked for a homeland in Palestine
Zionism
The Trail of Tears was the forced westward migration of the Cherokee from Georgia to ...
Oklahoma
The Great Famine was a time of widespread starvation in Ireland caused by the destruction of
Potato's
What policy or action lead to the Trail of Tears?
(It's a law)
Indian Removal Act of 1830
Who was the American inventor and industrialist who made factory production more efficient by introducing the assembly line?
Henry Ford
The American people had the right and duty to rule North America from coast to coast was called....
Manifest Destiny
What was Captain Alfred Dreyfus accused of in the Dreyfus affair?
Selling military secrets
Which two lands did Captain Cook claim for Great Britain in 1770?
Australia and New Zeaand
What promise by Abraham Lincoln frightened the Southern states into seceding?
To stop the spread of slavery
Public Education, Increase in literacy (reading/writing) and shorter work days
a country was domestically self-governing but part of the British Empire.
Dominion
What of the following influenced the formation of Upper and Lower Canada?
A)Native American land rights
B)Cultural and religious conflicts between the British and French
C)A war between France and Britain
D)Abolition of slavery in half of Canada
B)Cultural and religious conflicts between the British and French
Why did Great Britain establish a penal colony in Australia?
To relieve overcrowding in English prisons
How was most of the territory west of Texas to California obtained by the United States?
Mexican-American War
Identify TWO ways women fought for suffrage?
1) Hunger strikes
2) Protesting
3) Fire Bombs
4) Picketing
What concept is the theory of evolution based on
Natural Selection
Who helped name radioactivity and won a Nobel prize for physics and chemistry.
Marie Currie
Why did Northern Ireland stay with England after the independence of Ireland in 1949?
Northern Ireland was prominently Protestant
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Declared all slaves in the Confederate states as free
Who believed that human actions were often unconscious reactions to experiences and could be changed by training?
Ivan Pavlov