Queen Victoria was the first monarch in British history to
to have severely limited political power
100
To which country did the most Irish emigrants go during the Great Famine
What is The United States
100
Why did Australia and New Zealand want to become dominions of Great Britain rather than independent nations?
What is They wanted the protection of the British Empire
100
Britain won and Boer republics were jointed into a self governing union
What is an outcome of the Boer War
100
Boer republics were joined into a self governing union
What is Boer War
200
Alfred Dreyfus was a french army officer who was unjustly accused of
What is selling military secrets
200
What concept is the theory of evolution based on?
What is natural selection
200
The British colony originally set up as a penal colony was
What is Australia
200
The application of ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion.
What is Social Darwinism
200
Boer
What is Dutch Farmer
300
Most Protestants opposed the idea of home rule in
What is Ireland
300
Which two lands did Captain Cook claim for Great Britain in 1770
What is Australia and New Zealand
300
What effect did the major inventions of the 19th century have on people's lives in industrialized nations?
What is Car, telephone, and electricity helped ease ways of living
300
What were the three motives behind the European race for colonies?
"God, Gold, Glory" raw materials, markets for finished products, expansion, national pride, missionaries
300
machine gun, steam engine, railroads, boats, medicine
What is the Technological Advantages Europeans had over Africans
400
The people of Maori are
What is a Polynesian people that settled in New Zealand
400
Why was the work of Louis Pasteur important in the history of medicine
What is he found that bacteria caused diseases
400
the belief that one race is superior to others
What is racism
400
What was an outcome of the Berlin Conference
to lay the rules out for colonizing Africa
400
Cancer Treatment, dating techniques, nuclear energy and the atomic bomb
What is Marie Curie
500
The Great Famine was a time of widespread starvation in Ireland caused by the destruction
What is potato crops
500
What influenced the formation of Upper and Lower Canada?
What is cultural conflicts between the British and French
500
The 3 groups that clashed over territory and resources in South Africa
What is Dutch, Africans, British
500
The takeover of a country or territory by a stronger nation with the intent of dominating the political, economic, and social life of the people of that nation.