Download File - Social Studies

Name:
Class:
Date:
Sambrooks VII Test Review
Indicate whether the statement is true or false. If it is false, change the identified word(s) to make the statement
true.
1. A multinational empire was a collection of different peoples living under the rule of one state.
_______________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
2. Realists looked to the past, especially medieval times, for inspiration.
_______________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
3. Liberalism and nationalism challenged the conservative domination of Europe.
_______________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
4. Romanticism emphasized using feelings and emotions over reason.
_______________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
5. Germany’s liberal reforms in 1848 seemed successful at first, but they failed to gain enough support.
_______________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
6. Radicals believed in keeping political policies the same.
_______________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
7. In the nineteenth century, the growing confidence in science strengthened people’s religious faith.
_______________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
8. Universal male suffrage kept all adult males from voting in elections in France.
_______________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
9. The policies of William II of Germany led to
a. two hostile alliances that wouldn’t compromise.
b. the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
c. the Bloody Sunday massacre.
d. the resignation of Bismarck.
10. Romantic painters aimed to
a. mirror the artist’s imagination.
b. re-create nature.
c. meet the highest standards of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
d. focus on the deplorable conditions of the urban poor.
11. During the late nineteenth century, what did working-class women in Europe do to begin to change
Powered by Cognero
Page 1
Name:
Class:
Date:
Sambrooks VII Test Review
their status?
a. worked outside the home
b. attended college
c. bought property
d. voted
12. Russia opposed Austria-Hungary’s 1908 annexation of
a. Japan.
b. Serbia.
c. Romania.
d. Bosnia and Herzegovina.
13. The advanced industrialized core of Europe depended on non-industrial, agricultural countries of
Europe for
a. technological assistance.
b. food and raw materials.
c. workers.
d. capital.
14. What do Monet and van Gogh have in common?
a. They contributed to the study of atomic particles.
b. They contributed to Einstein’s theory of the universe.
c. They did research to assist Freud.
d. They painted using new forms of expression.
15. In Germany, ministers of government were responsible to
a. the prime minister.
b. parliament.
c. the emperor.
d. the queen.
16. After Louis-Philippe gave up his throne in the revolution of 1848,
a. the monarchy ended.
b. another king took over.
c. the Second Republic brought back Louis-Philippe.
d. there was no more change in France.
17. When Louis-Napoleon assumed the title of Napoleon III, Emperor of France, he
a. declared war against Great Britain.
b. expanded the freedoms of all citizens of France.
c. controlled the armed forces, police, and civil service.
d. formed a shared empire with Hungary.
Powered by Cognero
Page 2
Name:
Class:
Date:
Sambrooks VII Test Review
18. What did the Austrian government want to do after agreeing to make reforms?
a. improve peoples’ lives by carrying out each reform
b. give each nation’s legislature control over its own people
c. unite all its nations by instituting a single language
d. take back control of the nations in its empire
19. Two leaders of Italian unification were
a. Bismarck and William I.
b. Austria and Venice.
c. Louis-Napoleon and the Papal States.
d. Cavour and Garibaldi.
20. Louis Pasteur proposed
a. the concept of atomic weight.
b. the germ theory of disease.
c. a theory of electricity.
d. that Darwin be excommunicated.
21. French Liberals overthrew the monarchy of Charles X and replaced him with Louis-Philippe because
they
a. did not believe that Charles X was capable of ruling France.
b. thought a more conservative, traditional monarchy would be better.
c. wanted to change the government to a constitutional monarchy.
d. believed that France should be ruled by another country.
22. Why did steel, electricity, chemicals, and petroleum take the place of textiles, railroads, iron, and coal
in making the Second Industrial Revolution successful?
a. Textiles, railroads, iron, and coal no longer existed during the Second Industrial Revolution.
b. Steel, electricity, chemicals, and petroleum were needed to make businesses more productive.
c. Railroads and coal stopped working as well as they had previously, and textiles and iron were no
longer useful at all.
d. People wanted steel, electricity, chemicals, and petroleum because they were new.
23. How did the railroads guarantee the success of the Industrial Revolution?
a. Goods could be moved faster from the factories to the places they would be sold.
b. People could travel from their homes in the countryside to the factories in the cities.
c. Entrepreneurs were encouraged to invest large amounts of money in factories that were linked
by railroads.
d. Everyone enjoyed riding on the railroads.
24. How did the revolts in France affect other countries of Europe?
a. The French preferred to keep the news of their revolts secret to avoid affecting other countries.
b. France’s revolts led other countries to demand change as well.
c. Other countries avoided following France’s example.
d. Monarchs in other countries fled for their lives after hearing of France’s revolts.
Powered by Cognero
Page 3
Name:
Class:
Date:
Sambrooks VII Test Review
25. What was the main motive for universal education?
a. to give people more opportunities
b. to introduce new ideas to a wider audience
c. to develop well-rounded individuals
d. to create better-educated voters
26. In the big cities, people tended to enjoy the new mass leisure
a. during the winter months.
b. during evening hours and weekends.
c. after school.
d. during the Great Depression.
27. Industrialization spread rapidly in both Europe and the United States thanks to
a. railroads.
b. steamboats.
c. peasants.
d. wealthy investors.
28. Hungary and Austria shared the same
a. constitution.
b. legislature.
c. monarch.
d. capital city.
29. Federalists and Republicans disagreed about
a. how much power the federal government should have.
b. the Emancipation Proclamation.
c. Confederate States of America.
d. the War of 1812.
30. Which Marxists believed in using democratic means to achieve the goals of socialism?
a. revisionists
b. communists
c. democrats
d. proletariat
31. Which of the following caused both migration to the cities and higher survival rates of city dwellers?
a. factories and public sanitation
b. disease and housing
c. rural people and filthy conditions
d. epidemics and jobs
32. Why did the assembly line make goods less expensive to buy?
Powered by Cognero
Page 4
Name:
Class:
Date:
Sambrooks VII Test Review
a. More goods could be produced in the same amount of time, so they cost less to make.
b. The same amount of goods could be produced with fewer raw materials, so they were cheaper
to make.
c. The assembly line used fewer workers, so the business owners had fewer people to pay.
d. The owners of factories with assembly lines paid their workers less than other types of factory
workers.
33. Great Britain experienced stability partly because it
a. gave the industrial middle class the vote.
b. gave women the vote.
c. built up the British navy.
d. expanded railroads.
34. The class of society in Europe that believed strongly in hard work and outward appearances was the
a. wealthy elite.
b. lower class.
c. aristocratic class.
d. middle class.
35. Although the United States was the richest country in the world in 1900, most of the wealth was owned
by
a. 50
b. 40
c. 25
d. 10
percent of the population.
percent of the population.
percent of the population.
percent of the population.
36. The members of the Triple Alliance were
a. Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.
b. Russia, France, and England.
c. Greece, Serbia, and Montenegro.
d. Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Italy.
37. The Industrial Revolution increased people’s interest in
a. feelings and emotions.
b. theories of business management.
c. the price of goods.
d. scientific research.
38. Scientific discoveries in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
a. increased uncertainty about the universe.
b. led to belief in a universe with certainty and precision.
c. confirmed Newton’s ideas.
d. confirmed Einstein’s ideas.
Powered by Cognero
Page 5
Name:
Class:
Date:
Sambrooks VII Test Review
39. The Zionist movement began when
a. artists began to think that art should exist for its own sake.
b. Jews emigrated to Palestine to escape persecution.
c. artists began to paint outdoors.
d. psychoanalysis proved to be an effective treatment.
40. Einstein’s theory of relativity stated that
a. the family is at the center of human consciousness.
b. relatives carry similar genes.
c. time, space, and matter are objective realities.
d. space and time are relative to the observer.
41. Why did Italians feel strongly about their nationalist ideas?
a. Austria controlled two of the Italian provinces.
b. All Italy was controlled by foreign rule.
c. Italians were actually conservatives.
d. The revolutionaries in Italian provinces did not want to fight.
42. Why did the nineteenth century become more secular?
a. People looked increasingly to science for answers rather than to faith.
b. People believed in progress as demonstrated by the Industrial Revolution.
c. People lost faith in the ideals of romanticism.
d. Scientific discoveries led to stronger religious beliefs.
43. How did industrialization create new social classes as well as the conditions for the development of
socialism?
a. Paying women half of what men received caused all of society to rebel and demand socialism to
equalize women’s pay.
b. Bad working conditions created a working class and led reformers to suggested socialism to
equalize the wealth and control working conditions.
c. Most factories improved conditions on their own due to pressure from the industrial middle
class.
d. More production caused more wealth for the upper classes, who preferred socialism in order to
share their wealth with all workers.
44. Why did coal production expand greatly during the Industrial Revolution?
a. People preferred to use coal over electricity because it was more powerful.
b. Coal was an environmentally clean method of fueling machines.
c. New methods of mining coal made it a very easy job.
d. Coal was needed to produce iron and to run steam engines.
45. Many workers reacted to poor working conditions by
a. quitting their jobs
b. organizing to pass laws or make reforms.
c. buying the factories and changing them.
Powered by Cognero
Page 6
Name:
Class:
Date:
Sambrooks VII Test Review
d. refusing to work and living on welfare.
46. The Industrial Revolution started in Britain partly because its rivers provided
a. cheaper food.
b. coal and iron ore.
c. transportation and power.
d. plentiful labor.
Enter the appropriate word(s) to complete the statement.
47. Some new political parties used _____, hostility, and discrimination directed at Jews to win votes.
48. By 1888, _____ had become the strongest military and industrial power in Europe.
49. Social Darwinism is the idea that _____ comes from survival of the strong and fit.
a. assembly line
b. Bessemer process
c. Thomas Edison
d. mass production
e. internal combustion
50. created the first commercially practical incandescent lightbulb
51. engine type fired by oil and gasoline
52. method of making high-quality steel efficiently and cheaply
53. arrangement of machines, equipment, and workers in which work passes from worker to worker in a
direct line until the product is assembled
54. production in large quantities, usually by machinery
a. leisure
b. the new elite
c. feminism
d. working class
e. suffrage
55. the right to vote
56. the largest class in the European population after 1870
57. movement for women’s rights
58. activities people did after of work
Powered by Cognero
Page 7
Name:
Class:
Date:
Sambrooks VII Test Review
59. class made up of the wealthy upper-middle class and the upper class
a. enclosure movement
b. spinning jenny
c. steam engine
d. capital
e. industrial capitalism
60. invention that improved thread production
61. supply of money
62. economic system based on industrial production
63. machine powered by coal, making it possible to locate factories anywhere, including away from rivers
64. the fencing of meadows and fields, which kept peasants from using them for grazing and forced many
to move to towns for work
Powered by Cognero
Page 8