Transcript WH Growth Exam - Woodridge High School
SLO REVIEW GROWTH EXAM WORLD HISTORY (1
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WOODRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL SOCIAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT
TOPIC: ENLIGHTENMENT
• • #1. THE SYSTEM OF CHECKS AND BALANCES IN THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION WAS INFLUENCED BY THE IDEAS OF WHICH ENLIGHTENMENT THINKER?
Answer: MONTESQUIEU
TOPIC: ENLIGHTENMENT
• • #2. ENLIGHTENMENT THINKERS WERE INFLUENCED BY THE IDEA OF NATURAL LAW THAT EMERGED FROM THE?
Answer: SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
TOPIC: ENLIGHTENMENT
• • #3. ENLIGHTENMENT WRITERS OFTEN FACED CENSORSHIP BECAUSE THEY?
Answer: THEY CHALLENGED THE OLD ORDER.
TOPIC: ENLIGHTENMENT
• • #4. WHAT RULES DISCOVERABLE BY REASON DID ENLIGHTENMENT THINKERS TRY TO APPLY TO THE STUDY OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND SOCIETY?
Answer: NATURAL LAWS
TOPIC: ECONOMICS/ENLIGTENMENT /IND. REV.
• • #5. ECONOMIST ADAM SMITH ARGUEDTHAT, IN A FREE MARKET, BUSINESS ACTIVITY WOULD BE REGULATED BY THE FORCES OF?
Answer: SUPPLY AND DEMAND
TOPIC: ECONOMICS/ IND. REV.
• • #6. KARL MARX DESPISED CAPITALISM BECAUSE HE BELIEVED THAT?
Answer: CREATED PROSPERITY FOR A FEW AND POVERTY FOR MANY.
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TOPIC: ECONOMICS/ENLIGHTENMENT/ IND. REV.
#7. ACCORDING TO LAISSEZ-FAIRE ECONOMISTS, THE CURE FOR POVERTY WAS?
Answer: AN UNRESTRICTED FREE MARKET.
TOPIC: ECONOMICS/ IND. REV.
• • #8. ACCORDING TO COMMUNISTS, THE SOLUTION TO POVERTY AND INJUSTICE WAS?
Answer: SHARED OWNERSHIP BY THE PROLETARIAT (WORKERS) OF THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION.
TOPIC: ENLIGHTENMENT/NATIONALISM
• • #9. THE U.S CONSTITUTION CREATED A FEDERAL REPUBLIC, WHICH DIVIDED POWER BETWEEN?
Answer: THE NATIONAL AND STATE GOVERNMENTS
TOPIC: ENLIGHTENMENT/ NATIONALISM
• • #10. FRANCE’S THE DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN AND THE CITIZEN WAS MODELED ON THE?
Answer: AMERICAN DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
TOPIC: ENLIGHTENMENT/ NATIONALISM
• • #11. IN THE 1700’S, LATIN AMERICAN POLITICAL AND SOCIAL LIFE WAS DOMINATED BY THE?
Answer: PENINSULARES
TOPIC: ENLIGHTENMENT/NATIONALISM
• • #12. UNLIKE REVOLUTIONS IN OTHER LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES, HAITI’S FIGHT FOR FREEDOM WAS CARRIED OUT BY?
Answer: CARRIED OUT BY SLAVES
TOPIC: INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
• • #13. DURING THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, LIFE CHANGED IN WHAT BASIC WAY?
Answer: PEOPLE MIGRATED FROM RURAL AREAS TO CITIES.
TOPIC: INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
• • #14. IN WHAT WAY WERE RAILROADS AN IMPROVEMENT OVER CANALS?
Answer: RAILROADS DID NOT HAVE TO FOLLOW THE COURSE OF A RIVER.
TOPIC: INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
• • #15. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING WAS A LONG-TERM RESULT OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION?
Answer: A GENERAL RISE IN THE STANDARD OF LIVING.
TOPIC: INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
• • #16. MOST EARLY FACTORY WORKERS WERE WOMEN BECAUSE?
Answer: EMPOLYERS COULD PAY WOMEN LESS THAN MEN.
TOPIC: INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
• • #17. THE BESSMER PROCESS WAS A METHOD FOR PRODUCING? Answer: STEEL
TOPIC: INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
• • #18. IN 1869, WHAT CHEMIST DEVELOPED A TABLE THAT BECAME THE BASIS FOR THE PERIODIC TABLE OF ELEMENTS USED TODAY?
Answer: DMITRI MENDELEYEV
TOPIC: GENOCIDE
• • #19. IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, TENSIONS BETWEEN TURKISH NATIONALISTS AND ETHNIC GROUPS SEEKING INDEPENDENCE SPARKED GENOCIDE AGAINST THE?
Answer: ARMENIANS
TOPIC: IMPERIALISM
• • #20. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING WAS A SOCIAL DARWINIST ARGUMENT IN FAVOR OF WESTERN IMPERIALISM?
Answer: WESTERNERS THOUGHT THEY HAD A DUTY TO BRING THEIR CIVILIZATION TO INFERIOR RACES.
TOPIC: IMPERIALISM
• • #21. WHICH STATEMENT BEST DESCRIBES HOW CATHOLICS AND PROTESTANT MISSIONARIES INTERACTED WITH AFRICAN NATIVES?
Answer: THEY SAW NATIVES AS CHILDREN IN NEED OF GUIDANCE.
TOPIC: IMPERIALISM/WWI
• • #22. SOME COLONIAL SUBJECTS WERE EAGER TO PARTICIPATE IN WORLD WAR I BECAUSE?
Answer: THEY BELIEVED THEY WOULD GAIN GREATER CIVIL RIGHTS.
TOPIC: WWI
• • #23. WHICH COUNTRY WANTED TO WEAKEN GERMANY AT THE PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE SO THAT IT COULD NEVER AGAIN THREATEN WAR?
Answer: FRANCE
TOPIC: WWI/NATIONALISM/IMPERIALISM
• • #24. ONE WAY NATIONALISM INCREASED TENSIONS IN PRE-WAR EUROPE WAS THAT GERMANS? Answer: WERE PROUD OF THEIR EMPIRE’S MILITARY POWER AND INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP.
TOPIC: WWI
• • #25. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING CONTRIBUTED TO THE UNITED STATES’ DECISION TO ENTER WWI?
Answer: CULTURAL TIES TO BRITAIN
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DRAW CONCLUSIONS, TOPIC: ENLIGHTENMENT
BEFORE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, CATHERINE THE GREAT OF RUSSIA WAS AN ENLIGHTENED DESPOT. EARLY IN HER REIGN SHE READ THE WORKS OF THE PHILOSOPHES, EXCHANGED LETTERS WITH VOLTAIRE, AND IMPLEMENTED SOME REFORMS. HOWEVER, AS THE FRENCH REVOLUTION PROGRESSED, CATHRINE’S VIEWS CHANGED. SHE BURNED VOLTAIRE’S LETTERS AND LOCKED UP HER CRITICS. WHY DO YOU THINK CATHERIN’S VIEWS TOWARD ENLIGHTENMENT IDEAS CHANGED?
CASUALTIES OF MAJOR WORLD WAR I POWERS (CHART)!
• BASED ON INFORMATION IN THE TABLE, RUSSIA MOBILIZED THE GREATEST NUMBER OF SOLDIERS (12 MILLION) OF ALL THE MAJOR POWERS. SINCE IT HAD THE LARGEST ARMY, IT SHOULD MAKE SENSE THAT RUSSIA WAS THE MOST POWERFUL AND SUCCESSFUL FORCE IN THE WAR. EXPLAIN WHY THIS WAS NOT SO.