JEOPARDY!!!

1. JEOPARDY!!! Review for World II Mid-Term

2. Renaissance +Reformation Exploration Asia and America Absolute Monarchs French Revolution Enlightenment 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500

3. 100:What was to keep them secret? This is what women artists often were forced to do with their art work during the Renaissance.

4. 200:What was the Prince? The name of the famous essay written by Niccolo Machiavelli where he coined the phrase “ the end justifies the means”.

5. 300:Who was Johannes Kepler? He was the astronomer and mathematician who determined that planets moved in elliptical orbits around the sun.

6. 400:Who was Desiderius Erasmus? He was the Dutch Humanist who influenced Thomas More, John Calvin, Huldreich Zwingli, and Martin Luther.

7. 500:Who were the Peasants or the Peasant revolt of 1524? What group in European society tried to stage a revolt and win the support of Martin Luther after he posted his 95 theses on the church door at Wittenberg?

8. 100:What was they had inflation caused by huge gold imports, failed to create a middle class and businesses, the failure of the Spanish Armada, and weak rulers? Name two reasons why Spain failed to hold onto its vast global Empire after 1700.

9. 200:What was Islam? This religion had a huge impact on the culture and history of the people of western and northern Africa.

10. 300:What was triangular trade? This was the trading of slaves for raw materials, and then raw materials being exchanged for manufactured goods making enormous profits for the countries involved.

11. 400:What was native economies were destroyed? This is often what happened to native economies when European countries colonized African and Asian nations.

12. 500:What was mercantilism? This was the economic theory that was used to justify the Age of Exploration, where in order for one country to gain another must lose, and there is a limited, fixed amount of wealth in the world.

13. 100:Who were the Bourbons? This was the royal family name of the kings of France from Henry IV until Louis Philippe was deposed in 1848.

14. 200:What was the Peace of Augsburg? This was the Treaty signed in 1555 by Charles V, The Holy Roman Emperor, that allowed German princes the choice to remain Catholic or become Protestant. ( Which meant everybody in the country had to be the same religion as the Prince, Count, Duke, etc.)

15. 300:What was Poland? This country completely disappeared in 1795, absorbed by Russia, Prussia, and Austria and doesn’t reappear until after World War I.

16. 400:What was Parliament ? By Bringing William and Mary to the throne of England after the Glorious Revolution this assembly becomes the real power in Great Britain’s government.

17. 500:What was the Anglican church? The Puritans became increasingly unhappy with the practices of this English church right before the English Civil War. ( It’s why they came to the U.S.)

18. 100:Who was John Locke (Life, Liberty and Property)? The Declaration of Independence was based on the writings of the English physician and philosopher ( Philosophe).

19. 200:What was France? During the 1700s into the late 1800s, Britain’s greatest rival around the globe was this country.

20. 300:Who was George III (Hanover Dynasty)? He was the English Monarch who was King during the American Revolution, ( he went a little crazy).

21. 400:Who was Benjamin Franklin? He was the American statesman and scientist who proved that lightning was a form of electricity.

22. 500:Who was John Locke? ( also written into Common Sense by Thomas Paine) Taxation without representation was an idea that was written into the Magna Carta, what other English philosopher went further and suggested it would deprive people of their property, a natural right.

23. 100:What was to force Great Britain to surrender? This was the ultimate goal of Napoleon’s Continental system, the economic blockade of Europe.

24. 200:What was Great Britain? This was the European power that came to the assistance of Spain and Portugal during their guerilla war against the French forces of Napoleon.

25. 300:What was the military invasion by Austria and Prussia, as well as declaring war on Great Britain and the Netherlands? This is why the French Revolution took a disastrous turn toward violence and, “the Reign of Terror”, after 1793 and the execution of Louis XVI.

26. 400:What was the financial crisis caused by deficit spending in 1789? This was Louis XVI’s reason for calling the Estates General for the first time in 175 years, since 1614.

27. 500:What was a plebiscite? A ballot, like the one used by Napoleon to approve many of his ideas by the French people, that required a simple yes or no vote is known as this.

28. Industrial Revolution Revolutions Spread Industrial Life Mid-Term Questions Vocabulary 200 200 200 200 200 400 400 400 400 400 600 600 600 600 600 800 800 800 800 800 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000

29. 200:What was illegal? This is what most governments declared labor unions in the early Industrial Revolution.

30. 400What was the government supported and helped business and trade? This how business and trade was treated by the government in Great Britain as opposed to the rest of the European countries, ( except the Netherlands).

31. 600:What was the telephone? This was the invention that usually associated with Alexander Graham Bell. ( what did he invent?)

32. 800:What was and still is capitalism? This is the economic system where individuals and the market place determine the factors and the levels of production.

33. 1000:Who was Jeremy Bentham or John Stuart Mill? He was the industrial philosopher who would most likely support the idea of cooperation as opposed to competition in business?

34. 200:Who was Prince Klemens von Metternich? He was the Austrian Prince who tried to stop the spread of Revolution and Nationalism after the fall of Napoleon.

35. 400:What was 1848? This is the year called the Year of Revolutions, where Revolutions broke out in almost every country in Europe and the Communist Manifesto was published.

36. 600:Who were Simon Bolivar, Bernardo O’Higgins, and Jose San Martin? These were the three great South American Generals who led the independence movement in South America.

37. 800:What are and were mestizo? This is the name given to the people of Latin America who are a mixture of Native American and European, usually born in the Americas.

38. 1000:Who were the Middle class, or bourgeoisie? This was the social class that wanted political power and often led many of the European Revolutions after the Age of Napoleon.

39. 200:Slavery became a southern institution, which almost destroys the nation? This was the result of Whitney’s, invention, the cotton gin in the southern United States.

40. 400:What was the skyscraper? This was the invention or development made popular by Louis Sullivan after the Bessemer process allowed steel cables and girders to be mass produced.

41. 600:What was Communism? This was the economic philosophy that stated that all History is a class struggle and the final outcome will be a period of dictatorship followed by cooperation and harmony. ( In reality, a harsh dictatorship that often ignores human rights)

42. 800:What was to finance industrial growth and overcome competition?( It takes money to make money) This is why corporations are formed and sometimes monopolies and Cartels that dominated the early American industrial Revolution.

43. 1000:What was that all life must change or adapt or perish? ( Imperialists used this to justify racism and colonialism) The central idea of Charles Darwin’s natural selection, written about in his book “On the Origin of Species”.

44. 200:What was killing disease causing bacteria and germs? The development of antiseptics by Joseph Lister were crucial in doing this, which lowered the death rate significantly during the Industrial Revolution.

45. 400:What was “habeas corpus – A Latin Moment, “You may have the body”? This was the British safeguard against unlawful imprisonment.

46. 600:What was the English Bill of Rights? This was the English Document, that limited the power of the King, and William and Mary were forced to sign before accepting the crown.

47. 800:What was the Edict of Nantes? ( was written in France, it let all Protestants stay and dance) This was the French royal decree issued by Henry IV, the first Bourbon king of France, which allowed French Huguenots or Protestants to remain in the country.

48. 1000:What was the Act of Union? ( This created the Kingdom of Great Britain) This was the Act of 1707 which merged the two countries of Scotland and England.

49. 200:What was Portugal? African culture also played an important part after the importation of over 3 million slaves. This was the European country that influenced the South American culture that developed in Brazil.

50. 400:What was they were corrupt and inefficient? A camel is a racehorse designed by a committee. This was the reason most people were dissatisfied with the French government of the Directory.