7th Grade Final Exam

Question 1

French aristocrats and nobles were members of the _____ estate?

Answer 1

2nd

Question 2

French Clergy were members of the _____ Estate?

Answer 2

1st

Question 3

French peasants and merchants were members of the _____ Estate?

Answer 3

3rd

Question 4

Name the French king and queen during the French Revolution?

Answer 4

Louis XVI and Marie Antounette

Question 5

Name the French writer who described and endorsed the Enlightenment ideals

Answer 5

Voltaire

Question 6

Name the important French document that stated the rights of all French men and citizens

Answer 6

Declaration of the Rights of Man

Question 7

Name the committee that led France’s revolutionary government and resulted in the Reign of Terror

Answer 7

Committee of Public Safety

Question 8

Name the army general who became the dictator of France

Answer 8

Napoleon Bonaparte

Question 9

In what country did the French lose 500,000 men to the Grand Army due to harsh weather and enemy soldiers?

Answer 9

Russia

Question 10

Hungry revolted against what European country?

Answer 10

Austria

Question 11

Name the chancellor of Prussia who united all German territories into one country

Answer 11

Otto von Bismarck

Question 12

Who was the first kaiser of the United Germany?

Answer 12

Kaiser Wilhelm I

Question 13

Many British farmers moved to the _____ during the 18th and 19th centuries

Answer 13

City

Question 14

Who invented the reaping machine?

Answer 14

Cyrus McCormick

Question 15

Who invented the cotton gin?

Answer 15

Eli Whitney

Question 16

Who improved the steam engine?

Answer 16

James Watt

Question 17

Who used patents to control the sales of inventions?

Answer 17

Richard Arkwright

Question 18

Name the dominant nation in Europe after Napoleon’s defeat?

Answer 18

Great Britain

Question 19

The 1833 Factory Act placed limits on?

Answer 19

Child Labor

Question 20

Name the first known religious group to fight against the salve trade

Answer 20

Quakers

Question 21

Name the man who led the British parliament to end the British slave trade

Answer 21

William Wilberforce

Question 22

Name the American who published the first known article in the American colonies that supported the freeing of slaves

Answer 22

Thomas Paine

Question 23

Name the American abolitionist who was once a slave in Maryland

Answer 23

Frederick Douglas

Question 24

Define Suffrage

Answer 24

The right to vote

Question 25

Name the British Prime Minister who increased the number of eligible British voters

Answer 25

Benjamin Disraeli

Question 26

Before voting rights in Britain, the privilege to vote was based on

Answer 26

Land ownership

Question 27

Anti-semitism is hatred towards

Answer 27

Jews

Question 28

The Dreyfus Affair occurred in which country?

Answer 28

France

Question 29

What was Dreyfus accused of doing?

Answer 29

Passing military secrets to the Germans

Question 30

Who described Russian life in the book War and Peace?

Answer 30

Leo Tolstoy

Question 31

What British author wrote about hardships in England's Industrial Age?

Answer 31

Charles Dickens

Question 32

Name the French chemist who stemmed the spread of several diseases

Answer 32

Louis Pasteur

Question 33

Who wrote The Descent of Man and Origin of Species?

Answer 33

Charles Darwin

Question 34

Who invented the automobile?

Answer 34

Henry Ford

Question 35

Who was the first to patent the telephone?

Answer 35

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 36

Who was the first to patent the telegraph?

Answer 36

Samuel Morse

Question 37

Name 3 things that the Fante Confederation promoted in Africa

Answer 37

Education, Self Rule, and improving the lives of their people

Question 38

Menelik was the ruler of what African country

Answer 38

Ethiopia

Question 39

Name the African general who used modern weaponry to defend the Wassoulou Empire

Answer 39

Samori Ture

Question 40

Name the British explorer and missionary who discovered the waterfalls that were later named for the queen of England

Answer 40

David Livingstone

Question 41

Victoria Falls is located near what river?

Answer 41

Zambezi River

Question 42

Name the Scottish missionary who preached the gospel in South Africa for 53 years

Answer 42

Robert Moffat

Question 43

Name the 1st African bishop in the Anglican Church

Answer 43

Samuel Ajayi Crowther

Question 44

Early British trade in Africa centered around what trade?

Answer 44

Slave Trade

Question 45

In 1868, what African scholar disproved claims of the racial inferiority of the black man?

Answer 45

John Africanus Horton

Question 46

Leopold was the imperialist king of what European country?

Answer 46

Belgium

Question 47

Ethiopia defeated what European country and resisted colonization?

Answer 47

Italy

Question 48

Name the ruler that laid the foundation for modern Turkey

Answer 48

Mahmud II

Question 49

What imperial ruler oppressed Russia's peasants by legalizing the sale of serfs separately from the land?

Answer 49

Catherine the Great

Question 50

Napoleon's army suffered great losses due to harsh winter weather while retreating

Answer 50

Russia

Question 51

Britain and France competed for control of what Asian country?

Answer 51

India

Question 52

Robert Clive won a key victory at the Battle of ____

Answer 52

Plassey

Question 53

By winning the ______ War, Britain gained control of much of India

Answer 53

Seven Year

Question 54

With only 3,000 men, what British general routed a large Indian force?

Answer 54

Robert Clive

Question 55

Jonathan Goforth was a missionary to _______

Answer 55

China

Question 56

The Asian country that escaped European imperialism by serving as a buffer between French and British Territories

Answer 56

Siam

Question 57

Commodore Matthew Perry pressured what Asian country to open for trade and end it's isolation?

Answer 57

Japan

Question 58

Meiji means_______

Answer 58

"Enlightened Rule"

Question 59

The Austrian heir to the throne who was assasinated and it started WWI

Answer 59

Archduke Francis Ferdinand

Question 60

Define "stalemate"

Answer 60

when large numbers of troops die without major gains for either side

Question 61

In the 1800's and 1900's, the Ottoman Empire tried to eliminate what group of people?

Answer 61

Armenians

Question 62

Define total war

Answer 62

War in which all resources of a country are devoted to destroying the enemy

Question 63

Name the treaty that was signed and ended WWI

Answer 63

Treaty of Versaille

Question 64

Name the Nazi leader

Answer 64

Adolf Hitler

Question 65

Name the 1st Russian communist dictator

Answer 65

Vladimir Lenin

Question 66

Name the 2nd Russian Communist Dictator who developed the Five-Year Plan and killed many Christians

Answer 66

Joseph Stalin

Question 67

Woodrow Wilson led in the formation of what organization?

Answer 67

League of Nations

Question 68

Name the leader of the Chinese Communist Party

Answer 68

Mao Zedang

Question 69

Name the father of Modern Physics

Answer 69

Albert Einstein

Question 70

In the 1930's, what American President established a number of federal agencies that were supposed to create jobs and bring America out of the Great Depression?

Answer 70

President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 71

The Emperor of Japan during WWII

Answer 71

Emperor Hirohito

Question 72

Japanese general who expanded his country's military power

Answer 72

Hideki Tojo

Question 73

Define Appeasement

Answer 73

Avoiding conflict by making concessions or giving them something

Question 74

The President of the USA during WWII that died shortly before the war ended

Answer 74

Franklin Roosevelt

Question 75

British Prime Minister who tried to avoid war by giving in to Hitler's demands

Answer 75

Neville Chamberlain

Question 76

Hitler called his German empire the _____

Answer 76

Third Reich

Question 77

What country maintained its policy of isolation from European conflicts at the beginning of WWII?

Answer 77

USA

Question 78

Who led German forces in Africa?

Answer 78

Erwin Rommel

Question 79

Who was the supreme allied commander in the Pacific?

Answer 79

General Douglas MacArthur

Question 80

Victory in Europe day was

Answer 80

May 8th, 1945

Question 81

The US dropped two atomic bombs in what country?

Answer 81

Japan

Question 82

The Nazis killed almost 1 million _______ at the concentration camp in Auschwitz

Answer 82

Jews

Question 83

Japan wrote a constitution and developed a democratic government after WWII under what man's leadership?

Answer 83

General Douglas MacArthur

Question 84

Konrad Adenauer established a free market in what country?

Answer 84

West Germany

Question 85

Name the first communist dictator of China

Answer 85

Mao Zedang

Question 86

Chaing Kai-shek founded the Republic of China on what island?

Answer 86

Taiwan in 1949

Question 87

In 1962, the Soviet Union placed nuclear missiles in what country?

Answer 87

Cuba

Question 88

Mohatma Gandhi helped what country achieve independence from Great Britain?

Answer 88

India

Question 89

Who attacked Israel the day after it declared its independence?

Answer 89

Arab forces of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Iraq

Question 90

The Jews overwhelmed a superior Arab force in what short war?

Answer 90

Six-Day War

Question 91

Great Britain's first woman Prime Minister

Answer 91

Margaret Thatcher

Question 92

The Solidarity Movement was an anti-communist labor movement in what country?

Answer 92

Poland

Question 93

Soviet leader who allowed private ownership of industry, released political prisoners, and became the first Soviet president

Answer 93

Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 94

American President who helped spread democracy to other countries and promoted the Space Defense Initiative

Answer 94

Ronald Reagan

Question 95

Name the resources that remains the main source of energy for transportation, heat, and electricity

Answer 95

Oil

Question 96

Define Single Market

Answer 96

Enables states to trade with one another without restriction

Question 97

The CFA franc is a currency used on what continent?

Answer 97

Africa

Question 98

An economic union of what continent combines 8 countries into trade cooperation

Answer 98

Africa

Question 99

Why was the internet first developed in the USA?

Answer 99

To enable the military to continue to communicate following a nuclear attack

Question 100

Al Qaeda and the Taliban are radical organizations that practice what religion?

Answer 100

Islam

Question 101

Saddam Hussein invaded what country in 1990 and seized its oil reserves?

Answer 101

Kuwait

Question 102

What religious group persecutes Christians in North Africa?

Answer 102

Muslims