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Chapter 26 Big Quiz
Quiz on Tuesday, December 4, 2012
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History
9th Grade
12/03/2012

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Term
Explain the cause and effect of the Great Hunger (Famine).
Definition
The potato, Ireland's main crop, became diseased. Many died from starvation.
Term
Explain the effect of invetions of the 19th century had on peole's lives.
Definition
Medicine, Science, Transportation, Communication
Term
Explain the significance of Louis Pasture.
Definition
Bacteria, pasteurization in milk
Term
Explain the theory of evolution. What is it based on?
Definition
The key is natural selection
Term
Home rule was in what country?
Definition
Ireland
Term
Know significance of Henry Ford
Definition
assembly line – make car in 2 hours – Model T, originally $850 ($21,000), eventually reduced to less than $300 ($7100), also used standardized, interchangeable parts
Term
Know the British colony originally set up as a penal colony.
Definition
New South Wales, Australia
Term
Know the Dreyfus affair
Definition
Why-accused of spying - trumped charges?
Where-France
Who-Alfred Dreyfus
Term
Major reforms in Britain during the 1900s
Definition
1832 Reform Act, 1867 Reform Act, 1884 Reform Act
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