9th grade Social Studies practice sheet
Alabama Course of Study · from Gradelings · Name: ______________________
Question 1
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was written during the…
- French Revolution
- Glorious Revolution
- Haitian Revolution
French Revolution
Hint: It stated that men are born free and equal in rights.
Question 2
Nobles who fled France during the revolution were called…
- émigrés
- samurai
- Jacobins
- sans-culottes
émigrés
Hint: Emigrants.
Question 3
Early factories made which product on a large scale?
- computers
- cars
- cotton cloth
- airplanes
cotton cloth
Hint: Spinning and weaving machines.
Question 4
The leader who unified Germany through 'blood and iron' was…
- Otto von Bismarck
- Garibaldi
- Napoleon III
- Metternich
Otto von Bismarck
Hint: Prussia's chancellor.
Question 5
After the Opium Wars, China was forced to…
- become a democracy
- close all trade
- open ports and give Hong Kong to Britain
- conquer Britain
open ports and give Hong Kong to Britain
Hint: Unequal treaties.
Question 6
The Bolshevik leader in Russia was…
- Nicholas II
- Joseph Stalin
- Leon Tolstoy
- Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin
Hint: Peace, land and bread.
Question 7
Hard times in the Depression helped dictators gain support by…
- promising jobs, order and national pride
- holding fair elections
- promising less power for themselves
- ending their armies
promising jobs, order and national pride
Hint: People wanted strong solutions.
Question 8
Operation Torch (1942) was the Allied invasion of…
- Norway
- North Africa
- Japan
- Normandy
North Africa
Hint: Morocco and Algeria.
Question 9
The Einsatzgruppen were…
- mobile killing squads that murdered Jews in the east
- rescue teams
- Allied soldiers
- doctors
mobile killing squads that murdered Jews in the east
Hint: Shootings after the invasion of the Soviet Union.
Question 10
Solidarity was a trade union movement that challenged communist rule in…
- Vietnam
- China
- Cuba
- Poland
Poland
Hint: Led by Lech Wałęsa.
Answer key
- 1. French Revolution (Age of Revolutions)
- 2. émigrés (The French Revolution & Napoleon)
- 3. cotton cloth (The Industrial Revolution)
- 4. Otto von Bismarck (Nationalism, 1848–1914)
- 5. open ports and give Hong Kong to Britain (The Age of Imperialism)
- 6. Vladimir Lenin (World War I)
- 7. promising jobs, order and national pride (Between the Wars)
- 8. North Africa (World War II)
- 9. mobile killing squads that murdered Jews in the east (The Holocaust)
- 10. Poland (The Cold War)
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