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Question 1

Invention of the spinning jenny

Answer 1

1767

Question 2

The American Declaration of Independence

Answer 2

1776

Question 3

American Revolution/Smith writes “The Wealth of Nations”

Answer 3

1776

Question 4

French Revolution//The French Declarations of Rights of Man

Answer 4

1789

Question 5

Edwards Jenner’s smallpox vaccination

Answer 5

1796

Question 6

Haitian Independence

Answer 6

1804

Question 7

British abolition of the slave trade

Answer 7

1807

Question 8

Latin American Independence

Answer 8

1810-1825 (mexican revolution first)

Question 9

Metternich hosts the Conference of Vienna

Answer 9

1815

Question 10

First opium war between China and England

Answer 10

1839

Question 11

European Revolutions///Communist Manifesto//Seneca Falls Conference

Answer 11

1848

Question 12

Commodore Perry opens Japan

Answer 12

1853

Question 13

Sepoy Mutiny in India

Answer 13

1857

Question 14

End of Russian serfdom//Italian unification

Answer 14

1861

Question 15

Emancipation Proclamation issued in United States

Answer 15

1863

Question 16

German Unification

Answer 16

1871

Question 17

Berlin Conference//Benz develops first petrol-driven car

Answer 17

1885

Question 18

New Zealand first to award women suffrage; other commonwealth nations soon follow.

Answer 18

1893

Question 19

Battle of Adwa—Ethiopians fend off Italians

Answer 19

1896

Question 20

Spanish American War///spain loses colonies

Answer 20

1898

Question 21

Boer War—Dutch under British rule in South Africa

Answer 21

1899

Question 22

Napolean Bonaparte

Answer 22

Know the name

Question 23

Sergei Witte

Answer 23

Russian minister of finance; spearhead of Russian industrialization.

Question 24

Emiliano Zapata

Answer 24

Land and liberty; Mexican mestizo became leader of Mexican revolution; failed, but pushed for new constitution to be drafted

Question 25

Olympe de Gouges

Answer 25

Revolutionary thinker; wrote the declaration of rights of woman and the female citizen; was executed for doing so

Question 26

Otto von Bismarck

Answer 26

Prime minister of Prussia; blood and iron; German nationalist, led to unification of Germany (Second Reich)

Question 27

Toussaint L’Ouerviture

Answer 27

Former slave; led french colony of Saint Dominique to independecne; died before Haitian independence

Question 28

Karl Marx

Answer 28

Most important socialist of all time; argued that problems were casued by European capitalism and class conflict

Question 29

Cecil Rhodes

Answer 29

Successful british imperialist; dominated diamond industry and worked fkr british interests in Africa

Question 30

Queen Victoria

Answer 30

Ruler of British Empire at height of imperial power;

Question 31

Theodore Roosevelt

Answer 31

Champion of US imperialism; exerted the right to intervene in Latin American affairs

Question 32

Louis XVI

Answer 32

His actions as king of france lead to the third estate seceding; formation of the national assembly which lead to the French Revolution.

Question 33

Seven Years War/French and Indian War

Answer 33

1756-1763