1750-1900 1

Question 0

1767

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Invention of Spinning Jenny (Using machines to manufacture)

Question 1

1756-1763

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Seven Years War

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1776

Answer 2

American Revolution/Wealth of Nations

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1789

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French Revolution

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1796

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Jenner’s Smallpox Vaccine

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1804

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Haitian Independence

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1815

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Congress of Vienna

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1820s

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Independence in Latin America

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1839

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First Opium Wars

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1848

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European Revolutions/Marx & Engles write Communist Manifesto

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1853

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Commodore Perry Opens Japan

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1857

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Sepoy Mutiny

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1861

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Italian Unification and End of Russian Serfdom

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1863

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Emancipation Proclamation in US

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1871

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German Unification

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1885

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Berlin Conference divides Africa

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1893

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New Zealand grants women’s suffrage

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1896

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Battle of Adowa (Ethiopians beat Italy)

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1898

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Spanish-American War

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1899-1902

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Boer War, British take S. Africa

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Napoleon Bonaparte

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Emperor of France from 1804-1815; took power through a coup d’état. Was a hero of the French Revolution and his legal reform (the Napoleonic code) influenced other legal systems around the world. He is considered to be one of the most superior military commanders of all time.

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Adam Smith

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Enlightenment thinker and author of the Wealth of Nations. Considered to be the founder of capitalism

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Prince Klemens von Metternich

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Austrian Foreign Minister who led the Congress of

Vienna in 1814-1815. Advocated a conservative stance when rebuilding Europe following the Napoleonic Wars

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Karl Marx

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co-author of The Communist Manifesto – his theories held that societies progress through a class struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat (workers)

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Friedrich Engels

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co-author of The Communist Manifesto – made important | contributions to family economics

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Commodore Matthew Perry

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played a key role in the opening of Japan to the West | and the Open Door Policy. He is known as the Father of the Steam Navy in the United States

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Simón Bolívar

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Venezuelan who played a key role in the Latin American struggle for independence from Spain and helped lay the foundations for democratic ideology in much of Latin America

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Abraham Lincoln

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President of the United States during the Civil War

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Porfirio Diaz

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President of Mexico from 1876-1911. Fought as a rebel during the French intervention and at the Battle of Puebla. Was overthrown during the Mexican Revolution

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Muhammad Ali

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Self-declared Khedive of Egypt and Sudan. Regarded as the founder of modern Egypt for his military and industrial reforms

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Cecil Rhodes

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English-born South African businessman responsible for helping claim much of Africa for Great Britain (“From Cape Town to Cairo”)

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Queen Victoria

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longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and named Empress of India during that time

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King Leopold II

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King of Belgium and sole owner of the Congo Free State in Africa, where he used forced labor to acquire rubber

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Alexander II

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Russian czar responsible for the emancipation of Russia’s serfs in 1861 and attempted other reforms in Russia after their defeat in the Crimean War

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Baron de Montesquieu

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Enlightenment thinker who advocated the separation of | powers and checks and balances within a government

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Robert Boyle

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Founder of modern chemistry

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Thomas Jefferson

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American founding father, president, and principal author of the Declaration of Independence

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Jean Jacques Rousseau

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French philosopher whose ideas of the social contract | influenced both the American and French Revolutions

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John Locke

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English philosopher who believed all men were born with natural rights and it was the duty of the government to protect those rights. His work influenced the founding fathers of the United States

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Marie Curie

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Polish physicist and chemist responsible for pioneering research on radioactivity. Received two Nobel prizes in science for her research

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Louis Pasteur

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French chemist whose experiments supported the germ theory of disease and helped create the first vaccines

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Voltaire

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French Enlightenment thinker and satirist who was a proponent of freedom of religion and expression as well as separation of church and state

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James Watt

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Scottish inventor remembered for his work with the steam engine

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Isaac Newton

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English mathematician who discovered the laws of motion and universal gravitation. Also shares credit for the creation of calculus