1750-1900

Question 0

1767

Answer 0

Invention of the Spinning Jenny (using machines to manufacture)

Question 1

1756-1763

Answer 1

7 Years War (French and Indian War)

Question 2

1776

Answer 2

• Declaration of Independence (American Revolution)

- Smith writes Wealth of Nations

Question 3

1789

Answer 3

French Revolution begins

Question 4

1796

Answer 4

Jenner’s smallpox vaccine

Question 5

1804

Answer 5

Haitian independence

Question 6

1807

Answer 6

British abolish Trans-Atlantic slave trade

Question 7

1807-08

Answer 7

Janissary Revolt

Question 8

1815

Answer 8

Congress of Vienna

Question 9

1820s

Answer 9

Independence in Latin America

Question 10

1839

Answer 10

1st Opium War in China

Question 11

1839-1878

Answer 11

Tanzimat Reforms

Question 12

1848

Answer 12

Marx & Engles’ “The Communist Manifesto”

Question 13

1848-1849

Answer 13

European revolutions

Question 14

1853

Answer 14

Commodore Perry opens Japan

Question 15

1857

Answer 15

Sepoy Mutiny

Question 16

1861

Answer 16

End of Russian serfdom

Question 17

1861-1865

Answer 17

U.S. Civil War

Question 18

1861-1870

Answer 18

Italian unification

Question 19

1863

Answer 19

U.S. Emancipation Proclamation

Question 20

1871

Answer 20

German unification

Question 21

1885

Answer 21

Berlin Conference division of Africa (begins “Scramble for Africa)

Question 22

1893

Answer 22

New Zealand grants women suffrage

Question 23

1896

Answer 23

Battle of Andowa (Ethiopians defeat Italians)

Question 24

1898

Answer 24

Spanish-American War (U.S. Acquires Phillipines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico

Question 25

1899-1902

Answer 25

Boer War (British in control of S. Africa)