North America 1880s
What is the Gilded Age?
What is the Eiffel Tower?
Recognizing the Ottoman Empire resisted and despised the European powers, Britain and Russia decided to vie for influence, alliance, and control over this enemy of the Ottoman Empire.
What is Persia?
The War of the Pacific between the western nations of South America were over the resources that could be harvested along this ancient mountain range of the Inca.
What is the Andes?
Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected the Pope, the Bishop of Rome, on May 8th, 2025, and he took this name for himself.
Who is Leo XIV?
The "Scott" Act of 1888 made it illegal for these PEOPLES/ETHNIC GROUP from becoming citizens or residential aliens in the United States.
Who are the Chinese?
While the United States was wrestling with economic hardships, European powers had mostly responded to the economic hardships of the 1850s-1870s, and were now in the midst of a rise and expansion in technology, art, and social mobility, thus leading them to call this "the Beautiful Era" or this in French.
This elite ethnically Russian and Slavic military unit, gifted by the Tsar, became the cornerstone and most elite part of the Persian military in the 1880s.
Who is the Cossack Brigade?
Throughout the late 1870s-early 1880s, Chile, Argentina, Peru, and Bolivia were involved in a massive war that ended with a Truce and Treaty in 1884, which had this consequence on Bolivia.
What is it became landlocked?
Horseshoe Crabs, living descendants of the Trilobites of the ancient seas, have blue blood that humans harvest and use in trials for this kind of preventative medication.
What are vaccines?
Who are Andrew Carnegie and JP Morgan?
This organization moved to the mainland across the Strait of Messina, and then quickly moved throughout the world's port cities, specifically anywhere that imported lemons, oranges, or olive oil.
What is La Cosa Nostra (Sicilian Mafia)?
The reign of Emperor Matsuhito, beginning in 1869, is best known for this constitution that reformed the old Code of Bushido and Imperial Nobility to advance the nation and its ability to deal with new technologies.
What is the Meiji Constitution?
In 1888, Princess Isabel signed this famous new rule that ended the centuries long practice of slavery in Brazil.
What is the Golden Law?
Paul Heyman acted as this man's "Advocate", and openly mocked that his client would end the Undertaker's Streak at Wrestlemania. As usual for Paul, that wasn't a prediction, "it [was] a spoiler."
Who is Brock Lesnar?
John D. Rockefeller owned 90% of these in the United States, giving him a monopoly on the US Oil Trade.
What are Oil Refineries?
These three European Powers were responsible for the "Scramble for Africa" in the 1870s-1880s, with one of them constantly encroaching on African territories the other two controlled.
Who are Britain, France, and Germany?
In the 1880s, the Russian port of Vladivostok became its largest port for trade in the Empire due to its position on this ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
In 1889, Emperor Pedro II was overthrown in this country by his military on behalf of the people, and created a Federal Republic in South America.
What is Brazil?
What is the Unconquerable Sun?
US Monopolies legally definied themselves as American ______, overarching nation-wide companies that can ignore local state laws.
What are Trusts?
Mary Jane Kelly was the last of Jack the Ripper's victims, found in Miller's Court in Whitechapel on the East End of London on the morning of...
What is November 10, 1888?
Sultan Abdulhamid II ordered this to be created, allowing Muslims to easily travel from Istanbul to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
What is the Hijaz Railway?
This nation gave over a large section of its southern border where the Andean mountains grew large, rather than continue its war with Chile.
What is Peru?
While many in America complain about (BYOOR-RO-KRAH-TIK) red tape, I don't think many people can spell it. Can you?
What is B U R E A U C R A C Y?