American
This is celebrated and commemorated annually on the 4th July.
American Independence
Form of government in which a royal is uncontrolled and unchecked in his/her power.
Absolute monarchy/Absolutism
Ideology that grew in Europe during the nation building process. Extreme love and pride for one's country.
Nationalism
Intense and rapidly accelerating form of colonialism in which the colonised continents were almost fully occupied by European colonisers due to the Industrial Revolution.
New Imperialism
Which political party is most prominent in Canton Thurgau?
SVP
Conviction and faith of the first American settlers coming across on the Mayflower.
Puritans
Event that is commemorated annually on the 14th July in France as the national holiday.
Storming of the Bastille
Birth year of Switzerland with its democratic constitution.
1848
Event that caused the scramble for Africa due to the formalisation of laws and agreements among European powers.
Berlin Conference
Vehicle by which Mrs White gets to school every day.
Train
Southern states that proclaimed their independence sprking a civil war in the US.
Confederacy
Napoleonic law which affirmed property rights and freedom of religion but limited women's rights.
Code Civil
Important Swiss politician in 19th century who formed Switzerland by founding important institutions such as ETH and Credit Suisse as well as the Gotthard Tunnel and the Swiss railway network.
Alfred Escher
Famous slogan of the British Empire expressing pride in the vastness of their expansion into every corner of the world.
Empire on which the sun never sets
Age that Mrs White will turn into next week.
Thirty
Rebellion during which colonialist were dressed up as Native Americans and symbolically destroyed goods.
Boston Tea Party
This was inflicted by Robespierre because of fear of counter-revolution.
Reign of Terror
Civil war that split Switzerland into conservative and liberal Cantons and lasted 25 days.
Sonderbund War
Two indigenous tribes of contemporary Namibia who were brutally murdered as part of a German genocide.
Herero and Nama
Topic that we will study next semester.
Political Science
Influential politician who formed the USA into what it is today (capitalist, federal government, indirect democracy).
Alexander Hamilton
Radical paramilitary group consisting of lower class people in Paris during Revolution.
Sans-culottes
Rule that was prominent in the Old Swiss Confederation and is still prominent in Russia today. Rule of a few wealthy families.
Oligarchy
Social scientist who misapplied Darwin's theory of Evolution onto humans to create the pseudo-scientific justification of racism that is Social Darwinism.
Herbert Spencer
Name at least three of the seven members of the Swiss Federal Council.
Guy Parmelin, Karin Keller-Sutter, Beat Jans, Elisabeth Baume-Schneider, Albert Rösti, Ignatio Cassis, Martin Pfister