Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in England?
1. Expanding Economy
2. Natural Resources
3. Political Stability
Who was the first European country to colonize Canada?
France
Louis Pasteur found that ____ could kill bacteria
heat
Explain Manifest Destiny
the idea that the United States had the RIGHT to expand west and control North America
Who led the British Empire in the Victorian Age
Queen Victoria
What is a union?
A union spoke for all the workers in a particular trade.
Define Penal Colony
colony where convicts were sent to serve their sentences
Alexander Graham Bell invented what?
Telephone
What state did the United States add to the Union that led to the Spanish-American War in 1845?
Texas
What is Zionism?
movement for the reestablishment of the Jewish homeland
Thousands of young girls flocked to the city for which jobs?
Factory jobs
DOUBLE JEOPARDY (x2 points)
Where was the first Olympic games held?
Athens, Greece
Freud believed that the _____ mind drove the human thought and actions
unconscious
What did the Fourteenth Amendment do?
Provided citizenship for all Americans regardless of race
Women's Social and Political Union
What is one major effect of the Railroads?
spurred industrial growth by giving manufacturers cheap transportation
created hundreds of thousands of new jobs for railroad workers and miners
boosted England’s agriculture and finishing industries
encouraged country people to take distant city jobs.
What happened to Ireland in the 1840s that led to a million deaths from starvation and disease?
The Great Potato Famine
Charles Darwin created the theory of __________
evolution (natural selection)
What did the Fifteenth Amendment do?
Gave voting rights to all previously enslaved people
The Reform Bill of 1832 allowed for more people to vote because it got rid of ________ requirements
Property
Name one economic or political reform that were brought about by industrialization.
communism, socialism, strikes, unions, women's voting rights, prison reforms, public education
What is it called when a colony wanted to rule themselves but stay a part of the British Empire?
A dominion
The Periodic Table of Elements
Explain the Emancipation Proclamation. Who wrote it?
document that stated all enslaved persons in the Confederate states were free
Abraham Lincoln
The Chartist Movement was the movement for the ______ class to have the right to vote.
Working