Inventors
The inventors who sparked revolutions in industry were known as
Who were the captains of industry?
This new idea led to the mass production of muskets.
What was interchangeable parts?
This thirteenth century event placed the sovereigns (kings) under the rule of law.
What was Magna Carte?
The first major democratic society formed in this year.
What was 1776?
At one time, most of the Americas were colonies of Great Britain, France, Spain, Netherlands, and this European nation. Hint: starts with a "P"
Who was Portugal?
This British mechanic memorized the design of textile mill machines and built them in the United States.
Who was Samuel Slater?
Who was Robert Fulton?
In 1095 Pope Urban II called upon Christians to start a holy war to take back Jerusalem from the Muslims.
What was the Crusades?
The year in which the Vikings discovered the New World?
What was 1000 A.D.?
The period in history between about 1543 and 1687 that brought about advances in biology, anatomy, chemistry, math, and physics.
What was the Scientific Revolution?
He employed a new idea to manufacture muskets more efficiently.
Who was Eli Whitney?
His invention brought incandescent light into millions of homes?
Who was Thomas Edison?
This treaty that was signed in France in 1783 marked the end of the Revolutionary War.
What was the Treaty of Paris?
The year the U.S. Constitution was ratified by 3/4 of the colonies.
What was 1791?
The birth of the second great democratic society.
What was the French revolution?
He built a water-powered loom that allowed workers to make thread and whole cloth at the same time.
Who was Francis Cabot Lowell?
His invented connected millions of people together via telephone.
Who was Alexander Graham Bell?
The three separate but equal branches of the United States government.
What are the executive, legislative, and judicial branches?
The year that the American Revolution ended.
What was 1783?
This heavy cost of this war born upon the English taxpayers arguably led to the American Revolution.
What was the French and Indian War?
or What was the Seven Years War?
This man invented the telegraph.
Who was Samuel Morse.
This book became very popular in the 13 colonies. It espoused bold ideas such as that monarchical societies are not fair, and that the people should make the laws - not kings and queens.
What was Common Sense?
It was compromise in the form of ten basic protections that led to the passage of the U.S. constitution.
What was the Bill of Rights?
The rise of Islam occurred in this century.
What was the seventh century A.D.?
In 1605, the first permanent North American settlement was established by Europeans in Virginia.
What was Jamestown?