World History

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100

This leader of the Continental Army endured terrible hardships with his men at Valley Forge but won a decisive battle of the Revolutionary war at Yorktown.

George Washington

200

He borrowed ideas from John Locke when writing his main points on natural rights in the Declaration of Independence. 

Thomas Jefferson

300

A person who falls in the center of the political spectrum is described as this.

moderate

400

This Russian tsar supported intellectuals, poets, and playwrights and exchanged letters with Enlightenment philosophers

Catherine the Great

500

Russian tsar recruited hundreds of shipwrights, doctors, engineers, and architects from western Europe to help modernize Russia.

Peter the Great

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100

This is the title of a Romantic novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe about a hero who completely followed his heart rather than his head

The Sorrows of Young Werther

200

 the Romantic poet Lord Byron support this nation in its struggle for independence from the Ottoman Empire

Greece

300

This French philosopher's beliefs in the goodness of human nature paved the way for Romanticism

Jean-Jacques Rosseau

400

This romantic composer slowly lost his hearing and was completely deaf by the time he conducted his final work, the Ninth Symphony

Ludwig van Beethoven

500

Large deposits of coal and iron provided the natural resources for this geographic region to industrialize before any other country. 

Great Britain

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100

This Latin American independence leader surrendered his army and was branded a traitor by Simón Bolívar, who handed him over to the Spanish

Francisco de Miranda

200

He was known for the Clermont, the first safe, practical, and commercially successful steamboat

Robert Fulton

300

This man was known for the world-famous Rocket locomotive

George Stephenson

400

 This is the term that refers to the system of sending messages by telegraph using a series of dots and dashes

Morse code

500

This revolutionary leader founded Young Italy and fought for Italian unity

Giuseppe Mazzini

Exam

100

This German politician was known as the "Iron Chancellor"

Otto Von Bismarck

200

This natural resource is the source of the distilled fuel known as gasoline

Petroleum

300

This invention made large-scale slave labor much more profitable in the American South

Cotton Gin

400

A result of the Civil War was abolishment of this controversial practice

slavery

500

This American suffrage leader was arrested in 1872 when she tried to cast a vote in the U.S. presidential election

Susan B. Anthony