Location of the war that began in 1853 between Russia and the Ottoman Empire, Britain, and France over who should protect Christian shrines in the Holy Land
What is the Crimea?
100
Reason Florence Nightengale was allowed to take a group of female nurses to the battlefront in 1854
What is a news article reporting on the bad medical care British soldiers were receiving?
100
How Louis Pasteur discovered he could destroy organisms that cause spoilage?
What is pasteruization (heating a product)?
200
The British monarch whose reign was the longest in British history
Who was Queen Victoria?
200
Negotiated settlement that created the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary
What is Ausgleich (or Compromise of 1867)?
200
Country that became independent when Parliament gave in to its demands
What is Canada?
200
Why was Darwin's The Descent of Man so controversial?
What is his argument for the animal origins of human beings?
200
How patients were anesthetized after 1846
What is with ether or chloroform?
300
Treatise written by Marx and Engels to encourage the working class to unite and throw off "their chains"
What is The Communist Manifesto
300
Place where William I of Prussia was proclaimed the kaiser (emperor) of the Second German Empire (reich)
What is the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles?
300
Reason art movement of this era is called Realism
What is depiction of the harsh reality of everyday life?
300
How Mendeleyev classified material elements?
What is by their atomic weights?
400
French leader who installed Archduke Maximilian of Austria as the emperor of Mexico
Who was Napoleon III?
400
Social science that traces its beginning to Comte's assertion that scientific methods could be applied to the study of society
What is sociology?
400
Duchies that were a central issue in the Danish War and the Austro-Prussian (Seven Weeks') War
What are Schleswig and Holstein?
400
Reason the Zollverein was formed
What is to increase trade among the German states (lower tariffs, eliminate tolls, increase prosperity, etc.)?
400
How emancipated Russian peasants made payments to the Russian government for the land they received
What is collectively or through the mir (village)?
500
Military leader of the Italian unification efforts
Who was Garibaldi?
500
The political parties of Great Britain that replaced the Whigs and Tories
What are the Liberals and Conservatives?
500
Location of the college from which Elizabeth Blackwell received her medical degree in 1849
What is New York (or Geneva, New York)?
500
Purpose for Lister's use of carbolic acid during surgery