Things You Should Have Learned If You Were Paying Attention
100
The more common name for the "iron horse."
What is the railroad?
100
Inventor of the steamship
Who was Robert Fulton?
100
This saved ships from having to go around the southern tip of Africa.
What was the Suez Canal?
100
The name given to a business that operates under a charter obtained from the govt.
What is corporation?
100
You would most likely find Robert Fulton's boats on this American river.
What is the Mississippi River?
200
The word Karl Marx used to label the factory-owning middle class.
What is the bourgeoisie?
200
The queen of England who reign from 1837-1901 and who presided over the Grand Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde Park.
Who was Queen Victoria?
200
In 1871, Italy took over the Papal States from the pope. The name given to the area that the pope controlled after this date was...
What is Vatican City?
200
The term given to the fact that countries were more dependent on each other for trade than ever before in history.
What is interdependent?
200
The class struggle between workers and factory owners inspired Karl Marx to write this book
What is the Communist Manifesto?
300
The swashbuckling tycoon, Thomas Brassey, employed over 80,000 workers on five continents doing what...
What is building railroads?
300
John D. Rockefeller was said to have a monopoly in this industry.
What is the oil industry?
300
This area was once part of the Spanish Empire, was later part of Mexico, eventually became its own country, and today is part of the United States.
What is Texas?
300
In the 1800s, even poor men in most places gained the right to vote. The term for having the right to vote is...
What is suffrage?
300
Cavour made an agreement with the leader of this country in order to help protect Italy from Austria
Who is Napoleon III of France?
400
Industrialization played a critical role in The Seven Weeks' War. It allowed one side to quickly defeat the other, thus the reason for its brevity. The two sides in this war were...
What is Prussia (winner) and Austria (loser).
400
This man was most responsible for creating German unity - especially because of what he did to start the Franco-Prussian War.
Who was Otto von Bismarck?
400
Although most Italians living in the south of Italy emigrated from Italy to the U.S. at least one million others left for this Latin American country.
What is Argentina?
400
After the Franco-Prussian War, King William I of Prussia was crowned kaiser. This marked the start in German history known as the? (The earlier one had taken place during the Holy Roman Empire).
What is Second Reich?
400
The art at this time in history in which artists focused on the everyday life of the working class people. This style was known as...
What is Realism?
500
The U.S. grew rapidly after the Civil War for three reasons: 1. fast growing population 2. its democratic system put few restraints on business development. AND 3. ?
What is a wealth of raw materials?
500
The U.S. general who declared war on Mexico.
Who was James Polk?
500
This event took place Promontory Point in Utah
What is the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad?
500
After losing the Franco-Prussian War, Napoleon III fled to Britain. The National Assembly created a new government and thus began a period known in French history as "The ___ Republic"
What is The Third Republic?
500
The only way out of Paris in 1870 when Prussian troops surrounded the city