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British Empire
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100
The British nursing heroine who learned how to treat injured soldiers during the Crimean War.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
100
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's spectacular attempt to show British superiority over the world which opened in May of 1851.
What is the Great Exhibition?
100
Army which fought in blue uniforms led by general Ulysses S. Grant.
What is the North or Union?
100
The ironic name given to the brutal war which was the last one fought on US soil.
What is the Civil War?
100
The name once used for the English speaking southern part of Canada, now known as Ontario.
What is "Upper Canada"?
200
A monarchy on a small northwestern European island that took control of land throughout the world during the 19th century.
What is the British Empire or Commonwealth?
200
The language spoken in the province once called "Lower Canada".
What is French?
200
South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas
What are the Confederate States?
200
This failed rebellion of Christians in China led to the deaths of over 30 million people.
What is the Taiping Rebellion?
200
Japanese warriors who were once powerful, though some were such wimps that they would ride horses indoors on rainy days so they wouldn't get wet.
Who are the samurai?
300
The North American country which peacefully gained its independence from British rule.
What is Canada?
300
A rebellion of native soldiers from India who were disgusted that they were expected to handle cow fat when loading their weapons.
What is the Sepoy Mutiny?
300
The nation which opened up its borders to Western influence because it feared Matthew Perry and his "Black Ships".
What is Japan?
300
He dreamed that the president was killed by an assassin.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
300
A secret society of revolutionaries for Italian unity who "secretly" wore long hair and beards, led by the Giuseppes Garibaldi and Mazzini.
Who is the Carbonari or the Cabonaria?
400
The English hero who told people about the horrors of the slave trade and explored Africa to find the source of the Nile river.
Who is David Livingstone?
400
Britain first tried to work with this country and its leader Dost Mohammad, but later sent Sepoy soldiers in an attempt to take it over.
What is Afghanistan?
400
A group of African American soldiers who bravely fought against the Confederacy under Col. Shaw during the Civil War.
What is the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment?
400
Alexander "the Great" signed a Peace treaty in Paris with France, Britain and Turkey only after 100,000 Russian soldiers were killed here.
What is Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula?
400
The French cheered when this President who declared himself emporer was captured by Prussians.
Who is Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte or Napoleon III?
500
"In this nation of thinkers and philosophers, poets and artists, idealists and enthusiasts, the world will recognize nothing but a people of conquerors and destroyers." These words were spoken by this short-lived Prussian chancellor.
Who is Friedrich?
500
The names of 5 colonies or territories of the British Empire during the late 1800's and early 1900's.
What are Australia, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Burma, Canada, Ceylon, Egypt, Guiana, Hawaii, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Kuwait, New Guinea, New Zealand, Nigeria, Palestine, Persia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanganyika, Zanzibar
500
The change made to the Constitution which includes the words, "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude...shall exist within the United States..."
What is the 13th Amendment?
500
Leader of Paraguay whose greed led to the deaths of half of his people.
Who is Francisco Solano Lopez?
500
This former general got a $20 speeding ticket for riding his horse too fast in Washington, DC while he was president of the Unites States.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
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