These American bicycle-making brothers created and flew and airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Who are Orville and Wilbur Wright?
100
This word means to take control of or to add more land to.
What is annex?
100
This is a term for people who want to abolish all government.
What are anarchists?
100
By 1815, this nation was the largest, most populous nation in Europe, which held a vast amount of power.
What is Russia?
100
This house in the parliament of Britain was made up of high-class citizens such as nobles that could veto bills that were passed by the House of Commons.
What is the House of Lords?
200
This man built Standard Oil Company into an empire.
Who is Who is John D. Rockefeller?
200
This was an economic union that dismantled tariff barriers between many German states.
What is the Zollverein?
200
In the 1830’s, nationalist Giuseppe Mazzini formed this organization.
What is “Young Italy”?
200
This term means violent mob attacks on Jewish people.
What are pogroms?
200
This woman held the longest reign in British history and under her reign, the middle class was able to see a promising future.
Who is Queen Victoria?
300
This was new method of production introduced by manufacturers in the early 1900’s.
What is the assembly line?
300
This man was known as “The Iron Chancellor”.
Who is Bismarck?
300
In 1852, Victor Emmanuel made this man his prime minister.
Who is Camillo Cavour?
300
For centuries, these people had ruled Russia with absolute power imposing their will on others.
Who are tsars?
300
These laws in Britain imposed high tariffs on imported grain.
What are Corn Laws?
400
This man was an English chemist who created the first simple electric motor and dynamo, a machine that generates electricity.
Who is Michael Faraday?
400
A growing rivalry between these two nations led to the Franco-Prussian war, which took place in 1870.
What are Prussia and Austria?
400
This man recruited a force of 1,000 volunteers in red shirts who won control of Sicily.
Who is Giuseppe Garibaldi?
400
These elected assemblies were responsible for the repairing of roads, schooling, and agriculture.
What are zemstvos?
400
This campaign was against slavery and slave trade.
What is the abolition movement?
500
This is where the first American textile factory was built.
What is Pawtucket, Rhode Island?
500
This man built a company that became known for its telescope and microscope, as well as other optical equipment.
Who is Carl Zeiss?
500
This man helped set up a revolutionary republic in Rome that was soon stopped by French forces.
Who is Giuseppe Mazzini?
500
This man came to the throne during the Crimean War in 1855 and issued the emancipation of serfs, as well as set up a system of local government.
Who is Alexander II?
500
This term describes a form of government where executive leaders are chosen by parliament and are responsible to it, as well as members of the legislature.