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Ended each of his sacred musical pieces with “Soli Deo Gloria”
Who was Johann Sebastian Bach?
Famous for the oratorio called The Messiah
Who was George Frideric Handel?
This country sold the Louisiana Purchase to the United States.
What is France?
American “founding father,” who wrote Poor Richard's Almanack, printed, and was an ambassador.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
American general in the American Revolution
Who was George Washington?
Minister known for the sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
Outdoor preacher, with a booming voice, whose many sermons helped unite the colonies
Who was George Whitefield?
Began the Seven Years’ War against powerful countries in Europe
Who was Frederick II (aka Frederick the Great)?
A Frenchman who was obsessed with power and crowned himself the emperor of France
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?
Deaf composer who wrote the 9th Symphony
Who was Ludwig von Beethoven?
Unpopular queen of France during the French Revolution
Who was Marie Antoinette?
Wealthy Englishman who dedicated his life to abolishing slavery in Great Britain
Who was William Wilberforce?
Fought to free Mexico from Spain
Who was Father Miguel Hidalgo?
The leader of the Jacobists who took control of the government and executed enemies of the French revolutionaries.
Who was Maximilien Robespierre?
What is the American Declaration of Independence?
Believed that governments should get their power from the people they govern, not the king
Who was Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
The practice of British ships stopping American vessels at sea and forcing the US sailors to serve in the British navy
What is impressment?
During the Enlightenment, philosophers looked to this instead of God to solve humanity’s problems.
What is human reason?
The words the North American colonists used to express their anger toward Great Britain for taxing goods.
What is “No taxation without representation?"
Four inventions of Benjamin Franklin's that he famously shared with people for free.
Marched his army over the Andes Mountains to liberate Colombia
Who was Simon Bolivar?
A Frenchman paraphrased as saying, “I may not agree with a word you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
Who was Voltaire?
What was the Treaty of Constantinople?
What is his oath to free South America from Spanish rule?
The names of the three classes in Spanish-controlled Mexico.
What are the Peninsulares, the Criollos, and the Mestizos?