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conflict between gold miners and the Australian gov; verdicts "not guilty" forced the government to change their unjust treatment
What was the Eureka Rebellion?
The name of the forced relocation of thousands of Native Americans to the "Indian Territory" of Oklahoma
What was the Trail of Tears?
This concept helps explain evolution by suggesting that traits of species changed over time and the strongest and fittest survive
What is natural selection?
a large, ancient temple complex in Cambodia
What is Angkor Wat?
When the Civil War ended, this country began supplying Benito Juarez and his followers with weapons to enable them to overthrow the French.
What is the United States?
After his conversion to Christ, he felt the desire to learn the Hebrew language and become a full-time missionary to Jews in Europe
Who is George Muller?
This theory suggests that certain features of the universe and living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process
What is Intelligent Design?
This general met face-to-face with Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865, at a farmhouse to surrender the Confederacy to the Union and end the American Civil War.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
Australia is the only country that covers an entire continent and was originally a ________ colony until the colonists broke away in 1900 as a separate nation.
What is British?
A civil war in China with a death toll of about 20 million
What was the Taiping Rebellion?
The Union Act was passed in 1841, granting independence from Britain to these two regions whose names began with "Upper" and "Lower", provided that the two unite.
What are Upper Canada and Lower Canada?
“Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
What is the first sentence of the Gettysburg address by Abraham Lincoln?
When it attacked and invaded Mexico, France violated this doctrine, which declared nations of the Western Hemisphere free from European control.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
The theory of evolution states that all living things change over long periods of time by _________ to the environment in which the stronger members of a species outlive the weaker.
What is adapting?
The term for women who fought for the right to vote
What is suffragettes?
When she was a free woman, she fought and won the court case to free her 5-year-old son from slavery
Who is Sojourner Truth?
In 1920 two police forces merged to form the Royal Canadian Mounted police known as "Mounties," who ride on these
What are horses?
This country colonized Brazil when they discovered it by accident in 1500, enslaved the unsuspecting local population, and then imported African slaves.
What is Portugal?
During the Middle Ages, the people of the Khmer Empire in Cambodia learned how to balance the water supply from the rainy season to the dry season by carving out miles of these and these through thick jungles and forests.
What are canals and lakes?
Impressionism is a style of this art form that grew famous in the 1870s and captures the "first impression" you get of something at a quick glance.
What is painting?
This white woman wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, an anti-slavery novel which helped white Americans better understand the experience of slavery
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
two important amendments to the Constitution passed AFTER the Civil War, during Reconstruction
What are the 14th and 15th amendments, which granted freed blacks the rights of citizenship and the vote?
David Livingstone was a missionary who traveled deep into the interior of this continent and devoted his life to learning about its geography and culture while evangelizing the people there.
What is Africa?
When Abraham Lincoln won the presidency of the U.S. in 1860, several southern states ________ from the Union.
What is seceded?
A nurse during the Crimean War who wrote the curriculum for nursing at King's College
Who is Florence Nightingale?