al-Andalus
The region of al-Andalus occupied which two modern European countries?
Spain and Portugal
Who invented pasteurization?
Louis Pasteur
How many times was the U.S. Navy founded?
twice
Who was the first Holy Roman Emperor?
Charlemagne
What is the name of the territory that Thomas Jefferson purchased in 1803 for $15 million?
Louisiana Purchase
In what year did Muslim rule of Spain come to an end?
1492
Who invented the telephone in 1876?
Alexander Graham Bell
In which theater of WW2 was the U.S. Navy the most important?
Pacific Theater
The Holy Roman Empire was dissolved in 1806 due to the threats of which major European ruler?
Napoleon
What is the term for the ideology that asserted that Americans had the God-given right to expand U.S. territory all the way to the Pacific Ocean?
manifest destiny
Which dynasty ruled al-Andalus from 756 to 1031?
Umayyad dynasty
Who invented the moving assembly line?
Henry Ford
Which Scotsman is known as the father of the American navy?
John Paul Jones
Which famous French philosopher declared that the Holy Roman Empire was “neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire”?
Voltaire
Which 1820 compromise attempted to solve the question of slavery in the new western states?
Missouri Compromise
Which city, the capital of al-Andalus, was known as the “city of three religions”?
Cordoba
Who invented the printing press?
Johannes Gutenberg
In what year were women permanently allowed to serve as regular members of the navy, through the Women’s Armed Services Integration Act?
1948
Which war, beginning in 1740, was caused by the rejection of Maria Theresa as the rightful ruler of the Holy Roman Empire?
War of Austrian Succession
In which western state was there a small-scale civil war in the 1850s, just a decade before the actual Civil War?
Kansas
Following the collapse of the caliphate in the early eleventh century, al-Andalus was broken up into smaller, independent kingdoms known as what?
taifas
Who invented the alternating current (AC) power system?
Nikola Tesla
What is the largest naval battle ever fought?
Battle of Leyte Gulf
In 1555 the Peace of ________ (city name) dictated that rulers in the Holy Roman Empire could decide the religion of their region.
Augsburg
Which treaty ended the Mexican-American war in 1848, granting a massive amount of western territory to the U.S.?
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo