People
What did Native Americans teach colonists when they first arrived in the Americas?
How to farm properly.
What was the first kind of engine created to propel trains and boats?
The Steam Engine
What Act resulted in a tax placed on Paper Goods?
The Stamp Act
What was the first permanent settlement in North America?
The Virginia Company
How many original colonies did The United States have?
x3 points if you can name 4 of them
13!
Who was the leader of the Continental Army during the American Revolution?
George Washington
x4 points!
Samuel Morse created what invention?
The Telegraph
In France, why was the Third Estate mad at King Louis XVI?
He was taxing the poor and not the rich.
What were large farms in the souther colonies called?
Plantations
What was one reform, or change, that Maximillien Robespierre made during his reign in France?
He lowered prices of goods, opened schools, and taught farmers valuable skills.
Catholic Clergy members and Nobles in Europe did not have to do what?
Pay taxes to the government
This invention was used on people who were sentenced to the death penalty.
The Guillotine
Define Industrialism.
x3 Points!
The Bastille served as a what in France?
Prison
What is a Constitution?
A written plan of government.
x2 Points!
King Louis XVI's wife was named....
Queen Marie Antoinette
Who was the man that invented the modern day incandescent lightbulb?
Thomas Edison
What did the Intolerable Acts enforce?
People had to house British soldiers in their homes.
What two countries did Napoleon Bonaparte want to conquer while leading France?
Great Britain and Russia
What did Puritans and other religious groups try to escape in Europe?
Religious Persecution
What ended up happening to Napoleon Bonaparte?
He was exiled twice and died in a prison.
What kind of engine later replaced the steam engine?
The Internal Combustion Engine
x2 Points!
What was the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen?
It was a declaration of France's revolution to create equality amongst it's citizens.
What two water features did Great Britain have?
Flowing rivers and large harbors.
What country joined the Revolutionary War on the side of the colonists?
France!