Age of Discovery
An imaginary line running north and south down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, dividing the world between Spain and Portugal.
What was the Line of Demarcation?
A document in which the American colonies declared independence from Britain.
What was the Declaration of Independence?
He invented the cotton gin.
Who was Eli Whitney?
Lists of grievances from the Estates in France.
What were Cahiers?
The first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in 1607 near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay.
What was Jamestown?
A rumored wealthy king in Africa who supposedly wanted to help the Europeans fight the Muslims.
Who was Prester John?
A temporary agreement establishing civil authority for the Plymouth Colony.
What was the Mayflower Compact?
He perfected the assembly line process to build his Model T automobiles.
Who was Henry Ford?
Declared that the Third Estate would not disband until a written constitution was established.
What was the Tennis Court Oath?
An Austrian scientist who forwarded the theory of relativity and demonstrated the relationship between matter and energy through the equation E=mc2.
Who was Albert Einstein?
A French Jesuit missionary who explored the Mississippi River.
Who was Jacques Marquette?
The delegation of specified powers to the national government and reserving all other powers for state governments or the people.
What is Federalism?
He designed the first practical and efficient steam engine.
Viewed as a hero of the French Revolution after his assassination.
A sudden and illegal seizure of power.
What is a coup d'état?
The leader of the Jamestown settlers.
Who was John Smith?
This treaty officially ended the War for Independence between the U.S. and Britain.
What was the Treaty of Paris?
He developed an inexpensive and efficient steel-making process.
Who was Henry Bessemer?
When a nation calls upon all its citizens to take an active part in the war effort.
What is Levée en masse?
A company in which people invested money and in return were issued stock certificates showing the amount of money they invested.
What is a joint-stock company?
The first European after the Vikings to set foot on the North American mainland.
Who was John Cabot?
The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, which define liberties and places restraints on government interference.
What was the Bill of Rights?
A bill that reorganized the electoral system for the House of Commons.
What was the Reform Bill of 1832?
Small bands of troops that attack a superior force.
What are guerrillas?
A nineteenth century French art style; focused on light and color and used short, choppy brush strokes.
What is impressionism?