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Who proposed the atomic theory?
John Dalton
Who introduced the use of antiseptics to fight germs following surgery?
Joseph Lister
Who was a giant in the banking industry?
J.P. Morgan
Who is considered the greatest inventor in history?
Thomas Edison
What war was an attempt to stop Russian dominance of Turkey?
Crimean War
What area was not explored by Captain Cook?
Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Hawaii
Japan
What led to the biggest increase in Australia’s population in the 19th century?
Gold Rush
What does the Dutch word Boer mean?
Farmer
Who invented the telegraph?
Samuel Morse
Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
Who invented the steel plow?
John Deere
Who led in the unification of Germany?
Otto von Bismark
Who built the first practical steam-powered locomotive?
George Stephenson
Who invented the flying shuttle?
John Kay
Who was Benjamin Disraeli?
Jewish prime minister of England
What is the system in which many people were employed to produce manufactured goods in a systematic way?
Factory System
Who invented the first practical steam ship?
Robert Fulton
Who invented the reaper?
Cyrus McCormick
Who founded China Inland Missions?
J. Hudson Taylor
Who created the modern nursing profession?
Florence Nightingale
The British North America Act made who a self-governing commonwealth?
Canada
Cuba and the Philippines were ___________ colonized ceded to the United States.
Spanish
Who introduced dialectic thinking?
G.W.F. Hegel
Who perfected the process for converting iron to steel?
William Kelly
Who laid the first transatlantic cable?
Cyrus Field