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100
Occurred in 1848 in New York, and was a milestone event in history being the single most important factor in spreading news of Women's rights across the United States.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
100
British control of India grew out of the mercantile activities of this company.
What is the British East India Company?
100
The competition between European powers for control of Africa between the years of 1881 and 1914.Causing significant problems for African countries when they became independent due to political boundaries creating tension between different tribes.
What is the scramble for Africa?
100
Under this type of rule, African colonies were run by European personnel who collected taxes, maintained order, and organized labor and military recruitment.
What is direct rule?
100
This technology allowed for easier transportation starting in the mid 19th century. Helped to expand west of North America and speeding up transportation of goods and people.
What are railroads? or What is the Railway system?
200
Major driving force for many of the social and economic changes that took place between 1750 and 1900, with the mechanization of the textile industry.
What is the Industrial Revolution
200
A machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation.[2] The fibers are processed into clothing or other cotton goods, and any undamaged cotton was used for clothes. 1794 invention that unintentionally promoted slavery.
What is the cotton gin?
200
Revolutionary movement that shook France between 1787 and 1799 inspired by the enlightenment thinkers and the ideas of liberty and free speech from the American revolution.
What is the French Revolution?
200
U.S foreign policy made in 1823 that stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S intervention.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
200
This canal was completed in 1869 in Egypt and was/is crucial to naval trade, being that it is the shortest link between the east and the west hemispheres connecting the Mediterranean sea to the red sea.
What is the Suez Canal?
300
Key milestone in the history of black rights in the 19th century. 13th amendment of american constitution written by Abraham Lincoln.
What is the abolition of slavery?
300
Imperial powers encouraged mass migration of laborers during the 19th century to exploit what?
What are natural resources and agricultural products?
300
Conflict between Japan and China that marked the emergence of Japan as a major world power. (1894-1895)
What is the Sino-Japanese war?
300
Conversion to Christianity was most effective in this colony.
What is Vietnam?
300
This gun, along with artillery attached to fast moving ships provided the Europeans with an arsenal vastly superior to any other in the world. First use of this gun were the colonial wars during the Scramble for Africa period.
What is the Maxim gun
400
the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animal.
What is social Darwinism?
400
Mercantile company chartered by the British government, formed in 1879 as the United African Company, instrumental in the formation of Colonial Nigeria, as it enabled the British Empire to establish control over the lower Niger against the German competition led by Bismarck during the 1890s.
What is the Royal Niger Company?
400
Britain fought China so that they could continue selling Opium to China which was very lucrative for the British merchants. A war that humiliated China and gave Hong Kong to Britain.
What is the first Opium War (1840-1842)?
400
This rebellion occurred on may 1857 ending in June of 1858, resulting in the establishment of direct imperial rule in India.
What is the Sepoy Rebellion?
400
This invention could print characters on paper, and became extremely important for writers, businesses, and offices. Important for spreading information more quickly, and news could be relayed in a more convenient was, used not only in the US, in Europe and spread to other places as well.
What is the typewriter?
500
He was one of South America's greatest generals. His victories over the Spaniards won independence for Bolivia, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. He is called El Liberator (The Liberator) and the "George Washington of South America."
Who is Simon Bolivar and what is he known for?
500
A period of time from around 1600-1860 Japan. Population grew to more than one million, which at the time made it one of the largest cities in the world. Japan's increased trade, both domestic and foreign, it's infrastructure of roads and a new governing system of bureaucracy, all contributed to the wealth and relative prosperity of the nation.
What is the Tokugawa/Edo Period and it's economic effects on Japan?
500
A political and social movement that agglomerated different states of the Italian peninsula beginning in 1815 with the Congress of Vienna and the end of Napoleonic rule, and ended in 1870 with the Capture of Rome.
What is the unification of Italy?
500
Term for the struggle between British and Russian adventurers for control of Central Asia.
What is the "Great Game"
500
Starting in the 1830's, this technology began to carry communications over land.
What is telegraph technology?