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100
A policy where the USA prohibited any European country from trying to attack Latin America
What is the Monroe Doctrine
100
The Jewel in England's crown
What is India
100
He led the Tennessee Volunteers to help Texas gain independence.
Who is Davy Crockett?
100
This country was the first to industrialize in the 1700s
What is England?
100
The mineral that powered the machines of the industrial revolution
What is coal?
200
He founded Gran Colombia in South America, and ended up with a country named after him!
Who is Simon Bolivar
200
An important peninsula in the Black Sea that featured a huge war in the 1850s
What is Crimea
200
He led Mexico's fight against Texas, then the fight against America in the 1840s
Who is Santa Anna?
200
The world's first factories produced this item
What is cloth?
200
The invention that allowed boats to go upriver without oars
What are steamships?
300
He conquered Spain, making it too weak to maintain an empire in the Western Hemisphere
Who is Napoleon?
300
She saved 1000s of lives by focusing on hygiene and professional nursing care
Who is Florence Nightingale?
300
As president, he enlarged the USA more than any other between 1844 and 1848
Who is James K Polk?
300
The power loom combined with this machine to begin mass production of fabric
What is the spinning mule?
300
He invented the technology that allowed steam engines to power factories
Who is James Watt?
400
He became the 1st emperor of Mexico after independence in 1821
Who is Agustin Iturbide?
400
An addictive export from India which triggered a war in China
What is opium?
400
The decisive battle where Texas won its independence from Mexico?
What is the Battle of San Jacinto?
400
Discovery of entire islands made of this substance led to a tremendous increase in farm output and population
What is guano
400
A canal that allowed boat traffic all the way from New York City to Niagara Falls
What is the Erie Canal?
500
The country who 1st gained independence from a weakening Ottoman Empire
What is Greece
500
Closing this strait caused a war between Russia and Turkey in the 1820s
What is the Bosphorus (or the Dardanelles)?
500
The future 12th president who led the US army in the Mexican-American War
Who is Zachary Taylor?
500
He made the first machine to remove seeds from cotton
Who is Eli Whitney?
500
Newcomen invented the steam engine in order to pump water out of this
What are mines?