Section 34-36
Potpourri 1
Potpourri 2
Potpourri 3
Potpourri 4
400
President Polk wanted to claim the territory between the Rio Grande and Nueces Rivers, California, and the Rocky Mountains.  The movement of troops into this area provoked the attack and start of this conflict.

What caused the Mexican American War?

400

Dr. Dimsdale was invited to inoculate Catherine the Great and her people against this disease, and eventually the country switched to safer vaccination.

What is smallpox?

400

The combination of nationalism, liberalism, socialism, and anger at the inequality in Europe lead to these changes.

What are the Revolutions of '48?

400

This leader of the Zulu Empire revolutionized warfare in southern Africa and was involved in the Mfacane.

Who was Shaka Zulu?

400

When this country was demoted from the head of the Portuguese Empire to a colony, Pedro refused to accept the decision and declared, "Independence of Death!"

What is Brazil?

800

A system to gain cheap labor that wasn't "slavery". The people in this arrangement were sent around the work and usually stuck in whatever part of the world they were sent to and had do hard manual labor for very little pay.

What was the Asian Indentured Servitude System?

800

The British army had promised these people freedom, but after loosing the war, they couldn't guarantee their freedoms if the stayed in the United States.

Why were Black Loyalists relocated to Canada?

800

Adam Smith supported consumer this, because if consumers can decide where they buy from, it will result in lower prices and higher quality goods.

What is consumer choice?

800

This revolutionary supported communal ownership of property, work should be valuable and meaningful, and the violent uprising of the working class; and also supported the abolishment of religion and family.

Who was Karl Marx?

800

Russia colonized this area while traveling east across Siberia for the many expensive furs that could be found there.

What is Alaska?

1200

The British wanted free trade with China, while China wanted to seize and expel this drug and all who sold it from their country.

What started the Opium Wars?

1200

These slaves heard a rumor that the king had freed them, but that the order was being ignored; they then held a voodoo ceremony, then launched a coordinated uprising through the colony.

What is the Haitian Revolution?

1200

Brittian colonized this area because they were suffering from overpopulation and couldn't send people to their former American colonies.

What is Australia?

1200

These two main reasons are why the Americans rebelled against Brittian.

What is taxation without representation and the principles of government promoted by philosophers like John Locke?

1200

These were some of the social movements of the 1800s.

What are abolition, temperance, prison and asylum reform, women's rights, and children's rights?

1600

The British Empire was slow to respond to the this event and hoped charities would fix the problem. Robert Peel repealed the Corn Laws to provide extra food, but that proved to be ineffective.

What is the British response to the Potato Famine?

1600

This type of cuisine become popular across Europe when Tallyrand hired Marie Antoine Careme, who also cooked for several heads of state.

What is French cuisine?

1600

This movement in Europe aimed to give Jews equal rights, abolish ghettos, and allow them to integrate into the surrounding culture.  Also known as the Jewish Enlightenment.

What was the Haskala?

1600

These people cultivate their land over many years until it was spongy and perfect for seeds to germinate in.

What are the Aboriginals?

1600

This flowering bush with a pleasant aroma blooms in early spring with purple or white flowers, and are the favorite of Becky Buie (Mommy)

What are Lilacs?

2000

With the wold growing more interconnected, this form of communication made possible the fast travel of news and information possible.

What is the telegraph?

2000

This government was formed when Usman Dan Foido saw problems in the religious and political lives of his area and founded his own village.  When his leadership was revoked, he stared a jihad to expand his infuence.

Why was the Sokoto Caliphate founded?
2000

This hair style in France, known as hair "a la victime", was a way of coping with the Reign of Terror, also it was a way to shave in preparation for the guillotine.

What is short hair?

2000

This artistic and philosophical movement defined the first half of the 1800s, and was a reaction to the Enlightenment that embraced emotions, untouched nature, and the search for the meaning of life.

What is Romanticism?

2000

This member of your household has the best jokes and the least amount of hair.

Who is Daddy?