England in the 16th and 17th Century
Industrial Revolution
Revolution
American Civil War
Miscellaneous
100

This king separated England from the Catholic Church.

King Henry VIII

100
This revolution was underpinned by another one.

The agricultural revolution

100

The main author of the Declaration of Independence

Thomas Jefferson

100

The President of the Union during the war

Abraham Lincoln

100

Absolute Monarchy is the perfect form of government according to this philosopher

Thomas Hobbes

200

Define the Divine Right of Kings

The king was appointed by God and therefore is answerable ONLY to God

200

the country were the Industrial Revolution began

Great Britain
200

Where was the "Shot Heard Round the World"?

The Battle of Lexington and Concord

200

The Dred Scott Case decision did what

It denied citizenship to black people.

200

Define Deism.

A god created the world and then no longer interferes in it.

300

The two sides of the English Civil War

The Royalists and the Puritans/Parlimentarians

300

Name one innovation of the agricultural revolution

- crop rotation: turnips or clover rather than leaving the land fallow.

- sturdier plough

- land drains

- selective breeding

300

The Reign of Terror was led by whom?

Robespierre

300

Turning point of the war

Battle of Gettysburg

300

Define Nationalism

the belief that peoples should be governed by their own nationality.
400

This king was beheaded in 1649.

Charles I

400

Daily Double!

The inventor of the steam engine

James Watt

400

French Society was divided into three estates. Name those estates.

First Estate - Clergy

Second Estate - Nobility

Third Estate - Peasants (everyone else)

400

General Lee surrendered to General Grant where

At Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.

400

Define Empiricism. Name one philosopher associated with it.

All knowledge comes from our sensory experience. Observation and scientific method over reason.

John Locke, Francis Bacon, David Hume, or George Berkeley.

500

Why were William of Orange and Mary II invited by parliament to take over the English throne in the Glorious Revolution of 1688?

They were protestant, and Mary was the daughter of James II (who had held the throne for only 3 years).

500

What percentage of the labor force in textile factories were women?

More than 80%

500

Summarize the cause for the American Revolution

- French and Indian War led to a British debt crisis

- high taxation without representation

- Stamp Act, Intolerable Acts

- Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party

500

Explain the Three-Fifths Compromise of 1787

Southern states wanted to count the slave population for electoral votes, and the Northern states did not. 3/5ths were counted as a compromise.

500

Define Romanticism.

An artistic and cultural movement characterized by an emphasis on individuality, human emotion, and the worship of nature. A reaction against the Enlightenment.