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The Mexican holiday that commemorates the unlikely victory by Mexican soldiers over the French in a battle in 1862.
Cinco de Mayo (May 5th)
The General who crossed the Delaware River to secure a victory against the British at the Battle of Trenton during the American Revolution.
Who was General George Washington?
Making an impact in the 18th century, he was a political cartoonist, ambassador, writer, inventor, and founding father, he was considered a jack of all trades.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Name the war the Thirteen Colonies fought to gain independence from Great Britain.
What was the American Revolution?
Name of the path many Indian tribes were forced to travel on to reach reservations.
What is the Trail of Tears?
Named this after the rampage of executions of French citizens under Robespierre's Committee of Public Safety during the French Revolution.
What was the Reign of Terror?
A teenage Shoshone Indian woman who, with her infant son and husband, traveled with Lewis and Clark and translated for Native Americans and these explorers.
Who was Sacagawea?
Name the preacher of the Great Awakening who God used powerfully despite the fact that he was a boring speaker.
Who was Jonathan Edwards?
Name the war that began in South Carolina in 1861 over states' rights and slavery?
What is the Civil War?
The term for the right to vote -- is still denied for women in some countries even today.
What is suffrage?
The name of the extraordinary spiritual revival of the 18th century
What was the Great Awakening?
The last monarch of Brazil, he spent his reign abolishing slavery. He also left Brazil on his own in 1889 so the country could become a democratic republic.
Who was Pedro II ?
Name the empress of Russia who wasn't Russian at all. She built hospitals, libraries, schools for girls, but she failed to free the serfs.
Who was Catherine the Great?
The product that prompted wars in the 1800s between China and the British Empire. The British wanted to sell this in China for profit and were willing to go to war for it.
What is opium? (a highly addictive drug made from poppy flowers)
Two of the four most famous Impressionist painters that we studied.
Who were MONET, DEGAS, RENOIR, and CASSATT?
The battle where Napoleon was defeated.
What was the Battle of Waterloo?
A child prodigy, born in Austria in 1756, composed famous pieces called The Marriage of Figaro, The Requiem, and the Magic Flute.
Who was Mozart?
Name the man who spoke these words, "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
Who is Patrick Henry
The French Revolution began in 1789 when peasants stormed this building crying, "liberty, equality, and fraternity!"
What is the Bastille?
Name the man who cared for many orphans in England by building orphanages and schools.
Who is George Muller?
Name for the 18th century movement when people began looking to human reason rather than God to understand the world.
What was the Enlightenment?
A Scottish physician, Christian missionary and abolitionist, he explored the interior of Africa and its waterways. He also was the first European to discover VICTORIA FALLS .
Who was David Livingstone ?
Who is Simon Bolivar?
Name the war fought in more than one continent, and in Prussia had a surprising winner.
What was the Seven Years' War?
In 1863, this was issued by Lincoln to set the slaves in the South free.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation ?