Victoria's England
This was built in Hyde Park, London to house the famous 1851 Great Exhibition.
What is the Crystal Palace?
The term for a native Hindu or Muslim soldier of India in the 1850s.
What were sepoys?
The title for a military general of Japan, this was an inherited position that came with great influence.
What is a shogun?
This nurse is famous for her work during and research following the Crimean War.
The man whose design won over 245+ others for the Crystal Palace.
Who was Joseph Paxton?
This is the British company that set up trading posts along the coastlines of India, eventually taking control of the Indian government for a time.
What is the East Indian Company?
These were warriors whose livelihoods depended on the shogunate.
Who were the samurai?
The "match that lit the fire of" the Crimean War was a disagreement over the keys to which Middle Eastern church?
What was The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem?
The name of Queen Victoria's husband, whose title was Prince Consort.
Who was Prince Albert?
This is the name of the "puppet" emperor of India in the 1840s and 50s, whose salary was paid by the East India Company.
This was the American military leader who came to Japan to attempt to open a trade route.
Who was Commodore Matthew Perry?
This is the port city on the Black Sea where Russian warships were kept at the time of the Crimean War.
What is Sevastapol?
This is the full name of the Great Exhibition of 1851.
What was the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations?
The use of animal fat to coat the gunpowder cartridges needed to load this weapon was the cause of a war in India in the 1850s.
What is the Enfield Rifle?
The name of the American President who wished to open trade with Japan in 1853.
Who was President Millard Fillmore?
The name of the battle during which outnumbered British soldiers marched to the death against the much larger Russian forces, later memorialized in the poem The Charge of the Light Brigade?
What was the Battle of the Balaklava?
This is regarded as the underlying motive for hosting the Great Exhibition of 1851.
What was meant to showcase the might and influence of the vast British Empire?
These are the three cities involved in major battles of the sepoy mutiny.
The first French king to visit England (in the 1850s under the rule of Queen Victoria) in almost 500 years, he came to befriend the English in hopes of becoming allies against the growing threat of Russian attack.
Who was King Louis-Phillipe?
This was the name of the peace treaty that ended the Crimean war, returned Turkish land from the Russians, and removed Russian warships from their Crimean Peninsula port.
What was the Treaty of Paris of 1856?