Vocabulary
A movement to end slavery
What is abolitionism?
He proposed the universal law of gravity.
Who is Isaac Newton?
Napoleon I was the first emperor of this country.
What is France?
This was the main cause of France's revolution.
What is a poor economy?
The spinning jenny and flying shuttle are inventions of this time period/ movement.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Money available for investment
What is capital?
The theory of planetary motion that places Earth at the center of the universe
What is geocentric?
This country controlled India in the 19th century
What is Great Britain?
The unique cultural identity of a people based on common language, religion, and national symbols
What is nationalism?
This social group had to pay all of the taxes in France before the revolution.
What is the third estate?
A political philosophy based on tradition and social stability, favoring obedience to political authority and organized religion
What is conservatism?
He used a telescope to observe mountains on the moon, sun spots, and new moons which brought him into conflict with the Catholic Church.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
These two British cities were the centers of manufacturing during the Industrial Revolution.
What are Manchester and Liverpool?
These two countries combined under one government under the Compromise of 1867.
What are Austria and Hungary?
She was queen of France before the French revolution, and is mistakenly attributed the quote "let them eat cake"
Who is Marie Antoinette?
The process used to make high quality iron for the production of new machines
What is puddling?
Steps of systematic observation, measurement, and experiments, and testing
What is the Scientific Method?
Miguel Hidalgo led the mestizos in this country to rebel against the Spanish.
What is Mexico?
The war in which Russia invaded Ottoman-controlled provinces, but ultimately lost.
What is the Crimean War?
Before the Industrial Revolution, a method of production in which tasks are done by individuals in their rural homes
What is cottage industry?
A governor who ruled as a representative of a monarch
What is viceroy?
He offered the heliocentric theory of the universe.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
This engineering creation located in Panama saves ships and companies time and money by providing a shortcut from the Caribbean to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Panama Canal?
Radical members of the Paris Commune began calling themselves by this name (meaning "without breeches")
What is sans-culottes?
This Russian leader decided to enact reforms, and in 1861 issued an emancipation edict freeing the serfs
Who is Czar Alexander II?