Category 1
Which was the Italian independence movement founded by Giuseppe Mazzini that combined nationalist and democratic ideals?
Young Italy
With which country did Otto von Bismarck purposely start a war in 1866 to gain control of German-speaking states?
Austria
What refers to the practice of European powers annexing territory and establishing colonies in Africa and Asia?
Imperialism
Which manufacturing sector of the American economy made Andrew Carnegie a fabulously wealthy man?
steel
Which advancement in transportation during the late 1800s is Karl Benz associated with?
automobile
Who did King Victor Emmanuel appoint as prime minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia?
Count di Cavour
Which Prussian statesman was known as the "Iron Chancellor"
Otto von Bismarck
What emotional force played a large role in the unification of Italy and Germany?
nationalism
Which English engineer invented a special furnace that could cheaply turn iron into steel, paving the way for mass production?
Henry Bessemer
Who invented the first practical lightbulb and holds more patents that any other inventor?
Thomas Edison
Which Italian revolutionary was the leader of the Redshirts and responsible for defeating the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies?
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Prussia went to war with this country in 1870 to gain control of the German-speaking provinces of Alsace and Lorraine.
France
Which European colonial power controlled India?
Great Britain
Who was the German engineer best-known for a process for making steel in a gas furnace?
Charles William Siemens
Lincoln gave the Civil War a new goal, ending slavery, with this famous executive order.
The Emancipation Proclamation
Who controlled the area of southern Italy prior to the unification of the country?
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
He was the King of Prussia who became kaiser of a united Germany.
Wilhelm I
Which British businessman used his personal fortune to carve out a new country in southern Africa that he named after himself?
Cecil Rhodes
Which Scottish-born inventor opened a school to train teachers of the deaf in Boston and later built a device to transmit the human voice through a wire?
Alexander Graham Bell
The Civil War was the first to be called this type of war due to mass production of supplies, modern weapons, modes of transportation & communication, enacted in a "total war".
Modern War
Who controlled the city of Venice before the unification of Italy?
Austrian Empire
In which country did the Boxer Rebellion against European colonization take place?
China
Which natural resource led to terrible suffering for the people of the Congo Free State, who were forced to extract it for their Belgian masters?
rubber
Which mechanic, along with his partner Wilhelm Maybach, created the first motorcycle using a bicycle and a small internal combustion engine?
Gottlieb Daimler
Many citizens from this part of the U.S. believed that states had teh power to choose which federal laws to follow, which was a main cause for the Civil War.
southerners in the South.