Famous People
husband and political advisor to Queen Victoria
Who is Prince Albert?
England's longest-reigning monarch
Who is Victoria?
What is Jamestown?
a tool which removed the seeds from the cotton fibers in a much shorter time than it took a man to do the work by hand
What is the cotton gin?
the great Puritan writer and author of Pilgrim's Progress
Who is John Bunyan?
British naturalist who wrote On the Origin of Species in 1859
Who is Charles Darwin?
French monarch known for his display of pomp and splendor; called the "Sun King"
Who is Louis XIV?
Latin American country Simon Bolivar helped to win independence
What is Bolivia?
the voluntary distribution of one's surplus riches to build and maintain public institutions such as hospitals, libraries, and schools
What is philanthropy?
the spiritual revival in America which began at Northampton, Massachusetts, and spread throughout the American colonies from 1730 to 1760
What is the Great Awakening?
perfected the electric telegraph
Who is Samuel Morse?
preacher of the great English revival; founder of the Methodist church
Who is John Wesley?
founded by Samuel de Champlain and the first permanent French settlement in the Americas
What is Quebec?
the idea that matter is the only reality and that everything in the world, including thought, will, and feeling must be explained in terms of matter
What is materialism?
a movement that attempted to apply human philosophy to all areas of man's life in order to establish a new social order
What is the Enlightenment?
the greatest British navigator and explorer of the 18th century; became the first to cross the Antarctic Circle; charted Australia and New Zealand
Whos Captain James Cook?
the military genius who led Parliament's armies; established the Commonwealth and the Protectorate
Who is Oliver Cromwell?
the country William Carey went as a missionary
What is India?
political disorder and violence; it can also be defined as the lack of any government
What is anarchy?
one of the most influential philosophers of the Age of Reason who was known for empiricism
Who is John Locke?
one of the greatest Christian statesmen of English history who fought to abolish slavery in England
Who is William Wilberforce?
a member of the Committee of Public Safety and a prominent member of the Jacobin Club who became the most influential man in the French government during the Reign of Terror
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
two famous canals dug in the 19th century
What are the Suez and Erie canals?
the period during the late 17th and early 18th centuries in which several English philosophers and writers adopted forms of rationalism, deism, and other humanistic philosophies
the dates (years) of the American War for Independence
What are 1775-1783?