1750-1900 Dates

Question 1

7 Years War (French & Indian War)

Answer 1

1756-1763

Question 2

Invention of the Spinning Jenny (using machines to manufacture)

Answer 2

1767

Question 3

Declaration of Independence

Answer 3

1776

Question 4

Smith writes Wealth of Nations

Answer 4

1776

Question 5

French Revolution begins

Answer 5

1789

Question 6

Jenner’s smallpox vaccine

Answer 6

1798

Question 7

Haitian independence

Answer 7

1804

Question 8

British abolish Trans-Atlantic slave trade

Answer 8

1807

Question 9

Janissary Revolt

Answer 9

1807-1808

Question 10

Congress of Vienna

Answer 10

1815

Question 11

Independence in Latin America

Answer 11

1820s

Question 12

1st Opium War in China

Answer 12

1839

Question 13

Tanzimat Reforms

Answer 13

1839-1878

Question 14

Marx & Engles’ The Communist Manifesto

Answer 14

1848

Question 15

European Revolutions

Answer 15

1848-1849

Question 16

Commodore Perry opens Japan

Answer 16

1853

Question 17

Sepoy Mutiny

Answer 17

1857

Question 18

End of Russian serfdom

Answer 18

1861

Question 19

U.S. Civil War

Answer 19

1861-1865

Question 20

Italian Unification

Answer 20

1861-1870

Question 21

U.S. Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 21

1863

Question 22

German Unification

Answer 22

1871

Question 23

Berlin Conference

Answer 23

1885

Question 24

New Zealand grants women suffrage

Answer 24

1893

Question 25

Battle of Adowa (Ethiopians defeat Italians)

Answer 25

1896

Question 26

Spanish-American War (US acquires Philippines

Answer 26

Cuba

Question 27

Boer War (British gain control of S Africa)

Answer 27

1899-1902