Chapter 10 Flashcards
In what year did the American Civil War begin?
1861
In the late 1700s, Parliament created how many Canadian provinces?
2, upper and lower canada
Seneca Falls, New York, hosted what kind of a convention in 1848?
First womens’ rights convention
The Dreyfus affair in France exposed what social problem in that country?
Anti-Semitism
US troops captured what Mexican city, causing surrender?
Mexico City
What American inventor is associated with the automobile assembly line?
Henry Ford
What American inventor is associated with the telegraph?
Guglielmk Marconi
What American inventor is associated with the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
What Anerican inventors are associated with the airplane?
Orville and Wilbur Wright
What did the Emancipation Proclamation declare?
abolishment of slavery in the south
What disaster visited the Irish in the 1840s?
The Great Famine
What does suffrage mean?
right to vote
What event effectively doubled the size of the size of the United States in 1803?
The Louisiana Purchase
What is the English word for native populations?
aborigines
What is the term for the belief that the US should extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific?
Manifest Destiny
What is the word for the belief in a Jewish homeland?
Zionism
What Mexican territory was the site of conflict with the US in the 1830s?
Texas
What scientific idea is associated with Charles Darwin?
evolution
What scientific idea is associated witb Gregor Mendel?
genetics
What scientific idea is associated with Louis Pasteur?
he was credited with bacteria and that heat kills bacteria in liquids (Pasteurization)
What scientific idea is associated with the Curies?
they were credited radioactivity, polonium, and radium
What was the primary source of the conflict between the Irish and the British?
Catholic vs Protestant
Who was Queen of England through most of the 1800s?
Queen Victoria
Who was the most famous and influential of all American inventors?
Thomas Edison
Who were the original British settlers in Australia?
convicts
