Era #5 Dates

Question 1

7 Years War

Answer 1

1756-1763

Question 2

Invention of the Spinning Jenny

Answer 2

1767

Question 3

Declaration of Independence

Answer 3

1776

Question 4

Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (capitalism)

Answer 4

1776

Question 5

French Revolution begins

Answer 5

1789

Question 6

Jenner’s smallpox vaccine

Answer 6

1796

Question 7

Haitian independence

Answer 7

1804

Question 8

British abolish Trans-Atlantic slave trade

Answer 8

1807

Question 9

Janissary Revolt

Answer 9

1807-08

Question 10

Congress of Vienna

Answer 10

1815

Question 11

Independence in Latin America

Answer 11

1820s

Question 12

Erie Canal opens

Answer 12

1825

Question 13

1st Opium War in China

Answer 13

1839

Question 14

Tanzimat Reforms

Answer 14

1839-1878

Question 15

Marx & Engles’ The Communist Manifesto

Answer 15

1848

Question 16

European revolutions

Answer 16

1848-1849

Question 17

Commodore Perry “opens” Japan

Answer 17

1853

Question 18

Sepoy Mutiny

Answer 18

1857

Question 19

Russian “frees” serfs / ends serfdom

Answer 19

1861

Question 20

U.S. Civil War

Answer 20

1861-1865

Question 21

Italian unification

Answer 21

1861-1870

Question 22

U.S. Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 22

1863

Question 23

Suez Canal Opens

Answer 23

1869

Question 24

German unification

Answer 24

1871

Question 25

Berlin Conference (begins “Scramble for Africa”)

Answer 25

1885

Question 26

Brazil ends slavery (last in Americas)

Answer 26

1888

Question 27

New Zealand grants women suffrage

Answer 27

1893

Question 28

Battle of Adowa (Ethiopians defeat Italians)

Answer 28

1896

Question 29

Spanish-American War (US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico)

Answer 29

1898

Question 30

Boer War (British in control of S. Africa)

Answer 30

1899-1902