Semester 1 Final Flashcards
Florence Nightingale
Established sanitary nursing care units. Founder of modern nursing. began professional education of nursing.
Harriet Tubman
birth name being Araminta Ross
birthday is in March 1822
born into slavery
started working at the age of 5
In 1844 married John Tubman
In 1849 just on the rumor that she was about to be sold
left for Philadelphia leaving behind my free husband who refused to leave, my parents, and my siblings
December 1850, was free for the 1st time
helped possibly over 300 slaves through the Underground Railroad to freedom
If anyone wanted to go back she had a gun that she threatened them with it and said “You’ll be free or die.” Because if anyone went back it would endanger the ones who kept going
would always escape on Saturday nights since it wouldn’t be in the newspaper till Monday
never lost a single person that I was leading to freedom
In 1857 she also was able to bring my parents to freedom
in 1858, she bought a farm for her parents and herself to live on
became a spy on the Confederate Territory locating ammunition and warehouses to help with the carefully planned attacks of the North
After the War, she took in orphans and the elderly and cared for them
died due to pneumonia on March 10, 1913.
Frederick Douglas
black man, one of the 3 main abolitionists during the Civil War
Sojourner Truth
United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883)
Abolitionists
People who wanted to abolish slavery
Hudson Taylor
1832-1905. A Christian missionary to China known for his sensitivity to Chinese culture and immersion into it so that he could better relate to them to then share the gospel
Taiping Rebellion
a mid-19th century rebellion against the Dynasty in China, because China wanted to ban Opium which is an addictive drug
Karl Marx
1818-1883. 19th-century philosopher, political economist, sociologist, humanist, political theorist, and revolutionary. Often recognized as the father of communism. Analysis of history led to his belief that communism would replace capitalism as it replaced feudalism. Believed in a classless society.
The Communist Manifesto
A socialist manifesto written by Marx and Engels (1848) describing the history of the working-class movement according to their views.
Eureka Rebellion
Was started over the unfair pricing for a miner permit
what triggered the rebellion was when a man was killed over the permit
the killer faced no charges but his hotel was burning to the ground by protesters over the permit
Peter Lailor
lost a body part in the Eureka Rebellion
Eureka Hotel
burned to the ground by the protesters over a miner’s permit
Eureka stockade
December 3, 1854) in which gold prospectors in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia—who sought various reforms, notably the abolition of mining licenses—clashed with government forces. It was named for the rebels’ hastily constructed fortification in the Eureka goldfield.
microevolution
same species
macroevolution
different species
