Unit 4 Must Know Dates

Question 1

1756-1763

Answer 1

7 Years War / French and Indian (NA) War

Question 2

1767

Answer 2

Invention of Spinning Jenny (machines to manufacture)

Question 3

1776

Answer 3

American Revolution / Smith writes Wealth of Nations

Question 4

1789

Answer 4

French Revolution begins

Question 5

1796

Answer 5

Smallpox Vaccine from Jenner

Question 6

1804

Answer 6

Haitian Independence

Question 7

1807

Answer 7

British abolish Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

Question 8

1815

Answer 8

Congress of Vienna

Question 9

1820s

Answer 9

Independence in Latin America

Question 10

1839

Answer 10

First Opium War in China

Question 11

1848

Answer 11

European Revolutions / Marx and Engles write Communist Manifesto

Question 12

1853

Answer 12

Commodore Perry opens Japan (Open the country. Stop having it be closed.)

Question 13

1857

Answer 13

Sepoy Mutiny

Question 14

1861

Answer 14

End of Russian Serfdom / Italian unification

Question 15

1863

Answer 15

Emancipation Proclamation in US

Question 16

1871

Answer 16

German Unification

Question 17

1885

Answer 17

Berlin Conference decides borders of Africa (good job, idiots)

Question 18

1893

Answer 18

New Zealand allows women to vote

Question 19

1896

Answer 19

Battle of Adowa (Ethiopians vs Italians)

Question 20

1898

Answer 20

Spanish-American war (Us gets Philippines, Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico)

Question 21

1899-1902

Answer 21

Boer War, Brits control South Africa