Volume 4: The Modern Age a

Question 1

“New Spain” declares independence from Spain and becomes Mexico

Answer 1

1821

Question 2

Les Trois Glorieuses (the Three Golden Days) in France

Answer 2

1830

Question 3

“The Carbonaria” revolts against Austrian rule

Answer 3

1831

Question 4

Victoria begins her reign in England

Answer 4

1837

Question 5

Pedro II becomes Emperor of Brazil

Answer 5

1841

Question 6

The blight comes to Ireland; the Potato Famine begins

Answer 6

1845

Question 7

Iowa becomes a state

Answer 7

1846

Question 8

Young Italy rebels against Austria

Answer 8

1848

Question 9

The French Republic makes Louis-Napoleon president

Answer 9

1848

Question 10

Karl Marx publishes The Communist Manifesto

Answer 10

1848

Question 11

The Australian Gold Rush begins

Answer 11

1851

Question 12

The Crystal Palace is built in London for teh Great Exhibition

Answer 12

1851

Question 13

Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 13

1852

Question 14

Matthew Perry arrives in Japan

Answer 14

1853

Question 15

The Crimean War

Answer 15

1853-1856

Question 16

Dost Mohammad Khan signs treaty with Britain

Answer 16

1855

Question 17

Peace of Paris signed, ending the Crimean War

Answer 17

1856

Question 18

Second Opium War

Answer 18

1856-1860

Question 19

Livingstone writes Missionary Travels

Answer 19

1857

Question 20

The Sepoy Rebellion

Answer 20

1857-1858

Question 21

Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species

Answer 21

1859

Question 22

The Taipings march toward Shanghai

Answer 22

1860

Question 23

Victor Emmanuel II crowned king of Italy

Answer 23

1861

Question 24

Italian states are united under King Victor Emmanuel

Answer 24

1861

Question 25

The American Civil War

Answer 25

1861-1865

Question 26

Francisco Solano Lopez comes to power in Paraguay

Answer 26

1862

Question 27

Dost Mohammed Khan drives foreign invaders from Afghanistan

Answer 27

1863

Question 28

The Qing army retakes Nanjing

Answer 28

1864

Question 29

Prussia and Austria attack Denmark

Answer 29

1864

Question 30

The War of the Triple Alliance

Answer 30

1864-1870

Question 31

John Wilkes Booth assassinates U. S. President Abraham Lincoln

Answer 31

1865

Question 32

U. S. Congress bans slavery in the United States

Answer 32

1865

Question 33

The Dominion of Canada forms

Answer 33

1867

Question 34

The North German Confederation is created

Answer 34

1867

Question 35

Japan re-opens during the Meiji era

Answer 35

1868

Question 36

Meiji Restoration

Answer 36

`1868-1912

Question 37

The first transcontinental railroad in the U. S. is completed

Answer 37

1869

Question 38

The Suez Canal opens

Answer 38

1869

Question 39

France becomes a republic

Answer 39

1870

Question 40

The Franco-Prussian War

Answer 40

1870-1871

Question 41

The Second Reich

Answer 41

1871-1918

Question 42

Acheh War

Answer 42

1873-1903

Question 43

Bulgarian revolutionaries rebel against the Turks

Answer 43

1876

Question 44

Abdul Aziz is assassinated

Answer 44

1876

Question 45

The Battle of Little Bighorn

Answer 45

1876

Question 46

Alexander Graham Bell submits a patent for the telephone

Answer 46

1876

Question 47

The Satsuma Revolt in Japan

Answer 47

1877

Question 48

The Russo-Turkish Wars

Answer 48

1877-1878

Question 49

The Zulu-British Wars

Answer 49

1877-1879

Question 50

Umberto I becomes king of Italy

Answer 50

1878

Question 51

“New Spain” declares independence from Spain and becomes Mexico

Answer 51

1821