World (1800s) Flashcards
From 1894 to 1900, Sanford B. Dole served as the first (and in the end, only) president of what republic?
Hawaii
The French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps, as head of the Franco-American Union, formally presented the Statue of Liberty to the United States in 1884. However, he is more closely associated with two immense engineering projects focused on the construction of two separate what? One project resulted in massive success and international acclaim, while the other left him ruined.
Canals (Suez, Panama)
The philanthropic (though not necessarily altruistic) American Colonization Society, which formed in 1816, is responsible for the creation of what republic, which became an independent state in 1847 (and remains so today)?
Liberia
With the help of many foreign governments and volunteers (famously including Lord Byron), what country won its war of independence launched in 1821, crowning Prince Otto of Bavaria as the first king of its modern era?
Greece
Napoleon Bonaparte finally met his Waterloo in 1815 at the Battle of Waterloo, where he was defeated by a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, and British-led forces under the command of whom?
Duke of Wellington
The 1854-55 Siege of Sevastopol occupied a full year of what war?
Sevastopol is a port on the Black Sea. This is the Crimean War.
New research from 2016 has settled the longstanding question of just how much of what object was delivered to a French maid named Gabrielle Berlatier on December 23, 1888?
Art scholars have long disagreed on just how much of his ear Vincent van Gogh cut off in 1888: the whole thing, or just the lobe? A recently unearthed letter from his doctor definitively demonstrates (with diagrams!) that the genius painter never did anything halfway.
Until she wore a white wedding gown for her 1840 royal wedding, most women wore their best dress for their nuptials.
Queen Victoria
In what world capital’s La Boca neighborhood did the tango originate in the 1890s?
Buenos Aires
In what city did George Ferris build the first ferris wheel?
Chicago (for the first World’s Fair)
In an 1864 letter, he congratulated Abraham Lincoln on reelection on behalf of “The workingmen of Europe.”
Karl Marx
Where did the first World’s Fair take place?
London (Crystal Palace)
This Haitian is the best-known military leader of his country’s slave uprising. In 1801 an autonomist Haitian constitution was declared with him as Governor-General for life. In 1802, however, he was forced to resign and jailed by Napoleon’s forces.
Toussaint Louverture
This military figure of the Haitian Revolution and former officer of the French Army eventually became the first ruler of an independent Haiti in 1804.
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
One of his many horses was named Roitelet and was ridden on the way home from Russia in 1812.
Napoleon
Dom Pedro I and his son, Dom Pedro II, were the first and last (and only) rulers of what empire, which lasted from 1822 until its overthrow and conversion to a republic in 1889?
Brazil
In 1892, José Martí helped to found a revolutionary party that mounted an 1895 armed rebellion (during which he was killed) in what country, where Martí is a national hero, and which achieved independence seven years later?
Cuba
The French diplomat Ferdinand Marie, Vicomte de Lesseps, is remembered today in large part for his role in the successful 1859–69 construction of what?
Suez Canal
