Chapter 21-25
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- Bill of Rights
- the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution is called.
- Richard Arkwright
- built a water frame that made if possible to spin many threads into yarn at the same time.
- King John 6
- ruled the Portuguese empire from Rio de Janeiro after he fled from Portugal.
- Charles Darwin
- wrote on the "Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection."
- Thomas Paine
- wrote "Common Sense."
- Robert Koch
- discovered the specific organisms that caused 11 diseases.
- USS Maine
- the name of the U.S. battleship blown up in Havana harbor in 1898.
- Gregor Mendel
- name of the Austrian priest who investigated the laws of heredity.
- Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
- massacred the defenders of the Alamo.
- Treaty of Tordesillas
- name of the treaty by which the Pope divided the lands in the New World between Spain and Portugal.
- Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel
- planned and erected a 984-foot tower for the Paris International Exposition of 1889.
- Breed's Hill
- where the Battle of Bunker Hill actually took place.
- Jose de San Martin
- liberated Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile.
- Miguel Hidalgo
- called for universal freedom for Mexico in 1810.
- Benito Juarez
- began a program called the Reforma in Mexico.
- Henry Bessemer
- developed a process to make steel quickly and cheaply.
- John Kay
- patented the flying shuttle.
- Matthew Perry
- sailed into Edo Bay and convinced the Japanese to open trade relations with the United States in 1853.
- James Watt
- made the steam engine.
- Shaka
- rose to become king of the Zulus and was assassinated in 1828.
- Boxers
- name the Westerners use for the Righteous Harmony Fists.
- Feodor Dostoevski
- wrote "Crime and Punishment" and "Brothers Karamazov."
- Sun Yat-sen
- became the President of the Republic of China in 1912.
- Louis Pasteur
- established the principle that the injection of a mild form of disease bacterium causes the body to form antibodies that prevent the vaccinated individual from getting the severe form of the particular disease.
- Leo Tolstoy
- wrote "War and Peace."
- Charles Townshend
- who was the Chancellor of the Exchequer that got Parliament to tax paint, paper, lead, wine, and tea imported from Britain in 1766.
- Gottlieb Daimler
- perfected the internal combustion engine used in most automobiles today.
- Dmitri Mendeleev
- drew up the periodic table.
- Dom Pedro 1
- the first emperor of Brazil
- Jeremy Bentham
- believed government should grant as great a degree of individual freedom as possible.
- Gustave Flaubert
- wrote "Madame Bovary."
- Uruguay
- name of the country that was created in 1828 as a buffer between Argentina and Brazil.
- Eli Whitney
- invented the cotton gin.
- Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
- defeated the Texans at the Alamo and Golidad.
- Edmund Burke
- provided the basis of 19th century European conservatism.
- Battle of Saratoga
- the battle that was the turning point of the War for American Independence.
- Thomas Newcomen
- made an atmospheric engine.
- Richard Wagner
- infused Teutonic myths and German folklore into musical dramas.
- Charles Cornwallis
- was the British commander who surrendered at Yorktown in 1781.
- Auguste Rodin
- has been called the father of modern sculpture.
- Walter Scott
- wrote "Ivanhoe."
- Giuseppi Verdi
- the greatest operatic composer of the 19th century and wrote "Aida" and "Rigoletto."
- suttee
- term for the Indian practice in which widows burn themselves on their husbands funeral pyres.
- Karl Marx
- wrote "Das Kapital."
- Cetswayto
- was the Zulu leader that defeated a British force and was later defeated at Rorkes Drift and sent into exile.
- Pope Pius 9
- issued the Syllabus of Errors.
- Marie Curie
- was the first person to be awarded two Nobel Prices, one in physics and one in chemistry.
- Dom Pedro 1
- declared himself emperor of an independent Brazil in 1822.
- Rudolf Diesel
- invented the engine that bears his name and burned fuel.
- Philadelphia
- where the First Continental Congress met.
- Treaty of Nanjing
- the treaty that ceded Hong Kong to Great Britain.
- Benjamin Disraeli
- was the British Prime Minister that bought controlling interest in the Suez Canal in 1875.
- Rocket
- name of the first steam locomotive.
- Joseph Lister
- developed new antiseptic practices that made major advances against the spread of infection.
- Boston Massacre
- the name of the incident in which British soldiers fired on an unruly Boston mob, killing five people.
- Simon Bolivar
- liberated Grand Columbia.
- Admiral George Dewey
- destroyed the Spanish fleet at Manila in 1898.