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worldHT ch17-20
New World to Age of Inventions
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Cyrus McCormick | invented the reaper |
| mathematics | Charles Darwin lacked this chief tool of science |
| domestic system | produced goods in small private shops. |
| factory system | produced manufactured goods in a systematic way |
| Henry Ford | engineered an inexpensive automobile due to his assembly line |
| Wealth of Nations | book that highly promoted individual economic freedom |
| Adam Smith | largely responsible for the rise and triumph of capitalism |
| astrology | the confused idea that the stars, rather than God, rule the destinies of men |
| mathematics | language of science (as Galileo discovered) |
| Isaac Newton | discovered the law of universal gravitation |
| Albert Einstein | remembered for theories of relativity |
| George Whitefield | best-known Great Awakening evangelist |
| Jonathan Edwards | preached "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" |
| William Carey | Who is known as the Father of Modern Missions? |
| Separatists | believed that every local church congregation should be independent |
| Strangers | went to the New World mostly for better economic opportunities |
| William Bradford | Father of American History |
| civil government | With the signing of the Mayflower Compact, what did the Pilgrims recognize the importance of? |
| 1620 | In what year did the Pilgrims land in the New World? |
| George Washington | commander in chief of the Continental Army |
| unanimously elected 1st President | |
| War of 1812 | 2nd war of USA against Great Britain |
| Mexican War | War between the US and Mexico over Texas |
| Spanish-American War | war between the United States and Spain in Cuba due to the USS Maine's explosion |
| Louis XV [15] | "After me the deluge." |
| Louis XIV [14] | longest reigning king in history |
| Louis XVI [16] | first person executed by National Convention |
| Louis XIV [14] | revoked Edict of Nantes |
| National Assembly | declared itself as the official representative body of all the people of France |
| Bastille | castle stronghold stormed by the people of Paris in 1789 |
| St. Bartholomew's Day massacre | when several thousand of French Calvinist Protestants (Huguenots) were massacred by French Catholics? |
| Guise | What prominent family led the Catholic forces in France? |
| Edict of Nantes | allowed French Calvinists Protestants to worship only in certain territories |
| Edict of January | allowed French Calvinist Protestants to worship in public, outside town limits |
| Cardinal Richelieu | Who ruled for Marie de Medicis and Louis XIII? |
| Consolate | Napoleon's new "republic" government |
| Lord Nelson | defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Trafalgar; greatest naval hero the world has ever known |
| Capt. James Cook | Who explored Australia and New Zealand for Britain? |
| Canada | What country became a self-governing commonwealth as a result of the British North American Act? |
| Edward VII | With what ruler did Britain begin her decline? |
| Samuel Crowther | first black bishop of the Church of England |
| William Pitt | British prime minister who divided Canada |
| Bible | What did Victoria say was the secret to England's greatness? |
| Florence Nightingale | Who single-handedly created the modern nursing profession? |
| Benjamin Disraeli | leader of the Conservative Party |
| Charles Spurgeon | Prince of Preachers |
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