A | B |
Ferdinand Magellan | first to travel around the globe |
Johannes Gutenberg | invented the printing press with movable type |
Ben Franklin | invented bifocals, post office, and armonica |
Eli Whitney | invented interchangeable parts and the cotton gin |
Andrew Jackson | "Old Hickory", president who expanded voting rights |
Karl Marx | hated inequality of wealth, came up with communism |
Woodrow Wilson | President during WWI |
Enlightened Despots | ruled with the ideals of the Enlightenment |
Thomas Hobbes | Enlightenment thinker, came up with idea of social contract |
Manor | The village in feudalism, peasants homes, fields |
Adena and Hopewell Indians | These were also known as the moundbuilders |
Intolerable Acts | These were punishment for the colonists after the Boston Tea Party |
Quartering Act | forced Americans to house |
Reign of Terror | Period of French Revolution when protestors were beheaded |
Sons of Liberty | Organization that protested the British, tar and feathered people |
U.S.S. Maine | The destruction of this ship lead to the Spanish American War |
Lusitania | The sinking of this ship is one reason the U.S. entered the war |
Political Machine | This was an organization that helped party officials get elected |
Muckraker | investigated and revealed unfair business practices (meat industry) |