W. Civilization test 2

1793

Eli Whitney develops the cotton gin

1832

Reform Bill grants suffrage to all middle-class males (year)

1834

Cyrus McCormick patents the mechanical reaper

1859

Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species

1867

British North America act makes Canada self-governing commonwealth (year)

1869

Suez Canal completed

1884

Fabian society formed

Jethro Tull

Seed Drill

John Deere

Steel plow

Edmund Cartwright

Power loom

Canals and Railroads

Most important mode of transportation

Samuel Morse

Electric telegraph

Guglielmo Marconi

Wireless telegraph/radio

Gladstone and Disraeli

Queen Victoria’s most well known prime ministers

Crystal Palace

Housed the world’s fair during the Great Exhibition

C.H. Spurgeon

“Prince of Preachers” saved because of a snowstorm

D.L. Moody

Well-known American Preacher

Ira Sankey

D.L. Moody’s song leader

Wilfred Grenfell

Missionary to Labrador and Newfoundland

George Mueller

orphanages in England

William Booth

Salvation Army

Lord Ashley Taylor

Child labor reform

Florence Nightingale

founded modern nursing profession during the Crimean war

Lord Durham

Who founded the British North America Act

Sepoy Rebellion/Mutiny

native soldiers; infield rifle

David Livingstone

missionary to Africa

Cecil Rhodes

expanded the British empire in Africa

Boer War

Conflict in South Africa between natives and Britain

Act of Union

United England and Scotland into the kingdom of Great Britain

Catholic Emancipation Act

Allowed roman Catholics to sit in parliament and hold most public offices

Great Irish Potato Famine

devastating famine in Ireland

Utilitarians

believed the most moral action is the one that produces the greatest overall happiness

Fabian Society

British left-leaning political socialist organization