History Mid-term Study Guide

leader of the suffragette movement in Great Britain - Women's union

Stated "I think,therefore I am", wrote Discourse on Method

What was important about white collar working class

one leg of the journey that brought African slaves to the West Indies and then America

wrote Divine Comedy - about  the three tiers of afterlife

developed by Ptolemy - to explain that the planets and sun revolve around the earth

List the reason the Industrial Revolution started in England

believed in separation of powers- executive, legislative, judicial

Father of Classical Criminal Theory 

where Henry and Elizabeth became the head of the church and government

Karl Marx - a political manuscript of class struggle and the problems of capitalism

Banned the writing of Martin Luther, labeled him a heretic

Who are the Americas named after and why

Spanish term for people born from an American Indian and Spanish parents (mixed blood)

everyone is born equal- only God gives people power over others

What is urbanization

the church would charge for sins to be forgiven

What book was first printed by Guttenberg in 1455

What was the main advantages Europeans had when settling the Americas

Invented Boyle's Law - volume of gas changes according to the pressure

What was important about the Factory Act of 1833

government is hands off - businesses are owned and run by private citizens

created by the Spanish to control American Indian labor and used them to mine, farm and build

Who was Machiavelli

List the four effects of the advent of the railroad

Believed in sun-centered universe

who conquered the Incas

a pattern of trade that connected Europe, Africa, Asia and the American continent

What number of the working population made up of the lower working class

Why were African Slaves originally brought to the America's

wealthy farmers bought land from small farmers then benefited from farming large tracts of land

an economic system characterized by public ownership and centralized planning of all industries

who thought that they discovered a westward passage to Asia but actually discovered America

Interested in classical thoughts, embracing humanism, individual achievement...Da Vinci

a nursing pioneer who founded the Female Association for care of the poor

Who conquered the Aztecs

list some laws that were passed to help workers

Wrote Principia - formulated laws of motion and gravity

Renaissance was a rebirth of what

What big change in output occurred during the Industrial Revolution

planting of different crops on the same land to improve soil and fertility - control insects

founder of women's rights movement-Wrote Vindication of Women

membership consists of workers and union leaders united to protect and promote common interest

List the three motivations for European exploration

+: efficiency, economic imp., resources, ew markets  -: crowded living,sanitation,disease,crime

What was the importance of Vasco DeGama's trip to India

believed in delaying baptism until the person was old enough to confess /no state-run churches

why did they use strikes

What was the first Protestant Faith

developed heliocentric theory - the universe revolves around the sun

concept of Federal System

Dissected bodies and gave detailed information about the heart and circulation system

argued against the monarch having divine power - power belonged to the people

one of the founding fathers of the U.S, the 1st President, leader of the Continental army

Who is Christine de Pizan

What was the first permanent English settlement and what crop was grown there

founded by Ignatius of Loyola - Jesuit order

Predestination and who developed it

Why did parents in Renaissance Italy marry their children

a system of economics based on the private ownership for the production of goods and services

at birth the mind is a blank slate - there is no sin

settlement within the Roman Empire between Catholics & Lutheranism to divide German land

a pattern of trade that connected Europe, Africa, Asia and the American continent

what was the main cause of the new pattern of economic development that started during the I.R.

everyone is born equal- only God gives people power over others

What was the most important invention during the industrial revolution

Settlement between Spain and Portugal settling conficts over newly discovered land

invented the Encyclopedia

List some of the inventions during the Industrial revolution

what was important about Newton's laws of gravity