Quiz, Quiz, Trade Cards Important People in American and World History.

Quiz, Quiz, Trade CardsImportant People in

American and World History

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Important People in World History

1 Thomas Jefferson


• Principal author of the Declaration of Independence

• US Ambassador to France

• Washington’s Secretary of State

• 3rd President• Authorized Louisiana

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2 George Washington


• Delegate to 1st and 2nd Continental Congresses

• Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army

• Chairman of the Constitutional Convention

• 1st President of the USA-served two terms

George Washington


3 Abraham Lincoln


• 16th President of USA• Helped build the Republican

Party • Administration

– Civil War– Gettysburg Address– Emancipation Proclamation

• Assassinated before he could implement Reconstruction Plans

Abraham Lincoln


4 Woodrow Wilson


• President of Princeton University; Governor of NJ

• 20th President of the United States

• Federal Reserve Act and the Federal Trade Commission began during his administration

• WWI Peace Plan known as 14 Points

• Dream of League of Nations not approved by Congress Woodrow Wilson


• British statesman; appoint Prime Minister in 1940

• Vowed “victory at all costs…for without victory there is no survival.”

• Predicted the “iron curtain” of the Cold War

• Nobel Prize Literature 1953 for The Second World War

5 Winston Churchill

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• British statesman; appoint Prime Minister in 1940

• Vowed “victory at all costs…for without victory there is no survival.”

• Predicted the “iron curtain” of the Cold War

• Nobel Prize Literature 1953 for The Second World War

Winston Churchill

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6 Adolf Hitler

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• Believed that Germany was at risk from Jewish, socialist, democratic, and liberal forces

• Leader of the national Socialist German Workers Party (NAZI)

• Published Mein Kampf (My Struggle)

• 1934 named himself Fuhrer of Germany and began to build a world wide empire

• 1942 Holocaust-”Final Solution to the Jewish Question” 50 million dead

• Committed suicide as Allies moved into Germany

Adolf Hitler

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7 Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov “Lenin”

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• Influenced by works of Karl Marx

• Founder of the Russian Communist Party

• 1917 lead the November Revolution to establish a “soviet” government based on a union of workers, peasants, and soldiers

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov “Lenin”

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8 Mao Zedong

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• Studied western writings, radical Chinese writings and Mark and Lenin

• Believed the peasants would be the best support for Communist Revolution

• Opposed Nationalist Chiang-Kai Shek

• During Long March (1934-36) assumed leadership of Communist Party in China

• Founded the People’s Republic of China in 1949

Mao Zedong

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9 Mohandus Gandhi

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• Spiritual and moral leader of India that favored independence from Great Britain

• Studied and practiced law • Practiced passive resistance,

civil disobedience, and boycotts to generate social and political change

• Assassinated in 1948

Mohandus Gandhi

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10 Pope John Paul II

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• This polish cardinal was the first non-Italian pope elected since the 16th century

• Served as Pope from October 1978 to April 2005

• Supported ageless Catholic traditions, strong papal authority, devotion to the virgin Mary, and inter-faith cooperationPope John Paul II

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11Mother Teresa

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• Roman Catholic nun set a world wide standard for humanitarian aid

• Founded the Missionaries of Charity-doing work among the poor, dying, and abandoned of India

• Nobel Peace Prize 1979

Mother Teresa

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12 DesmondTutu

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• Leading spokesman for passive resistance to South African aparthied in the 1980s

• Nobel Peace Prize 1983 for his attempts to promote racial equality

• 1986 became the head of the South African Anglican Church

Desmond Tutu

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• Greatest thinker of his era (ca.287-212B.C)

• Invented the catapult, grappling devices, and an device to move water and loose material from one level to another

• Mathematical writing on the principle of the lever was a significant contribution to knowledge

13 Archimedes

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• Greatest thinker of his era (ca.287-212B.C)

• Invented the catapult, grappling devices, and an device to move water and loose material from one level to another

• Mathematical writing on the principle of the lever was a significant contribution to knowledge

Archimedes

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14 Nicolaus Copernicus

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• Polish astronomer proposed the theory that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the solar system in 1507

Nicolaus Copernicus

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15Erastothenes

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• Cyrene for North Africa that studied mathematics in Athens

• 1st to calculate the circumference of the earth, describe it as a sphere, and predict that ships could sail from Greece to India

15 Erastothenes

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16Galileo

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• Italian scientist that developed the modern experimental method

• Proved Copernican Theory

• Proved objects of different masses fall at the same velocity

• Used a telescope to examine objects in the sky

• In conflict with the Roman Catholic church Galileo

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17 Pythagorus

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• Greek philosopher and mathematician

• Credited with the idea that mathematic formulas could help establish patterns

• Pythagorian Theorem holds that in a right triangle, the square of the length of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the lengths of the other two sides.

Pythagorus

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18 Boyle

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• English physicist and chemist

• Discovered the nature of elements and compounds

• 1661 published The Skeptical Chemist that challenged common thinking about the four basic elements of the day

• Boyle’s law

Robert Boyle

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Marie Curie

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• Proved that radio activity, when properly applied, was an effective treatment of some diseases

• Discovered the elements: polonium and radium

• Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 and 1911

• Worked to make x-ray technology accessible to

soldiers during World War I

19 Marie Curie

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20Thomas Edison

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• American Inventor-held 1,300 patents

• Credited with– Automatic telegraph machine

– Phonograph

– Incandescent light bulb

– Modernized telephone

– Motion picture equipment

• Operated world’s 1st electric power station

• Menlo Park “invention factory”

Thomas Edison

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Albert Einstein

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• German-Jewish Physicist that immigrated to the USA in 1933

• Theory of Relativity-energy equals mass times the speed of light squared

• Theories critical to the development of the atomic bomb

• 1921 Nobel Prize Physics

Albert Einstein

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Robert Fulton

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• 1807 changed maritime transportation with the invention of the first successful, commercial steamboat known as the Clermont

Robert Fulton

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Sir Isaac Newton

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• English mathematician and physicist

• Devised principles to explain universal gravitation—all matter attracts other matter

• Believed that reason and rationality could be applied to natural phenomenon

Sir Isaac Newton


Louis Pasteur


• French chemist• Discovered that heat

could kill bacteria which spoiled liquids.

• Pasteurization-heating liquids to kill bacteria (esp. in milk)

• Introduced microbiology• Invented a rabies vaccine

Louis Pasteur


James Watt


• Scottish engineer• Created a steam engine

with a new type of governor to control steam power and engine speed. A flywheel was attached to convert steam power to mechanical power

• Important to Industrial Revolution

• Metric unit of power is called a “watt”James Watt


Martin Luther


• Dealt the symbolic blow that began the Reformation when he nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Church.

• That document contained an attack on papal abuses and the sale of indulgences by church officials.

• Doctrine of justification by faith--the teaching that Christ's own righteousness is imputed to those who believe, and on that ground alone, they are accepted by God.

Martin Luther


Johannes Gutenberg


• German goldsmith and inventor

• Credited with inventing a movable type printing press

• Major work: 42 line Bible• Printing technology

spread rapidly throughout Europe and is key to the Renaissance

Johannes Gutenberg


Leonardo Da Vinci


• “Renaissance Man” most famous as a painter, sculptor, and architect– Mona Lisa– Last Supper

• Scientist & Engineer: Notebooks of scientific observation– Anatomy, astronomy, civil

engineering, optics, and hydrodynamics

Leonardo Da Vinci


Napoleon Bonaparte


• Rose to through the French military to become the Emperor of France

• Great military commander—attempted to conquer Europe

• Code Napoleon formed foundation of civil law that incorporated religious toleration and the abolition of serfdom

• Totalitarian stateNapoleon Bonaparte


Simon Bolivar


• Known as “The Liberator” of South America

• Military victories of the Spanish colonial army won independence for Bolivia, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela

Simon Bolivar


Charles Darwin


• English naturalist that originated the concept of natural selection

• Theoretical books– The Origin of Species

by Means of Natural Selection (1859)

– The Descent of Man (1871)

Charles Darwin


Karl Marx


• German philosopher and political economist

• Communist Manifesto (1848)

• History advances through class struggle

• Predicted the end of capitalism would be brought about by the organization of working class, thus ushering in the age of communismKarl Marx


Nelson Mandela


• South African revolutionary with the African National Congress-fought against apartheid

• Imprisoned from 1964-1982 for plotting to overthrow the government

• 1993 Nobel Peace Prize• 1994-1999 President of

South Africa-transition to democratic ruleNelson Mandela

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