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

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Quiz, Quiz, Trade CardsImportant People in
American and World History

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Quiz, Quiz, Trade Instructions

• Print the slides. Laminate and cut out the
  rectangles. There is a matching term and
  definition.
• Each student receives a card. Students mix
  around the room. Teacher can play if there is an
  odd number of students or may buddy two
  students.
• Students quiz each other on their card and then
  exchange the cards.
• Students repeat the procedure with different
  partners until time is called.
• Management tip have students raise their hands
  when looking for a partner.

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Important People in World History

• Principal author of the Declaration of
  Independence
• US Ambassador to France
• Washingtons Secretary of State
• 3rd President
• Authorized Louisiana Purchase

Thomas Jefferson
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Important People in World History

• 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
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Important People in World History

• 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
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Important People in World History

• 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
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Important People in World History

• British statesman appoint Prime Minister in 1940
• Vowed victory at all costsfor 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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Important People in World History

• 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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Important People in World History

• 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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Important People in World History

• 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 Peoples Republic of China in 1949

Mao Zedong
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Important People in World History

• 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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Important People in World History

• 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 cooperation

Pope John Paul II
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Important People in World History

• 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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Important People in World History

• 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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Important People in World History

• 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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Important People in World History

• 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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Important People in World History

• 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

Erastothenes
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Important People in World History

• 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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Important People in World History

• 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.
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Pythagorus
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Important People in World History

• 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
• Boyles law
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Robert Boyle
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Important People in World History

• 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 

Marie Curie
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Important People in World History

• American Inventor-held 1,300 patents
• Credited with
• Automatic telegraph machine
• Phonograph
• Incandescent light bulb
• Modernized telephone
• Motion picture equipment
• Operated worlds 1st electric power station
• Menlo Park invention factory 

Thomas Edison
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Important People in World History

• 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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Important People in World History

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

Robert Fulton
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Important People in World History

• English mathematician and physicist
• Devised principles to explain universal
  gravitationall matter attracts other matter
• Believed that reason and rationality could be
  applied to natural phenomenon

Sir Isaac Newton
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Important People in World History

• 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
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Important People in World History

• 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
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Important People in World History

• 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
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Important People in World History

• 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
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Important People in World History

• 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
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Important People in World History

• Rose to through the French military to become the
  Emperor of France
• Great military commanderattempted to conquer
  Europe
• Code Napoleon formed foundation of civil law that
  incorporated religious toleration and the
  abolition of serfdom
• Totalitarian state

Napoleon Bonaparte
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Important People in World History

• 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
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Important People in World History

• 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
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Important People in World History

• 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 communism

Karl Marx
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Important People in World History

• 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 rule

Nelson Mandela