Transcript Map Skills Quiz, Quiz, Trade Cards

Quiz, Quiz, Trade Cards
Important People in
American and World History
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.
Important People in
World History
Thomas Jefferson
• Principal author of the
Declaration of
Independence
• US Ambassador to
France
• Washington’s
Secretary of State
• 3rd President
• Authorized Louisiana
Purchase
Important People in
World History
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
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
Important People in
World History
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
Important People in
World History
• 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
Important People in
World History
Adolf Hitler
• 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
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”
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 People’s Republic of
China in 1949
Mao Zedong
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
Important People in
World History
Pope John Paul II
• 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
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
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
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
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
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
Important People in
World History
Galileo
• 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
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.
Pythagorus
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
• Boyle’s law
Robert Boyle
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
Important People in
World History
• American Inventor-held 1,300
patents
• Credited with
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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
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
Important People in
World History
• 1807 changed
maritime
transportation with the
invention of the first
successful,
commercial steamboat
known as the
Clermont
Robert Fulton
Important People in
World History
Sir Isaac Newton
• 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
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
Important People in
World History
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”
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
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
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
Important People in
World History
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 state
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
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
Important People in
World History
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 communism
Important People in
World History
Nelson Mandela
• South African
revolutionary with the
African National
Congress-fought against
apartheid
• Imprisoned from 19641982 for plotting to
overthrow the government
• 1993 Nobel Peace Prize
• 1994-1999 President of
South Africa-transition to
democratic rule