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65 Cards in this Set
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Who preached "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
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Johnathan Edwards
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The popular allegory Pilgrams Progress was written by who
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John Bunyan
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Who invented the seed drill
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Jethro Tull
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Which admendment outlawed slavery in the U.S.
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13th
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What powerful French king called himself the "Sun King"
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Louis XIV
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The scientist who discovered the universal law of gravitation was
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Isaac Newton
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Who wrote the famous oratorio Messiah
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Handel
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adoniram Judson was a famous___from America
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missionary
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The English preacher___was America's best-known evangelist during the Great Awakening
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George Whitefield
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Who was the Austrian "Prince of Diplomats" at the Congress of Vienna
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Prince von Metternich
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Lord Nelson defeated Napoleon at the Battle of what
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Trafalgar
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Who was perhaps the greatest writer the world has ever known
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William Shakespeare
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The Wright brother are remember for developing what
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airplane
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Where did Napoleon meet his final defeat
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Waterloo
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Who paid most of the taxes in pre-revolutionary France
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peasants
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Who deaveloped the steam locomotive
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George Stephenson
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Who invented the telephone
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Alexander Graham Bell
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Who developed the steel plow
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John Deere
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The Wright brother are remember for developing what
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airplane
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Who was perhaps the greatest writer the world has ever known
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William Shakespeare
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Where did Napoleon meet his final defeat
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Waterloo
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The Wright brother are remember for developing what
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airplane
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Who paid most of the taxes in pre-revolutionary France
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peasants
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Where did Napoleon meet his final defeat
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Waterloo
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Who paid most of the taxes in pre-revolutionary France
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peasants
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Who deaveloped the steam locomotive
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George Stephenson
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Who invented the telephone
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Alexander Graham Bell
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Who developed the steel plow
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John Deere
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Who produced the Model T
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Henery Ford
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Who developed the internal combustion engine
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Gottlieb Daimler
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Who invented the steam engine
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James Watt
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Who perfected the steamship
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Robert Fulton
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Who invented the telegraph
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Samuel Morse
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Who developed the reaper
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Cyrus McCormick
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Who invented the spinning jenny
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James Hargreaves
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True or False
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Johannes Kepler discovered the three laws of planetary motion
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True or False
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the Industrial Work Ethic teaches that God expects all men to work
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True or False
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The Angelican church was founded by John Wesley
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True or False
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Minstrels were professional painters who wandered from town to town to perform their work
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True or False
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French Calvinist Protestants were called Huguenots
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True or False
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Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh were painters of the Realist movement, which stressed movement through light and color
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True or False
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The Pilgrims called their non-Separatist friends the Puritans
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True or False
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John Bunyan wrote Paradise Lost, the greatest poem in the English language
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To keep the nobels occupied, Louis XIV built the beautiful Palace of Versailles
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True or False
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Charles Darwin published his theories of evolution in the book The Origin of Species
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Where did the Pilgrims first settle in the New World
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Plymouth
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Who is the "Father of the English Hymn"
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Isaac Watts
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Name of the French castle-stronghold stormed during the French Revolution
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Bastille
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What was the first permanent scientific society of the Modern Age
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Royal Society
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Who was appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army
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George Washington
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Who wrot the Fifth Symphony
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Ludwig van Beethoven
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What invention by Eli Whitney revolutionized agriculute in the Southern U.S.
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cotton gin
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What country took the lead during the Industrial Ravolution
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England
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Name of Albrecht Durer's most famous drawing
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Praying Hands
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What American President guided the Union through America's Civil War
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Abraham Lincoln
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is practical application of science to industry
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technology
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belief that the stars,not God rule the destinies of men
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astrology
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gave early government to the Pilgrim settlers
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Mayflower Compact
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French version of Parliament
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Estates-General
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a work of excellence that has stood the test of time
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classic
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middle class of France
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bourgeoisie
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ended the American War for Independence
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Treaty of Paris
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granted toleration to the Huguenots of France
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Edict of Nates
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Work was done in homes or small private shops
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domestic system
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sun-centered view of the universe
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heliocentric
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