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Quiz, Quiz, Trade CardsImportant People in
American and World History
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Important People in World History
1 Thomas Jefferson
Important People in World History
• Principal author of the Declaration of Independence
• US Ambassador to France
• Washington’s Secretary of State
• 3rd President• Authorized Louisiana
PurchaseThomas Jefferson
Important People in World History
2 George Washington
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
Important People in World History
3 Abraham Lincoln
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
4 Woodrow Wilson
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
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
5 Winston Churchill
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
6 Adolf Hitler
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
Important People in World History
7 Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov “Lenin”
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
9 Mohandus Gandhi
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
10 Pope John Paul II
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 cooperationPope John Paul II
Important People in World History
11Mother Teresa
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
12 DesmondTutu
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
13 Archimedes
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
14 Nicolaus Copernicus
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
15Erastothenes
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
15 Erastothenes
Important People in World History
16Galileo
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
Important People in World History
17 Pythagorus
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
19 Marie Curie
Important People in World History
20Thomas Edison
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 world’s 1st electric power station
• Menlo Park “invention factory”
Thomas Edison
Important People in World History
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Albert Einstein
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
Important People in World History
• 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
Important People in World History
Louis Pasteur
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
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
Important People in World History
Martin Luther
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
Johannes Gutenberg
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
Leonardo Da Vinci
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
Important People in World History
• 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
Important People in World History
Simon Bolivar
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
Charles Darwin
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
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 communismKarl Marx
Important People in World History
Nelson Mandela
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 ruleNelson Mandela