Modern Period Crossword Final Assignment
Across
- 3. United States and Europe connected by cable
- 4. A spinning machine powered by water that produced a cotton yarn suitable for warp
- 6. Italian author who was against brutal punishments and wrote On Crime and Punishment
- 11. Device that revolutionised cotton spinning
- 13. Believed people are naturally cruel and selfish beings
- 16. Fast land transport of people and goods
- 18. Was the first king publicly executed
- 19. Interpreted Darwin’s evolutionary theory in terms of powerful nations
- 20. Artifical sea-level waterway connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
- 22. King of Belgium that brutally colonized the Congo
- 23. Age of scientific, political and philosophical
- 24. Simultaneous audio and visual broadcast
- 25. Division of Africa for Western influences at the expense of African people
- 27. A machine that is used to pull cotton fibers from the cotton seed
- 28. French lawyer and architect of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror
- 29. Acts passed to punish the colony of Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party
Down
- 1. International meetings to discuss a new layout for Europe upon the fall of the French Emperor Bonaparte
- 2. An ideological and political revolution that occurred in British America between 1765 and 1791.
- 5. Watercraft propelled by steam for commercial and passenger transportation
- 7. King Louis XVI is put on trial and sentenced to be executed
- 8. War between the British and China that benefitted drug smugglers
- 9. English author that fought for women's rights and wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Women
- 10. 1st president of Chinese republic after Revolution of 1911
- 12. Teen that prophesied that killing the crops and cattle would ultimately aid in defeating the British
- 14. Device that allowed for seed to be planted deep in the Earth rather than along the surface
- 15. A series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon
- 17. An anti-foreign, anti-colonial, and anti-Christian uprising in China
- 21. French emperor that conquered much of Europe in the 19th century
- 26. Nonstop drumming and dancing that was meant to be spiritual but was perceived as psychological warfare
- 30. Asserted people deserved unalienable rights