Enlight. Thinkers/ Ideas
Enlightenment philosopher who argued that people have natural rights to "life, liberty, and property."
Who is John Locke?
A revolution in the Americas that served as a model and inspiration for other independence movements in the period 1750–1900.
What is the American Revolution?
This device, created by James Watt, was a key innovation to mechanizing production and would be later applied to other key components of the industrial economy.
What is the Steam Engine?
Era of Japanese history in which the Shogunate was ended and power was brought back to the emperor. With this came massive reforms aimed at industrializing Japan.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
This economic system helped to create the environment in which industrialization was able to flourish, but it would also become widely popularized as a result of the economic growth industrial states created.
What is capitalism?
Term for the political theory that government authority comes from an agreement among people and that rulers must protect citizens' rights
This revolutionary document, created by the National Assembly in 1789, declared that "all men are created and remain equal in rights"
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen? (DOROMAC)
This transportation invention helped expand interior exploration, trade, and migration.
What is the railroad? (train/locomotive)
The "Father of Modern Egypt," known for his sweeping 19th-century reforms in agriculture (cotton), military (Western-style army), education, and industry, establishing Egypt as a semi-independent state of the Ottoman Empire.
Muhammad Ali
This economic system would emerge in response to the exploitation and poor living condition brought on by the Industrial Revolution.
What is Socialism?
English Enlightenment thinker and early feminist that advocated for universal education.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
This Enlightenment Revolution is more accurately describe as a slave uprising.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
This was a significant innovation of the Second Industrial Revolution as it helped to make steel production more effective and efficient.
What is the Bessemer Process?
Major political development, spearheaded by Otto Von Bismarck, that helped German industrialization take off in the late 19th century.
What is the Unification of Germany?
Nickname given to the Ottoman Empire by historians as they began to fall behind many Western European countries in terms of economic and political power.
What is the "Sick Man of Europe?"
Who was Denis Diderot?
This cause of Enlightenment Revolutions became a significant ideology moving forward as it would both unite and divide people.
What is Nationalism?
Eli Whitney invented this manufacturing concept that further increased the efficiency of the factory system by maximizing the specialization of workers in the production process.
What are interchangeable parts?
China's response, under the Qing dynasty, to reform and modernized the Chinese military and industry using Western technology while preserving traditional Confucian values.
What is the self-strengthening movement?
These organization would be created to reform industrial capitalist societies by protecting laborers through passages of many laws and regulations (i.e. child labor laws)
What are Labor Unions?
This man would be considered an "Enlightened Despot" by historians and would at one point proclaim, "The Revolution is over. I am the Revolution!"
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?
Simon Bolivar's attempt at a new nation in South America that would be modeled after the United States. However, this new nation would only last until 1830.
What is Gran Columbia?
A multi-spindle machine that revolutionized textile production by allowing one worker to spin multiple threads from a single wheel.
What is the Spinning Jenny?
The Ottoman Empire's attempt to modernize their state by moving away from a theocratic form of governance and toward a more secular government. These reforms would also attempt to create a common national identity among the diverse citizens of the Ottoman Empire.
U.S. Naval leader that forced the end of Japan's 250-year isolation opening Japan to Western trade and diplomacy
Who was Commodore Matthew Perry?