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These are organizations of workers advocating for the right to bargain with employers, leading to better working conditions such as higher minimum wages, hourly limits, and overtime pay.
What are labor unions?
Between 1775 and 1783, 13 of Great Britain’s North American colonies engaged in this conflict to throw off British rule to establish The United States of America.
What is the American Revolution?
This nutritious New World crop of South America was traded to Europe, sum about famine
What is a potato?
This is a intellectual and cultural movement that happen in the seventeenth and eighteenth century that emphasized reason over superstition
What is the Enlightenment?
This is the process of transforming the economy of a nation or region from the focus of agriculture into relying on manufacturing to increase production.
What is industrialization?
This process, as was seen during the height of the Industrial Revolution, saw the migrations a large number of people to the cities.
What is urbanization?
This Revolution from 1787 to 1799, inspired by America’s, sought to completely change the relationship between rulers and those they governed and to redefine political powers.
What is the French Revolution?
This agricultural practice is designed to improve soil, optimize nutrients, and fight against pests and weeds routinely swapping out crops.
What is crop rotation?
This new kind of culture emerged in the 19th century was a byproduct of the middle class of Great Britain because of the rise of living standards and the introduction of more affordable goods
What is consumerism?
This term refers to the trade between the Old World and New World, and helped supply the demand required for the Industrial Revolution.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This social class is a byproduct of the industrial revolution, where people were somewhere between the working class and the elite class.
What is the middle class?
During the late 19th century in this country, Jose Rizal was the most prominent agitator in the Propaganda Movement, creating publications such as pamphlets and magazines fighting for sovereignty, and was viewed with suspicion from the Spanish government despite its lack of revolutionary purpose.
What is the Phillippines?
This railroad was constructed between 1863 and 1869 and was the first continuous railroad line across the United States.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This event in 1868 Japan was caused by Japanese reformers wanting to adopt Western technology and ideas and is signified by the overthrowing of Japan’s shogun.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
This term is used to describe a company which has full control over an industry.
What is a monopoly?
Author Mary Wollstonecraft is credited as one of the first of these types of social activists, published The Vindication of Rights of Women, and argued for equal educational opportunities as men.
What is a Feminist?
This successful slave revolt in 1791 to 1804 was led by Toussaint Louverture and overthrew the French rulers.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
This revolution is named after the resource that helped the industrial revolution begin.
What is the Coal Revolution?
This group of intellectuals such as Voltaire and Montesquieu introduced revolutionary ideas that contributed to the Enlightenment.
Who are the Philosophes?
This process describes the manufacturing of goods on a large scale to support the growing demands of the middle class during the Industrial Revolution.
What is mass production?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton made her first public speech on this two-day event on July 11, 1848, the first women's rights movement in New York.
What is Seneca Falls?
German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published this literary work that laid out the foundations for an ideal society in which all the resources were shared.
What is Communist Manifesto?
This type of water transportation was powered by coal and allowed travelers to travel upstream quickly and easily rather than relying on wind power.
What is the steamship?
The unification of this country, formerly a patchwork of city-states and the birthplace of the Renaissance, was a process undertaken by Count di Cavour, the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardina.
What is Italian Unification?
This company, founded by British entrepreneur Cecil Rhodes, had a monopoly on diamonds in South Africa and paved the way for apartheid.
What is De Beers Diamonds?