Life in the Industrial Era
To combat poor working conditions in factories and cities during the Industrial Era, these groups were formed to give their workers a voice.
What are labor unions?
This was the key piece of technology for the first industrial revolution, steaming up entirely new forms of transportation and machinery. (until Edison and Tesla came along with their electric ideas)
What is the steam engine?
The kind of thought that the Enlightenment pioneered over religious blind faith.
What is scientific reasoning?
This document, drafted by the First Continental Congress, declared independence from the British crown and the tyrant George III.
What was the Declaration of Independence?
The famous soldier who led the Haitian revolution to victory against the French.
Who was Toussaint L’Ouverture?
This practice, which has since been outlawed by the U.S. Government, was a popular method of exploitation for factory owners to get cheap work from young people.
What is child labor?
This technology allowed for better crop planting and as a result led to the Agricultural Revolution and a population boom in England.
What was the seed drill?
An agreement created during the Enlightenment where people give up some rights to protect their remaining rights.
What is the social contract?
In order to get gunpowder for their (stolen) weapons, the French Revolutionaries stormed this prison in the heart of Paris, took it over, stole a bunch of stuff, killed the guy in charge, and stuck his head on a pike. Brutal.
What was the Bastille?
The infamous French dictator who was in power and tried to quell the Haitian revolution. (And completely failed. L.)
Who was Napoleon?
If you were an immigrant living in an industrial city during this era, chances are you lived in one of these communal living areas. Basically low quality apartment buildings, these living quarters were often breeding grounds for diseases and poor living conditions.
What were Tenement Housings?
This machine was invented during the Second Industrial Revolution, and overtook the steam engine's place at the height of technological advancement.
What was the internal combustion engine?
The guy who came along with his sizzling ideas about empiricism. (and also served as the attorney general and Lord Chancellor of England)
Who was Francis Bacon?
The French created this document to declare their independence from the monarchy. Thomas Jefferson helped write it!
What was the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
A Venezuelan creole who led the independence movements against Spain in Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia
Who was Simon Bolivar?
If you were a peasant or farmer in Britain during the Industrial Era, you would have had to watch out for this act passed by the British Parliament that restricted and privatized farmland.
What was the Enclosure Act?
I should probably call attention to this piece of communication technology that was invented during the Second Industrial Revolution. It made contacting people long-distance easier than ever, and nowadays they are as common as graham crackers! And they're so easy to use, it's like ringing a bell! (I should be a salesman...)
What was the telephone?
The Enlightenment philosopher championed natural rights and general will. He definitely didn't keep his thoughts under lock and key.
Who was John Locke?
The name of the radical party during the French revolution.
Who were the Jacobins?
The rich white people at the top of the Haitian social hierarchy before the revolution.
Who were the Grand Blancs?
The Commodore who's arrival in Japan brought about the Meiji restoration.
Who was Matthew Perry?
The newly invented process of making steel during this time.
What was the Bessemer Process?
A new kind of semi-religious philosophy that emerged from the Enlightenment, arguing that a Creator made the world but then stepped back to let the world run on its own.
What is deism?
The leader of the Jacobins, who, towards the end of his life, believed he was a god and tried to make a religion centered around him. (No, it's not Pythagorus)
Who was Robespierre?
Because of the Haitian victory, Napoleon gave up on his dreams of a Western empire and surrendered this famous territorial annex to the United States. So, indirectly, Haiti gave the U.S. more states. GG, Haiti.
What was the Louisiana Purchase?