INNOVATIONS
an engine that uses rapid condensation of water for power
Steam engine
These Two of Great Britain’s common geographic features made it a good place to manufacture goods and ship them...
Oceans and Islands
containing too many people or things
Overcrowdedness
The 1902 Education Act, Growth of Education
Adam Smith's policy letting things take their own course, without interference from the government.
laissez faire
man-made waterways used to transport people and goods from one place to another on a river, lake, or sea.
Canals
Great Britain was rich with a natural resource that became very important, This natural resource burns easily when set on fire...
Coal
Another term for "ghetto." Metropolitan ghetto rather than a small town ghetto.
Slums
organized association of workers formed to protect and further their rights and interests such as fair wages, working hours, and working conditions.
Union
a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1849
Irish Potato Famine
Merchants needed better roads to travel on. To pay for new and improved roads, the Parliament in England created this..
Turnpikes
This revolution had an increase in population, new tools, fertilizers and harvesting techniques..
Agricultural Revolution
the presence into the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects.
pollution
This act made two hours of education a day compulsory for children working in factories.
Factory Act
This revolution went from traditional medieval farming to more productive, mechanical method of farming through scientific innovation and new techniques
Agricultural Revolution
First railcar or train
Locomotives
As a result of the Age of Exploration, Great Britain became wealthy and powerful. English traders brought raw materials like cotton from its..
Colonies
The rise of cities. 1 in 10 Britain lived in London which had a population of 1 million.
URBANIZATION
Workers refuse to do work because of disputes between workers and factory owners.
Strikes
Germany became a modern, unified nation under the leadership of...
Otto von Bismarck
requiring workers to come to one place to produce products rapidly for low mass productions
factory system
Leader of the Haitian revolution and the first black man to become governor of a colony. He led a slave revolt, the first and only victorious slave revolt in history.
Toussaint Louverture
The increase in population in the city, its sewage system, and industries along the waterway dumped trash into the water. Its poor sanitation led to outbreaks of disease. This is called the..
Great Stink
Wanting to achieve suffrage, these people heckled politicians, practiced civil disobedience, and were frequently arrested for causing riots.
Suffrage - Voting Rights for Women
a political theory by Karl Marx, supporting class war in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
Communism