Enlightenment Power
This movement asked: “Do we need a King to tell us what to do?”
What is the Enlightenment?
The American Revolution was 13 colonies vs. this empire.
What is the British Empire?
This invention was called the “battery” of the 1800s because it powered everything.
What is the steam engine?
The telephone is connected to this inventor.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
People moving from farms to cities for jobs is called _____.
What is urbanization?
This philosopher said people have Natural Rights.
Who is John Locke?
The American Revolution is linked to this year.
What is 1776?
This inventor improved the steam engine.
Who is James Watt?
This 1879 invention meant “no more candles.”
What is the lightbulb?
Railroads helped people travel in a few ____ instead of months.
What are days?
Name ONE Natural Right John Locke argued for.
What is Life, Liberty, or Property?
This document stated that “all men are created equal.”
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Before factories, one person made a whole shoe. In factories, machines made _____.
What are parts?
The lightbulb is connected to this inventor.
Who is Thomas Edison?
Early factory workers had long hours and there were no ____ yet.
What are weekends?
Enlightenment ideas changed people from “subjects” of a king into ____ of a country.
What are citizens?
The French Revolution began because people were ____ while the king lived in luxury.
What is starving (hungry)?
This 1830s invention was the first “instant message.”
What is the telegraph?
In factories, machines made parts and people ____ them together.
What is assembled?
Many ____ worked in factories until laws were made.
What are kids (children)?
If you were writing a classroom Constitution, the first thing you might list is a _____.
What is a right?
This 1789 French document declared natural rights and defined what it meant to be a citizen of the nation.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
This 1870s invention let people talk over long distances.
What is the telephone?
Name ONE invention from this unit.
What is the telegraph / telephone / lightbulb?
Laws were made so kids could go to ____ instead of factories.
What is school?