Leftover Revolutions
This French lawyer became the leader of the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
This was the first country to industrialize.
What is England?
This was the first industry (field of labor) to undergo industrialization.
What are textiles?
The revolutions in South America were led mainly by this social class of people in Spanish Colonial society.
What are creoles?
The invention and development of these helped to allow people to travel and transport goods more quickly and further than before.
What are trains (railroads)?
This was an effect of the Enclosure Acts.
Two effects of enclosures were: (1) Landowners tried new agricultural methods to boost crop yields; (2) Small farmers were forced to become tenant farmers or move to cities to find work.
This formerly enslaved person became a military general and led the overthrow of the French during the Haitian Revolution.
Who is Toussaint L'Ouverture?
Before the Industrial Revolution, goods were created by hand using this system.
What is the cottage system?
During the Industrial Revolution, we saw the construction of these crowded apartment buildings to help to house the factory workers.
This was the name of the French naval blockade established during the Napoleonic Wars to damage the British economy.
What is the Continental System?
This is the term for the growth of cities that took place as a result of the Industrial Revolution.
What is urbanization?
Who is James Watt?
This was the name of the government that followed the Legislative Assembly, during which King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were executed and a French republic was established.
What is the National Convention?
This material was the basic building block of large machines, railroad tracks, trains, and ships.
What is iron (steel)?
This was the name of a group of working class laborers who destroyed machines to protest working conditions and loss of jobs.
Who were the Luddites?