Enlightened Era
While not all new forms of government used my template, America made it a staple of their government and it still stands today; however, there can be a lot of back and forth between the 3 sectors...
What are the Separation of Powers?
I was something that many nations/colonies - including France, Haiti, Latin America, and America - yearned to get out of their revolutions; I initially grew from the ideas of John Locke and turned into the base of many independence documents.
What are Unalienable Rights?
What are Human Rights?
With the addition of factories came the eventual underpayment of workers, causing for these groups to rise on the behalf of said workers and make their voice heard; they advocated for 5 day work weeks, less hours, minimum wage, the right to vote, and child labor laws.
What are Labor Unions?
Being a process of periodically moving crops (i.e. depending on the season), this production method helped the Agricultural Revolution boom and in turn ushered in the Industrial Revolution (due to the now increased population).
What is crop rotation?
This was the type of government that (most of) the people aimed to achieve in the Enlightenment era; hint, every man works for himself.
What is capitalism?
While many people praised the ideas of having their unalienable rights be heard, sometimes it needs to be held back for their safety; this is the result of the people willingly giving up part of their freedom for the government to protect their rights.
What is Social Contract?
Starting in 1765, the 13 colonies fought to have a free market alongside being able to make their own decisions through government rather than through the king. The revolution that took place would end with Britain being broke, the breaking-down of mercantilism there, and the story itself would make history!
What is the American Revolution?
Popping up in hordes during the Industrial Revolution, these places were made around the use of a factory to invite more people in; towns were shifted and the housing skyrocketed. As a result, many places would become prominent later in life (ex: NYC).
What is a city?
What are cities?
This invention by James Watts was the star machine of the first Industrial Revolution; it powered boats, locomotives such as trains, and other large machinery in factories.
What is the Steam Engine?
While some people wanted complete freedom to rule their economy, others were on the other side of the spectrum, wanting people to share one common wealth that was spread among them all; hint, this idea was introduced by Karl Marx
What is Socialism/Communism?
This form of thinking is what the enlightened thinkers used to explain their theories on how the universe worked.
What is logic/rationale?
Starting at near the end of the French Revolution, this French colony would become the first independent Latin-American country as well as the first black-led country in the western hemisphere.
What is Haiti?
This specific type of factories brought in primarily girls to weave textiles on loom machines in Massachusetts; becoming the model for other factories, the first labor strike would happen here by women working within the facility in the 1830s.
What are the Lowell Mills?
This was an invention that moved mass amounts of people/crops/goods between the coasts of America; this also raised communication between small towns and big cities.
What is the Railroad?
During the times of the Enlightenment and the Revolutionary Era, the majority of people weren't too fond of my works; I was a way of rule that isolated the the people by their amount of land and wealth (in gold/silver), and I was a key piece that led to the downfall of monarchs; hint, the structure was king, nobility/church, knights, artisans, workers, peasants/servants.
What is Feudalism?
This advancement in thought is what ushered in the "science over faith" ideology; this combined with the humanity research during the Renaissance is what in a sense "created" the Enlightenment.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
Happening later that the rest of the revolutions, the creole people within Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines would refute their Spanish controllers.
What are the Latin American Revolutions?
Being the very thing that took workers in, it benefitted off the use of Eli Whitney's interchangeable parts; this allowed factories to work more efficient and hire less-skilled workers, who did repetitive tasks of putting things together piece by piece.
What is the Factory System?
Being the predecessor to Alexander Graham-Bells' telephone, this invention made by Samuel F.B. Morse would prove useful later in the 20-21st century.
What is the Telegraph?
Within the ideals of Capitalism, this form of governing had the government take more of a back seat while the citizens controlled themselves.
What is "Laisse Faire"?
With this idea in place, the people actually gained power over their "ruler"; they could now choose who they accepted into that role and if they wished to overthrow them in they turned tyrannical.
What is consent of the governed?
At the very end of the French Revolution, a radical group (Jacobins) took the initiative to execute any and all who oppose the new way of government; mainly people of high class status fell to the guillotine, including King Louis XVI and Marie Antionette.
What is the Reign of Terror?
With millions of these people coming in from Ireland and Germany, they boosted America's manufacturing presence globally, allowing them to become a global superpower by 1900; they'd soon come in later during the 20th century and are still a political topic to this day.
What are Immigrants?
Helping out in the factories, this allowed for less skilled workers to do one task repeatedly; hint, these things all came alike.
What are interchangeable parts?
Much like the ideals of communism/socialism, John Stuart Mill promoted that the work of the people are to fuel the happiness of the many rather than the wants of the individual.
What is Utilitarianism?
What is Utilitarian?