The Enlightenment
A period of time that introduced a new way of thinking about humans and society, emphasizing reason and individual rights.
What is the Enlightenment?
When a group of people share a similar language, culture, or shared experience.
What is a nation?
What is Europe and Great Britain?
Two countries that the were the first to experience the 2nd IR.
Who are USA and Germany? Japan?
Factory workers formed these to negotiate wages and working conditions.
What are labor unions?
3 major Enlightenment ideas.
What are reason, individualism, Social Contract, natural rights, and progress?
Two new European nations that formed between 1750-1900.
Who are Germany, Italy, Greece / Balkan States?
The three key natural resources that were necessary during the FIRST IR.
What are coal, iron ore, and waterways? Steam?
The resources required to industrialize during the 2nd IR.
This group of citizens could be found working in factories.
Who are children?
The Enlightenment philosopher who came up with the idea of natural rights, and one example of a natural right.
Who is John Locke?
What are Life, Liberty, Property?
The founder of Germany.
Who is Otto von Bismarck?
During the 1st IR, we see this phenomena of people leaving rural areas to settle in new cities.
What is urbanization (Manchester, England)?
The nation that was colonized by Britain for their cotton production.
What is India?
Three issues with industrial urban centers.
What are overcrowded housing, sanitation issues, low wages, lack of labor protections?
The Enlightenment idea that governments get there power from a consenting people, and that people give up certain rights in exchange for protection.
What is the Social Contract?
(Who is Thomas Hobbs?)
Name first 3 revolutions from 1750-1900 in chronological order that were caused by the Enlightenment.
An agricultural invention that stared the Agricultural Revolution, and its inventor.
What is the seed drill and Jethro Tull?
Other than textiles, the two industries that Great Britain took over in India.
The economic system where nations tried to reduce economic inequality through government control of industry and wealth redistribution.
What is socialism?
Two documents that reflect Enlightenment ideas, and the countries they originated from.
What are the Declaration of Independence (USA) and the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen (France)?
The 800 year empire that was slowing becoming weakened by nationalist movements and revolutions.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
Legal documents that encouraged and protected inventions.
What are patents?
The name of the reforms that successfully industrialized Japan.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
Author of the Communist Manifesto?
Who is Karl Marx?