Enlightenment
An intellectual and cultural movement in the eighteenth century that emphasized reason over superstition and science over blind faith
What is The Enlightenment
This accompanied the drafting of the Declaration of Independence
What is The American Revolution
The Spinning Jenny was used to
What is pin cotton into string but was able to spin 8 strings at a time.
This railroad connects Moscow to ports on the Pacific
What is Trans-Siberian Railroad
Absolutism
What is an ideology where a single ruler has complete authority
17th century women's right activist who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft
Discontent with the monarchial led to the storming of Versailles in what revolution?
What is the French Revolution
This invention used coal to power itself
What is Steam Engine
The first industrial revolution included...
What is textiles, steam power, and iron
Capitalism had a...
What is Hands off government and free market society
This person promoted the idea of democracy and authored The Leviathan
Who is Thomas Hobbes
This document was drafted by Simón Bolívar during the Latin American revolution
What is The Jamaica Letter
This invention allowed instant communication across vast distances
What is Telegraph
This country ended their isolation period, removed the shogun, as well as took over China and Korea
What is Japan
A German scholar who argued for socialism and wrote the communist manifesto
Who is Karl Marx
Life, Liberty, and Property
Who is John Locke
A series of events that took place in Europe during the 17th century and marked advances in the natural sciences
What is The Scientific Revolution
The Bessemer Process was a tool used to...
What is remove the impurities from iron by blowing air into molten iron allowing for oxidization.
The second industrial revolution included...
What is steel, electronics, precision machinery, and chemicals
Characteristics of socialism include...
What is sharing ownership of the means of production equally among society would increase people's quality of life.
How did the Enlightenment affect religion?
What is religion should be responsible, and that knowledge has nothing to do with religion.
This led to revolutions in the late 17th centuries
What is growing discontent with absolute monarchies, rising economic inequality, the emergence of new political ideas from the Enlightenment, and social unrest stemming from religious conflicts
The Mechanical Reaper...
What is made it faster and easier to harvest crops by hand
Organization formed to protect factory workers
What is labor union
The two social classes of capitalism...
What is Bourgeoise and Proletariat