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This historical process, beginning in the 1760s, introduced new technologies, increased factories, and gave women greater freedoms.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This legal document was signed by the British Colonies of America on July 4th, 1776, and signified sovereignty from England.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
A significant environmental impact that occurred in the 1800s and early 1900s as a result of the increase of factory production and use of fossil fuels.
What is pollution?
The movement of people into a country from an outside nation. For example, poverty in Italy drove many Italians into the United States and Argentina in search of work.
What is immigration?
This economic process was introduced during the Industrial Revolution and was known to make goods cheaper, more abundant, and increase accessibility.
What is mass production?
This male Enlightenment thinker who lived during the 1600s studied natural human rights to life, liberty, and property. His beliefs emphasized equality and independence and is credited with starting the American Revolution.
Who is John Locke?
During the 1700s, this revolution involved the original 13 Colonies striving to seek independence from Parliament in England.
What is the American Revolution?
Early on in the Industrial Revolution, factories were known to be dependent upon this geographical feature.
What are waterways?
Zionism arose after this form of hostility and oppression against Jewish people in Europe that occurred for thousands of years.
What is antisemitism?
This economic system was an approach to capitalism and placed an emphasis on no government control.
What is laissez-faire?
This idea that arose by Enlightenment thinkers meant that people in a society willingly gave individual power into the hands of the government and would seek the protection of their natural rights in return.
What is the Social Contract?
During the late 18th century, this rebellion was the first success of its kind. Led by enslaved people, it also became Latin America’s first black-led independent nation in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
A vocabulary term used to address the migration of people to areas with greater opportunities which ultimately leads to a growth in cities.
What is urbanization?
A belief in which many European Enlightenment thinkers during the 18th century believed that a godly figure has predetermined natural laws for humanity to discover.
What is deism?
Because of England’s access to an abundance of coal, this 18th century technological innovation increased the expansion of goods, reduced transportation costs, and played a key role in the development of new industries.
What is the steam engine?
This female Enlightenment philosopher lived during the early 19th century and advocated for women's rights in education and equality.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
A Japanese reform that occurred during the 1800s, destroying the Tokugawa Shogunate and adopting snippets of Western technology in order to protect Japanese traditional culture.
What was the Meiji Restoration?
This transportation system built in the 1800s allowed for rapid and large-scale movement of people and goods. It allowed people to trade and communicate to isolated regions that they were not able to before.
What are railroads?
The promotion of goods that facilitate cultural traditions in order to stabilize industry production.
What is cultural consumerism?
This economic strategy resulted after a group of individuals pooled their money to form a bank with little risks and high rewards. An example of this is the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
What are joint-stock banks?
This gathering of people occurred in 1848 during which women’s suffrage was advocated for and the Declaration of Independence was rewritten to include women.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This male Albanian Ottoman officer took power as governor in Egypt in the early 19th century. He started his own reforms in Egypt, established schools, and created the first recorded newspaper in Islamic history.
Who was Muhammad Ali?
This agricultural practice developed in the 1700s occurred when different crops were grown at the same time in an attempt to improve the soil’s health and decrease the risk of famine.
What are crop rotations?
A belief that observes human natural rights, laissez-faire economic systems, representative government, and financially manages army expenses.
What is classical liberalism?
This 18th century philosopher was best known for their ideals rooted in free markets and capitalism. He also wrote the book, Wealth of Nations in 1776.
Who is Adam Smith?