This movement promoted ideas like equality, reason, and natural rights.
The Enlightenment
This system is based on private ownership and profit.
Capitalism
This revolution improved farming methods and helped start industrialization
The Agricultural Revolution
This type of source helps historians understand worker experiences firsthand
Primary sources
Machines replaced workers, causing this major problem.
Unemployment
This Enlightenment idea states that government power should be divided.
Separation of powers
This idea argues that workers should own the means of production.
Socialism
A major farming innovation that increased food production.
New technology (seed drill, crop rotation)
This public health issue spread due to contaminated water.
Disease from polluted water such as cholera.
Workers opposed machines because they feared this.
Losing their jobs.
This group in France wanted more political power in 1789.
The Third Estate.
This document called for workers to unite against capitalism.
The Communist Manifesto
This law replaced communal farming with fenced, private property.
The Enclosure Acts.
This improvement helped solve water-related health problems.
Water treatment/sanitation
Merchants supported machines because they increased this.
Profits/ speed of making goods
This major issue caused unrest leading to the French Revolution
The unequal distribution of wealth and power.
This economist wrote The Wealth of Nations.
Adam Smith
This energy source replaced water power and helped factories grow.
Coal
This group gained wealth and power during industrialization.
Industrial leaders/ bosses/ bourgeoisie
A major effect of industrial factory work on children.
Harsh labor/long hours/poor conditions
This document gave rights like equality under the law during the French Revolution.
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
This economic idea supports minimal government involvement.
Laissez-faire
This was a major result of industrialization in cities.
Urbanization
Laissez-faire policies resulted in this crisis in Ireland.
The Great Hunger of Ireland/ the Irish Potato Famine
The reform movement supporting women's right to vote was known as this.
The women's suffrage movement