The Enlightenment
Atlantic Revolutions
The Industrial Revolution
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
Wrote the Wealth of Nations in 1776 calling for free trade and Laissez-faire economics.
Who is Adam Smith?
100
Period in which the government in France executed thousands of supposed opponents of the revolution.
What is the Reign of Terror?
100
This natural resource, which powered the early steam engine, was a major reason the Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain, which had an abundant amount of it.
What is coal?
100
Prior to the Industrial Revolution products were produced in the home, which was referred to as this.
What is the Cottage Industry?
100
Occurred from 1776-1783, this conflict established a sovereign country by destroying colonial ties.
What is the American Revolution?
200
The man who famously said, "I may not agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
Who is Voltaire?
200
Central figure of the Haitian Revolution who was a former slave who learned to read and write and then led Haiti to victory over the French.
Who is Toussaint L'Ouverture?
200
This was the first industry to be industrialized by the factory system with inventions like the spinning jenny and the water powered loom.
What is the textile industry?
200
The more advanced Industrial Revolution which featured innovation in areas like steel production, oil, electricity, and chemicals.
What is the Second Industrial Revolution?
200
The central figure in the unification of Italy was this savvy politician who united the north using war and diplomacy.
Who is Count Camillio Cavour?
300
Enlightenment belief that a divinity simply sets natural laws in motion.
What is Deism?
300
Simon Bolivar, one of the key liberators of South America was a member of this social class in Latin American society?
What are Creoles?
300
In 1798 this inventor created a system of interchangeable parts for manufacturing firearms in the U.S. military.
Who is Eli Whitney?
300
The phrase that essentially means the rapid modernization of Japan.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
300
The "Iron Chancellor" of Prussia, Otto von Bismarck, united the German territories by using Blood and Iron in fighting these three nations to achieve German unification.
Who is Denmark, Austria, and France?
400
One of the early pioneers for women's rights, she wrote "A Vindication for the Rights of Women," in 1792.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
400
This was most likely the only Atlantic Revolution which truly stayed true to the idea of equality amongst all (or most).
What is the Haitian Revolution?
400
This Italian inventor sent the first radio waves across the Atlantic in 1901.
Who is Guglielmo Marconi?
400
Karl Marx and this co-author wrote the Communist Manifesto in 1848 laying the groundwork for modern Socialism.
Who is Freidrich Engels?
400
This French document guaranteed the rights of Frenchmen and was modeled after the American Declaration of Independence.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
500
Theodor Herzl, an Austro-Hungarian Jew, advocated this belief which referred to the establishment of a Jewish homeland in the Middle East.
What is Zionism?
500
The phrase "unalienable rights," which Thomas Jefferson refers to in the Declaration of Independence was picked up from this philosopher of the Enlightenment.
Who is John Locke?
500
This Egyptian leader (an former Ottoman officer) helped modernize Egypt making it more "European"
Who is Muhammad Ali?
500
The idea of John Stuart Mill which calls for the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
What is utilitarianism?
500
Alfred Krupp ran a German company that had this more effective way of producing steel, therefore creating a monopoly on steel production.
What is the Bessemer Process?