Enlightenment & Revolutions
This philosopher's idea of 'natural rights' inspired both the American and French Revolutions.
Who is John Locke?
This innovation, patented by James Watt, dramatically increased energy efficiency in factories.
What is the steam engine?
This economic policy encouraged minimal government interference in trade.
What is laissez-faire capitalism?
This organization fought for workers' rights including higher wages and safer conditions.
What are labor unions?
This economic class grew due to industrialization and often consisted of factory owners and managers.
What is the middle class?
This 1801 constitution abolished slavery and declared equality in Haiti.
What is Toussaint L’Ouverture’s Constitution?
This production system replaced cottage industries and centralized labor in factories.
What is the factory system?
This company dominated the diamond trade and was a symbol of transnational corporations.
What is De Beers?
This document exposed child labor conditions in 1833 Britain.
What is the Sadler Report?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This cult-like ideology emphasized women's domestic role in middle-class households.
What is the cult of domesticity?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This creole led revolutionary efforts that resulted in the creation of Gran Colombia.
Who is Simón Bolívar?
This process revolutionized steel manufacturing in the second Industrial Revolution.
What is the Bessemer Process?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This economic theory, replaced by capitalism, emphasized stockpiling gold and silver.
What is mercantilism?
This socialist thinker advocated for a proletariat revolution to overthrow capitalism.
Who is Karl Marx?
This 1856 Ottoman reform guaranteed legal equality for men regardless of religion or ethnicity.
What is the Hatt-i Humayun?
This movement emphasized reason, individualism, and natural rights, challenging monarchies and religious authority.
What is the Enlightenment?
This American innovator introduced interchangeable parts in firearm manufacturing.
Who is Eli Whitney?
This financial institution was a major force in British imperial banking in Asia.
What is HSBC (Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation)?
This term describes runaway slave communities that resisted colonial rule.
What are maroon societies?
This political system envisioned a classless society with shared ownership of production.
What is communism?
This French revolutionary group was responsible for the Reign of Terror.
Who are the Jacobins?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This 19th-century Japanese movement rapidly industrialized and centralized political power.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
This innovation allowed information to travel rapidly across oceans and continents.
What is the telegraph?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This woman was a revolutionary leader in Ecuador and earned the title 'Liberator of the Liberator.'
Who is Manuela Sáenz?
This Russian movement industrialized via state-sponsored railroads like the Trans-Siberian Railway.
What is the Witte System or Russian state-sponsored industrialization?