| A | B |
| Steam Engine | Invention that started the Industrial Revolution |
| James Watt | Invented the steam engine |
| Railroads | Overland transportation innovation |
| Steam Ship | Water bound transportation innovation |
| Coal | Fossil fuel used to power steam engines |
| Textiles | English industry that was first affected by the Industrial Revolution |
| Cotton | Fiber coveted in textile industry |
| Cotton Gin | Invented by Eli Whitney |
| Urbanization | Movement to the cities |
| Child Labor | Children being used in a factory or industrial capacity |
| The Factory Act | 1833; limited the usage of child labor |
| Socialism | Government control of society to benifit society |
| Utopian Socialism | Cooperative Society |
| Crimean War | 1853-1856; Ottomans, British, & French v Russia |
| Count Cavour | Prime Minister of Piedmont |
| Kingdom of Piedmont | Strongest Italian state; unified Northern Italy |
| Guiseppe Garibaldi | Red Shirts; unified Southern Italy |
| Italy unified | September 20, 1870 |
| Prussia | Militaristic German state; led German unification |
| Otto von Bismarck | Prussian Prime Minister |
| Real Politik | Politics of Reality |
| Franco-Prussian War | July 15, 1870 |
| Germany united | January 18, 1871 |
| Romanticism | Feelings over reason |
| Walter Scott | Wrote "Ivanhoe" |
| Mary Shelley | Wrote "Frankenstein" |
| Edgar Allen Poe | Wrote numerous short stories |
| Pasteur | Biologist; identified diseases |
| Mendeleev | Developed the periodic table of elements |
| Charles Darwin | Evolution; Natural Selection |
| Realism | View the world realistically |
| Charles Dickens | Realist writer |
| Second Industrial Revolution | Began with use of steel & electricity |
| Michael Faraday | First crude electric generator |
| Thomas Edison | Invented the electric light bulb |
| Alexander Grahm Bell | Invented the telephone |
| Gugliemo Marconi | Invented the radio |
| Wright Brothers | Invented the first gas powered aircraft |
| Henry Ford | Automobile manufacturer who developed the assembly line |
| Socialist Trade Unions | Public ownership of capital; workers dominate |
| Karl Marx | Father of Communism; Wrote "The Communist Manifesto" |
| Friedrich Engles | Associate of Marx; contributed to "The Communist Manifesto" |
| Bourgeoisie | Owners; Oppressors; Middle Class |
| Prolotariat | Workers; Oppressed |
| Revisionists | Opposed violent overthrow |
| Strike | Organized work stopage |
| 1831 | Electric generator invented |
| 1870 | Forster Education Act passed |
| 1842 | Mines Act |
| 1799-1800 | Combination Acts |
| 1848 | Communist Manifesto written |
| 1733 | Flying Shuttle invented |
| 1847 | Ten Hours Act |
| 1908 | Assembly Line invented |
| 1901 | Radio invented |
| 1900 | Interpretation of Dreams written |
| 1890 | British Housing Act |
| 1832 | Reform Bill passed |
| 1876 | Telephone invented/patented |
| 1807 | Clermont steamship invented |
| 1903 | First powered flight of the airplane |
| 1819 | 1st British Factory Act |
| 1811 | Luddite Revolt |
| 1833 | British Factory Act |
| 1859 | Origin of Species written |
| 1898 | Term radioactivity coined |
| 1812 | War between US & Britain |
| 1861-1865 | US Civil War |
| 1888 | International Council for Women met |
| 1846-1848 | Mexican-American War |