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 |