Chapter 9 -8.27.08-

Chapter 9, Not So Old Stuff: Sometime Around 1750 to About 1914. This chapter focuses on the Industrial Revolution and the consequences of it, especially as it impacted social and economic developments in Europe and European imperialism in Africa and Asia. First the chapter talked about that the Industrial Revolution, then European Imperialism in India, then the European Imperialism in China, and next Japan Imperialism, then last about Imperialism European Imperialism in Africa.
The Industrial Revolution started in Britain helping the country to its power in the nineteenth century. The revolution then spread through most of Europe as well as to Japan, and to the country that eclipsed Britain first as the most industrialized, the United States.
More technology. Inventions the domestic system which had to do with cotton, the flying shuttle invented by John Kay in 1733, spinning jenny invented by John Hargreaves in 1764.Eli Whitney invented to cotton gin in 1793. Most significant invention was the steam engine. Steamship, steam-powered locomotive. Also the telephone, telegraph, airplane, radio, light bulb, internal combustion engine.
Then European Imperialism, in different countries. And Japanese Imperialism.
Political Developments in the Americas and Europe. American Revolution: The enlightenment had a huge impact because it not only helped to inspire the revolution itself but the type of government that was created after it succeeded. The mercantilism policies drove the American colonists nuts, as was the case in European colonies everywhere. French Revolution: It involved citizens rising up against their own country's leadership, the king was beheaded and the socio-political structure changed. Latin America was inspired by the success of the American Revolution and ideas of the French Revolution.
Industrial Revolution: Age of exploration, Rise of Nationalism, End of Slave Trade, The Enlightenment, Agricultural Revolution, Rise of the Marxism... theres more.
Women. With all the dramatic changes in the nineteenth century it was a low-point in women rights. They were heavily restricted with few freedoms.
Some important people. Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian nationalist. Nicholas 2 reigned from 1894-1917. Prime Minster Peter Stolypin. Theodore Roosevelt known as Roosevelt Corollary. Prince von Metternich of Austria. Alexander 1 of Russia, Duke of Wellington of Britain.