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period of great progress in Europe and America. |
Age of industry |
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all work is a noble duty to be performed toward God |
Protestant work ethic |
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Invented the seed drill |
Jethro Tull |
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Invented the steel plow |
John Deere |
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invented the Reaper |
Cyrus McCormick |
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people were employed to produce manufactured goods in a systematic way for wages |
Factory system |
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Invented the flying shuttle |
John Kay |
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invented the spinning Jenny |
James Hargreaves |
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invented the spinning mule |
Samuel Crompton |
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Invented the Cotton gin |
Eli Whitney |
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developed the steam engine |
James Watt |
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invented the miners safety lamp |
Sir Humphry, Davy |
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invented the process of making iron into steel |
William Kelly |
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Sailing vessels, known for tremendous speed on the high seas |
Clipper ships |
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Built the first steamship |
Robert Fulton |
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Built the first steam power locomotive |
George Stephenson |
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developed the first modern automobiles |
Karl Benz and Henry Ford |
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invented and perfected the electric telegraph |
Samuel Morse |
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Laid the first successful transatlantic telegraph cable |
Cyrus field |
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invented the first telephone |
Alexander Graham Bell |
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proposed the atomic theory |
John Dalton |
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Developed the first vaccine |
Edward Jenner |
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developed germ theory of disease |
Louis Pasteur |
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The greatest inventor in history |
Thomas Edison |
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Introduced the use of antiseptics to fight germs after surgery |
Joseph Lister |
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economic system, in which there is private ownership of the means of production |
Capitalism |
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Spanish colonies given to the US after they won the Spanish war |
Cuba and Philippines |
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in the oil industry |
John D Rockefeller |
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in the steel industry |
Andrew Carnegie |
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In the banking industry |
J P Morgan |
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Wrote the wealth of nations |
Adam Smith |
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Prime Minister during the French revolution |
William Pitt |
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Founded the London metropolitan police force |
Robert Peeler |
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Longest ruling monarch in English history |
Victoria |
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The first world’s fair |
Great exhibition |
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Jewish Prime Minister |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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known as the grand old man |
William Gladstone |
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Prince of preachers |
Charles Spurgeon |
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Great American evangelist that had a big impact on the people of Victorian Britain |
D L Moody |
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Moodys song Leader |
Ira Sankey |
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Famous cricket player, who became a missionary |
C T studd |
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founded the China inland mission |
J Hudson Taylor |
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Invented the first rickshaw |
Jonathan Goble |
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Best known for founding orphanages |
George Muller |
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Began the Salvation Army single-handedly created the modern nursing |
William Booth |
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Single-handedly created the modern nursing profession |
Florence nightingale |
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Why Britain expanded her empire |
Gold God and glory |
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Britain joined France and Sardinia to stop Russia’s attempts to assert It’s dominance over turkey. |
Crimian war |
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Made Canada a self-governing Commonwealth |
British North America act |
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Rebellion that caused the British to take complete control of India |
Sepoy rebellion |
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means farmer |
Boers |
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increased Australia’s population by 800% |
Australian gold rush |
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Founded the Fabian society |
George Bernard Shaw |
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introduced dialectic thinking |
G W F hegel |
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political disorder and violence |
Anarchy |
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Taught his philosophy idealism |
Immanuel Kant |
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false idea that God is not separate from nature, but that nature is God |
Pantheism |
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Matternich’s four Fold plan |
restoring royal families, encircling France with stable monarchies, compensating each country for any land it lost in the redrawing of natural boundaries, and establishing a new balance of power among European nations |
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spaniards born in the colonies |
Creoles |
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Latin Americans of mixed Spanish and Indian ancestry |
Mestizos |
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Two causes of the July revolution |
Unstable government of a multiparty system, and they refused to support Charles Xs autopratic program |
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Organized young Italy |
Mazzini |
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Organized the red shirts |
Garibaldi |
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first king of United Italy |
Victor, Emmanuel 2 |
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Unified Germany |
Otto von Bismarck |
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emperor of united Germany |
King wilhelm |