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Toussaint Louverture
Toussaint Louverture was the leader of the Haitian Revolution. Louverture led to the establishment of the indpendent black state of Haiti. -
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James Watt perfects steam engine
The Watt Steam Engine was the first type of steam engine to make use of steam at a pressure to drive the piston helped by a vacuum. -
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Reign of King Louis XVI
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The American Revolution
The American Revolution was a political disagreement in which thirteen colonies joined together to break free from the British Empire, coming together to form the United States of America. -
Spinning Mule
The Spinning Mule was a machine was a machine used to spin cotton fibers in the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. -
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Simon Bolivar
Simon Bolivar was a Venezuelan military and political leader who played a crucial role in Latin America's struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire. -
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French Revolution
The French Revolution was fought in France in order for Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity in the region. -
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Haitian Revolution
The Haitian Revolution was a slave revolt in Saint-Domindue, which resulted in elimination of slavery. -
The Cotton Gin
The Cotton Gin is a machine that seperates cotton from their seeds, allowing a greater amount of time and less work than manual seperation. First created by Eli Whitney in 1793, the cotton gin was then finally finished with all the renovations one year later in 1794. -
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Reign of Napoleon
Napoleon I was an emporer of the French from 1804-1815. His legal reform has been a huge influence of many civil law cases worldwide, but he is mostly remembered for leading France through Napoleonic wars. -
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Wars of Independence in Latin America
The Latin American wars of Independence were the various revolutions that created a member of independence countries in Latin America. -
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Congress of Vienna
The Congress of Vienna was a conference of ambassadors of European states who settled the issues arising from the French Revolutionary wars, the Napoleonic wars, annd the Holy Roman Empire. -
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Opium War
The Opium war was a series of disputes over trade and diplomatic relations between China and the British Empire. -
Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto was a book laying out the League's purposes and program approaching in the class struggles and problems of capitalism. -
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Unification of Italy
The Italian unification was the movement which divided the different states of the Italian penesula into one state of Italy. -
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Taiping Rebellion
The Taiping Rebellion was a massive civil war in Southern China against the Qing Dynasty. -
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The Crimean War
The Crimean War was a conflict between the Russian Empire, the French Empire, and the kingdom of Sardinia. The war was fought for influence over territories of the Ottoman Empire. -
Sepoy Rebellion
The Sepoy Rebellion was a munity of the Sepoys by the rapid imposition of direct British control over two-thirds of India. -
The Suez Canal
The Suez Canal is an artificial seaway in Egypt connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. This port allows transportation by water between Europe and Asia without going around Africa. -
Origin of Species
The Origin of Species was a scientific book written by Charles Darwin showing the foundation of evolutionary biology. -
Emancipation of Russian Serfs
The Emancipation Reform in Russia was the most important liberal reform effecting the reign of Alexander II. The reform acted to amount to the liquidation of serf dependence. -
Unification of Germany
The formal Unification of Germany took place at the Versailes Palace in France. -
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Boer War
The Boer War was a series of two wars fought by the British Empire against the Dutch establishing their independence. -
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The Berlin Conference
The Berlin Conference regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New imperialism period and happened at the same time as Germany's emergence as an imperial power. -
The Bessemer Process
The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the production of steel from pig iron by Henry Bessemer. -
Indian National Congress Founded
The Indian National Congress proved the struggle against British colonial rule in India. -
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Meiji Restoration
The Meiji Restoration was a chain of events that restored imperial power to Japan under Emporer Meiji. -
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Boxer Rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion was an anti-foreign movement by the Yinetuan in China opposing foreign imperialism and Christianity. -
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Russo-Japanese War
The Russo-Japanese War was the forst great war of the twentieth century, fighting over a warm water port on the Pacific ocean. -
All-India Muslim League
All-India Muslim League was a political party which idolized the creation of a seperate Muslim-majority nation, Pakistan. The goal was to define and advance Muslim agendas, protect Muslim rights in India, and present a unified Muslim voice to the British Raj. -
Henry Ford & The Assembly Line
The Assembly Line is a manufacturing process were interchangable parts are added to a product quicker than manual labor. Henry Ford put the assembly line into his work in 1913. -
Panama Canal
The Panama Canal was built so ships wouldn't have to sail around South America to get from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean.
