chap 1

By dizne

  • colonisation of east india

  • royal society

  • the hudson bay compagny

    After incorporation by English royal charter in 1670, the company was granted a right of "sole trade and commerce" over an expansive area of land

  • act of toleration

    freedom of worship to non conformists
    dissenting Protestants such as Baptists and Congregationalists

  • expiration of publication censorship

    newspapers in the province + london papers

  • half of mps followed their fathers

    and 1/3 clergy same
    + natural order of things

  • encouragement of art, of manufactures and commerce

  • british museum

  • lunar society

    les gens se rejoignent pour parler

  • invention of spinning jenny

  • royal academy of art

  • break from the church

    • méthodism

  • combination act

    prevent Unlawful Combinations of Workmen

  • 40% of slaves transported on british ships during 18th century

  • factory acts

  • gas light in factories

    work day lengthened
    factories operate 24/7

  • slave trade abolished

  • Period: to

    luddite rebelion

    not a rejection of progress but a reminder that society has to take care of workers

  • corn laws

    to protect aristocracy income, protectioniste measure

  • frankenstein mary shelley

    novels, scare the readers

  • factory acts

  • 1 newspaper is read by 30 people

  • repealing of combination act

    start of unionnisim

  • peak of british population

  • the salvery abolition act

  • the new poor law

  • water energy replaced by steam

    more efficient
    + hardwork replaced by powerloom : + production (but less work)

  • britain is the first country with 1/2 of its people living in cities

    london : 10% de brit pop

  • robert angus smith creats the term acid rain

    due to polution