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Enlightment
The Enlightenment was a time in Europe, mostly England where, philosphers or philosphes would ponder things like society, government, and economy.Many of the ideas they came up wqith are used today. In some places, including the United States, Volitaire's belief that people should have freedom of religion ands freedom of speech is used. Also, the United States sets up their government in a seperation of powers, which was one of Montesquie's ideas. -
Formation of the National Assembly (French Revolution)
In the Old Regime, which was the way things were run before the National Assembly was created, they way Frecnh officials would solve issues was thriught the Estates General.Each of the three estates would have representative and they would all vote on issues. Only the 1st and 2nd estates would always gang up on the 3rd estate so they almost never got a fair vote. Because of this, the 3rd estate decided to create their opwn party called the National Assembly to slove their own issues. -
Tennis Court Oath (French Revolution)
In the Old Regime, the way the French kings used to settle out problems was the Estates General. But if method was very flawed and eventually the 3rd estate created their own political group called the National Assembly. One day, King Louis XVI had locked the National Assembly out of their normal meeting place. Because of this, they marched to a local tennis court and vowed to not stop meeting until their new constitution had been written. -
Boukman Revolt (Haitian Revolution)
In the French colony of Saint Dominque, there was widespread unhappiness between the slaves and the free African affranchis because of their unfair treatment. One night a voodoo priest named Dutty Boukman got a group of unhappy slaves and revolted the French. This is what historians believed was the start of the Haitian Revolution -
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Reign of Terror (French Revolution)
A new group of political leaders emerged from this unorganized debacle and they were called the Jacobins. Thewir leader was Maximillion Robespierre. They called themselves the Committee of Public Safety and vowed to keep France safe by killed by guillotine, all enemies of the state. This method of keeping people safe was not very effective and many people were murdered during this time. -
Rise of Napoleon (French Revolution)
After this very messy time in France, a very powerful general named Napoleon Bonaparte came to power. He had been a general during the Reign of Terror and a very successful one at that. He came into power by a coup d'etat. He made a lot of very good reforms for France including the Napoleonic Code. -
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Peninsular War (French Revolution)
In one of Napleon's many conquestds to take other England and rule the world, he wanted to get to Portugual because they were interferring with his already disappionting Continental System. The only flaw with that plan was, to get to Portugual, Napoleon would have to cross through Spain. Spain would not allow Napoleon to set up camp in Spain, but Napoleon decided to would be a good idea to do it anyway. This led to a full out war with Spain leaving Napoleon with a lot less troops than before. -
Congress of Vienna (French Revolution)
Napoleon was creating wide spread cauos throughout Europe with his attempts at defeating England so the rest of Europe had to do something. They all met in Vienna and discussed ways to fix the mess Napoleon started, They came up with a balance of powers between the European nations and limited France's power greatly. Ths weakend France but was overall beneficial to the other European countries. -
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Opium War (Imperialism)
For a very long time, China had been a sulf-saufficient country who traded with no other countires. Then soon England lured them into trading because of the narcotic produced in India called, Opium. After a while, almost the whole country was addicted to it and England was smuggling it in after the trading of it had bedcome illegal. The Chinese government wanted to completely stop the trading of Opium because it was greatly weakening their country. In the end, England won the war, -
The Treaty of Nanjing (Imperialism)
This treaty marked the end of the Opium war and was between China and England. It was the first of many unequal treaties China would sign with foreign trading countries. This treaty resulted in five port cities , Amoy, Canton, Shanghai, Fuchow, and Ningpo to be opened to trade with the United Kingdom and later, the United States and France. -
Treaty of Kangawa (Imperialism)
Like China, for a very long time Japan was selfsufficient, This also meant that they had not been exposed to many of the new technological advancements that the rest of the world had been. This made it very easy for the United States to demand the Japanese sign this treaty. It stated that Japan had to allow the United States to mae an embassay there and that they would have to open up a trading port for the United States. -
Sepoy Mutiny (Imperialism)
When the British East India company took over India, practically all of the population was either Muslim or Hindu. In both of those religions, eating pork and beef in any shape or form is against the religion. When the British East India Company fought, the cartridges used to hold the gunpowder was cased in either pork or beef fat. This outraged the Sepoys, who were the Indian people fighting for Britian and caused them to revolt, starting the Sepoy Mutiny. -
Meiji Era (Imperialism)
The Meiji Era or the Meiji Restoration took place between 1868-1912 in Japan. This was when Japan's emporer Mushuito ruled. During this time, Japan industrialized and modernized to eventually became powerful enough to defeat Russia for control of Mnachuria, an area in Korea. -
Berlin Conference (Imperialism)
As a result of new advances in technology, European countries were able to explore the interior of Africa which had never been done before. After all of the nations saw all of value that Africa had, they wanted to all set up colonies. Most of the European nations met in Berlin, Germany to disscuss the splitting of Africa into colonies. All of the nations at the conference got a piece of Africa to use as a colony. coincidentally, there was no represntation of any African nations at the confere -
Boxer Rebellion (Imperialism)
With the growing amount of Chinese nationalism, China banded together to get the foreign influence out of China. In a process that took from 1899-1901, Chian was soon free from their unfair treaties and the trading ports they were forced to open, This later led to China becoming one to the fast growing industrial powers in the world.