Mueggenborg Timeline Project: Unti 4

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    Industrial Revolution

    During this time, life changed as technology and culture was transformed by machinery and many inventions
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    Watt's Steam Engine

    Improved the Newcomen engine

  • Spinning Jenny

    Device invented which reduced work when producing yarn

  • Water Frame

    Device that runs on water, reducing the amount of work needed to power a spinning frame

  • Invention of the Telegraph

    Early experiments of telegraphy was in the early 1800s in which people could communicate electrically
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    Toussaint L'Ouverture

    Leader of Haitian Revolution

  • Whitney's Cotton Gin

    Device that removes seeds from cotton, which drecreased labor

  • Britain outlaws Slave Trade

    Even though they were the largest slave traders at the time, they outlawed the slave trade for many political and economical reasons

  • Mexican Independence

    Revolts against the Spanish government leading to the independence of Mexico
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    Brazilian Independence

    War of Brazil against the Portuguese for independence
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    Greek Independence

    War of Greece against the Ottoman Empire
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    Afrikaners' Great Trek

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    First Opium War

    War between the United Kingdom and the Qin Dynasty over political conflicts

  • Revolutions in Austria, Germany, hungary, and Italy

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    Taiping Rebellion

    War between the Qin Dynasty and Taiping rebels, led by Hong Xiuquan who wanted to spread Christianity and overthrow Qing Dynasty, but failed
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    Crimean War

  • Commodore Matthew Perry in Japan

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    Second Opium War

    War between the Britain and French Empires against the Qin Dynasty over political conflicts, including opium trade

  • Sepoy Rebellion

  • Britain Takes Over India

  • Emancipation of the Russian serfs

  • Meiji Restoration

  • Suez Canal

  • End of Atlantic Slave Trade

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    Boxer Rebellion

  • African National Congress

  • Overthrow of Qing Dynasty

  • Panama Canal