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1526
The Mughal Empire
Empire that contained Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs. They granted exclusive rights to the British in exchange for exotic and rare goods. But the sad decline of the Mughals began with a religious conflict which happened between the Muslims and Hindus and resulted in infighting and a divided empire. -
Enlightenment thinker Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbs was an enlightenment thinker that believed that people were selfish and greedy from birth. He also believed in absolute monarchy to control the people from being selfish and greedy. He wanted to give up freedom to be safe from mans evil nature. -
Gunpowder Plot
Guy Fawkes and his friends were Catholics and felt like the King treated them unfairly. They plotted to blow up the Houses of Parliament while the king was inside. Guy fawkes put 36 barrels of gunpowder in a cellar to blow up the king but got caught inside of the cellar by the soldiers. -
Guy Fawkes Day Celebration
King James created a holiday for Guy Fawkes. On this day People in Britain would burn statues of Guy Fawkes to celebrate the king surviving .This day is in remembrance of the gunpowder plot -
Charles 1 signs petition of rights
Parliament got fed up with Charles 1 and refused to give him money unless he signed petition of rights. The petition of rights made the king not able to jail without reason, make taxes without parliament, and can force soldiers into peoples homes. This caused the English civil war. -
Enlightenment Thinker John Locke
John Locke was an enlightenment thinker that believed people were born innocent from birth. He believed all people have life, liberty, and justice. He also believed government have full responsibility to protects its people -
English civil war
Charles 1 was angry at parliament and decided not to call them for 11 years until he needed money. Then a war broke out between the Cavaliers (supported the king) and the Roundheads (supported Parliament. The roundheads won and then publicly executed King Charles. That was the first public execution of a king. -
Enlightenment thinker Voltaire
Voltaire was an enlightenment thinker that believed in freedom of speech. He wrote using satire attacked injustice among nobility, government, and church. He created enemies and was imprisoned twice. -
John Newton
He was a preacher but before he was a preacher he was the captain of an English slave trade ship. His dad took him to the sea at age 11. His dad retired and then he worked on a Mediterranean merchant ship. On a trip he was captured and forced to join the Royal Navy. He tried to escape and was tortured. He then became the captain of a slave ship. One night the ship started to sink. He prayed to God to save him. His saved him and he turned his life around to be preacher. He wrote Amazing Grace. -
Olaudah Equiano
Has born in Nigeria and he and his sister were kidnapped by another tribe when he was 11 years old, and sold to white slave traders who put him on a ship for the Americas. He bought his freedom from slave master Mr. King and stayed in England before becoming and abolitionist. He spoke out against English slave trade and called attention to the song tragedy. He worked to resettle freed slaves in Sierra lane and wrote the first slave narrative and first book in England that was by African American -
Samuel Slater
He learned about how the Americans had interest in developing machines that were similar to what he was working with. He memorized everything and left for the US. The UK labeled him as slater the traitor because he brought British textile tech to America. He also modified it for the US use. He became known as the Father of American Industrial Revolution. -
Lin Tse-Hsu
He wanted to end the Opium trades one made 2 proposals. Addicted would be rounded up, forcibly treated, and taken off the habit. Domestic drug dealers were harshly punished, often with execution. Hi final objective was to confiscate foreign stores to agree to never trade Opium or be punished. -
The October Days
The king was thought to be surrounded by evil advisors. His family was forced to move to Paris. They stayed at Tuileries place as virtual prisoners. -
Meeting of estates general
This was an event where 3 representatives from each estate gathered up to resolve problems with France. The considered placing a temporary tax on 2nd estate. 3rd estate also demanded that voting be by population because 1st and 2nd estate did a bloc on the 3rd so they couldn't get what they wanted. -
Tennis Court Oath
This event was when the 3rd estate declared itself a national assembly. Louis XVI locked the 3rd estate out of the meeting. The 3rd estate relocated to a local tennis court and vowed to make a written constitution for France where they could vote by population. -
Storming of the Bastille
The French people were tired of being forced around by the King. The stormed the Bastille in search for gunpowder so they could defend themselves. 18 died, 73 wounded, 7 guards killed. -
March of the Women
There was spontaneous demonstration of Parsian women for bread. They decided to storm the palace of Versailles. The guards were overwhelmed and the king had to come back to France. -
Napoleon as first consul
Napoleon launched a successful coup'd etat. He crowned himself emperor. He proclaimed the name first consul after Julius ceasar. -
Concordat of 1801
Napoleon wanted to heal divisions with the church. He made catholicism the main religion of Frenchmen. Even though Napoleon wanted to just use the clergy to his regime. -
The Louisianna purchase
Napoleon sold Louisiana territory to America for $15,000,000. He did this because he couldn't profit from carribean due to slave revolts. He needed to pay off foreign war debt. He also thought it might be positive to help america grow. -
Dr David Livingstone
Dr David Livingstone was the first white an to one toAfrica to do humanitarian and religious work. He discovered Victoria Falls but didn’t find the sources of the Nile River. He believed if he could solve the sources of the Nile River, then it would have an influence to end the East African Slave trade. -
Louis Pasteur and the Germ theory
Louis Pasteur was the man who linked germs to disease. He accidentally made a discovery in 1857, he wanted to know why sugar beet soured unexpectedly. He proved it and said that the sugar beet soured because of the germs carried by the air. -
The Iron Horse Race
There was a race between a real horse and an iron horse(train). The horse won because the train had technical problems. Even though the train malfunctioned people saw potential in the train. People still don't know if this race actually happened. -
Reform Bill of 1832
The only people who could vote at the beginning of the period were male landowners. The reform bill relaxed the property requirements so men of the middle class could also vote. The number of men who could vote increased but many could still not vote. More men wanted to vote so this led to the chartist movement. -
Sadler’s Interviews
Sadler introduced a bill in parliament to limit hours to 10 for all workers under age 18. Parliament did not want to pass Sadler’s Bill. In April 1832 it was agreed that parliament should look into child labor. Sadler was made a chairman and for three months they interviewed 48 people who worked in the textile factories as children. -
Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria was the ruler of Great Britain from 1837-1901. She took the crown at 18 and her reign lasted 63 years. She was the longest lasting ruler of any British Monarch until Queen Elizabeth II -
The Opium War
Opium was being traded to China and people were getting addicted. China made the Opium trade illegal but the British would still carry on with the trade. The trade would continue to make China a country of drug addicts until a Man named Lin Tse-Hsu had a plan -
Sir Henry Stanley
He was a welsh journalist and explorer. He famously found Dr. Livingstone since Livingstone had been out of contact with the west for 6 years and was believed to be dead. When he was exploring central Africa he would keep asking, “De Livingstone, I presume?” -
Robert Koch
He wanted to take Louis Pastuer’s work a step further by linking particular germs to particular diseases. In 1875 he identified a microbe for anthrax. He realized that some microscopes were not powerful enough to see the microbes. He found out a way to stain the microbes with dyes to calculate their life span and rates of reproduction. -
Crystal Palace exhibition
Its purpose is to show off all the new inventions and innovations coming from the British empire. It was a lot of motivation for Britain to make clear to the world its role as industrial leader. It was burned down in 1936. -
London Necropolis Company
The London Necropolis Company had trains that were used to transport bodies and had different sections based on religion and social class. Between 1854 and 1874, the cemetery would average only 3,200 burials a year which was 6.5 percent of London deaths. After a raid in World War II, the train got badly damaged and the company was never reopened again. -
Sepoy Mutiny
Soldiers were upset because they were supposed to use the Lee-Enfield rifle which they would have to bathe the tip off the cartridges. Those we’re dipped in animal fat. Cow was a sacred animal so they refused to do this and in Late March 1857 one of them went as far as going to rebel by attacking British officers at the military garrison. But those who refused ultimately were given long prison terms. -
The Great Stink of 1858
A heatwave in London in July and August of 1858 speeded the smell of untreated human and industrial waste that filled the river Thames. The river was a main source of drinking water and it led to multiple outbreaks of the illness cholera. Parliament moved into their current building. They hated the smell and wanted to fix the problem so civil engineer Joesph Bazalgetete was hired to overhaul the sewer system to improve the situation. They took out the sewege from Thames. -
Wright Brothers Fly
The Wright brothers Orville and Wilbur flew a gasoline powered machine for 59 seconds at Kitty Hawk North Carolina. They created the first working Plane and were the pioneers for the aircraft industry. They were both from Dayton, Ohio. -
The Model ‘T’ Ford
Henry Ford wanted to build a car that everyone could afford. People said it was slow, ugly, and hard to drive. It’s price never increased, in 1909 it was $1200. In 1928, it was only $295. They only produced the car in the color black. -
Reform Act of 1928
During this act, it gave women over 21 the right to vote and own property without a man. Before this act only women over 30 were able to vote. This act was the start of trying to get equality with women and men.