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This transition included going from hand production methods to machines, beginning in Britain and spreading to Western Europe and the US
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In France, the National Assembly was a transitional body between the Estates-General and the National Constituent Assembly.
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A slave revolt in the French colony of Saint-Dominique, which culminated in the elimination of slavery and the founding of the Haitian republic.
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The pace of industrialization quickened in Britain. More people could afford to heat their homes, eat better and wear better clothing.
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Napoleon Boneparte crowned himself emperor at Notre Dame de Paris.
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The Mexican war of independance was achieved through means of uprising and revolution.
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Opened the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade and permitted the establishment of a US consulate in Japan
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Declared that all slaves in the confederate states were free - issued by Abraham Lincoln.
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Women organized reform societies and protested unfair laws and customs until they gained equal rights. The declaration stated: "we hold these truths to be self evident, that all men and women are created equal."
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Regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period.
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The end result of Boers trying to keep outsiders from gaining political rights. An attempt to start a rebellion against the Boers failed. Boers blamed the British, so they took up arms against them.
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An anti-foreign , proto-nationalist movement by the Righteous Harmony Society in China, opposing foreign imperialism and Christianity.
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The political objective of the assassination was to break off Austria-Hungary's south-slav provinces so they could be combined into a Greater Serbia or a Yugoslavia.
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An art movement of the European avant-garde, which began in Zurich, Switzerland and later spread to Berlin.
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When Czar Nicholas II dragged 11 million peasants into WWI, the Russian people became discouraged with their injuries and the loss of life they sustained. The country of Russia was in ruins, ready for revolution.
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Also known as World War 1, was a global war centered in Europe. It involved all the world's greates powers, which were assembled in two opposing alliances: The Allies and The Central Powers.
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The Great War brought on incredible improvements in aircraft. By 1918, planes could fly hundreds of miles. International air travel became an objective after the war.
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During his early days, Joseph Stalin changed his name from Dzhugashivili to Stalin, which means "man of steel" in Russian. From 1922 to 1927, Stalin began his climb to the head of the government. By 1928, he was in total command of the communist party.
