Not So Old Stuff

Not So Old Stuff

1750 to 1914

In Britain during the 19th century began the Industrial revolution
The reason for it was because people began to invent machines to help them do things better like plowing
Before this happened though people still used a system called the domestic system which was when they used labor intensive work to make the simplest things
In only 60 years Britain upped the way they made things and everything went from being made in someone's house to being made in mills
60 years later more advances were made in the industrial part of society
Also there were advances in medicine at the same time
Products that were being made in the factories were weapons, clothing, and toys, just a few of them
After Henry ford made the assembly line no one could be their own individual person because they had to do what they were asked or what they were making would not work
Children as young as 6 worked at the factories next to machinery, and they worked for 16 hour shifts
The factory conditions were terrible, air pollution and the machinery were constant dangers to the people
New social classes were formed, with the Rich people who owned the factories, the mangers, accountants, bankers ect., then the lower class which were the people who worked in the Factories and the peasant farmers
Men named Marx and Engles started something that would not go away for a long time, Marx laid the foundation for Communism which would get to Russia in the coming years
Many upper class men and women thought that the factory was not good for people to work in and they started to do something about it
Russia wanted to get rid of capitalism in factories entirely except America just wanted to change it a little bit
Britain passed a law that said that children were not allowed to work in factories so no more children got sick or died in factories in Britain
People started to go on strike because of the factory conditions, so factory managers made the factories better so their workers would stay
From 1900 to 1920 hundreds of thousands of immigrants came to the united states from Europe
During this time though Europe was using all the world's natural resources trying to make their products
Europeans took Darwin's idea to heart and thought they were the superior to all the other races and thought all other uncivilized
They also thought that they were supposed to make other people more civilized which meant that they were supposed to be more European
Britain and France fought each other finally after many years of bickering at each other back and forth
The British East India Trading Company fought along the edge of the French coast and hurt them terribly, in the end England won
Indians that were soldiers in the British army revolted against their leaders but failed horribly
England took over India immediately and Queen Victoria was the queen of 300 million Indians
Many Indians wanted freedom from their British suppressors, they were excepted to take up English attitudes and customs
China had quite the upset when British soldiers came into their country with guns and warships
Britain brought opium to china which in 30 years resulted in the first opium war, which china lost, then a decade or two later there was a second opium war, which China lost horribly
China lost a lot of land after that to other world powers, then America wanted to stay alive in the trade business made a deal with them
China had a rebellion but it was terribly and at the end they had to pay Europe and Japan for what had happened
Japan did not have anything to do with the outside world until an American came on a steam boat, the they started to trade with the rest of the world
Japan became a world power after they defeated the Russians in the Russo-Japanese war
Slaves in America went to Liberia and created their own nation after being slaves for hundreds of year
Africa wanted to get away from British rule so they made the African National Congress to End the rule
France after Napoleon got out of Africa stayed relatively quiet, but England and Italy raced to gain control of Africa
Britain came out on top and started to put Christian schools and Western business buildings, it changed the culture of Africa, after that it started to decline rapidly
The French and Indian war resulted in the French losing territory, and the British gained more territory to add to there large empire
England was not happy with the results because they lost so much money, so they started taxing the colonists which made the colonists made them unhappy
England sent in troops to America to take care of it but fighting broke out and 400 Americans and British died, the war began soon after
America lost many battles in the war until the French stepped in to help them then they soon took out the British army and won the war soon after
The French King had to call a meeting together because they were so much in debt after all of the wars they had been in
The estates of France meet at different times do decide different things, but never had they all meet at the same time
The third estate of France rebelled against the other two and eventually made the first modern nation state in 1789
Prussia and Austria invaded France but they held them back, but a new constitution was made because of it and the King was beheaded
In 1795 they made another constitution and got rid of the old one, and kept this one
Napoleon made the Napoleonic laws which was more towards men and not for women and children
There are still in use today they just have been changed due to the time period
France had a very large Empire, Napoleon made himself emperor and attacked Russia soon after
He was defeated and went back to france getting attacked along the way, he was forced into exile soon after by the leaders of the countries he had fought
The congress of Vienna as they were known then tried to wipe all history of Napoleon and the French revolution from the minds of the people
In Latin America slaves revolted against their French suppressors and won after a very bloody revolt and declared themselves the first independent nation of latin America
Spain kicked out the governor that Napoleon put on the throne and put a new one in that got the freedom for modern day Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela
But by 1820 it declared it self a nation without Spain
Mexico declared it's independence and executed the Spanish emperor and declared it self free from Spain
The countries of Latin America even though they were free were still dependent on Europe for trade
The Germanic countries and Italy were always in the center of wars but could do nothing about them until the second half of the 19th century
The only part of Italy that the Italians controlled was the kingdom of Sardinia
In 1870 Italy finally unified as one country after being separated for so long and being many little kingdoms
Germany united in 1871 and industrialized itself and began making weapons and steamships ect., by 1914 Germany was up to full strength
Russia over 50 years used secret police to squash rebellions but in the ned it did not matter the people of Russia revolted and the Romanov Dynasty came to an end
Britain and France kept the Ottoman Empire going because they didn't want Russia to control the territory and it eventually lead to so that England controlled Egypt
America did not want to be used for European aggression so they made a document that said that they could not when Monroe was President
Theodore Roosevelt made the Panama canal after Panama declared it's independence, and then defeated the Spanish in the Spanish-American war, then it was declared a world power
Some significant names are Henry Ford who made the first production line and arguably the first car, and got rid of individuality in the factories. But he started what would be the longest running car company in history. Napoleon furthered France's borders and made the first laws that France kept for more than 3 decades, they are still in effect today, because of his insights France is what it is today. Marx created communism which would led to Russia and would eventually start the cold war in later centuries, and would lay the foundations for many things to come. An significant event in history was when they invented better ways to plow and get seed, so people did not need to be in the sun and get heatstroke like they used to and there could be more people doing other things instead of just plowing or just seeding, it took less people to do the things that had taken tens of people to do in earlier years. Another is when England and France started the Hundred Years war, it lasted over one hundred years, it was very bloody and violent. But France finally won the war out and booted England out of their country, and finally declared independence. An idea of the period was that there were three classes Upper class, middle class, and lower class. Upper was always the richest while lower class was the poorest. There was also the idea that if your country did not trade then it would fall apart and wither away to nothing, if they kept to themselves then they would not be exposed to things that they might need to continue something, like research, or weapons, or industrialize. A major trend was that you had to be industrialized, if you weren't then you were not modern like the rest of the world was, every country went through a industrial age. It relates to the Period before because the countries thought if they had more power or more land then they would be better and unstoppable against the world. What was there most advanced technology? What did the wear? What did they use for transportation?