The Emergence of industrial Society in the West.
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| 56655919 | Population Revolution | A huge growth in the population in Western European beginning about 1730. It was a prelude to the Industrial Revolution. The population of France increased 50 percent, and England and Prussia increased 100 percent. | 0 | |
| 56655920 | Proto-industrialization | Preliminary shift away from an agricultural economy. Workers became full or part-time producers who worked at home in a capitalist system in which materials, work, orders, and sales depended on urban merchants. Prelude to the Industrial Revolution. | 1 | |
| 56655921 | Louis XVI | King of France (1774-1792). In 1789 he summoned the Estates-General, but he did not grant the reforms that were demanded and revolution followed. Louis and his queen, Marie Antoinette, were executed in 1793. | 2 | |
| 56655922 | Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen | This French document enacted natural rights to liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression. Made during the beginning of the French Revolution. | 3 | |
| 56655923 | Napoleon Bonaparte | Overthrew French Directory in 1799 and became emperor of the French in 1804. Failed to defeat Great Britain and abdicated in 1814. Returned to power briefly in 1815 but was defeated and died in exile. | 4 | |
| 56655924 | Congress of Vienna | Meeting of representatives of European monarchs called to reestablish the old order after the defeat of Napoleon. | 5 | |
| 56655925 | Greek Revolution | Rebellion in Greece against the Ottoman Empire in 1820; key step in gradually dismantling the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans. | 6 | |
| 56655926 | Reform Bill of 1832 | Legislation passed in Great Britain that extended the vote to most members of the middle class; failed to produce democracy in Britain. | 7 | |
| 56655927 | Chartist Movement | Attempt by artisans and workers in Britain to gain the vote during the 1840s; demands for reform beyond the Reform Act of 1832 were incorporated into a series of petitions; movement failed. | 8 | |
| 56655928 | Revisionism | A movement that argued that Marx's revolutionary vision was wrong and that success could be achieved by peaceful democratic means. | 9 | |
| 56655929 | Feminist Movement | Sought various legal and economic gains for women, including equal access to professions and higher education and the right to vote. It won support particularly from middle-class women. It arose by the 1900's in Western Europe. | 10 | |
| 56655930 | Triple Alliance | An alliance system formed by Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy prior to Wold War I. | 11 | |
| 56655931 | Triple Entente | An alliance system formed by Britain, Russia and France prior to World War I. | 12 |
