329440402 | George Stephenson | Built the first steampowered locomotive. | 0 | |
329440403 | Robert Fulton | Built the first steamship in the 1820s. | 1 | |
329440404 | Eli Whitney | Invented the cotton gin, thereby allowing massive amounts if cotton to be quickly processed in the Americas and exported to Europe. | 2 | |
329440405 | The Telegraph | Invented in 1837 by Samuel Morse. Allowed people to communicate across great distances within seconds. | 3 | |
329720471 | The Telephone | Invented in 1876 by Alexanader Graham Bell. | 4 | |
329720472 | The Lightbulb | Invented in 1879 by Thomas Edison. | 5 | |
329720473 | The Radio | Invented in the 1890s by Marconi Guglielmo. | 6 | |
329720474 | Charles Darwin | developed the concept of evolution by means of natural selction. | 7 | |
329750073 | Social Darwinists | Applied Charles Darwin's biological theory of natural selction to sociology. | 8 | |
329750074 | Sino-French War | When the rising imperial power of Japan wanted in on the action. | 9 | |
329750075 | karl Marx | A German economist and philosopher who spent a good part of his life living in poverty. | 10 | |
329750076 | Social Mobility | The ability of a person to workhis way up from one social class to th next became more commonplace. | 11 | |
329750077 | Robert Clive | Raised an effective army that ridded the subcontinent of the French. | 12 | |
329750078 | Factory Act of 1883 | Which limited the hours of each workday, restricted children from working in factories. | 13 | |
329750079 | The Airplane | Invented in 1903 by Orville and Wilbur Wrights. | 14 | |
329750080 | The Internal Combustion Engine | Invented in 1885 by Gottlieb Daimler. | 15 | |
329750081 | Treaty of Shimonoseki | China was forced to hand over controlof Taiwan and grant the Japanaese trading rights similar to those it had granted Europe. | 16 | |
329750082 | Trade Union | Is a union for trading. | 17 | |
329750083 | Wage labor | Is how workers get paid. | 18 | |
329750084 | Nationalism | Loyalty and pride in ones country. | 19 |
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