Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Chapter 16,17,18,19

Chapter 16)
The French Revolution made Chinese students from the Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989 to go and represent the revolutionary spirit at the 200th anniversary of the 1789 French Revolution
Moreover, the North American colonists they were conservatives by preserving their "benign neglect”  they elected assemblies, local taxation, free speech, free press, and self and also proclaimed equality against London's financial crackdown in 1765. Toward the end of the French & Indian Wars, England was left with a massive debt and new administrative costs in Canada. The colonists were the people who would have to pay the debt, plus new regulations to observe.
The war gave Napoleon Bonaparte the opportunity to take over government in 1799. In 1804, he  created the first French Empire and he left a tradition of constitutionalism, freedom, and liberty and equality and fraternity throughout Europe. Napoleon's troops brought revolutionary ideas wherever they marched, which in returns they had a lot of impact.
Columbus at first arrived on Bahamas in 1492 and on December 24th, 1492 he founded a city in Haiti and he called it La Navidad, he then claimed the entire island for Spain.  In 1697, became a rich French colony which exported sugar and coffee.  It was the richest colony in the world, exporting  40% of the world's sugar and coffee.  



Chapter 17)

The Industrial Revolution in United States, Russia, and Latin American countries. The Industrialization began in New England in the textiles and spread more after the Civil War. In 1914, US became the leading industrial power.
Even though they had successful local and national unions American workers had less class solidarity than their European colleagues.
The Middle Classes benefited most from industrialization. The workers populations, depending on the country, they got the low wages and working long hours.  However, unexpectedly opposition movements developed socialists, communists, suffragists, and environmentalists. Robert Owen a Christian Socialists  built a model of economic communities like New Lanark.
The Industrial Revolution, increased more production, employment, trade and the benefits of civilization to a majority of the world's population. It also increased global competition, developed uncontrolled swings of growth and depression, labor instability and insecurity, and social and cultural social disparities.

Chapter 18)


Western-educated Elite were the main beneficiaries in Asian and African lands colonized by Western powers. They schooled in the imperial power's language and practices, and they were moved into their country's professional classes. Between 1863-1902 Swami Vivekananda leading religious figure of 19th century India advocated rewind of Hinduism which the mission  was out to the spiritually impoverished West.Between 1857-1858 the Indian Rebellion had a Massive uprising much of India against British rule. They were also called them selves Indian Mutiny. The In the 19th century, cultivation System was a forced labor that was used in the Netherlands East Indies.  The peasants were also required to cultivate at least twenty percent of their land in cash crops, such as sugar or coffee. They were supposed to sale at a low and fixed prices to government contractors, who then returneded  enormous earning of profits.The Cash-Crop Agriculture was often on a large scale of crops that were sale in the market which was not for 

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