Period 5 (1750 - 1914)

Louveture was the Haitan who led the slave population and Maroons into revolution against slave owners on Haiti. He fought for the end to slavery against the Spainards, British and French. Napoleon's army captured him during the Haitan Revolution and he was deported, but the Revolution continued under Jean-Jacques Dessalines.

King Louis XVI never wanted to be a king or leader, he just liked hunting and eating. He was terribly with political affairs and economics which was terrible for the evermore troubling problems plauging France. Louis called the Estates General, but then pushed the third estate out and helped cause the French Revolution. The people forced him into not really ruling, sort of under house arrest in Paris. He and his family attempted to escape France but were caught and executed for treason.

A leader and fighter who wanted to make South America one country with states like the United States of America to the north. He travelled, aiding leaders in over-coming European overlords and setting up their own government while also combining together to create a South American country. He was ultimetly unsuccessful despite all this zeal and efforts. At the end of his life he was depressed and completely given up on a united South America seeing it as impossible to accomplish.

Napoleon was a brillient French military leader and tactician who took control from the Directory and eventually became emperor of France. He went on to build up French Nationalism and started invading other European countries drastically reorganizing Europe's boundries. When he was exiled, the second time, the remaining super powers of Europe shaped and set-up Europe for World War One. Napoleon's great accompishments while ruling were taking over many lands for France after its punishing revolution, building up nationalism and accumulating great works of art.

Inventor and businessman who created the model T car for mass production which gave every American the ability to purchase a car for a cheaper price. Ford utilized the assemly line to help quickly mass produce, while at the same time treating his workers a lot better than other businessmen and companies at the time. He was a leader in the Industrial Revolution and part of the new wealthy class in America.

The perfected steam engine made transporting raw materials, finished goods, and people much easier across land and sea, connecting long distances and opening seemingly bare, unhelpful lands, like Siberia, to the rest of the world (via Tran-Siberian Reailroad.) It was faster and more efficient than imperfect steam engines and helped fuel the tempo of the industrial revoultion.

Invented in 1779 by Samuel Crompton, the spinning mule made weaving in factories much faster for mass production of woven goods. It increased textile production and sales and added to the new inventions of the industrial revolution. Women now worked in factories with the spinning mule instead of being part of the out-putting system, this changed the dynamic of family life.

The Cotton Gin, invented by Eli Whitney, gave the Southern United States a huge boost in cotton production and made them a big supplier to the northern states and Great Britain. It inadvertantly made the issue of slavery more contested as more slaves were needed to fuel the cotton industry. This was a product of the industrial revolution and helped fuel factories in the northern United States producing textiles.

The Congress of Vienna was held in Vienna after Napoleon was captured and exiled the first time. The Congress was made up of representatives from all the major powers in Europe, Britain, Prussia, Austria, and Russia. They reinstated the monarchy in France and brought back most of the old ways while redistributing and reorganizing Europe after Napoleon's adventure. They did not do a very good job though as they all wanted a say in countries affairs, while Napoleon had actually stoked nationalism in minority groups and smaller powerless countries. Napoleon escaped while the Congress of Vienna was being held, but then was recaptured and sent away again.

The Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels was a book on how communism would work, the oppressing class structure system and how terrible capitalism was for the world. It is considered a hugely influencial book outlining Marx and Engels idea of communism and the eventual revolution.

The Bessemer process helped the Industrial Revolution in that it was a cheap way to manufacture steel by using "pig" iron. Henry Bessemer developed the process which increased steel manufacturing leading to business monopolies and hundreds of thousands of buildings being made with a steel infrastructure along with inproved trains and car parts.

Written by Charles Darwin, this book was part of the scientific revolution and a continuation of the humanization and enlightenment idea. This book explained the process of evolution, which made humans more normal and at the same time seperate from other animals. This signifies a start to balancing evolution with the belief in God.

A canal linking the Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea through Egypt. This canal was built to transport goods easily from the East Asias into Eastern Europe and eventually to Western Europe. The canal idea was put into action by Ferdinand de Lesseps, a French guy.

The emancipation of Russian serfs was decreed by Aexander II as he like his father Nicholas I believed American slavery was inhumane and by believing that, they could not allows Russians to also own serfs (slaves.") But conditions for freed serfs were terrible still. They may have been free, but suddenly they needed to pay taxs and usually ended up working for the nobles they had been freed from in the same conditions, or working in industrial revolution factories.

This event was called for by Portugal and set up by Otto von Bismark to try and regulate European colonization of Africa. But the conference really increased European countries attempts to grab, control and/or colonize parts of Africa. It is significant that Bismark organized the conference signifying Germany's rise as a major European power.

A group founded to try and keep or push out the British dealing wit Indian politics and economics. They fought for India's independence from Britian and turnd into a politicl party after succeeding in gaining freedom. This group was pivitol in the fight to be independent, it gave Indians one central area or people to gather around and become organized.

A canal which connects the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean to make it easier to transport goods by sea from Asia to the American east coast, Africa of Western Europe instead of travelling around Cape Horn. The Columbians first owned the canal and then by the French and then the Americans before eventually being owned by Panama.

An Indian group of made-up of Muslims who wanted to create a seperate Muslim-majority country. They were the minority in Hindu India and were not heard or suppressed by Hindu beliefs and society. They also went up against the British, united with other non-musim indians, to gain independence. And in 1947 they succeeded in creating the serperate Muslim country of Pakistan from north-western Indian territory.

Henry Ford developed the assembly line which had workers doing one task over and over and over again in the end coming up with a final product all the workers had contributed towards. This system was efficient and quick, the mass production of products was possible. Henry Ford used the assembly line with cars, but soon it became the way for most manufacturing factories to work their workers.