Period 5 Timeline

Toussaint was a freed slave leader of the mulattos and Blacks. He won control of Saint Domingue in the only successful revolution led by slaves anywhere in the world; was captured and died in prison but in 1803 Saint Domingue proclaimed its independence under the name Haiti.

King Louis XVi was an absolute monarch of France at the start of the French Revolution, known for his unfavorable policies After yielding power to the revolutionary National Assembly, he was overthrown. He was later executed, along with his wife, Queen Marie Antoinette, during the Reign of Terror.

He was a South American Revolutionary leader. Said to be the most important military leader in the struggle for independence in South America. Born in Venezuela, he led military forces there and in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Political problems prevented Bolivar from achieving his dream because South America was ungovernable.

Napoleon ruled France with almost unchecked power. He brought political stability to France after the French Revolution. During his reign Established the Napoleonic Code.

The Suez Canal was a ship canal built across the isthmus of Suez in Egypt, designed by Ferdinand de Lesseps. It opened to shipping in 1869 and shortened the sea voyage between Europe and Asia. Its strategic placement led to the British conquest of Egypt in 1882.

The United States built the Panama Canal to have a quicker passage to the Pacific from the Atlantic and vice versa. It cost $400,000,000 to build. Columbians did not allow Americans to build the canal, but then with the assistance of the United States a Panamanian Revolution occurred. The new rullers allowed the United States to build the canal.

The politicalorganization that followed the destruction of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868, in which a collection of young leaders set Japan on the path of centralization, industrialization, and imperialism.

The most destructive civil war in China before the twentieth century. A Christian-inspired rural rebellion threatened to topple the Qing Empire. The leader claimed to be the brother of Jesus.

The most important reform following the Crimean War. This measure was extremely complicated and required serfs to pay for their land. Serfs were freed and allowed to buy land, but too poor to do so.

Known as The Boxer Uprising, this was the popular peasant uprising in China (supported nationally), that blamed foreign people and institutions for the loss of the traditional Chinese way of life. "Boxers" were traditionally skilled fighters that attacked Westerners, beginning with Christian missionaries.

A conference in which 12 delegates from European states, USA, and the Ottoman Empire devised ground rules for African Colonization and rid some rules and laws. They decided that each power had to notify others of "claims" each claim filled by "effective occupation".

The Congress of Vienna was a meeting of representatives of European monarchs called to reestablish the old order after the defeat of Napoleon.

A movement/ political party founded to demand greater Indian participation in government. It was made up of the middle class, and its demands were modest until World War I. Led after 1920 by Mahatma. Gandhi, appealing to the poor.

Political organization founded in India in 1906 to defend the interests of India's Muslim minority. It was led by Muhammad Ali, it attempted to negotiate with the Indian National Congress. It also demanded the partition of a Muslim Pakistan.

Problems arose due to divisions and small city states being rivals In 1860, ally of Mazzini, recruited volunteers and won control of Sicily. Afterwards, Garibaldi turned Naples and Sicily over to Victor Emmanuel. Last, Italy becomes a united nation, which it hadn't been since the fall of the Roman Empire.

It began, led by Otto von Bismarck and included the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 that removed Austria from German politics and resulted in North German Confederation and legalization of Bismarck's previous spending; it ended in war with France.

James Watt was a Scottish engineer who created the steam engine that worked faster and more efficiently than earlier engines, this man continued improving the engine, inventing a new type of governor to control steam pressure and attaching a flywheel.

Samuel Crompton combined the spinning jenny and the water frame to create a machine which produced a thread that was stronger, thinner and more consistent

Invented by Eli Whitney in 1793. It removed seeds from cotton fibers 50 times faster than doing ti by hand. Now cotton could be processed quickly and cheaply. As a result, more cotton was grown and more slaves are needed for more acres of cotton fields.

It was an industrial process for making steel using a Bessemer converter to blast air through through molten iron and thus burning the excess carbon and impurities, helped produce steel more quickly and cheaply.

Henry Ford was a factory owner famous for his Model T. He developed the assembly line, which quickened production in factories, as well as the Model T. The new assembly lines made production a lot faster and easier to make a large quantity of items.