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© Teachers’ Curriculum Institute Era Overview: An Age of Global Revolutions, 1700s–1914 1 PLACARD A Political Revolutions The first major battle of the American Revolution was the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775. Although the British won the battle, their losses were heavy. This gave the inexperienced Americans hope that they could match the mighty British.
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The first major battle of the American Revolution was the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775. Although the British won the battle, their losses were heavy. This gave the inexperienced Americans hope that they could match the mighty British.
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The Hôtel de Ville (City Hall) was the focus of many uprisings in Paris. Here we see revolutionaries fighting for control of the Hôtel de Ville in 1789.
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Toussaint L’Ouverture and his men fighting the French in the colony of Saint-Domingue.
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Simón Bolívar led the Army of the North in revolutions against Spanish rule in South America. He became known as El Libertador, or The Liberator.
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In France, angry demonstrators took to the streets in protest. After King Louis Philippe sent the army to dispel the rioters, they moved to Tuileries Palace. Fearing civil war, the king abdicated the throne.
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Some of the Italian states were allowed to vote on unification. In 1860, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies voted to join Sardinia.
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Emperor Meiji, shown here, adopted some Western cultural ideas while retaining his Japanese culture. He wore European clothes and ate Western-style food, but he also composed thousands of poems in the traditional Japanese style.
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Chinese nationalists wanted foreigners out of their country. During the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, peasants targeted Christians and Western missionaries in an effort to drive them out of China.
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Masson Mills was a water-powered textile mill built by Richard Arkwright in 1783 in England. It continued to produce cotton fabrics until 1991, when it became a working textile museum.
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The Corris Railway was built in Wales in 1859 as a horse-hauled tram road, but steam locomotives arrived in 1878. This image is from 1899.
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The British industrialist Titus Salt built this woolen mill near Bradford, England, in 1853. One of the richest men in the region, he built an entire village for his workers in the countryside, away from the polluted city of Bradford.
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Children work at a textile mill in the state of Georgia around 1909. These child workers were so small they had to climb up on the spinning frame to mend broken threads and put back empty bobbins.
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This image from the late 1700s shows the warehouses built in Canton, China, by French, American, English, and Dutch companies.
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The French brought their optical telegraph system to Algeria. The arms on the post could be moved into different semaphore positions to send a message. Using telescopes, operators at stations 10 miles apart could read and relay messages across long distances.
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The Suez Canal was paid for by French investors and the Egyptian viceroy. Financial troubles led the viceroy to sell his shares in the canal to Great Britain in 1875, leaving the French and British in control of the canal.
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In 1911, the British monarchs King George V and Queen Mary traveled to India to celebrate their coronation. The nizam, or ruler, of the Indian state of Hyderabad pays homage to them in Delhi.
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