why+1750+--1914?

Dixie Burns

Why do historians use this time period (1750 to 1914)? What sets it apart from other time periods?

This time period is set apart from the others because it was during this time that enlightenment ideas inspired revolutionary movements and areas of the world were gaining political independence and starting to reform. Also, during this time period (toward the end) is when nationalism began to develop.

during the beginning of this time period is when people started to make inventions that would contribute to the industrial revolution.
 * 1779: Britain: First cast-iron bridge
 * 1782: James Watt develops double-acting //steam engine//
 * 1793: United States: Eli Whitney invents cotton gin
 * 1825: Britain: First public railroad
 * 1834: United States: Samuel Colt invents revolver
 * 1837: Britain: Wheatstone and Cooke invent electric telegraph
 * [[image:http://grahamten.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/cotton-gin.jpg]]COTTON GIN

later in during this time period there were also scientific discoveries and thoughts. Also the opening of the panama canal, which had a part in the growing power of Europe over other industrialized places.
 * 1897: Britain: J. J. Thomson discovers electron
 * 1900: Germany: Max Planck forms quantum theory
 * 1905: United States: Albert Einstein proposes first theory of relativity
 * 1908: United States: Henry Ford begins manufacture of Model T, develops assembly-line production

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during this time was also when there were many revolutions going on. Revolutions (United States, France 1789, Haiti, Mexico, China) and restorations and new ideas that formed afterward such as Meiji Restoration, Marxism, and Social Darwinism.

1850-1914 --Industrial development continued after 1850, bringing new social changes. Political unification came to Germany and Italy. Governments elsewhere developed new functions. The rise of socialism changed political conditions in many places.

Nationalism emerged as a result of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Atlantic revolutions and then quickly spread to many parts of the world,

Example : "In 1898, a group of Chinese rebels, angered by the steady takeover of the Chinese empire by foreigners and Chinese Christians, began attacking Christian missionaries and others in the northeastern part of the country. The “Boxer” uprisings, as they were called.."

During this time period there were also movements for women's rights and such.

http://sparkcharts.sparknotes.com/history/worldhistory/section14.php

http://www.mrpiersonsclass.com/files/AP_World_History_Chapter_23_Summary.pdf