An Age of Revolutions
in Europe and the Americas
(Volume E)
A New Vocabulary
“the ordinary man”
• factory
• middle class
• capitalism
• industry
• journalism
• liberal
• conservative
Industrial Revolution
• England
• end of an agricultural
economy
• colonization
• slavery
• cotton, textile industry
• factory working
conditions
Political Revolution: Democracy
• A government’s
power is derived only
from the consent of
the governed (p. 6).
• “Man is born free, yet
everywhere is in
chains” (Rousseau).
French Revolution
Reign of Terror
Napoleon
eEmperor, 1804
• self-crowned
• Battle of Waterloo,
1815
• Napoleonic Code
• South America
Proletariat
1848: Springtime of the Peoples
Revolutionary Writers
• William Blake
• Heinrich Heine
• Elizabeth Barrett
Browning
• Andrés Bello
• José Martí
•
•
•
•
•
•
Edmund Bruke
William Wordsworth
Samuel T. Coleridge
Charles Dickens
Victor Hugo
Percy Shelley
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Revolutionary Europe
Test Your Knowledge
Which good was initially responsible for
England’s industrial boom?
a. grain
b. whiskey
c. corn
d. cotton
Test Your Knowledge
Who declared independence in 1776?
a. Britain
b. France
c. United States
d. all of the above
Test Your Knowledge
What event marked the beginning of the
French Revolution?
a. the storming of the Bastille
b. the invasion of France by the British
c. the Declaration of the Rights of Man
d. the execution of the French king
Test Your Knowledge
In what work can you find this typically
revolutionary expression: “Workers of the
world, unite!”?
a. the Napoleonic Code
b. the Declaration of the Rights of Man
c. the Declaration of Independence
d. the Communist Manifesto
Test Your Knowledge
In 1798, who authored a work that was to
break with poetic tradition by employing
“language really used by men”?
a. William Blake
b. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor
Coleridge
c. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
d. Leo Tolstoy
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