Reading Notes
Week 6
Part A
An age of revelations in Europe and America
- People born on 1765 and who were able to live a pretty long life would be a witness to two powerful revolutions
- The revolutions sparked a change in society where everyone had to learn a new vocabulary and add more political vocabulary to their daily lives and job they were soon to join.
- This time sparked an industrial revolution on pg. 4 "The first of the two great upheavals was the industrial revolution, which began in England and radiated outward, as other nations copied English innovations.
- A piece of the text that stood out to me personally was on both pg. 4 and pg.5 " The great spur for this new global economy was cotton. Grown and harvested by slaves in the colonies".
- This slave picked cotton was used to make cloth and in this time period these farmers turned "entrepreneurs" because they profited off of slave labor. But the one in charge profits.
- I appreciate the picture given on pg. 5 of the homeless people in late 19th-century and how they had a different name as squalor.
- Some workers even starved in the economy poor growth.
- On pg. 8 and 9 it gives a clear illustration of the Slave Trade across maps and countries from 1560-1850
- This map shows the estimated number of slaves being transported from each of the countries at the time and this is a great addition for a learner such as me being more visual actually having something to look at.
- Napoleon ruled by dictatorship and reinstated slavery in France and had other laws that made him a small but fierce leader.
Declaration Of Independence
- Written by Thomas Jefferson The Declaration was a replica of principals by the Enlightenment philosophers believed in.
- In congress on July 4th 1776 the Declaration of Independence was a unanimous declaration by the thirteen states of America.
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