Chapter 3
Revolutions
Between 1750 and 1920 the world was turned upside down. American and French revolutionaries overthrew kings, colonies across Latin America and the Caribbean won their freedom, steam engines and factories changed how people lived, and new ideas about evolution and equal rights changed how they thought. Dates are easier to remember once you know the story behind them, so every card comes with the reason it mattered.
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- Year of the US Declaration of Independence1776
- The storming of the Bastille, start of the French Revolution1789
- Battle where Napoleon was finally beaten, in 1815Waterloo
- Engineer whose steam engine powered industryJames Watt
- Country where the Industrial Revolution beganBritain
- First nation founded by a successful slave revoltHaiti
- 'The Liberator' of much of South AmericaSimón Bolívar
- Published On the Origin of Species in 1859Charles Darwin
- US president of the Emancipation Proclamation, 1863Abraham Lincoln
- Year of the Russian Revolution1917