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Chapter 17 I find it most interesting in this chapter how the industrial revolution affected different classes of people in different ways. The Industrial Revolution changed old ways of living drastically. Mass production became common with the new inventions popping up everywhere. The aristocracy suffered only little. With a rapidly growing population, there was a higher demand for food products, so the landowners profited and still dominated the parliament. As a class, the aristocracy suffered because urban wealth became more highly valued than land. They had the same profit, but received less respect for it. The middle class benefited the most from the industrial revolution. The upper middle class of mine owners, bankers, and merchants, got rich quickly and lived the life of aristocrats. The middle class was filled with liberals, liking private property and enjoying a free market. Their interests resulted in the Reform Bill of 1832, which gave most men of...

Chapter 16 Part 2 Ideas of a constitution found advocates in other countries following the Atlantic Revolutions. They reflected ideas of republicanism, greater social equality, and national liberation from foreign rule. Three major movements arose that challenged oppression: abolitionism, nationalism, and feminism Enlightenment thinkers increasingly thought of slavery as something that violated a human being’s natural rights. It was also unfavorable in the eyes of the religious and not needed to succeed economically. As a result, slavery lost a lot of fans. Britain was forced to close down slave trade and ban slavery. This happened in other countries as well. It was only in the southern U.S. that abolition of slavery was so violent. Even when slavery was abolished, economic lives of freed slaves were not ideal; they had no economic autonomy over their own land and were poor. Eventually, these freedmen became highly dependent on sharecropping and low-paying ...

Chapter 16 Blog The book reveals that “modern” societies are a result of the intersection of the Scientific, French, and Industrial Revolutions and had transformative ideas that guided human behavior. The modern era thrust western Europe into a prominent role and led to a new age some called “anthropocene”, or “age of man”. This means that humans are slowly becoming active agents of biological evolution on Earth. Because of the power of Europeans in this era, they have been able to rewrite history, and geography; they have given themselves the image of being leaders of progress by implying that history is a race towards modernity. The modern era may be seen as Eurocentric, but there are ways to counter this view. For one, We must remember that eurocentrism in the scale of global history is brief. It also depended on the cooperation of local elites from other nations. Third, it was met with resistance and rebellion. Fourth, European ideas were adapted for...

Foundresses Week The foundresses week activity that I participated in is the Campus Tour with Sister Roseanne. We started at the church, where sister started telling us the stories of the mosaic glass pictures on the wall. As we walked to St. Joe’s, she told us about how the sisters came to the U.S. having nothing. They even helped in building their own home because the priest didn’t have it ready for them yet when they arrived. I learned that our sisters were extremely hard working, even when the situation looked bleak. At one point, after an earthquake, the sisters’ school had to be blown up to prevent a fire from spreading, and they managed to rebuild it after only a year. After visiting SJ, we went down the hill in front of Ralston mansion. We learned about Ralston and how he sent his wife and kids there because he didn’t want to see them. The sisters had to clean the mansion regularly in the past. It was in such good condition, even if it was old, b...