Industrial Revolution

It seems that Europe in a way was taking advantage of all the other countries. Because other countries would produce things but the ones who would get a goos profit and make money was Britain and England. I also think that with the industrial revolution people's lives would be dramatically changed. According to the book it says "for many people it was enormously painful, even a traumatic process, full of social conflict, insecurity, and false start of new opportunities". To me it was more of taking advantage of the people because even though they worked they were not paid well.

Abolition of slavery

In the Haitian Revolution the slaves made up the vast majority of its population. Even though they made up the vast population, the white people did not want equal treatment for all the people regardless of race. As Haiti became independent, and break from Europe. After that they declared all citizens legally equal regardless of race, color, or class. I think this was something really good for the slaves working because that meant they where going to become free, and where going to have rights. Slavery was legal for a long time, but by the time that many countries where becoming independent they began to ban slavery. Many began to have petitions to parliament, lawsuits, boycotts of slave - produced sugar. Following the independence of most Latin American countries abolished slavery by the 1850s.

The French Revolution

I think that the peasants did a good job on attacking the castles and burning there dues and payments. Because the only ones that were getting affected of the higher taxes were the peasants. The wealth and the middle- class had the money to pay them, but the peasants where going through low income and unemployment. After all the people getting killed in the guillotine, I think it was a good idea that French revolutionaries wanted to start from scratch and looked to the future. Everyone began to see them selfs as belonging to a nation. When Napoleon imposed the end of feudalism, proclaiming equality of rights, religious tolerance, codifying the laws, and rationalizing government administration.