UH - Digital History US History Teachers Blog World History For Us All: Big Era 8 Home > The Big Eras > By the end of the nineteenth century, societies around the globe had been brought within a single, rapidly evolving world system as a result of what we called in the previous chapter the <a href="/shared/glossary.htm" target="_blank">(Glossary-without Javascript)</a> The world system was dominated by the industrialized states of Europe, which had been weak and marginal powers just a few centuries before. Where industrialization did not take place, integration into the world system often meant greater economic weakness. Early in the twentieth century, rapid economic and technological change, increasing competition among powerful states, and resistance to European domination worked together to destabilize the world system. Despite these wrenching changes, the industrialized regions of Europe, North America, the USSR, and Japan, which accounted together for about 75 percent of the globes Humans and the Environment The shift to cities. Humans reshaping the environment. The
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Mississippi History Now World History For Us All: Big Era 6 Home > The Big Eras > At the level of the human species as a whole, the most striking aspect of the period from 1400 to 1800 was the enormous extension of networks of communication and exchange that linked individuals and societies more and more tightly. Every region of the world became intricately connected to every other region, a development that we call the Great Global Convergence. Also in this era the worlds population began to move dramatically upward, breaking through the ceilings on growth that had previously governed human affairs. First, human societies and the networks that connected them became much more complex. <a href="/shared/glossary.htm" target="_blank">(Glossary-without Javascript)</a> A second major development was the A third change was the emergence of a truly global economy. The remarkable rise of European political and military power relative to the rest of the world was the fourth major change. Humans and the Environment Regional Populations in Millions Footnotes:
World History For Us All: Big Era 9 Home > The Big Eras > Big Era Nine is different from earlier eras because we do not yet know where it is leading. Nevertheless, we can distinguish some key world historical processes that have been especially important in shaping the current era. Their interactions, sometimes unforeseen, have given rise to major new challenges to humanity. Others as yet unknown lie in the future. In sum, the world has become increasingly contradictory and paradoxical. Humans and the Environment The single most important development in this era has been the scale of potentially irreversible human impact on the environment. Population growth and its environmental effects. The spread of new medicines such as antibiotics as well as improved sanitation and health care, especially in the world’s burgeoning cities, all played a role. Unprecedented population growth has magnified human impact on forests, croplands, pastures, and seas. Colossal energy consumption and the environment. Humans and Other Humans
A Brief History of Jim Crow “I can ride in first-class cars on the railroads and in the streets,” wrote journalist T. McCants Stewart. “I can stop in and drink a glass of soda and be more politely waited upon than in some parts of New England.” Perhaps Stewart’s comments don’t seem newsworthy. Stewart had decided to tour the South because he feared for freedmen’s liberties. After a few weeks on the road, Stewart decided they would. Stewart was wrong. “Jim Crow” was a derisive slang term for a black man. In 1890, in spite of its 16 black members, the Louisiana General Assembly passed a law to prevent black and white people from riding together on railroads. Two years later, the court seemed to seal the fate of black Americans when it upheld a Mississippi law designed to deny black men the vote. Jim Crow laws touched every part of life. In Richmond, one could not live on a street unless most of the residents were people one could marry. More than 360,000 black men served in World War I. For Discussion and Writing
World History For Us All: Big Era 7 Home > The Big Eras > The period from 1750 to 1914 was a pivotal moment in human history. Historians have named it the era of the modern revolution. Over the course of Big Era Seven change in human society became autocatalytic. The modern revolution involved numerous interacting developments. First, a revolutionary transformation occurred in human use of energy. Second, unprecedented global population growth accompanied the fossil fuel revolution. Third, an industrial transformation got under way. Fourth, a revolution took place in communications and transport. Fifth, the modern revolution was partly a democratic revolution. Finally, the era witnessed the rise of new colonial empires. Humans and the Environment The fossil fuel revolution was a fundamental breakthrough in human history. At the start of Big Era Seven, world coal output per year was less than 10 million metric tons. Many more people. World Population Trends in Millions Rapid urbanization accompanied world population growth.
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Silverites, Populists, and the Movement for Free Silver Gold bugs v. Silverites Political battles over currency issues became intensely divisive during the last quarter of the 19th century as industrialization accelerated in the Northeast, while the South and newly settled areas of the Midwest remained dependent on farming. From 1873 through the late 1890s, the U.S. suffered through two major economic depressions that heightened sectional and class conflict. By the 1896 election, designated by historian Walter Dean Burnham as “the first confrontation . . . among organized political forces over industrial capitalism,” positions on currency had solidified into a “battle of the standards.” Farmers for Free Silver Congress had discontinued the minting of silver coins in 1873 in an act that came to be known as the “Crime of ’73.” Advocates for inflating the money supply ranged from those who proposed that the federal government print paper money not backed by either gold or silver to those who called for the remonetization of silver.
1400–1499 (A.D.) World History Casa di San Giorgio, one of the first public banks, founded in Genoa. Henry V defeats French at Agincourt. Jan Hus, Bohemian preacher and follower of Wycliffe, burned at stake in Constance as heretic. Portugal's Prince Henry the Navigator sponsors exploration of Africa's coast. Brunelleschi begins work on the Duomo in Florence. Joan of Arc leads French against English, captured by Burgundians (1430) and turned over to the English, burned at the stake as a witch after ecclesiastical trial (1431). Incas rule in Peru. Florence becomes center of Renaissance arts and learning under the Medicis. Turks conquer Constantinople, end of the Byzantine empire, beginning of the Ottoman empire. The Wars of the Roses, civil wars between rival noble factions, begin in England (to 1485). Ivan the Great rules Russia until 1505 as first czar; ends payment of tribute to Mongols. Moors conquered in Spain by troops of Ferdinand and Isabella. Vasco da Gama sails around Africa and discovers sea route to India (1498).
American Revolution History - American Revolution For more than a decade before the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775, tensions had been building between colonists and the British authorities. Attempts by the British government to raise revenue by taxing the colonies (notably the Stamp Act of 1765, the Townshend Tariffs of 1767 and the Tea Act of 1773) met with heated protest among many colonists, who resented their lack of representation in Parliament and demanded the same rights as other British subjects. Colonial resistance led to violence in 1770, when British soldiers opened fire on a mob of colonists, killing five men in what was known as the Boston Massacre. After December 1773, when a band of Bostonians dressed as Mohawk Indians boarded British ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor, an outraged Parliament passed a series of measures (known as the Intolerable, or Coercive Acts) designed to reassert imperial authority in Massachusetts.
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