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Efforts to gain political power were led by suffragettes. This was women who compaigned to gain the right to vote. In 1928 British suffragettes won the right to vote for women in Great Britain.

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The growth of industry helped led to a new elonimic system, capitalism. In this system, indivals own most businesses and resources. People invest money in businesses in the hope of making a profit.

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Industrial growth being with textiles, or cloth products. In the early 1700s people made cloth by hand. Given the time and effort this took, it is not suprising that people would want a way to make cloth quickly.

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People began inventing machines to make goods and supply power. These machines completely changed the way people across Europe worked and lived. We call this period of rapid growth and machine-made goods the Industrial Revolution.

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A bloody period of the French Revolution during which the government excuted thousands of it's oppenents and others at the guillotine. The Region of Terror finally ended when one of it's own leaders was executed in 1794.

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Largely written by Tomas Jeferson, this document declared the American colonies independence form Britain. A new nation, the United States of America, was born. In 1783 the United States officially won it's indepence.

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In 1689 parliament further limited the monarch's power. This document listed rights for parliament and the English people. It gave parliament the power to pass laws and rais taxes.

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They believed the use of reason could achieve three greate goals-knowledge, freedom and happiness. the use reason reason is shaping people's ideas about society and politics defined a period. Because it focused on reason, this period was known as the "Age of Reason."

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Other countries were also sending explorers out to find new routes to Asia. The most important expedition came from Spain in 1492. The most important expedition was long and difficult, but Columbus reached Asia after several months.

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The series of events that led to the birth of modern science. They used their observations to come up with logical explantions for how the world worked. Between about 1540 and 1700, though, European views about how to study the world changed.

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Christians who broke from the catholic church over religious issues. Many areas of Europe had become proestants by 1600. In 1517 Luther nailed a list of complaints to a church door, his protests angered church officials.

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This is a series of reforms. Church laeders becom focusing on more spiritual concerns and less on political power. They also worked on making church teachings easier for people to understand.

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This was a religous reform movement. By the early 1500 some Europeans started complaiing about problems sean in the catholic church. The reformation began in what is how Germany.

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This was a time period ofcreativity of new ideas and insperations. This time period lasted from about 1350-1500. People who named this period beleaved it represented a new beginning, or rebirth, in Europ's history and culture.